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A concern that I have with the integration is that your Mini-Feed will probably become really cluttered with Digg stories, if you are a heavy digger. Digg does, however, have a Facebook application that keeps your “dugg” stories neatly in a module on your profile page.
Of course, Facebook has expanded greatly beyond its initial college [...]
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A large number–if not the majority–of the phones we saw at this year’s
CTIA trade show in Vegas featured some sort of QWERTY keyboard instead of (or in addition to) the traditional T9 numeric keypad most phones have had for years. The HTC Snap and Samsung Impression pictured are just two examples of QWERTY [...]
Pickens is no ordinary corporate raider. He is a legendary oilman, who became known in the 1980s for corporate takeovers and makes the Forbes list of billionaires year after year. He is the founder and chairman of hedge fund BP Capital. He very publicly backed the so-called Swift Boat veterans who worked to derail John [...]
Guest post by Javier Soltero, CEO of Hyperic
Operations is one of the key open issues that will define Cloud computing’s future.
CloudStatus is monitoring the various Clouds by both running inside and outside their respective environments, and displaying the performance and health information in a way that is simple enough for the customer to [...]
The PC industry is wasting little time getting in line behind Apple to use Intel’s spiffy new notebook chip.
No details were available on the specifications that will come along with the new Lenovo and Fujitsu laptops, but they are expected to be out shortly. It will be interesting to see how the companies respond [...]
I have thought about my role at Sun and decided that I am better off in smaller organisations. I HATE all the rules that I need to follow, and I also HATE breaking them. It would be far better for me to “retire” from employment and work with MySQL and Sun on a less formal [...]
Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. The pad was originally designed for the Apollo program, and has been used for many space shuttle launches. Now it’s being readied for the Constellation program, NASA’s next-generation launch vehicles.
By now I wasn’t seeing straight anymore, so it was time to leave. My gracious hosts had ushered me [...]
The moves were met with skepticism from traditional Microsoft antagonists.
Others speculated that the timing of the move was meant to influence a vote later this month on whether Microsoft’s Office Open XML format will be approved as a standard in an accelerated process.
Companies that build products based on published Microsoft protocols will need to [...]
Now, VentureBeat’s Eric Eldon, who also originally reported the Facebook tidbit, says that LinkedIn employees are going to have the option of doing the same. The business social network, Eldon wrote, is allowing current employees to sell 20 percent of their equity in the company at a $500 million valuation. That’s quite a bit lower [...]
Note: HP is offering systems with the Phenom X3 8600B, (2.3 GHz), Phenom X4 8700B processor (2.5 GHz), and Phenom X4 9600B processor (2.3 GHz), among other AMD chips.
AMD is slated to begin shipping quad-core Phenom 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550, and 9150 processors in the coming weeks, according to sources close to the company. [...]