Life in the River, February 25

On this date, Gettyimages was sold, Microsoft was slashing HD DVD drive prices, MetaRAM was grabbing the headlines and Intel was going in Hex Drive.

11:50 PM

Ray Beckerman / Recording Industry vs The People: Default judgment denied in Atlantic v. Brennan, RIAA complaint …

11:25 PM

Manoj Jasra / Web Analytics World: Online Reputation Management Tool by Andy Beal

11:20 PM

Wall Street Journal: Denuo and Blinkx Link Up

11:10 PM

Mac Notebooks / IDG News Service: Lenovo Unveils Ultrathin ThinkPad X300 Laptop

10:15 PM

Francois Sterin / Official Google Blog: About the Unity bandwidth consortium

10:05 PM

John Battelle / John Battelle’s Searchblog: LIVEBLOGGING JERRY YANG AND SUE DECKER AT IAB CONFERENCE

9:50 PM

Ross Rubin / Engadget: Switched On: Blu-ray had friends in high def places

9:45 PM

Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter: Google’s Submarine Cable Plans Get Official

9:40 PM

Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times: Come for brunch. Bring billions.

9:30 PM

Business Wire: DivX Announces Plans to Shut Down Stage6.com

9:20 PM

Google: Global Consortium to Construct New Cable System Linking US and Japan …

9:15 PM

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: ABC Announces “Must Flee TV”

9:05 PM

Sean Fallon / Gizmodo: A Phone so Soft and Squeezable, You Will Want to Replace Your Charmin With It

9:00 PM

Villu Arak / About Skype: eBay Inc. Appoints New CEOs of Skype and Shopping.com

8:40 PM

USA Today: It’s written all over their faces

8:40 PM

Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica: Long odds lead Lessig to decide against run for Congress

8:35 PM

PR Newswire: Network Solutions Sued For Defrauding Millions

8:20 PM

Ashlee Vance / The Register: MetaRAM double stuffs servers with memory

8:20 PM

Ashlee Vance / The Register: Intel will flush Xeon line with six-core Dunny

8:20 PM

CNET News.com: How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline (and how to make sure it never happens again)

7:55 PM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: DivX Shuts Down Popular Piracy Site Stage6

7:50 PM

Ronald Grover / Business Week: Malone: DirecTV Is (Almost) a Done Deal

7:45 PM

Megan Johnston / FinancialWeek.com: Apple’s cash: It’s one sour cider

7:35 PM

Paul McNamara / Network World: Lawsuit targets Network Solutions, ICANN over the ‘front running’ of domain names

7:35 PM

InfoWorld: Adobe CTO: AIR for Linux due later this year

7:30 PM

Stephen Lawson / InfoWorld: Covad deal revives Silicon Valley wireless plan

7:05 PM

Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video: DivX Finally Shuts Down Stage6 Portal

7:00 PM

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: AIR Goes Live: The Best Things About Adobe’s AIR Platform

6:55 PM

Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek: Pakistan Blocks YouTube, Puts Blinders On The World

6:55 PM

Reuters: Taliban issue ultimatum to Afghan mobile operators

6:40 PM

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb: How To Manage Your Online Reputation

6:35 PM

Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com: Video host Stage6 shutting down in 72 hours

6:30 PM

Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0: Microsoft Announces Engagement Mapping ROI Black Box, Technology …

6:30 PM

Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy: Comcast Grilled at FCC P2P Field Hearing

6:25 PM

Verizon: Verizon Wireless To Issue Device Specs At Open Development Device Conference

6:25 PM

Elinor Mills / CNET News.com: Yahoo mum on Microsoft, but hints at Digg rival

6:20 PM

Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Jon Stewart, Bored With Oscars, Pulls Out iPhone

6:20 PM

CNN: Questions over extent of YouTube blockade

6:10 PM

Charles Forelle / Wall Street Journal: Europe’s Antitrust Chief Defies Critics, and Microsoft

6:10 PM

Donald Melanson / Engadget: Acer set to launch Blu-ray-equipped 16-, 18.4-inch laptops

