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I had intended, today, to focus solely on coding and site issues, as I have been doing for the last 36 hours (aside from a brief nap). I made the mistake at glancing at the headlines a few minutes ago to see what parts of the world had passed me by, and I caught Social Media Gone Awry: When Mommybloggers Attack is ... Full story

The US Federal Trade Commission today finally issued a statement regarding their ongoing investigation of alleged anticompetitive practices over at Intel, on the claim that they are stifling innovation: The Federal Trade Commission today sued Intel Corp., the world’s leading computer chip maker, charging that the company has illegally used its dominant market position for The FTC Alleges Intel Engaged in Systematic Anticompetitive ... Full story

Yesterday, news came down from Amazon that they were going to an almost Google Adsense style auction model to their EC2 platform. Spot Instances allow you to specify the maximum hourly price that you are willing to pay to run a particular instance type. We set a Spot Price for each instance type in each Amazon’s Spot Instances: Innovation or Lock-in? is ... Full story

A major executive hire was made today, as Rackspace today brought on a new COO in ex-eBay veep Mark Roenigk. Roenigk will be reporting to Rackspace president and CEO Lanham Napier, and has been tasked with helping to build up the “computing platform on which all our services run,” according to Napier. Roenigk has a Rackspace Pulls eBay Veep Mark Roenigk for COO ... Full story

My friend Marc Ostrick over at eGuiders sent me a note that he and fellow SiliconANGLEr Michael Sean Wright as long as the rest of the team of content editors at the site have been picked by YouTube to curate the content for the front page of YouTube. In case you haven’t been stopping by The eGuiders are YouTube’s Curators of the ... Full story

A couple days ago, I talked a little bit about my experience and expertise around the mechanics of how Internet over cable works, and why it befuddles me that cable companies continue to refuse to deliver IPTV, ten years after most of them had the technology to do so. Later that evening, Stacey Higgenbotham posted How To Solve the Programming Cost Problem: Go ... Full story

Tis the season for mergers and acquisitions, apparently: Sanyo has just been acquired by Panasonic for a staggering $4.6 billion for a 50.2% stake in the company, according to a post from TheStreet a few minutes ago: Panasonic purchased its stake in Sanyo for £2.8 billion or $4.6 billion, offering 131 yen or about $1.50 for Tis the season for mergers and acquisiti… ... Full story

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of noodling on the concept of convergence and singularity.  Many years ago, I read Ray Kurzweil’s Age of Spiritual Machines, and it had such a re-wiring effect on my worldview, I can only liken it to a spiritual experience (a worldview that was only reinforced with his sequel, The Inevitable Singularity and the Haunting Words of ... Full story

Facebook today adjusted their privacy settings (and got rid of regional networks, a feature that most of us forgot was a part of the social network). The press release came across the wires this morning, and the bottom line is that this will have far reaching and reverberating effects across the social web, giving Privacy isn’t the Key Buzzword: It’s Social Search ... Full story

Today, aside from LeWeb, one of the big news stories is that Google Groups is now a part of the Google Enterprise cloud suite of tools. If you’ve never used Groups, it was what happened when Google acquired the foremost and oldest archive of USENET on the web – Dejanews. I seem to be the Groups is a Cloud App Now: Spam Control ... Full story