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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
When Will We Have Our First Valleywag Suicide? — Today I read all the sordid details about the alleged sexual encounter between a notable technology visionary and a woman who appears to be looking for as much publicity as possible. Where did I read it? On the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
After Suicide, Blog Insults Are Debated — Advertising blogs churn out some of the Web's more scathing, and personal, vitriol. Last week, the bloggers absorbed some body blows of their own. — Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two sharp-tongued blogs written by advertising industry insiders …
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Intel:
Intel Announces Intel® Atom™ Brand for New Family of Low-Power Processors — Intel's Smallest Processor Built Using World's Smallest Transistors Designed for New Internet Devices, Low-Cost PCs — The Intel® Atom™ processor will be the name for a new family …
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DailyTech, George Ou, MacRumors, GigaOM, CrunchGear, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Engadget and Gadget Lab
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:Intel Drops an ‘Atom’ Brand
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Silicon Valley Watcher, New York Times, PC World, Electronista, TGDaily.com, Between the Lines, Technology Questions and Gizmodo
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Nine Inch Nails Uploads New Album on Torrent Sites — Nine Inch Nails has just released the first volume of their new album “Ghosts” on BitTorrent sites as a free download. The band encourages its fans to share the album with friends, post it on websites and play it on podcasts
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Nine Inch Nails Pushes Onward In Digital Music Distribution Experimentation — Continuing their ongoing digital music experimentations, Nine Inch Nails has released a new instrumental album online named Ghosts I-IV. — Like Radiohead's In Rainbows before it, you can choose the price you pay …
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Expand Microsoft Online Services for Businesses of All Sizes — Exchange Online and SharePoint Online enter beta. — Monday from the annual Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference, Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., will announce that the company will offer Microsoft Online Services to businesses of all sizes.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push — I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week. One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard …
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Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Faux Facebook fatigue — Michael Parekh points to the Youtube video below and calls it further evidence of Facebook fatigue. — I disagree. I'm not a diehard Facebook fanboy, but I've done enough consumer internet product management to know that you can't ask users what they think, you have to watch what they do.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Publishers Phase Out Piracy Protection on Audio Books — SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the largest book publishers in the world are stripping away the anticopying software on digital downloads of audio books. — The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
More Consolidation in the White Label Social Networking Space: Mzinga Acquires Prospero — White label social networking provider Mzinga, which officially launched at TechCrunch Boston this past November, has announced its acquisition of Prospero Technologies, another social networking company that we covered in a roundup awhile back.
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write an Unfiltered Blog — Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart's biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft's newest operating system, Vista. — “Is it really all that and a bag of chips?” he wrote on his blog.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It's a Deal — Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new venture involving a phone company may just add Pluto into the mix.