6:05 PM

Dan Goodin / The Register: VMware vuln exposes the perils of virtualization

6:05 PM

Arn / MacRumors: Intel Nehalem Processor Details Leaked

6:00 PM

eWeek: Qwest Looks For Wireless Partnerships Beyond Sprint Nextel

5:45 PM

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Xbox 360 HD DVD drive now officially $49.99

5:30 PM

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb: 6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out

5:20 PM

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google2Go for Windows Mobile

5:15 PM

Peter Svensson / Associated Press: Pakistan causes worldwide YouTube outage

5:10 PM

Core Security: CORE SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES DISCOVERS CRITICAL VULNERABILITY …

5:05 PM

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: RIAA fails again to get default judgment in uncontested case

4:50 PM

Wall Street Journal: FCC Ready to Act on Net Neutrality

4:45 PM

Phil Carson / RCR Wireless News: Nokia and Qualcomm agree to ceasefire, consolidate cases

4:45 PM

Saul Hansell / Bits: Yang: Microsoft Bid Was a “Galvanizing Event” for Yahoo

4:40 PM

John Timmer / Ars Technica: Report: broadband policy leaves billions of dollars on table

4:40 PM

David Chartier / Ars Technica: eBay shrugs off strike by sellers, 13% drop in new listings

4:35 PM

Clive Thompson / collision detection: Study: Gamers actually enjoy dying in first-person-shooters

4:30 PM

Rafe Needleman / Webware.com: Voting is now open for the 2008 Webware 100!

4:30 PM

DigiTimes: Acer to push BD notebooks in 2Q08

4:25 PM

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Microsoft Tells Advertisers “Engagement” …

4:25 PM

Lessig Blog: On why I am not running — With lots of mixed feelings …

4:25 PM

Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer: Are 3rd party mobile applications dead? I hope not.

4:10 PM

Austin Modine / The Register: Novell wants PlateSpin for $205m

3:40 PM

Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Dear ABC, You Don’t Compete With TiVo By Making A Product Worse

3:40 PM

New York Times: The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007

3:40 PM

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com: eBay’s latest buy: New CEOs for Skype, Shopping.com

3:35 PM

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: Qwest Analyst Day: The $1 Billion Broadband Opportunity

3:30 PM

Charlie Todd / Improv Everywhere: Mobile Desktop — For our latest mission, three agents entered …

3:25 PM

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Taliban wants cell phone networks shut down at night

3:20 PM

Electronista: Verizon to publish Any Device spec in March

3:00 PM

Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Leaked screenshots of Tumblr’s new front page

2:25 PM

Peter Lauria / New York Post: DOLANS’ DESIGNS — RAINBOW SALE IS AMONG CABLEVISION OPTIONS

2:25 PM

Lisa Hoover / Download Squad: Open source pulse check on Twitter

2:15 PM

Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Bloglines Suffers Major Outage

2:00 PM

Reuters: Director of Warner’s Digital Strategy Quits

2:00 PM

Brian Caulfield / Forbes: Grand Theft Videogame

2:00 PM

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Intel’s 6-core Xeon and Nehalem CPU info leaked

2:00 PM

Donald Melanson / Engadget: CFast CompactFlash cards now said to be coming in “18 to 24 months”

2:00 PM

DealBook: Getty Images to Sell Itself for $2.4 Billion

2:00 PM

Kristopher Kubicki / DailyTech: Sun Leaks 6-core Intel Xeon, Nehalem Details

2:00 PM

Larry Dignan / Zero Day: Researcher: Critical vulnerability found in VMware’s desktop apps

2:00 PM

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Windows Home Server ‘Vail’ to get more entertainment hooks

2:00 PM

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Fox Interactive and Google: Is breaking up hard to do?

