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The Register - 1 day, 2 hours, 12 minutes ago
Nvidia pitches Tesla GPU-as-CPU tech 'personal supercomputer' - This time it's real, apparentlyNvidia has introduced a desktop computer architecture based on its Tesla graphics chip and it's calling the system the first "real" desktop supercomputer.…
GigaOM, BetaNews, San Jose Mercury News, Wired Top Stories, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, DailyTech

MediaPost - 16 hours, 46 minutes ago
Social Media Insider: Social Media And The Motrin Controversy: Or, Will Social Media Kill Advertising Creativity? - Perhaps, even if your brand preference is Advil, you spent the early part of the week mired in the Motrin controversy. If not, I'll recap, and then we can turn to my big question of the day.

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Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 18 hours, 35 minutes ago
Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI - This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized."


CNET News.com - 1 day, 12 hours, 24 minutes ago
Mark Cuban says no confidentiality agreement broken - Cuban responds again to some of the SEC charges against him and says presents transcription which he says proves he broke no confidentiality agreement.
Valleywag, New York Times: DealBook

CNET News.com - 1 hour, 32 minutes ago
Why Dell has its head in the clouds - The company intends to preload computers with more subscription-based functions over the next few months in an expansion of its cloud-computing ambitions

BetaNews - 19 hours, 20 minutes ago
Job cuts come to TiVo - In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange commission yesterday, DVR pioneer TiVo showed that it is reducing the size of its work force to cope with the economic turmoil.
Silicon Alley Insider

MarketWatch - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
London Markets: U.K. stocks slide on recession concerns, but retailers climb - U.K. stocks were on pace Thursday to close below a key technical level for the first time in three weeks as the global and local fears about recession were shown by the job cuts at Rolls-Royce and the discounts employed by Marks &......

Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog - 1 day 2 minutes ago
Prototype MacBook Air found on eBay - Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, MacBook Air This is probably old news for most classic Mac collectors, but it's the first I've heard of it: a member of the forums at MacRumors.com bought a MacBook Air "as is" on eBay, and when...

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Tech Blog - 21 hours, 32 minutes ago
MacBook Air Prototype Purchased on eBay - A user over at Mac Rumors recently picked up a MacBook Air on eBay for quite the deal, but didn't realize that it was a prototype model -- defined by red logic board.


Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily - 1 day 18 minutes ago
Baidu: Citi Downgrades To Sell After CCTV Expose -
The Register

Nilay Patel / Engadget - 5 days, 13 hours, 30 minutes ago
AMD says it's "ignoring" netbooks, will focus on ultraportables - Filed under: LaptopsIt seemed earlier this week that AMD's new Conesus chips would take on Intel's dominant Atom platform in the netbook market, but it sounds like that was just wishful thinking -- according to CEO Dirk Meyer, the...
ZDNet Blogs, Gizmodo, Computerworld, EETimes, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, TheStreet.com, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Network World, VentureBeat, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, ChannelWeb

matt buchanan / Gizmodo - 5 days, 13 hours, 52 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

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM - 2 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes ago
Nvidia Machine Takes a Spot on the Top Supercomputer List - For the first time ever, a supercomputer using Nvidia chips has achieved a spot on the Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The Nvidia-containing machine is ranked No.
Ars Technica

Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal - 7 days, 12 hours, 35 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

CNET News.com - 7 days, 17 hours, 4 minutes ago
YouTube enabling advertisers to buy search terms on site - YouTube is getting serious about generating cash from all the video on its site and is now allowing users promote video as well as bid on keywords.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services), NYT > Media & Advertising

Al Costanzo / Search Engine Journal - 8 days, 20 hours, 55 minutes ago
Google Releases First Page Bid Estimates in version 13 of the AdWords API - Last week’s new release of AdWords API has a feature that many have been waiting for: “First Page Bid Estimates”.
Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews

Kathryn Glass / FOXBusiness.com - 9 days, 14 hours, 53 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

David Kaplan / paidContent.org - 6 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes ago
Invest Like It's 1998: Microsoft Stock Hits 10-Year Low; 30 Percent Decline From First Yahoo Offer - Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) stock hit its lowest point in 10 years on Thursday— $18.74—when the tech sector took hits from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), before coming back to close at $21.25.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch - 6 days, 13 hours, 43 minutes ago
Social Network Apps To Finally Monetize Within The Year - Today at OpenSocial's first birthday event, a group of press, developers, and members of the OpenSocial team convened to discuss the future of the platform.

Search Engine Watch Blog - 2 days, 7 hours, 32 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, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

Search Engine Watch Blog - 1 day, 20 hours, 17 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.
WebProNews

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat - 15 hours, 1 minute ago
Add color to your Gmail account with Themes - Looks like Google’s webmail service Gmail is getting a little more colorful — users can customize their accounts with themes. Not all Gmail users can see it yet, but it looks like I was one of the lucky few.

Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 18 hours, 35 minutes ago
Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI - This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized."
ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, MediaPost

Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee - 3 days, 17 hours, 54 minutes ago
Obama to Put Weekly Address on YouTube - There’s no question that between viral hits such as “Yes We Can” and his dramatic speech on race, YouTube helped President-Elect Barack Obama win this election.
Gizmodo, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Search Engine Watch Blog - 15 hours, 28 minutes ago
Workshops Offered by Direct Marketing Association and TopRank Online Marketing - TopRank Online Marketing and the Direct Marketing Association have just announced a partnership to develop and deliver a series of educational workshops on social media marketing entitled, "Social Media Smarts: Introduction to the Social...

EETimes - 1 day, 20 hours, 22 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 - 5 days, 23 hours, 53 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...
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