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BBC News - 16 hours, 35 minutes ago
One Laptop signs up with Amazon - Online retailer Amazon will help the One Laptop Per Child organisation with its plans to sell its XO laptop in the US.

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Shoaib Hashmi / Startup Meme - 17 hours, 11 minutes ago
Amazon Unleashes the ‘Video Streaming Service’ - Amazon has released their video streaming service, ‘Amazon Video on Demand’. The newly released service is not going to be the best in the market but it is probably going to give iTunes video store a tough time. Like others, Amazon...

Ars Technica, Contentinople: , Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, BetaNews, AppScout, Download Squad, Lost Remote, CNET News.com, NewTeeVee

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable! - 1 day, 4 hours, 47 minutes ago
LinkedIn and CNBC Team Up for Industry News - LinkedIn and CNBC have announced a partnership today that unlike most of the hundreds of partnership announcements we see on a daily basis, seems to be something that actually impacts usability in a game-changing way. LinkedIn is, of...
Marketing Pilgrim, eWeek, BloggingStocks, CNET News.com, WebProNews, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Silicon Alley Insider, The Social Times, Epicenter, Computerworld, Portfolio.com: Tech Observer

Scott Loganbill / Wired Top Stories - 1 day, 4 hours, 59 minutes ago
Zoho Docs Unites Writer, Sheet and Show - Zoho already had a powerful online office suite in Writer, Sheet and Show. Now it binds them around a virtual file system, making it easy to upload your word-processing, powerpoint and spreadsheet docs to the cloud and edit them...
Lifehacker, diversity.net.nz, TechCrunch, CenterNetworks, VentureBeat

Brad Linder / Download Squad - 15 hours, 38 minutes ago
Comcast launches yet another way to pay for movie downloads - Filed under: Internet, Video Comcast has added a video download store to its Fancast online video site. Up until now, Fancast featured free streaming video from sites like Hulu and CBS video.
The Inquisitr, Tech Beat, ZDNet Blogs, Contentinople:

DealBook / New York Times: DealBook - 1 day, 4 hours, 52 minutes ago
Red Hat Buys Seat at the Virtualization Table - From Bits: The virtualization software market just got even more crowded, thanks to Red Hat’s $107 million acquisition Thursday of Qumranet.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, eWeek, New York Times, InfoWorld, Network World

Joe Brown / Wired Top Stories - 1 day, 7 hours, 12 minutes ago
New TiVo DVR Proves Bigger Is Sometimes Better - Gadgets are supposed to get smaller not larger, right? TiVo hears this and TiVo so doesn't care. The new TiVo HD XL is enormous with a terabyte of memory and THX-certified audio and video for pumping out true hi-def glory....
Journals.ars, SlashGear, Gadgetell, Crave: The gadget blog

PC World - 6 hours, 38 minutes ago
MySQL Cofounder May Resign - MySQL's cofounder Michael "Monty" Widenius is considering resigning, according to an official blog post.
The Register

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable! - 22 hours, 5 minutes ago
Bebo Is Forcibly Changing Usernames - I first saw it over in a post by Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim, but in the post he lays the tracks to a whole epidemic of unauthorized name changes by top social networking service Bebo.
Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews

John Herrman / Gizmodo - 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
Purchase Classical Works of Art, As Dreamt by a Young Steve Jobs - Regulars might remember Adam's similar Photoshop contest a few weeks ago, but these amazing oil-on-canvas paintings were lovingly adorned with Macintosh SEs for a Sweden-only ad campaign all they way back in 1987.

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Ronald Abadi / PalmAddicts - 5 days 22 minutes ago
The TechCrunch Web Tablet Project - Continued from the post here. A couple of weeks ago I sent an e-mail to Michael Arrington, asking about the status of the TechCrunch Web Tablet. No, I did not join the team; I do not have the expertise to...
GottaBeMobile, TechCrunch, CyberNet

InfoWorld - 3 days, 11 hours, 15 minutes ago
Intel buys Linux developer Opened Hand - Intel has snapped up British Linux house Opened Hand in another sign of the growing interest in the use of the operating system on mobile devices.Last month, research from ABI Research said that Linux was set to take the lion's share...
EETimes, BetaNews

John Morris / ZDNet Blogs - 3 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes ago
Report: AMD to challenge Nvidia's $60 graphics - The cost of good graphics is going down fast. AMD plans to release new versions of its ATI Radeon 4000-series graphics processing units (GPUs) for entry-level graphics cards, according to the site TGDaily.
BloggingStocks, CrunchGear

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AllBusiness.com - 1 day, 4 hours, 50 minutes ago
Internet Marketing: Why Site Maps Are Important - Interview with SEO expert Lee Odden

Search Engine Land - 2 days, 10 hours, 28 minutes ago
Free Search Ads From Microsoft adCenter & Google's Free AdWords Editor Guide - MarketingWeek reports Microsoft is giving away a free month of search ads to both new and current customers. The free ads can be placed on "any online Microsoft Live service including Messenger, Hotmail and the MSN search engine," said...

Mark Drapeau / Mashable! - 2 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes ago
Government 2.0: What’s Your Brand? - This is part of an ongoing series about government 2.0 written by Dr. Mark Drapeau. To view previous posts in the series click here. I’m a member of Generation X, and it seems to me that when I was young the character of Uncle Sam was...

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The Register - 8 days, 3 hours, 36 minutes ago
Dell profits sink 17% as revenues rise - Bad Day at Round RockDell posted a surprise 17 per cent drop in profits for its fiscal second quarter, even though its revenues handily beat Wall Street estimates.…
Seattle Times, BBC News, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), FOXBusiness.com, AOL, CNNMoney.com

EETimes - 7 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes ago
Nintendo boosts annual profit forecast by 23% - Nintendo boosted its annual profit outlook by 23 percent on white-hot demand for its Wii video game console and DS portable player, beating marketexpectations and sending its shares more than 8 percent higher.
MarketWatch, VentureBeat, Variety

TheStreet.com - 9 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes ago
Oracle Taps New Financial Chief - Jeff Epstein is a former DoubleClick executive.
MarketWatch

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Gmail Blog / Official Gmail Blog - 5 hours, 8 minutes ago
New Gmail code base now for IE6 too - Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineerLast October, we launched a rewritten code base for the Gmail user interface to Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 users.

Search Engine Watch Blog - 9 hours, 42 minutes ago
Top rated WebProNews Videos from SES San Jose 2008 - Earlier this week, I listed the “Top 10 Videos on YouTube from SES San Jose 2008.” Well, the WebProNews Video Blog has some top-rated videos from last month’s SES conference that you won’t find on YouTube – at least not yet....

iMedia Connection - 23 hours, 56 minutes ago
5 experts demystify SEO link building - Confused about when and how to link? Our panel of SEO gurus dishes the straight dirt on the best practices for inbound linking.

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch - 2 days 14 minutes ago
Has Twitter Solved Its Uptime Issues? - One of my favorite pastimes over the last year or so has been to tear Twitter apart over uptime issues. See, for example, Twitter Suffers Minor Period Of Uptime (my personal favorite), Twitter: Something Is Technically Wrong and Amateur...
Silicon Alley Insider

MG Siegler / VentureBeat - 1 day, 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
Other topics on Twitter Palin comparison - The nation and even a lot of people outside of the United States were all atwitter last night about vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s speech at the Republican National Convention — on Twitter.In what it’s calling...

Adam Hirsch / Mashable! - 1 day, 3 hours, 8 minutes ago
CNN Heavily Promoting Twitter On Air, Making Big Moves in Social Media - Out of the hundreds of articles and posts out there on how companies should utilize social media and Web 2.0, CNN seems to be one of the few major corporations out there that have paid attention.

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BetaNews - 7 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes ago
Sony sued over Blu-ray patents - Sony has been sued for patent infringement for its Blu-Ray technology once again, this time by California intellectual property company Orinda IP USA.
Inquirer

MediaPost - 7 days, 10 hours, 44 minutes ago
Online Media Daily: Effect Of Veoh Decision On YouTube/Viacom Case Unclear - YouTube is cheering a new decision dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Veoh Networks that's similar to a battle it's fighting against Viacom.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services)

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 2 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes ago
Wikipedia Inadmissible in a Court of Law - A court has ruled that Wikipedia entries are not legitimate sources for dictating a court ruling. Shockingly, it was a U.S.

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