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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What Is The Real Reason Dell Is Discontinuing 12-inch Netbooks? — Dell has retired their 12-inch Intel Atom-powered netbooks, they said today. The official reason - “It really boils down to this: for a lot of customers, 10-inch displays are the sweet spot for netbooks …
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Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:
Dell Retires the Mini 12 — You may have seen some recent reports from places like Engadget, liliputing and Electronista that the Inspiron Mini 12 was going away. It's true. Dell recently decided that it's time for the Mini 12 to ride off into the sunset.
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Gregory Viscusi / Bloomberg:
Publicis Will Acquire Razorfish Ad Agency From Microsoft for $530 Million — Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) — Publicis Groupe SA, owner of the Saatchi & Saatchi ad firm, said it is buying Microsoft Corp.'s Razorfish advertising agency for $530 million in cash and stock to expand in Internet advertising.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Case Against Apple-in Five Parts — About six years and $20,000 ago, I made the switch to Apple products after a 20-year love affair with Microsoft. That love affair started with the humble PCjr and ended with an IBM ThinkPad. From DOS to the first version of Windows …
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Markcuban / blog maverick:
My Advice to Fox & MySpace on Selling Content - Yes You Can — Rupert , you didn't ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me. — First the good news. You can sell content on the internet. People pay for content on and off the internet every second of every day.
Boy Genius Report:
Apple iTunes 9 details, Blu-ray, app organization — We've just received a tip from a pretty reliable source that detailed for us some of iTunes 9's upcoming features and they're pretty exciting. — One of the new additions to iTunes is said to include Blu-ray support which lines up nicely …
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Are the Glory Days Long Gone for I.T.? — IF Thomas M. Siebel can accurately see the future, computer science students with the entrepreneurial gene may want to look for a different major. And investors who think that information technology is a sector that will produce outsized returns should wake up.
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Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History — At Empire High School in Vail, Ariz., students use computers provided by the school to get their lessons, do their homework and hear podcasts of their teachers' science lectures. — Down the road, at Cienega High School, students who own laptops …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla issues first Firefox 3.6 alpha version — Mozilla has released the first alpha version of Firefox 3.6, a browser with speed improvements and new features the organization hopes to finalize faster than its predecessor. — “Unlike the year that passed between Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5 …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
LG Chocolate Touch, Samsung Omnia 2 and more headed to Best Buy on August 23rd — Well what have we here? Our ninjas know better than to think they can take weekends off and one of our more diligent and trusted Best Best Mobile moles just hit us with a very interesting screen cap.
Christopher MacManus / Sony Insider:
New Sony S-Series Walkman Goes Live Accidentally - Full Pictures And Specifications — Well, the new S-Series is essentially a slam-dunk at this point with this uncovered listing of the device at materiel.net, a French-based entertainment retailer. The full specifications of the S-Series Walkman …
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
Worldwide Slump Makes Nigeria's Online Scammers Work That Much Harder — LAGOS, Nigeria — Online swindling takes dedication even in the best of times, the scammer said earnestly. — The spinal cord aches from sitting at a desk. The eyes itch from staring at a computer.
