Friday, October 10, 2008 - 3:44 pm EDT
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BetaNews - 1 day, 1 hour, 13 minutes ago
First Asus WiMAX notebook ships, others from Lenovo, Acer to come - Now that the long promised faster speeds of WiMAX are starting to rev up into reality, PC makers are rolling out the first WiMAX-enabled networks. At least one model -- from Asus -- is already shipping, but it'll cost you a cool $1,399.
I4U News, ZDNet Blogs, Gizmodo, Inquirer, DigiTimes, Computerworld

Rex Nutting / FOXBusiness.com - 5 hours, 6 minutes ago
Americans Should Have Confidence In Economy, Bush Says - Americans Should Have Confidence In Economy, Bush Says
BBC News, MarketWatch

Owen Thomas / Valleywag - 23 hours, 44 minutes ago
Broadcom sues Qualcomm for supposedly ripping off its customers - If you like watching pie fights, this is equally entertaining: Broadcom is suing Qualcomm over its patent practices. Both companies sell wireless chips, but Qualcomm also makes money by licensing its patents to the same customers who buy...
MarketWatch, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, BetaNews

Rafe Needleman / Webware.com - 1 day, 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
Amazon drops S3 prices - Amazon has announced that it is dropping prices for heavy users of its hosted storage service, S3. The baseline monthly fee of 15 cents per gigabyte of storage remains, but high-volume users will be able to take advantage of a tiered...
GigaOM, Digital Inspiration, Beyond Search

Owen Thomas / Valleywag - 1 day, 2 hours, 44 minutes ago
Netflix raising prices, with Blu-ray as the excuse - Every Netflix subscriber is getting a $1 a month fee added to their bill for "access" to high-def Blu-ray movie discs on the rent-by-mail service — whether or not they rent Blu-ray movies, or even have a Blu-ray player.
I4U News, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Lifehacker

Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear - 6 hours, 9 minutes ago
Fallout 3 leaked: On top BitTorrent sites, Usenet - Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 has leaked onto the Internet, and it’s available on all the big BitTorrent sites, Usenet, etc. You’ll needed a modded console to play it, obviously.

Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion - 1 day, 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
Edelman Webinar: All Social Media is Local - On Tuesday, October 7 a group of Edelman digital experts from around the world participated in a free webinar called All Social Media is Local.
MediaPost

MarketWatch - 1 day, 3 hours, 27 minutes ago
Telecom Stocks: Nortel, Sprint gain; Motorola sinks - WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - Telecommunications stocks bounced up and down Thursday, taking their cues as they have the past few weeks from action in the broader U.S. market.
FOXBusiness.com, Network World

Gmail Blog / Official Gmail Blog - 20 hours, 6 minutes ago
New in Labs: Advanced IMAP Controls - Posted by Jamie Nicolson, Gmail engineerFrom the team that brought you Mail Goggles, here comes...Advanced IMAP Controls, a Labs feature that lets you fine-tune your Gmail IMAP experience.

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily - 1 day, 4 hours, 42 minutes ago
IBM May Offer 5, 10, 30 Year Bonds at 375-390 Spread -
Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 3 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes ago
AMD Spins Off Manufacturing Operations - The company hopes the breakup will reverse a string of money-losing quarters and dramatically improve its ability to compete with Intel.
EETimes, CrunchGear, Guardian, Gizmodo, BloggingStocks, eWeek, Electronista, Hardware 2.0, InfoWorld, ChannelWeb, VentureBeat, CNET News.com, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, AMD Press Releases, MarketWatch, FOXBusiness.com, TheStreet.com

Macworld - 4 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes ago
PC World: Amazon Kindle 2 details and pictures leaked - PC World reports on leaked pictures of the forthcoming incarnation of Amazon’s ebook reader, which appeared on the Web over the weekend.
The Register, MarketWatch, Silicon Alley Insider, CrunchGear, PalmAddicts, Boing Boing Gadgets, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, Engadget, Gizmodo, Tech Blog, Ars Technica, ZDNet Blogs, Podcasting News, MediaPost

Shane McGlaun / DailyTech - 3 days, 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
Rumors Surface Again Claiming NVIDIA will Leave Chipset Business - Rumors also say NVIDIA will report another quarterly loss
Tech Trader Daily, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, MacRumors.com, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, Electronista

Search Engine Watch Blog - 10 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes ago
AdWords API Gets Local Database Sync Update - Google has launched AdWords API Local Database Sync. This allows you to run reports, store them in a local database, and then query that database. The AdWords API team says that this should make querying a local database faster and more...

