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8:45 PM ET, February 12, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PowerHype At Powerset  —  The more I dig into the new search engine startup Powerset the more I am wondering if it is nothing more than a house of cards.  They're an odd company with a bit of a split personality.  For example, in some ways they are very secretive - everyone who gets to see …
Discussion: OnoTech and Valleywag
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:   Powerset raising more money
BBC:
Teraflop chip hints at the future  —  A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel.  —  The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.
Discussion: Neowin.net
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Nokia:
Nokia unveils new mobile internet video experience  —  Co-operation with YouTube allows users to enjoy YouTube(TM) videos on the go via Nokia Nseries devices  —  3GSM World Congress 2007, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced a new mobile internet video experience …
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Nokia:
Nokia N77: Live TV when you want it
Discussion: Engadget
Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Podcasting to Generate $400 Mil. in Ads by 2011  —  Podcasting, the hot new media darling before YouTube mania swept in, is poised for a major growth spurt in ad dollars, despite the fact that the young medium's usage has failed to match the recent proliferation of Apple's iPod and other MP3-playing devices.
Roger Friedman / Fox News:
BEATLES READY FOR LEGAL DOWNLOADING SOON  —  The Beatles songs — all of them — will be offered for downloading soon.  That's what Neil Aspinall, the head of Apple Corps Ltd. and the man who's protected the Beatles legacy for the last 40 years — told me over the weekend.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Breakthrough Technology Enabling Simple Access to Broad Set of Digital Content, Including Music, Games, Video, Ring Tones and Pictures  —  Microsoft PlayReady powers next-generation media experiences on mobile networks; mobile operators worldwide announcing support include …
Discussion: Digital Media Wire and Bink.nu
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Extends Mobile Advertising Leadership with Launch of Display Advertisements in 19 Countries  —  Major Brands Advertising at Launch Include Nissan, Pepsi and Intel  —  Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today launched its mobile display advertising platform on the company's Yahoo! Mobile Web service …
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Yahoo!:
LG Electronics and Yahoo! Announce Strategic Mobile Partnership
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero"  —  A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
Discussion: Listening Post, Change Is Good and digg
Derick Mains / Apple:
Lionsgate Movies Now on iTunes  —  World's Most Popular Online Movie Store to Offer Catalog of Over 400 Films  —  Lionsgate and Apple® today announced that movies from Lionsgate will be available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) starting today. iTunes customers …
Schneier / Schneier on Security:
DRM in Windows Vista  —  Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.  These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.  They'll make your computer less stable and run slower.  They will cause technical support problems.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FBI lost 160 laptops in last 44 months  —  How many laptops does the FBI lose?  The Office of the Inspector General (or OIG; it's a part of the Department of Justice) sought to find out back in 2001, when it did an initial audit of the Bureau's losses of both weapons and laptops.
Microsoft:
Microsoft and AMD Award Space Trip to "Vanishing Point" Winner  —  Winner will go to space courtesy of Rocketplane Limited.  —  William Temple of Sacramento, Calif., will be traveling to space as one of the winners of "Vanishing Point," a unique interactive puzzle game from Microsoft Corp …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube shuts down Gawker account  —  YouTube has removed videos posted to the site by Gawker Media, many of which featured clips from top TV shows that appeared between advertisements for Gawker's blogs.  —  More than 50 clips were removed and the YouTube user account, "belowtheradar," …
Discussion: TechSpot News
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Three New Windows Live Products for Mobile Devices  —  Product innovations provide customers with new ways to stay connected and informed, offer new revenue for mobile industry.  —  Today at 3GSM World Congress 2007, Microsoft Corp. announced three new Windows Live&trade …
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful  —  For a long time now I've been meaning to write about the seemingly ubiquitous JavaScript Badges/Widgets/Thingies that you see on blogs and web sites everywhere.  Heck, I even have one on my site right now (over there—on the right).
Discussion: Joe Duck, JD on EP and alexking.org
MarketWatch:
YouTube to post classic TV shows  —  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — YouTube Inc. plans to offer more than 4,000 hours of classic television shows, including "I Spy," "Gumby" and other material from Digital Music Group Inc., an online distributor of independently owned music, TV and film catalogs, it was announced Monday.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Music Vets Prep Next-Gen Player  —  Three digital music veterans have launched a stealth startup and are close to unveiling both a new portable media player and what they're calling an "internet radio ecosystem," Wired News has learned.  —  San Diego-based Broadband Instruments' co-founders Jim Cady …
Discussion: Engadget, Anything But iPod and hypebot
 
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laptopmag.com:
HP iPAQ 510 Voice Messenger
Discussion: HP, jkOnTheRun, Engadget and I4U News
Qualcomm:
AT&T Selects QUALCOMM's MediaFLO USA for Mobile Entertainment Services
Discussion: Julie Ask and Phone Scoop
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo Mail integrates IM
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google decried as friend of piracy over AdSense earnings on piracy sites
Crave: The gadget blog:
Nerf and Nintendo's Safety Dance
Discussion: Engadget, Kotaku and Game | Life
Valleywag:
Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant?
Chris Roper / IGN:
God of War II Review
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple may see royalties from Cingular subscriber growth
 Earlier Items: 
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
AT&T Taps Qualcomm for mobile TV
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Upstart Video Game Publisher to Focus on Small Developers
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Blip Introduces Custom Ad Engine
Discussion: MAKE Magazine and SearchViews
USA Today:
Magazines start studios to join online video craze
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Here's the Online Line on Online Politics
Discussion: Bloggers Blog and IP Democracy
Motorola:
MOTO Q Goes Global
Nokia:
Mass market mobile phone with integrated GPS offers instant …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Engadget and I4U News
Peter / 99 Lives:
Xbox Live + Mac = MacLive