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3:55 PM ET, January 18, 2008

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Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Reports Fourth-Quarter Subscriber Results, Announces Actions to Streamline Operations  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today reported wireless subscriber results for the fourth quarter of 2007, announced initial plans to streamline its business as part of an ongoing review …
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Reuters:
Sprint to cut 4,000 jobs  —  Sprint Nextel , the No. 3 U.S. mobile service, said on Friday it will cut about 4,000 jobs and close about 8 percent of its stores, predicting further pressure on its ability to attract subscribers and turn a profit in 2008.  —  Sprint shares fell 7 percent …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Sprint Hits the Growth Skids...4,000 Jobs Cut
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
CE-Oh no he didn't!  Part LIV: Jobs calls Robbie Bach a drunk  —  Proving once again that the truth is stranger (and more entertaining) than fiction, Steve Jobs himself delivers one of the finest Oh no he didn't moments ever.  Apparently riding high on the thrill of introducing the MacBook Air …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Apple Gazette, Gadget Lab and Digg
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
What Bugs Apple Fans  —  SAN FRANCISCO -  —  It was a moment that showed the two sides of Steve Jobs.  It was the mid-1990s, before Jobs' triumphant return to the company he founded.  Newton Munson rode in an elevator with Jobs and two of his employees at NeXT, the computer company Jobs founded after leaving Apple.
Discussion: The Mac Observer and MacDailyNews
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The “Google generation” not so hot at Googling, after all  —  A new UK report on the habits of the “Google Generation” finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be.  For instance, are teens better with technology than older adults?
Chris Vallance / BBC:
Facebook faces privacy questions  —  Facebook is to be quizzed about its data protection policies by the Information Commissioner's Office.  —  The investigation follows a complaint by a user of the social network who was unable to fully delete their profile even after terminating their account.
Discussion: TechCrunch UK, GigaOM and Mashable!
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Seesmic killed the YouTube star?  —  It's not often you are presented with a vision of the future of online video in a pub in London.  —  But that's exactly what I was shown last night by celebrated French blogger, well-connected entrepreneur and Seesmic founder Loic LeMeur.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Don't miss lessons Radiohead, Trent Reznor offer  —  Musicians aren't merchants.  —  We certainly learned that through Radiohead and Trent Reznor's separate experiments with choose-your-price album promotions.  —  In October, Reznor, the leader of the band Nine Inch Nails …
USA Today:
Social, work lives collide on networking websites  —  Just after her honeymoon last March, Wadooah Wali took the de rigueur next step these days: She changed her status on the networking websites Facebook and MySpace from “in a relationship” to “married” and posted pictures of her partner — another woman.
Associated Press:
FCC resumes testing of Internet devices  —  WASHINGTON - Federal regulators said they will try again to test prototypes on Jan. 24 for transmitting high-speed Internet service over unused television airwaves.  —  Late Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission said the devices …
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Karl / DSLreports:
FCC Announces New White Space Broadband Tests - Microsoft …
Discussion: Ars Technica and Electronista
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Slide Gets Big Funding?  —  Call it the Facebook Funding Effect.  —  I am still collecting details, but Slide-the San Francisco start-up whose widgets are among the most popular on Facebook and MySpace-is completing a round of funding that could value it at many times a multiple of its most recent $60 million to $80 million valuation.
Mweller / The Ed Techie:
The Facebook lessons  —  (avlxyz - http://www.flickr.com/photo_ zoom.gne?  id=2077892948&size=l)  —  So, as I said in my last post, this will be the year Facebook fades away for many of us.  It won't disappear - I'll probably have a Facebook profile still, but I just won't use it much …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
New Blu-ray 2.0 spec makes PS3 the most future-proof player  —  With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting.
Discussion: Digg
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
37signals - All Services Currently Down  —  Just a quick note from a tipster that all of the services offered by 37signals are currently down.  This includes: Basecamp, Backpack, Highrise, Campfire, Writeboard, Ta-da List, and their blogs.  Adam from Mashable also notes the outage.
Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Sites Closer to Launch?  —  Since October 2006 when Google announced they had acquired Jotspot - the wiki hosting service which allows you to create “rich web-based spreadsheets, calendars, documents and photo galleries” by using their wiki applications - people have been waiting for Google to do something with it.
 
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Erik Hanson / Engadget:
DirecTV rolls out remote recording
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
HTC Touch coming to Verizon: People who liked the Sprint Touch …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Jupiter: Local Online Advertising Will Be Worth $8.9 Billion In 2012
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Fish Bridge Connects Two Aquariums; if Only Fish Were Smart Enough to Use it
Discussion: OhGizmo!
Don Reisinger / Crave: The gadget blog:
If people buy consoles for software, why is the Wii so popular?
Discussion: Associated Press and Kotaku
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone speaker too quiet? Stab it with needles
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
AMD's earnings: off life support and headed back to black
Discussion: eWeek and Electronista
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
D.C. Googleplex: 1,100 sq. ft. per worker, and built to party
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Amanda Natividad / paidContent.org:
User Comments And The Art Of Moderation
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
More information on the MacBook Air's CPU
Ryan / Invisible Inkling:
THE NEW LAS VEGAS SUN IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD.
Nokia:
Nokia N95 8GB, the first DLNA certified mobile
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Conjunction Junction, Google No Longer Displays Stop Words Malfunction
Discussion: SEO by the SEA
Florian Jensen / Florian Jensen's Weblog:
AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber
Discussion: Mac Beach, rc3.org and Slashdot
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Eee PC with 9-inch touchscreen in the works?
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Wave 2008 - Free Summary Report for RWW Readers
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
A group of Wikipedia editors form the WikiProject AI Cleanup to “combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content” on the website

Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: among 200 politically focused TikTok accounts with viral posts, ~20% were news influencers, as news influencers take a bigger role in the US election

 
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