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A stream of tech consciousness from reporters in the Financial Times San Francisco bureau. All comment and conversation welcome - BETA
Chris Nuttall
May chip sales increase 5 per cent - SIA http://www.sia-online.org/cs...
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May chip sales were down 23 per cent on a year ago, but up 5 per cent on April - Chris Nuttall
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Judge overrules jury in MySpace suicide case - USATODAY.com - http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadl...
Judge overrules jury in MySpace suicide case - USATODAY.com
"In a surprise move, a U.S. judge in Los Angeles has overturned jury verdicts and decided for the time being to dismiss the case against Lori Drew" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
FriendFeed has introduced search that updates before your eyes. - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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How wide is the world's digital divide, anyway? - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
How wide is the world's digital divide, anyway? - Ars Technica
"The consultants at TeleGeography track broadband deployment in 127 countries and have released a chart that shows world broadband deployments by percentage of households that have service." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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The White House - Press Office - Vice President Biden Launches Initiative to Bring Broadband, Jobs to More Americans - http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_pre...
The White House - Press Office - Vice President Biden Launches Initiative to Bring Broadband, Jobs to More Americans
"Vice President Biden today announced the availability of $4 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act loans and grants to help bring broadband service to un-served and underserved communities across America." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Gaikai demos how to serve games over the Internet | VentureBeat - http://games.venturebeat.com/2009...
Gaikai demos how to serve games over the Internet | VentureBeat
"Gaikai released a video showing how gamers could play any PC game on a Gaikai server without installing it on a home machine." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Facebook Privacy Enhancements - Slideshare presentation - http://www.slideshare.net/guest5f...
Facebook Privacy Enhancements - Slideshare presentation
Facebook's presentation introducing new privacy settings - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Forrester Updates Outlook For Global And US IT Purchases / Forrester Research - http://www.forrester.com/ER...
"Global purchases of IT goods and services by businesses and governments in 2009 are projected to decline by 10.6 per cent compared with the 3 per cent previously projected" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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A Note About Today's Changes - Joost - http://blog.joost.com/2009...
A Note About Today's Changes - Joost
Joost's CEO steps down as the video service restructures after failing to find a buyer. - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
Wow. That's interesting. Thanks for sharing. - Justin Whittaker
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Firefox 3.5 released to the public - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US...
Firefox 3.5 released to the public
The new browser can load web pages more than twice as fast as 3.0. - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Court rejects appeal on Cablevision network DVR | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
Court rejects appeal on Cablevision network DVR | Reuters
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by film studios and television networks against Cablevision's networked digital video recorder service. - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Facebook | Facebook appoints new CFO - http://www.facebook.com/press...
Facebook appoints David Ebersman, former Genentech CFO. - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Electronista | Apple, others agree to micro USB standard in EU - http://www.electronista.com/article...
Electronista | Apple, others agree to micro USB standard in EU
"Several major cellphone makers today agreed to support a European Union push for a universal charger standard." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Official Google Blog: Extending Google services in Africa - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Google Blog: Extending Google services in Africa
"Today, we are announcing Google SMS, a suite of mobile applications which will allow people to access information, via SMS, on a diverse number of topics including health and agriculture tips, news, local weather, sports, and more." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson
"The spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so big that Google News initially mistook it for an automated attack" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold - ReadWriteWeb
Seesmic's Loic Le Meur says video sites bar YouTube are showing no growth. - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade - Windows 7 Team Blog - http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs...
Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade - Windows 7 Team Blog
"We will offer people in select markets the opportunity to pre-order Windows 7 at a more than 50% discount." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments on Pace for 6 Percent Decline in 2009 - http://www.gartner.com/it...
"Gartner now expects the PC market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, setting the stage for a healthy market recovery in 2010" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime launch video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Virtual Collaboration for Lotus Sametime launch video
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IBM has launched virtual meetings for its Sametime instant messaging platform. - Chris Nuttall
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Kotaku - id: Why We Sold To ZeniMax - http://kotaku.com/5302139...
Kotaku - id: Why We Sold To ZeniMax
"id's John Carmack and Todd Hollenshead explained how changing circumstances with Activision and other studios spurred id's sale to Bethesda parent ZeniMax." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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iPhone 3G S Carries $178.96 BOM and Manufacturing Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals — iSuppli Corporation - http://www.isuppli.com/NewsDet...
iPhone 3G S Carries $178.96 BOM and Manufacturing Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals — iSuppli Corporation
"The entry-level, 16Gbyte version of Apple Inc.’s new iPhone 3G S carries a BOM cost of $172.46 and a manufacturing expense of $6.50, for a total of $178.96" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Official Google Blog: Let's make the web faster - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
"To optimize the speed of web applications and make browsing the web as fast as turning the pages of a magazine, we need to work together as a community" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare - Steve Jobs Receives Liver Transplant - http://methodisthealth.org/methodi...
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare - Steve Jobs Receives Liver Transplant
"James D. Eason, M.D., program director at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute and chief of transplantation confirmed today, with the patient's permission, that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Official Google Blog: A new landmark in computer vision - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Google Blog: A new landmark in computer vision
""Recognized Landmark: Acropolis, Athens, Greece." Thanks computer." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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What's new in Firefox 3.5? - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
What's new in Firefox 3.5?
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The new 3.5 release candidate, launched today, looks like it will compete with Safari for fastest web browser. - Chris Nuttall
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Track is Back! Steve Gillmor Rejoices | Stay N' Alive - http://staynalive.com/article...
Track is Back! Steve Gillmor Rejoices | Stay N' Alive
"Twitter users everywhere can rejoice, as their most requested and most favorite feature taken from Twitter has just been found." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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Jobs Had Liver Transplant - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
Jobs Had Liver Transplant - WSJ.com
"Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple Inc. since January to treat an undisclosed medical condition, received a liver transplant in Tennessee about two months ago." - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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iPhone 3G S launch in Corte Madera
iPhone 3G S launch in Corte Madera
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iPhone 3G S launch in Corte Madera
iPhone 3G S launch in Corte Madera
Around 75 people were outside the Apple Corte Madera store at 7am as the iPhone 3G S went on sale. - Chris Nuttall
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The Facebook Blog | Launching Facebook in Persian - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
The Facebook Blog | Launching Facebook in Persian
"Today we're making the entire site available in a beta version of Persian, so Persian speakers inside of Iran and around the world can begin using it in their native language" - Chris Nuttall via Bookmarklet
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