Sunday, September 7, 2008 - 4:10 am EDT
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PC World - 2 days, 10 hours, 25 minutes ago
CNBC Gets LinkedIn - Partnership adds CNBC content to LinkedIn, social networking tools to business network.
Mashable!, Marketing Pilgrim, eWeek, BloggingStocks, Portfolio.com: Tech Observer

Contentinople: - 1 day, 17 hours, 30 minutes ago
Comcast Fights Back - MSO files an appeal that seeks to reverse an FCC order tied to Comcast's treatment of some P2P traffic, claiming the rules exceed the Commission's authority
Download Squad, Tech Beat, ZDNet Blogs, Gizmodo

ChannelWeb - 1 day, 18 hours, 6 minutes ago
Dell Looking To Sell Some Factories? - Dell reportedly would like to sell plants within 18 months and then contract with the buyers to produce Dell's PCs.
San Jose Mercury News, Forbes, New York Times

Guest Column / NewTeeVee - 1 day, 22 hours, 10 minutes ago
Hands on with Amazon Video on Demand - Written by Liane Cassavoy. Amazon’s Video on Demand is the latest service that will attempt to have you turn off your TV and turn on your PC when you want to be entertained.
BBC News, Startup Meme, Ars Technica, Computerworld

Network World - 2 days, 9 hours, 28 minutes ago
Microsoft, Red Hat, HP, Sun give desktop virtualization a boost - If there is any doubt that vendors want to poke desktop virtualization into the psyche of corporate IT then last week's rash of vendor announcements should put all that to rest.
New York Times: DealBook, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, eWeek, InfoWorld

PC World - 1 day, 12 hours, 50 minutes ago
MySQL Cofounder May Resign - MySQL's cofounder Michael "Monty" Widenius is considering resigning, according to an official blog post.
The Register

Brandon Hill / DailyTech - 1 day, 15 hours, 39 minutes ago
Samsung Has Hopes of Acquiring SanDisk - Samsung looks to SanDisk to strengthen its lead in NAND flash
BetaNews

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable! - 2 days, 4 hours, 17 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

Search Engine Land - 2 days, 11 hours, 10 minutes ago
Search Engine Land's Chrome Usage 10.10%: Share Yours - Michael Arrington noticed that Google Analytics is now showing "Chrome" as a browser in the reports. TechCrunch's Chrome usage for yesterday was 6.23%, our's was 10.10%. What is yours? Click to continue reading...
One Microsoft Way, OStatic blogs

Business Week - 2 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
HP's 'End Run' Around Windows -

InfoWorld - 4 days, 17 hours, 26 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 - 4 days, 21 hours, 35 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

Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear - 18 hours, 39 minutes ago
Scandal: A rash of fake Steve Jobs e-mails, maybe - Get ready for the latest Internet scandal: fake e-mails from Steve Jobs. Well, real e-mails that weren’t sent by Steve Jobs, if that makes any sense.Wired looked at three e-mails purportedly sent by Steve Jobs in recent weeks: one...

AllBusiness.com - 2 days, 11 hours, 2 minutes ago
Internet Marketing: Why Site Maps Are Important - Interview with SEO expert Lee Odden

Search Engine Land - 3 days, 16 hours, 40 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! - 3 days, 18 hours, 10 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...

The Register - 9 days, 9 hours, 47 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 - 8 days, 22 hours 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 - 10 days, 10 hours, 36 minutes ago
Oracle Taps New Financial Chief - Jeff Epstein is a former DoubleClick executive.
MarketWatch

ysb_admin / Yahoo! Search Blog - 3 days, 11 hours, 57 minutes ago
Building with BOSS -- New Products to Share - It's been two months since we began "opening up" the Yahoo! Search infrastructure with the launch of Yahoo! Search BOSS and we've already seen some great products created.
TechCrunch

Ann Smarty / Search Engine Journal - 3 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes ago
FireFox SEO Extensions - the Ultimate Collection - FireFox is the most customizable browser I am aware of and hence it is my favorite one. A while ago posting a huge overview of SEO tools I promised to compile a similar list of available FireFox SEO extensions; and so here I am.
iMedia Connection

Gmail Blog / Official Gmail Blog - 1 day, 11 hours, 20 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.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch - 3 days, 6 hours, 26 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

Justin Smith / Inside Facebook - 3 days, 11 hours, 43 minutes ago
60% of Facebook Users Now Viewing the “New” Facebook - Web metrics firm Compete today released new data showing interesting trends in user migration/adoption of the “new” Facebook.
WebProNews

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM - 3 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes ago
Hulu is Bad for the Net but People Will Pay for Twitter - Hulu is a problem. So argues a paper by University of Minnesota Professor Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, who says that video isn’t actually clogging the net right now, but streaming video content is such an inefficient way of getting video from...
ReadWriteWeb

BetaNews - 8 days, 10 hours, 58 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 - 8 days, 16 hours, 56 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 - 3 days, 13 hours, 58 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.