Might Google Buy the New York Times?  —  The choice for the family would be basically this: double your money or double down on “young Arthur,” as the NYT’s Chairman and CEO is sometimes called.  In the back of their minds, the prospect of doubling down on “young Arthur” …

Source:   RealClearMarkets - Articles
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Shooting yourself in the foot: Time Warner’s usage caps  —  Last week, we learned from a leaked memo that Time Warner Cable is preparing to roll out usage-based broadband service tiers to new customers in Beaumont, TX.  The company has since confirmed its plans, with monthly bandwidth caps set at 5GB, 10GB, 20GB, and 40GB.

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RIM Showcases BlackBerry Platform Enhancements at Lotusphere 2008  —  Orlando, FL, Lotusphere 2008, Booth 516 - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced a series of updates for its market-leading BlackBerry® platform that include enhanced messaging and collaboration …

Source:   rim.com
Link:   http://www.rim.com/news/press/2008/pr-22_01_2008-01…

Apple Adds Pink to the iPod nano Lineup  —  Apple® today announced that it is adding a gorgeous new pink iPod® nano to the lineup of the world’s most popular music player.  The much-requested pink iPod nano is available immediately in an 8GB model for $199. iPod nano features …

Source:   Apple
Author:   Christine Monaghan
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Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl  —  Yup, it’s down again… on a Tuesday… just hours before they announce their quarterly financials.  We’ve been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big box retail locations.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/22/apple-store-down…

Neowin.net forum member posts first review of Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1  —  Looks like it didn’t take long for the first external build of Windows 7 to be leaked on to the interwebs.  Black fumes were reported escaping Steven Sinofsky’s office earlier this morning after news Microsoft …

Source:   istartedsomething
Author:   Long Zheng
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Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight  —  Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years.  The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum.  —  Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users.

Source:   GigaOM
Link:   http://gigaom.com/2008/01/22/yahoo-please-put-up-a…

Microsoft Caves on Vista Virtualization  —  As Mary Jo reported earlier today, Microsoft has announced that they are changing the Vista EULA to remove limits on which SKUs can be virtualized.  According to this article in eWeek: … Before you balk at the DRM requirement… it makes sense.

Source:   Robert McLaws: Windows Vista Edition
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Windows 7 details emerge - look Software + Services  —  Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners.  One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this …

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Yahoo Layoffs For Real—But What’s the Real Number?  —  Last Friday, when I reported that a small team of about 30 people at Yahoo had lost their jobs, I hinted that “more substantial layoffs are around the corner.”  In fact, we had it on good information that the board was set to meet …

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