Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 7:07 am EST
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The Register - 16 hours, 57 minutes ago
Michael Dell heralds supercomputing fourth wave - Just like the third wave - with more marketingSC08 The annual Supercomputing 2008 trade show kicked off this morning in Austin, Texas with a sales call keynote by local billionaire and sometime HPC player, Michael Dell.
PC World, Electronista, GigaOM, InfoWorld, Inquirer, eWeek, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Gadgetell, CNET News.com

Paul Boutin / Valleywag - 13 hours, 7 minutes ago
Mark Cuban fights back - Dallas Mavericks owner and dotcom jillionaire Mark Cuban has posted an SEC P2 filing to his personal blog. Cuban can run a team, but he's a bit sloppy trying to put the paperwork in context.
Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker, All Things Digital, Silicon Alley Insider, Marketing Pilgrim, Business Week, Yahoo Finance, VentureBeat, Gawker, PC World, CNET News.com

Beyond Search - 1 day, 7 hours, 1 minute ago
More on SharePoint in the Cloud - Mary-Joe Foley, author of Microsoft 2.0, wrote "What Does SharePoint in the Cloud Mean?" This is a good Web log post. For me the most important part of the write up is the table that shows what SharePoint in the cloud will deliver.
CNET News.com, PC World, The Register

BetaNews - 17 hours, 13 minutes ago
Qualcomm hit with contempt of injunction in Broadcom case - In one of the world's longest-running and most reliably even stalemates, a federal judge in Santa Ana may actually have scored Broadcom a blow against rival Qualcomm that could draw a little blood, in the form of back royalties.
EETimes, Electronista

CNET News.com - 19 hours, 6 minutes ago
Boxee lands $4 million for social media center - Social media center platform Boxee secures $4 million in funding to expand its business.

In-Depth
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com - 1 day, 13 hours, 28 minutes ago
Social Media: Say Goodbye to Those Wheels - Finally some marketers are developing the courage to say what should be obvious to everyone.One of our main items in our predictions for 2009 is the fact that the vast majority of social media startups will shut down.  Hearing a major...



Search Engine Watch Blog - 1 day, 7 hours, 7 minutes ago
SEW Experts: SEO Dreams are Made of This - Many major companies continue to make mistakes with their Web sites that hurt their search engine rankings. They target pages in the wrong way, or don't craft their pages in a way to prevent searchers from leaving their site after the...
WebProNews, Digital Inspiration

CNET News.com - 20 hours, 55 minutes ago
StumbleUpon adds more 'Premier' publishers to Partner Program - StumbleUpon has added "Premier" publishers to its Partner Program to increase its exposure across the Web.

In-Depth
Shoaib Hashmi / Startup Meme - 19 hours, 29 minutes ago
StumbleUpon inducts more publishers to their Partner Program - The social bookmarking and discovery site, StumbleUpon has inducted more premier partners to extend their Partner Program. The newly added partners are Funny Or Die, Atom, Scientific American and 5min.com.


Andrew Nusca / ZDNet Blogs - 4 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago
Nvidia cutting prices to counter AMD gains? - Has AMD's recent gains in GPU sales got Nvidia spooked? The latest rumors are that Nvidia has a GPU price cut planned. With AMD's recent gains in the discrete graphics card market, Nvidia is planning to cut its graphics card prices in an...
Gizmodo, Computerworld, EETimes, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, TheStreet.com, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Network World, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Wired Top Stories, VentureBeat, Electronista, Engadget

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 5 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes ago
Verizon Wireless: BlackBerry Storm Available Nov. 21 For $200 - This is it, the final and official confirmation we've all been waiting for. If you're in the market for a touch-screen BlackBerry Storm, it will be available on Nov. 21
ZDNet Blogs, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), CrunchGear, ChannelWeb, TheStreet.com: Business Wire

matt buchanan / Gizmodo - 4 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes ago
Get Ready for Cheap Nvidia Graphics Cards - ATI has been hitting Nvidia hard with its 4000-series big guns like the Radeon HD 4870 X2, and they're starting to feel it, with ATI successfully clawing away marketshare from Nvidia. Which has Nvidia skurred.
Electronista, DigiTimes, San Jose Mercury News

Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal - 6 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes ago
Google Brings Sponsored Videos on YouTube Search - YouTube is yet again embarking on a revenue scheme in the hopes of generating income from its existence on the web, and being the number 1, video sharing site for that matter. It will soon be rolling out Sponsored Videos.
Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Watch Blog

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 6 days, 16 hours, 40 minutes ago
YouTube lets advertisers buy search terms - CNET - SAN BRUNO, Calif.--YouTube on Wednesday said it's rolling out a new ad platform called Sponsored Videos.
CNET News.com

Search Engine Watch Blog - 8 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes ago
SEW Experts: Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO - Google's rules for improving Quality Score of AdWords ads will sound familiar to anyone who's been doing SEO. In today's natural search column, "Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO," Mark Jackson explains that by...
WebProNews

Kathryn Glass / FOXBusiness.com - 8 days, 14 hours, 29 minutes ago
Starbucks Misses Earnings Estimates - Starbucks surprised no one when it missed earnings estimates on Monday, detailing declining profit and weakening same store sales in the fiscal fourth quarter.
TheStreet.com

Tameka Kee / paidContent.org - 12 days, 6 hours, 27 minutes ago
Ballmer: Yahoo Buyout Is Not Gonna Happen - Sorry, Jerry, a buyout's not gonna happen. That's the message MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer made clear at a business luncheon in Sydney, Reuters says. "We made an offer, we made another offer ... We moved on," Ballmer said.
BloggingStocks

EETimes - 12 days, 14 hours, 5 minutes ago
Nvidia profit, revenue decline - Graphics chip vendor Nvida posted a GAAP net income of $62 million, or 11 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $898 million for the company's fiscal 2009 third quarter ended Oct. 26.
MarketWatch

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 1 day, 13 hours, 36 minutes ago
SEO About to Get Turned On Its Ear? - At PubCon, Bruce Clay, Inc. President Bruce Clay presented at a session entitled "Top-Shelf Organic SEO" in which he discussed the approaching future of SEO as search engines evolve into more modern ranking methods.
Search Engine Watch Blog

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 4 days, 17 hours, 57 minutes ago
PubCon: Think Big for Link Building Through Social Media - Out in Las Vegas at PubCon, Mike McDonald of WebProNews spoke with Eric Enge, who was one of the speakers at the session entitled "Real-World Low-Risk, High-Reward Link Building Strategies." You might be familiar with Enge.
Marketing Pilgrim

Search Engine Watch Blog - 19 hours, 53 minutes ago
Matt Cutts Video Interview on SESConferenceExpo’s Channel - During Search Engine Strategies San Jose back in August, I did a video interview with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team.

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Sarah Evans / Mashable! - 2 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes ago
Motrin Moms: Social Media Fail Whale - Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College (ECC) in Elgin, Illinois. She also authors a PR and social media blog. The inaugural celebration of International Baby Wearing Week also serves as a platform for the...
ReadWriteWeb

ReadWriteWeb - 4 days, 21 hours, 1 minute ago
Now Share Anything From Netvibes Via Facebook Connect, Twitter - Netvibes, one of the many personalized homepage products available today, has just announced a new feature which allows users to share anything from their Netvibes pages - not just tabs, but also articles, widgets, and RSS feeds.

EETimes - 19 hours, 57 minutes ago
Broadcom says Qualcomm held in contempt of injunction - A federal judge found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction entered last December that was designed to prevent the company from infringement of two patents, according to Broadcom.
BetaNews

Silicon Alley Insider - 4 days, 23 hours, 28 minutes ago
Spam Down 75% After ISPs Shutdown Host - Maybe you've been inundated by emails from spammers like Pills-pay.com or Pay4pills.com in the past? No longer. Worldwide spam is down 75% since Tuesday, when a Washington Post investigation led Internet service-providers Global Crossing...
All Things Digital, Ars Technica

New York Times - 1 day, 13 hours, 16 minutes ago
Samsung Is Hit With Patent Suits - A struggling Silicon Valley maker of flash memory chips filed a pair of sweeping patent infringement suits on Monday against Samsung of South Korea.