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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer - 12 hours, 22 minutes ago
Augment your SXSW reality - No, no, I’m not talking about going to the Diggnation party and downing a couple of drinks. This year there’s some geekier ways to augment your reality while you walk from panel to panel or event to...
Rough Type, GigaOM, Wired Top Stories, Domain Name Wire, Epicenter, TechCrunch

Shane McGlaun / SlashGear - 17 hours, 38 minutes ago
TiVo posts Q4 loss thanks to high cancellation rate and less sign ups - TiVo is looking to choke one of the more important features from other DVRs on the market and has recently unveiled new Premiere DVRs that are interesting.
FOXBusiness.com, Multichannel Breaking News, All Things Digital, NewTeeVee, CNET News.com

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo - 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
Steve Jobs' Threatening Phone Call Revealed - According to Jonathan Schwartz—then Sun's CEO—that's what Steve Jobs told him over the phone after Sun presented Looking Glass, a desktop concept similar to Mac OS X's.

In-Depth
podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) / Between the Lines - 10 hours, 6 minutes ago
Jonathan Schwartz: How to play patent games with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates - Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz chimed in on patent lawsuits, threats from the likes of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and how to manage a staredown properly.


admin / InfoWorld - 19 hours, 25 minutes ago
Intel sees 2012 deployment for mobile WiMax Release 2 - Chip giant Intel, a major backer of the movement to provide mobile WiMax wireless broadband to Internet users around the world, expects the next major release of the technology to be deployed starting in 2012, an executive said Tuesday.

In-Depth
ITWeb Internet Feed - 1 day, 1 hour, 27 minutes ago
WiMax for next-generation networks - Wider access scope, competitive costing, higher bandwidth and security are some advantages of WiMax, says Daniel Levy, GM for Africa...


Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 1 day, 7 hours, 48 minutes ago
Texas Instruments - Investor's Business Daily - Texas Instruments , a maker of cell-phone chips, raised its low end of Q1 EPS forecast to 48-52 cents vs. views of 49 cents. It also expects Q1 revenue of $3.07 bil-$3.19 bil vs. views of $3.08 bil.
Seattle Times, MarketWatch, BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online, Business Week, AOL

admin / InfoWorld - 19 hours, 29 minutes ago
Opera Software to patch browser vulnerability soon - Opera Software will soon patch a vulnerability in its Web browser that could allow an attacker to run malicious software on a Windows computer.
PC World, Computerworld, ZDNet Blogs, Macworld UK News

Search Engine Watch Blog - 1 day, 15 hours ago
SEMPO Names New Board of Directors - One of our own makes the cut.Click to read the rest of this post...
Search Engine Land

By THE NEW YORK TIMES / New York Times - 8 hours, 1 minute ago
What We're Reading: Barbie, Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina - Our daily roundup of Web gems includes a deeper look at Barbie the engineer, Carly Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett-Packard, Jonathan Schwartz's battles with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and a pricing glitch at Amazon.com.

DigiTimes - 6 days, 23 hours, 44 minutes ago
CeBIT 2010: Nvidia introduces new Ion platform - Nvidia has introduced the next-generation Ion graphics processor, which it claims will offer 10 times the graphics performance of standard netbooks and enable up to 10 hours of battery life thanks to Nvidia's Optimus technology, according...
ZDNet Blogs, AVING, eWeek, ChannelWeb, All Things Digital, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Hardware 2.0

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0 - 1 day, 19 hours, 58 minutes ago
Steve Jobs' big night at the Oscars - He showed up to watch Pixar's "Up" win an award — and to air the first iPad ad Photo: UPI/Jim Ruyman Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar triumph for the "Hurt Locker" may be the headline in Monday's papers,...
9 to 5 Mac, CNET News.com, AppleInsider

AppleInsider - 7 hours, 30 minutes ago
Former Sun CEO: Steve Jobs threatened to sue us over patents too - Former chief executive of Sun Jonathan Schwartz has accused Steve Jobs of threatening patent action against his company in 2003, related to desktop OS technologies, in a long blog post that highlights a series of tech patent squabbles.

