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Goodbye, Cruel Sun

By Buckeye Hamburger
Contributor, Daily Kos

Buckeye Hamburger

The history of Sun’s high ride and demise, and the continuing story of the newly-merged Oracle’s fortunes, will occupy the minds of the IT industry and its pundits for a long time to come.

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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Macworld Expo Prelude

By John Gruber
Editor, Daring Fireball

John Gruber

Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off tomorrow in San Francisco.

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How Google Buzz Validates but Marginalizes FriendFeed

By Louis Gray
Blogger, LouisGray.com

Louis Gray

When FriendFeed debuted on the scene in late 2007, it was one of the simplest ways to aggregate all of my updates from the social outposts I have all over the Web, see friends’ updates and have a discussion around their shared items.

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Will You Be E-Mailing This Column? It’s Awesome

By John Tierney
Columnist, New York Times

John Tierney

Sociologists have developed elaborate theories of who spreads gossip and news — who tells whom, who matters most in social networks — but they’ve had less success measuring what kind of information travels fastest.

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What Will Happen to Media When All the Billionaires Bail?

By Simon Dumenco
The Media Guy, Advertising Age

Simon Dumenco

If you’re a certain sort of still-employed media person, you’re probably wondering how much longer you can hold on to your job.

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

AP Stories Reappear on Google News

By Russell Adams
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Russell Adams

New articles from the Associated Press have quietly started rolling out on Google’s news site in the past hour, ending a nearly seven-week absence stemming from contentious negotiations between the two parties.

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Bubble Motion Wants You to Call, Not Tweet

By Niraj Sheth
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Niraj Sheth

More talking, less texting. That’s the spin Sequoia Capital-backed Bubble Motion is putting on mobile social networking.

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FCC Chairman on What It Means to Regulate the Internet

By Amy Schatz
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Amy Schatz

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski gets a little peeved when people suggests that he wants to regulate the Internet.

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EA Narrows Loss, Gives Weak Outlook

By Ben Charny
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Ben Charny

Electronic Arts Inc.’s loss narrowed in the holiday quarter from a year-ago period that was weighed down by charges. But the videogame publisher issued a weak outlook for the current quarter, sending its shares tumbling 10% after hours.

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IACI Q4 Beats; Stock Gains

By Eric Savitz
Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily

Eric Savitz

IAC/Interactive, the Barry Diller-piloted Internet conglomerate, this morning posted Q4 results that beat Street expectations.

The company reported revenue of $367.2 million, ahead of the Street at $339.6 million; adjusted EPS of 20 cents a share was two cents better than the consensus at 18 cents.

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Intel’s Itanium Again Marches to Different Drummer

By Don Clark
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Don Clark

Intel loves to talk about Moore’s Law, its co-founder’s famed maxim about how rapidly miniaturization improves semiconductors. The company also prides itself on setting the pace, underscoring the strategy recently by deploying its most tiny circuitry in microprocessors for mainstream PCs.

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The iPhone Is the New Internet Explorer 6, Says Mobile Developer

By Charles Arthur
Technology Editor, Guardian

Charles Arthur

On the flip side of the debate about whether Flash is ill, in rude health, or simply untroubled by Apple’s wilful refusal to countenance it on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, we have an analysis from Peter-Paul Koch, a “mobile platform strategist, consultant and trainer” who says (with plenty of swearing to boot, if you’re in filter territory) that the iPhone is the Internet Explorer 6 de nos jours.

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“Don’t Be Evil,” Meet “Spy on Everyone”: How the NSA Deal Could Kill Google

By Noah Shachtman
Editor, Danger Room, Wired.com

Noah Shachtman

The company once known for its “don’t be evil” motto is now in bed with the spy agency known for the mass surveillance of American citizens.

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More Posner Plagiarism

By Jack Shafer
Editor, Press Box, Slate

Jack Shafer

Last week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter.

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Enterprise Software Is Entirely Bereft of Soul

By Vinnie Mirchandani
Blogger, Deal Architect

Vinnie Mirchandani

I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software.

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Toyota’s Low-Risk Dialogue on Digg

By Jon Fortt
Blogger, Big Tech, Fortune

Jon Fortt

If you’re Toyota right now, the last thing you want is more surprises.

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Philip Eliot of Paladin Capital: Cyber Security Is Not Going Away

By Scott Denne
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Scott Denne

As high-profile cyber attacks, like the one that recently hit Google Inc., become more common, Internet security is getting more attention at commercial organizations and especially in the government.

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Monday, February 8, 2010

Verizon Wireless Temporarily Blocks Some 4chan Traffic

By Andrew LaVallee
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Andrew LaVallee

Verizon Wireless said Monday that its recent blocking of parts of 4chan was caused by “potentially disruptive” traffic from the popular site.

“Our network security system found traffic from some of the 4chan web sites that were potentially disruptive of the Verizon Wireless network and could affect our customers’ use of their services,” Jeffrey Nelson, a spokesman for the wireless carrier, said.

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Sirius XM: Stern Confirms Interest in “American Idol”

By Eric Savitz
Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily

Eric Savitz

Howard Stern told listeners this morning that he is considering leaving Sirius XM to become a judge on American Idol, according the TheWrap.com.

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Google to Add Social Feature to Gmail

By Jessica E. Vascellaro
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal

Jessica E. Vascellaro

Google Inc. is set to unveil a new feature to Gmail designed to make it easier and faster for users to share media and status updates with friends, according to people familiar with the matter.

These people said Google could launch the new feature, which aims to make its Gmail email application more social, as soon as this week.

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Kayak.com Lets You Book “Lost” Flight

By Caroline McCarthy
Writer, CNET

Caroline McCarthy

The final season of the hit sci-fi series premieres next week, and travel site Kayak has what appears to be an unofficial tie-in. Or is it?

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Keith Lee of Booyah Games

By Drake Martinet
Intern, All Things Digital

Drake Martinet

This week, we took a short walk down University Avenue in Silicon Valley with Keith Lee, co-founder and CEO of Booyah Games. We talked about his time as lead developer for Blizzard, his total lack of common sense, and how he’s trying to make the whole social game world “level up.”

Don’t worry–we made him translate most of the gamer lingo.

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