"Microsoft's Surface Pro launch marred by supply shortages/Microsoft is touting 'amazing' customer response to its new Surface Pro. But customers are saying they couldn't get their hands on devices due to lack of supply."
ZDNet 8:56 AM
"Microsoft's Surface Pro Tablet Sold Out, But Many Are Complaining There Weren't That Many To Begin With"
Business Insider 7:05 PM
"'Apple-like' lines for Microsoft's Surface Pro (photos, Video)"
Fortune 8:42 AM
"Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro sells out within hours"
Computerworld 9:40 AM
"New Surface Pro ad debuts with beatboxing and breakdancing to launch Microsoft's latest tablet"
The Verge 9:08 AM
"Review: Microsoft Surface Pro Packs a Punch"
Mobile Tech Today 9:32 AM
"For Nokia, Microsoft Is Dead Weight"
Seeking Alpha 8:47 AM
"Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe forced to face IT pricing inquiry/The trio of tech giants has been summonsed by the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Infrastructure and Communications."
ZDNet 9:06 PM
"Investor Aims High With Price For Dell"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:52 PM
"Dell's founder strikes deal to turn it around"
Associated Press 9:21 AM
"Big Dell shareholder says LBO is 'woefully inadequate'"
The Register 8:59 PM
"Where to now for Dell, Apple and the rest?"
Irish Times 8:59 PM
"Dell might be able to prosper after a buyout"
New York Times 9:21 AM
"The New Tech Economy: Why HP should be split up"
USA Today 9:00 PM
"Is Intel's Haswell A Has-Been?"
Seeking Alpha 9:27 AM
"Intel Invests $6.5 Million in SDN Vendor Big Switch Networks"
eWeek 9:36 AM
"Radeon HD 8000 won't arrive until late 2013?"
Hardware.info 9:27 AM
"Dr. Michael Caldwell: A healthy work site is important/Recently, I had the opportunity to spend some time with IBM's chief medical officer, Dr. Kyu Rhee. He is responsible for keeping all IBM employees and their families safe and healthy throughout the world, including the 8,000 employees here in Dutchess County."
Poughkeepsie Journal 9:37 AM
"IHS: Shipment of micro servers in 2013 to grow by 230%"
EE Herald 9:38 AM
"Oracle expands capacity with $2 billion Acme deal"
Business Recorder 9:05 PM
"Michael Dell posts open letter to Dell customers, says buyout is best way to innovate for the future"
BGR 2/9
"The Dell Deal May Die/Shareholders are being pushed aside in the proposed Dell buyout. The big winner? Michael Dell, whose $3.7 billion stake could more than triple that in five years. But the company's biggest outside investor opposes the deal."
Barron's 2/9
"Opposition Grows to Dell's Landmark $24.4 Billion Buyout"
Reuters 2/9
"Analysis: Worst nightmare for Dell, Microsoft?"
USA Today 2/9
"LA Microsoft Store not mobbed, but Surface has a following: Surface Pro didn't generate the level of excitement that the RT tablet did. But the product sold out immediately."
CNET News 2/9
"Surface Pro 128 GB Immediately Sells Out: Sorry, haters, but customers are buying up all available 128 GB Surface Pros immediately"
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 2/9
"Microsoft's 128GB Surface Pro Sells Out At MS Online Store Just Hours After Launch"
TechCrunch 2/9
"PSA: Microsoft Surface Pro now available in the US and Canada"
Engadget 2/9
"Microsoft's Surface Windows 8 Pro now available in the United States and Canada"
WinBeta 2/9
"Microsoft Surface Pro: delight or disaster? Can Microsoft's new tablet excite people in a way comparable to the iPad? Matt Warman Reports."
Telegraph 2/9
"HP sets labour guidelines for Chinese suppliers: The latest attempt by a major US technology company to weed out labour abuses"
Associated Press 2/9
"IBM'S supercomputer: Jeopardy was too easy, time to cure cancer/Watson brought down our best humans in Jeopardy; now the real work begins."
Ars Technica 2/9
"Intel Stops Making 40 GB and 80 GB SSD 310 Drives"
Softpedia 2/9
"AMD plans no new graphics cards in 2013, Report"
PC Perspective 2/9
"AMD Names Bernd Lienhard as Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Client Business"
ElectroIQ 2/9
"Originality Helps Build Hit Toy Brands"
WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 8:52 PM
"William Shatner questions Reddit's permissive culture, suggests 'downvoting' won't deter hate: Captain Kirk can conquer Tribbles, but can he conquer Trolls?"
The Verge 8:07 PM
"Dinosaurs really were destroyed by an asteroid, study shows"
The Verge 7:56 PM
"Bang With Professionals goes out with a whimper: The site that managed to garner more than 70,000 curious people, desperate to find easy love via LinkedIn, has admitted defeat."
CNET News 6:55 PM
"Google Street View Could Be the Best Road Crew Ever"
Gizmodo 6:55 PM
"Seven vulnerabilities found through Mega's security bounty program: Site reveals what fixes are—but doesn't mention payout, indiVidual hacker info."
Ars Technica 6:43 PM
"Wind tops U.S. sources of new electricity generation in 2012: 42 percent of all new generating capacity came in the form of wind turbines."
Ars Technica 11:28 AM
"Hacker Channels Men In Black, Straps Virus Information to Feral Cat's Collar"
Gizmodo 9:49 AM
"Google's Chrome blocks few websites for malware, list includes YouTube"
The Droid Guy 9:25 AM
"You Won't See Facebook's Graph Search On iPhone Or Android Anytime Soon"
TechCrunch 9:10 AM
"The end of film is drawing ever closer"
TG Daily 9:08 AM
"Adobe will try to stymie some Flash attacks with new pop-up: Flash 11.6 to block automatic play of content in docs created with Office 2007 and older"
Computerworld 8:56 AM
"Parents appalled that school principal is sexy YouTube rapper: A Bronx junior high school principal is Reportedly also El Siki, an Internet rapper who, well, parties."