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land - 6 days 19 minutes ago
Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up? -

podcast@zdnet.com (Dan Farber, Larry Dignan and David Berlind) / Between the Lines - 6 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes ago
Yahoo's Bartz: Good content, strong analytics can drive innovative advertising models - Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz talks site analytics, advertising potential and the importance of mobile at the Morgan Stanley technology conference today.

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 7 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes ago
What Happens to Twitter Ad Networks When Twitter Launches Ads? - Twitter is expected to launch an ad platform this month (some have speculated this will happen at SXSW). While this hasn't been confirmed, the industry has been waiting for quite some time to Twitter to launch such a monetization model.

CNNMoney.com - 14 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes ago
Intel plans $3.5 billion investment fund - Intel Corp. announced Tuesday that it will create an alliance with leading venture capital firms to invest $3.5 billion in U.S. technology companies over the next two years.
eWeek

Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat - 15 days, 13 hours, 35 minutes ago
Google overhauls ad server technology to boost monetization - Google revamped its ad server technology to help itself and small publishers monetize ads on their sites.The upgrades include more detailed forecasting data to explain which ads are valuable and where revenue comes from to publishers.

By DEALBOOK / New York Times: DealBook - 11 days, 22 hours, 37 minutes ago
Sirius XM Posts Profit, Its First Since Merger - Sirius XM Radio, the satellite radio company, posted its first quarterly profit since its merger and said it expected to add 500,000 new subscribers in 2010 as the recovery in the car market increased demand, Reuters reported.

Kara Swisher / All Things Digital - 4 days, 21 hours, 44 minutes ago
In Case You Missed It: The CNBC Interview With Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz - Earlier this week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was all over the place talking up the company on the occasion of its 15th birthday. Here's a video of a longish interview she did with CBNC earlier this week, where she cracks wise a lot, but says...
WebProNews

Doug Caverly / WebProNews - 5 days, 11 hours, 16 minutes ago
Yahoo Adds Facebook Contact Import Ability - Yahoo Mail users should find it considerably more convenient to get in touch with their friends and acquaintances from now on.  Today, Yahoo and Facebook made it possible for those users to add their Facebook friends' email addresses...
TechCrunch, Mashable!

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land - 6 days 19 minutes ago
Does SEM = SEO + CPC Still Add Up? -
Silicon Alley Insider

Mike Sachoff / WebProNews - 10 hours, 14 minutes ago
HR Pros See Value In Social Media - Social media plays an important role in problem solving and strategy development in the workplace according to a new survey of 900 human resources executives conducted by Toolbox.com and PJA. Among HR executives and professionals, social...
SmallBusinessNewz, Marketing Pilgrim, iMedia Connection, AllBusiness.com, GigaOM, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb

Barb Dybwad / Mashable! - 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
MySpace Co-Presidents Reveal Company’s Plan for the Future - We had a chance to step into MySpace HQ for a chat with new Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Mike Jones, who preside over the News Corp.-owned social network from a shared desk in Beverly Hills.

ChannelWeb - 5 days, 10 hours, 10 minutes ago
Now You Can Read Along With That YouTube Video - According to a YouTube blog, the new auto-captions will be available to everyone who's interested in using them.
NewTeeVee

Seattle Times - 5 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes ago
Summary Box: TiVo prevails in Dish patent case - THE CASE: TiVo Inc. argues that Dish Network Corp. infringed on TiVo's patent on technology for storing and retrieving TV shows and movies on digital video recorders.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services), TheStreet.com: Business Wire, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider - 7 days, 17 hours, 39 minutes ago
"And Boy Have We Patented It" - Apple just announced its suing mobile device maker HTC for stealing patented technology. You could have seen this coming. Back when Apple CEO Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone in 2006, he made sure to tell the Macworld audience, "and...
Techdirt

Mike Masnick / Techdirt - 8 days, 19 hours, 56 minutes ago
Network Solutions Confused About The DMCA - Last week we wrote about how Microsoft abused the DMCA to force Cryptome offline via Network Solutions. Since then, there's been some interesting scrambling by all parties involved.
Wired Top Stories