Back To The Future Flux Capacitor Replica  —  Type:  —  Genres:  —  Released:  —  Availability:  —  Pre-Order  —  UPC:  —  A Diamond Select Release!  Get your own time machine up and running with this high-tech replica from the 1985 classic Back to the Future!

Source:   tfaw.com
Link:   http://www.tfaw.com/Profile/Back-To-The-Future-Flux…

Dude, My Bad: Buyers Forgive Facebook  —  Perhaps they are caught up in the holiday spirit, or maybe everybody loves a good mea culpa, but most digital media buyers are in a forgiving mood when it comes to Facebook’s recent string of Beacon blunders.  —  Buyers say they are generally satisfied …

Source:   Mediaweek
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YouTube Partner Program Opens to All; Chocolate Rain Guy Gets Ad Deal  —  Tay Zonday, the young man behind the Chocolate Rain song and megameme, is among 100 YouTube power users selected to be added to the YouTube Partners program - the site’s ad revenue sharing plan for high quality, original content.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
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LinkedIn Needs to ReachOut  —  Professional networking service LinkedIn wants to emulate Facebook’s success by drawing users and applications through the use of a similar portal strategy.  But LinkedIn’s best chance at success lies in doing just the opposite: reaching out to other web sites and applications.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Anne Zelenka
Link:   http://gigaom.com/2007/12/10/linkedin-needs-to…

NYTimes Surges, Cnet Slumps  —  Ever since the NYTimes.com swept away the last remaining boulders of its subscription pay wall (aka Times Select) in mid-September, its traffic has been going through the roof.  According to comScore, it gained 7.5 million readers worldwide from the end …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/10/nytimes-surges…

MSN Mobile Launches Advertising and Premium Content  —  Microsoft extends mobile display leadership with premier advertisers Paramount Pictures and Jaguar.  —  Mobile display advertising is now available on MSN Mobile for the first time, Microsoft Corp. announced today.

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/dec07…

Toshiba Launches High Performance Solid State Drives with MLC Devices  —  TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced its entry into the emerging market for NAND-flash-based solid state drive (SSD) with a series of products featuring multilevel-cell NAND flash memories.

Source:   Toshiba
Link:   http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2007_12/pr1001…

Microsoft Office Live Workspaces misses the mark  —  San Francisco - After an excruciatingly drawn-out development process, Microsoft???s Office Live Workspaces — the company???s attempt to marry Microsoft Office to the emerging Web services ???cloud??? — is finally upon us.

Source:   InfoWorld
Author:   Randall C. Kennedy
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071210…

In Memorium: Marc Orchant  —  I received the news around 3PM today that my closest friend, business associate, co-conspirator, sometime mentor, sometime  —  protege and full time confidante had passed away a week after suffering a massive heart attack at his home in New Mexico.  He was 50 years old.

Source:   StarrTrek
Author:   Oliver
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The Second Coming  —  Michael Dell is back in charge of the troubled computer company he founded 23 years ago.  He’s already shaken things up.  But can he bring back the magic?  —  His first official day back as chief executive, after stepping away for two and a half years, was Feb. 2.

Source:   Forbes
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