Google:
Global Consortium to Construct New Cable System Linking US and Japan to Meet Increasing Bandwidth Demands  —  Construction underway to build 10,000 km linear cable system with a capacity of up to 7.68 Tbps to enhance Trans-Pacific connectivity  —  A consortium of six international companies announced …

Megan Johnston / FinancialWeek.com:
Apple’s cash: It’s one sour cider  —  Whopping $18.4 billion now idles on balance sheet, fermenting grumbles that Steve Jobs can do better  —  Talk about your apple juice: The computer company’s current cash position is $18.4 billion, up an astounding 20% in a single quarter.

Megan Johnston / FinancialWeek.com Breaking News Headlines:
Apple’s cash: It’s one sour cider  —  Whopping $18.4 billion now idles on balance sheet, fermenting grumbles that Steve Jobs can do better  —  Talk about your apple juice: The computer company’s current cash position is $18.4 billion, up an astounding 20% in a single quarter.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DivX Shuts Down Popular Piracy Site Stage6  —  We covered Stage6, a DivX-owned site, in October 2006 as part of a roundup of up and coming video sites.  The site, which allowed users to upload video in the high quality Divx format, streams video that makes YouTube look shabby in comparison.

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out  —  Adobe’s AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser.  Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it’s time to look at some of the AIR apps […]

Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover  —  PHOENIX — Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang knew exactly what was on everyone’s minds at the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday.  —  In their first public appearance since Microsoft’s hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo …

Lessig Blog:
On why I am not running  —  With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement.  I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!).  First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08?

Hal Varian / Official Google Blog:
Our secret sauce  —  I was recently a guest columnist on the Freakonomics Blog.  There were several interesting questions from the readers, but one was quite striking: … It seems that a lot of people are trying to figure out why Google has done so well.

Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials said on Monday that they were considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from discriminating against content providers …

Kristopher Kubicki / DailyTech:
Sun Leaks 6-core Intel Xeon, Nehalem Details  —  Sun confirms what Intel has been dying to tell us, at least off the record  —  Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures.