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Retail Sites Crash as Shopping Season Opens — Several retail Web sites experienced technical problems Friday, the latest reminder of one of the Internet's oldest rules: If you encourage people to visit your Web site, make sure the site can handle the extra traffic.
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Black Friday traffic takes down Sears.com — SEATTLE (AP) — Sears.com was inaccessible to U.S. shoppers for two hours on Friday in what was the most notable Web hiccup of the holiday gift-buying season's official start. — Other sites, including Amazon.com Inc., experienced minor slowdowns …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near? — When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad-as in nearly $1 billion bad-by buying almost seven million more Yahoo shares, according to a regulatory filing.
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Planetbeing / Linux on the iPhone:
LINUX ON THE IPHONE — Linux on the iPhone! — I'm pleased to announce that the Linux 2.6 kernel has been ported to Apple's iPhone platform, with support for the first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. This is a rough first draft of the port …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Put change.gov Under Revision Control! — Last week, the New York Times wrote about Changes at change.gov: … The changes, as it turned out, were mostly to tone down the partisan politics of the policy documents as published during the campaign. But the lesson remains …
Associated Press:
Mother Wants Maximum Penalty in Cyberbullying Case — ST. LOUIS (AP) — The mother of a girl who committed suicide at age 13 after being subjected to an Internet hoax said Friday that she would ask that the maximum penalty be assigned to the woman convicted in the cyberbullying case.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:Guilty Verdict in Cyberbullying Case Provokes Many Questions Over Online Identity
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Dyan Machan / SmartMoney.com:
Jeff Bezos on the Future of Amazon.com — IN THE PAST decade, Jeff Bezos's online bookstore has exploded into an enterprise that sells everything — snowplows, canned goods, you name it. More recently, Amazon.com (AMZN) has ventured into selling its own back-office software to other e-commerce businesses …
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Dong Ngo / Crave: The gadget blog:
Unlocking iPhone 3Gs—the Vietnamese way — Editor's note: CNET editor and Crave contributor Dong Ngo is spending the next month in his homeland of Vietnam, and plans to file occasional dispatches chronicling his impressions of how technology has permeated the culture there.
Amy Gahran / E-Media Tidbits:
Responsible Tweeting: Mumbai Provides Teachable Moment — This morning when I checked the news about the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, I saw many people on Twitter reporting that the Indian police or government had asked Twitter users to please stop reporting on police and military operations related to the attacks.
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Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
New iStorez site gives users the scoop on Black Friday — iStorez, the web site that aggregates specials, newsletters and coupons from online stores to help its users hunt for deals, recently unveiled its new swanky look — and could prove a prime resource for Black Friday (and subsequent holiday) shoppers.
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Forbes:
Businessmen of the Year — China's Yang Yuanqing and American William Amelio pursue a different PC strategy for Lenovo, challenging mindsets and market dips along the way. — Forbes Asia's first such honorees from a Chinese company are actually not to be found in China in the normal course of business.
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Clearwire completes massive Sprint merger, gets $3.2 billion infusion — Clearwire and Sprint Nextel announced that they've finally completed the merger of their wireless broadband companies, a process that began in May. — Under the deal, Clearwire takes over Sprint's WiMax assets …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Joost is loosed on the iPhone. Looks great, performance an issue — Joost, the once mega-hyped online video startup, has just launched a free application for the iPhone to allow for mobile access to its videos. With a nice, clear interface, this app could be a winner …
Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
MSI WindBox unveiled … In France MSI has unveiled a new product into its Wind range that makes the comical moniker even more amusing. — The “WindBox” is a low-cost, Asus Eee Box rivalling desktop PC - or nettop as these machines are increasingly being labelled - with a fairly unique twist.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nikon outs D3x in own Pro magazine — Uh, oops. Sorry Nikon but your D3x is now even less of a mystery. According to your own Pro magazine, the D3x will sport an FX-format, 24.5 megapixel sensor shooting 5fps at full resolution or 7fps at a reduced 10 megapixels.
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Joe Gould / NY Daily News:
Worker dies at Long Island Wal-Mart after being trampled in Black Friday stampede — A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island store Friday morning, police and witnesses said. — The 34-year-old worker …