ClickZ News Blog - 10 days, 8 hours, 9 minutes ago
Music Industry: Internet Advertising Is Really, Really Hard - At ContentNext's EconMusic conference in London last week, music industry executives gathered to discuss the future of the music industry, as physical sales nosedive and P2P sharing becomes increasingly commonplace. The Social Media...

David Kaplan / paidContent.org - 11 days 34 minutes ago
Broadband ISPs Vow Ad-Targeting To Be 'Opt-In' In Congressional Hearing - Although they don't currently target ads to their broadband subscribers, representatives from AT&T (NYSE: T), Time Warner Cable, and Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) appeared before a Senate committee and promised to adopt a system that...

Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks - 7 days, 4 hours, 47 minutes ago
As Yahoo! hits another low, its relevance fades - Filed under: Industry, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Marketing and advertisingYahoo!'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) shares hit another multi-year low, trading down to $15.54, off by more than half from its 52-week...
MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 2 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago
YouTube To Sell Music, Games In Revenue Push - Music purchases will be processed via Amazon's MP3 store or Apple's iTunes store and Google expects to earn earn $200 million in revenue in 2009 from the sales.

David Kaplan / paidContent.org - 9 days, 15 hours, 3 minutes ago
With Demand For Financial News Surging, Bloomberg Brings Its Online Video To AOL - Just in time for the financial market's wild ups and downs this week, Bloomberg Television is making a tentative step toward syndicating its videos outside of its own website in a deal with AOL (NYSE: TWX).
WebProNews

Duncan Morris / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog - 12 hours, 45 minutes ago
Interviewing for SEO jobs - Posted by Duncan MorrisEarlier this year Rand did a white board friday talking about how to get an seo job. A couple of years ago Rebecca covered the SEOmoz hiring process, with a full re-cap of how Jane became a 'mozzer.
Search Engine Land, MediaPost, Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim

Guest / Marketing Pilgrim - 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
The day in the life of an in-house SEO at Tribune - After Lunch - By Brent D. Payne[Andy's note: Want to know what Brent did before lunch? Check out part 1 here.]1:00pm – 1:30pm – Get some type of foodDon’t forget to eat. Yeah, that’s about all I have to say on that.

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System - 6 hours, 53 minutes ago
Advanced IMAP Settings for Gmail - Gmail offers more options for IMAP through an experimental add-on from Gmail Labs: "Advanced IMAP Controls". After enabling the add-on, you'll find two categories of options:* the Labels tab lets you control which labels show up in your...

Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion - 1 day, 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
Edelman Webinar: All Social Media is Local - On Tuesday, October 7 a group of Edelman digital experts from around the world participated in a free webinar called All Social Media is Local.
MediaPost, Search Engine Land

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 2 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes ago
MySpace Agrees To Integrate HP Printing Services - The partnership allows MySpace's users to print photos stored on their profiles, of which there are about 4 billion images posted on the social network.
The Technology Chronicles, TechCrunch, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Mashable!, WebProNews

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 3 days 7 minutes ago
MySpace, Facebook Lead Mobile Social Networking - Despite a slate of newcomers, the major online social networks dominate the mobile space, according to ABI Research.
Ars Technica

MarketWatch - 2 days, 4 hours, 49 minutes ago
Broadcom asks court to declare Qualcomm patents "unenforceable" - SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Broadcom Corp. on Wednesday said it asked a federal court to declare Qualcomm Inc.'s patents and patent licenses are "unenforceable," escalating the legal battle between the two rivals.
CNET News.com, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), EETimes, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

EETimes - 2 days, 23 hours, 9 minutes ago
Intel has 'serious questions' about AMD plan - Intel said it has "serious questions" about a deal announced by Advanced Micro Devices to spin off its manufacturing business and focus on chip design, and is ready to defend its patents.
WebProNews, eWeek

Michael Masnick / Techdirt - 3 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes ago
Verizon Gets Smacked Down For Its VoIP Patent Suing Spree - Verizon was one of the last players to the VoIP party. Cable companies had been offering VoIP for years, and then Vonage, AT&T and a variety of other startups really built the market before Verizon even bothered to enter the space...
Silicon Alley Insider, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs