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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM - 1 day, 9 hours, 56 minutes ago
SC08 Video: Put a Green Supercomputer on Your Desk - I'm intrigued by the idea of personal supercomputers such as the Cray CX1, which was unveiled earlier this year, as well as the Dell Workstation that was given a teraflop boost using an Nvidia Telsa card.
BetaNews, San Jose Mercury News, Wired Top Stories, DailyTech

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System - 17 hours, 31 minutes ago
Gmail Themes - Following the footsteps of Google's personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account, you'll find a tab named "Themes" in the settings page and you'll be able to choose from 30 themes.
ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat

MediaPost - 19 hours, 11 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.

In-Depth
Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 21 hours, 1 minute 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."

Search Engine Watch Blog

Journals.ars - 17 hours, 54 minutes ago
New Opera designer looking for desktop UI feedback - Opera's new lead designer, Jon Hicks, is looking for comments from Mac, Windows, and Linux users (and everyone in between) about how the browser feels as a native app on their operating systems.

In-Depth
CNNMoney.com - 20 hours, 21 minutes ago
Sirius XM at 17 cents - look out below - "Brother, can you spare a dime?" During the Great Depression, ten cents could buy a little something for those really hard up.

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Silicon Alley Insider - 17 hours, 59 minutes ago
Layoffs Come To TiVo - DVR maker TiVo (TIVO) is shedding staff, the company reveals in a SEC filing: On November 18, 2008, we commenced a plan to reduce our operational expenses, primarily through a reduction in headcount, as we manage through the challenges...
BetaNews, NewTeeVee

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 1 day 57 minutes ago
Sun Gives MySQL A Query Analyzer - The analyzer is hoped to push MySQL query execution closer to the performance range of large commercial database systems.
PC World, eWeek

Forbes - 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
Why Dell Can't Keep Up With HP - The Texas computer maker is expected to report lower earnings Thursday.

Moming Zhou / FOXBusiness.com - 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
Crude Falls Toward $50 On Economy, Stock Slumps - Crude Falls Toward $50 On Economy, Stock Slumps

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Nilay Patel / Engadget - 5 days, 15 hours, 55 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, 16 hours, 17 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, 22 hours, 16 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

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Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal - 7 days, 15 hours, 1 minute 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, 19 hours, 30 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

Doug Caverly / WebProNews - 8 days, 22 hours, 22 minutes ago
WSJ Points To Facebook Advertising Issues - It'll soon be what Andy Williams described as the most wonderful time of the year, and Facebook's doing its best to make the singer's words come true.  It seems that the social network has a ways to go, however, at least in terms of...
ProBlogger, Inside Facebook

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Kathryn Glass / FOXBusiness.com - 9 days, 17 hours, 18 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, 7 hours, 55 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, 16 hours, 8 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.

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Search Engine Watch Blog - 2 days, 9 hours, 57 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, 22 hours, 42 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

Chris Crum / WebProNews - 5 days, 20 hours, 47 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

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Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 21 hours, 1 minute 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, 20 hours, 19 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 - 17 hours, 54 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...

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EETimes - 1 day, 22 hours, 47 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 - 6 days, 2 hours, 18 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


Associated Press / San Jose Mercury News - 2 days, 22 hours, 18 minutes ago
German Wikipedia back online after legal dispute - The German-language version of the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia is back online after a left-wing lawmaker dropped a legal complaint.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs


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