1:55 PM

Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland: Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover

1:45 PM

Elinor Mills / CNET News.com: All clicks are not equal, says Microsoft

1:45 PM

AppleInsider: New MacBook Pro part numbers surface in inventory systems

1:45 PM

Adobe: Leading Companies Deliver RIAs on Adobe AIR

1:40 PM

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Blog Recommendation Startup Outbrain Raises $5 Million

1:40 PM

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: War of words continues over white space broadband prototype

1:35 PM

Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Dissecting Rumors: MSFT vs. Google on Fox Interactive Media and MySpace

1:35 PM

Sony: Tough love: Titanium coated Cyber-shot W300 shrugs off scratches beautifully

1:25 PM

Spinner / Stage6: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28

1:10 PM

Dion Almaer / Ajaxian: Adobe AIR v1.0 & Flex 3.0 Released; New Adobe Open Source Site Launched

1:10 PM

Jack Neff / AdAge: K-C, Unilever Turn Down TV to Ramp Up ROI

1:05 PM

Katherine Hannaford / Tech Digest: Jamiroquai lover? You’ll fancy these Oakley JK15 Split Thump MP3 sunglasses, then

1:00 PM

Stephen Labaton / New York Times: F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic

1:00 PM

Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop: Rumor: New MacBook Pros are imminent. Yep, still

12:50 PM

Anne Broache / CNET News.com: Rep. Markey: Don’t turn BitTorrent into ‘BitTrickle’

12:45 PM

Randall Kennedy / InfoWorld: Comparing Windows versions: apples to oranges to grapefruit

12:45 PM

PR Newswire: New Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-H50 Digital Camera Ideal for Fast-Action Shooting

12:45 PM

Wall Street Journal: Pakistan’s Censors Target YouTube

12:45 PM

Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Could Microsoft Lower Its Bid?

12:40 PM

Chris Williams / The Register: DivX shutters also-ran cat piano video site

12:40 PM

Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: DivX Shutting Down Stage6 Video Service; To Migrate Content To Alternate Platforms

12:40 PM

Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: Torvalds gives props to Microsoft for sharing

12:40 PM

Hal Varian / Official Google Blog: Our secret sauce — I was recently a guest columnist on the Freakonomics Blog.

12:25 PM

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: DIY kit lets houseplants Twitter when they need water

12:20 PM

Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Yahoo’s Digg clone gets three months to prove its worth

12:20 PM

InfoWorld: Microsoft to measure ‘engagement’ with online ads

12:20 PM

Brad Linder / Download Squad: DivX to shut down Stage6 video sharing service

12:15 PM

John Leyden / The Register: Scotland Yard careers website defaced

12:10 PM

Kelly Fiveash / The Register: WMG remixes digital execs

12:10 PM

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: OOXML vs. ODF: What’s happening this week

12:05 PM

Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog: Panasonic upgrades its petite 103-inch plasma

12:00 PM

Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com: CompactFlash revamp aimed at cameras

12:00 PM

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Microsoft unveils new proposed advertising metric and tool

11:55 AM

Search Engine Watch Blog: Kelsey Group Predicts Growth in Interactive, Directional Ads

11:40 AM

BBC: PlayStation veteran steps down

11:40 AM

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget: Apple Tuesday: super special MacBook Pro, iPhone SDK… or nothing at all?

11:40 AM

Opposable Thumbs: Portal sequel confirmed

11:30 AM

Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com: Nokia demos bendable cell phone

11:25 AM

Electronista: DivX shuts down Stage6 video site…

11:20 AM

Bryan Betts / The Register: Neterion’s NICs are virtually there

11:10 AM

Microsoft: Microsoft Announces New Reporting Standard for Digital Campaign …

11:00 AM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: The Personalized Homepage War: Who Matters

11:00 AM

Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb: Rethinking Recommendation Engines

10:50 AM

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Survey Says: Google Top Brand In UK

10:45 AM

John Biggs / CrunchGear: A 3-year-old recaps Star Wars

10:40 AM

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine: Twitter — My Guardian column this week is a tribute to Twitter.

10:25 AM

Wall Street Journal: Investor Group Again Raises Stake in New York Times Co.

10:15 AM

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: Woman’s network Glam raises $84.6 million at half a billion …

10:15 AM

technabob: lego mp3 players and ipod dock: block rockin’ beats

10:10 AM

Daniel Terdiman / Crave: The gadget blog: PlayStation head Harrison to step down

10:05 AM

technabob: atari 2600 cake is one sweet console

10:05 AM

IDG News Service: Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive

10:00 AM

David A. Utter / WebProNews: Automatic Matching Feeds Google Your Budget

9:55 AM

Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection: Forget AMD, Intel should buy Nvidia

9:55 AM

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Gartner: Prep those IT cost cutting plans

9:45 AM

Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: Insecure routing redirects YouTube to Pakistan

9:40 AM

Fugitsu: Fujitsu to Release 2.5″ Hard Disk Drive with World-Class 500 GB Capacity

9:35 AM

Nokia: Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph - a nanotechnology concept device

9:35 AM

Kit Eaton / Gizmodo: NTT RedTacton Device Turns Your Body Into Swipe Card

9:25 AM

Electronista: Sony intros 13.6MP compact cam, 15X hi-zoom

9:25 AM

Richard Stiennon / Threat Chaos: Pakistan removed from the Internet

9:20 AM

Mark Sweney / Guardian: FT launches £2k-a-year networking site

9:20 AM

Phillip Torrone / MAKE Magazine: HOW TO - Make plants talk! …

9:05 AM

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: VMware steps up IT automation game

8:55 AM

Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Getty Images Selling To PE Firm Hellman & Friedman For $2.4 Billion …

8:55 AM

Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity: Mobile applications, RIP

8:55 AM

Jemima Kiss / PDA: Is UGC viable for news sites?

8:50 AM

Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld: Microsoft kills off HD DVD drive for Xbox 360

8:45 AM

Adobe: Adobe Technology Platform for RIAs Propels Innovation on the Web

8:25 AM

Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service: Researchers Envision Mobile Device That Morphs

8:20 AM

Noam Cohen / New York Times: Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize

7:30 AM

Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy: The 3 “Impossible” Conversations for Corporations

7:30 AM

John Resig: How JavaScript Timers Work

6:50 AM

Phil Elliott / GamesIndustry.biz: Harrison to leave Sony - join Atari?

6:45 AM

Jonathan Wiggs / Boston Globe: Vision evolves, but $100 laptop is still the goal

6:35 AM

BBC: Adobe fuses on and offline worlds

6:05 AM

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Fox Said To Be Exploring Termination Of Google Advertising Deal

6:05 AM

Born Rich: Music is cyclic for the Revolution Synthesizer

5:15 AM

Ryan Block / Engadget: iPhone, Wii guests on stage at this year’s Oscars

5:10 AM

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat: Mixx, social news competitor to Digg, raises another $2 million

4:45 AM

The Age: R-rating risks influx of excessively violent games

4:10 AM

Daniel Terdiman / Webware.com: Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered

4:05 AM

One Microsoft Way: IE8 beta 1 coming to testers soon, to public afterwards

3:45 AM

Tricia Duryee / mocoNews.net: Updated: New York Times Launching Its Mobile-To-PC Content Sharing Service

3:45 AM

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV: New York Times Company Launches ShifD, a Mobile/Web/Desktop …

 

3:33 AM

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3:25 AM

Dan Fost / New York Times: On the Internet, Everyone Can Hear You Complain

3:15 AM

Merit Network: North American Network Operators Group

2:00 AM

New York Times: Studios Are Trying to Stop DVDs From Fading to Black

1:45 AM

Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com: Nintendo’s Wii makes an Oscar appearance

1:30 AM

Bill Carter / New York Times: Locking in Viewers to Watch the Commercials

1:10 AM

Wall Street Journal: Online Ad Networks Raise Big Money In Latest Efforts

12:20 AM

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: LinkedIn Goes Mobile—Finally

12:20 AM

InfoWorld: Adobe melds desktop, Web apps with AIR

12:15 AM

Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi: Fred Weber’s MetaRAM makes its debut in server memory chip set technology

12:10 AM

John Markoff / New York Times: Adobe Blurs Line Between PC and Web

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