CNET News 2/9
"Curiosity successfully drills Martian surface in search for eVidence of water"
The Verge 2/9
"Plugging In, Dutch Put Electric Cars to the Test"
New York Times 2/9
"Chrome OS documentation hints the leaked Chromebook Pixel could be real"
The Verge 2/9
"'Beowulf' and other historic manuscripts available for free online"
The Verge 2/9
"Google's jets may get their own $82 million complex at San Jose International Airport"
The Verge 2/9
"Internet Users Illegally Upload Disney Movies On YouTube"
Social Barrel 2/9
"Google Nexus 4: 1 Million Units Sold Since November 2012"
Gizbot 2/9
"As Ethernet turns 40, its daddy tells stories of its turbulent youth"
The Register 2/8
"AOL Revenue Rises for First Time in 8 Years"
WSJ.com 2/8
"BlackBerry sees red in Japan, ends sales"
ZDNet 2/8
"Facebook Hires Chef to Juggle 150,000 Machines"
Wired Magazine 2/8
"Damaged Delivery? DropTag Tattles When Your Package Tumbles"
Techland 2/8
"LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks"
The Register 2/8
"AVG finds 11 year-old creating malware to steal game passwords: Kid Canadian pwned gamers"
Techworld 2/8
"Report: Brett Ratner to Produce Farmville Animated Series"
PC Magazine 2/8
"Blast from the past: Twitter search now finds old tweets"
Los Angeles Times 2/8
"Activision Blizzard warns over consoles"
Financial Times 2/8
"Toshiba ships first NAND flash chips with faster transfer standard"
IDG News Service 2/8
"Adobe issues emergency update for Flash"
CNET News 2/8
"Adobe Patches Flash; Windows, Mac Users Under Attack"
PC Magazine 2/8
"Adobe releases emergency Flash fixes for two zero-day bugs"
Computerworld 2/8
"Adobe Issues Emergency Patch For Flash Player Zero-Day Flaws"
CRN 2/8
"HP Forms New Cloud Unit: HP has hired Margaret Dawson out of Symform to be VP of product marketing and cloud evangelist for HP Cloud Services"
Sys-Con Media 9:23 AM
"HP Introduces New Responsible Supplier Guidelines for Student, Dispatch Workers in China: Company Launches Industry-First Initiative to Protect High-Risk Workers, Promote Responsible Workforce Practices"
Marketwire 2/8
"IBM Watson Hard At Work: New Breakthroughs Transform Quality Care for Patients"
PRNewswire 2/8
Microsoft
"Going Pro: Thinking About Performance/Surface Pro outperforms Surface RT handily, proViding us with a blueprint for how each might be best used"
Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows 7:22 PM
"Sorry Apple Fans, Your iPad Can't Do This"
Business Insider 8:44 AM
"Can Microsoft Follow the Apple Store Model?"
The Motley Fool 2/9
"First Impressions: Microsoft Surface Pro"
Forbes 2/9
"Microsoft plans to completely unify Windows, Windows Phone app development platforms"
BGR 2/9
"Windows Phone 8: Top 5 Features We Want Microsoft To Fix"
Mobile and Apps 2/9
"Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 hassles: asynchronous processing service stopped"
Tim Anderson's ITWriting 2/9
"If the PC dies, Windows 8 will be its killer, says analyst"
Computerworld 2/8
"Microsoft Surface Pro set for sales on Saturday: Microsoft will begin sales of the Surface Pro this weekend. The Pro and RT model look alike, but that's where the similarity ends."
CNET News 2/8
"Goodbye Surface RT, hello Surface Pro: I won't miss getting work done again"
ZDNet 2/8
"Microsoft Surface Family Grows as Surface Pro, New Accessories Hit Shelves: The newest additions to the evolving Surface family arrive in stores tomorrow."
PRNewswire 2/8
"Is it time for Microsoft to burn the boats?"
ZDNet 2/8
"Microsoft warns cyber crooks of more botnet takedowns after Bamital smash"
V3 2/8
"Is there still hope for a Halo movie?"
TG Daily 2/8
"Hands-on with the Microsoft Surface Pro" [Slideshow]
Network World 2/8
"Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is a pricey disappointment"
Silicon Valley 2/8
"Careless Whisper/When the Nintendo came out in 1985, there was something of a misconception of what, exactly, it was."
TechCrunch 9:09 AM
"Media Frenzy: How I Lost My Job as Technology Altered the Newspaper Landscape/Industry Changes Make it a New Game for the Publishing Industry"
Yahoo! News 2/9
"When E-Mail Turns From Delight to Deluge"
New York Times 2/9
"Amazon Coins Are Steroids For The Amazon Appstore"
TechCrunch 2/9
"Facebook Graph Search Improves Brand Visibility"
Social Barrel 2/9
"Listener Redefines The Concept Of A Minimalist Launcher For Android"
Redmond Pie 2/9
"5 things every computer user needs to know how to do"
USA Today 2/8
"Seagate Wireless Plus Review: A Terabyte for Your Tablet"
Techland 2/8
"Ubuntu Invites Phone Makers to Cheat on Google: A mobile version of the world's most widely used Linux operating system shows promise, but it will face stiff competition."
Technology Review 2/8
"Can Legacy Dual-Core CPUs Drive Modern GPUs?"
HotHardware 2/8
"Six good reasons to download LibreOffice 4.0: Want to control your presentation from your Android phone? Then this is the (free) suite for you."
PCWorld 2/8
"Inside the shadowy underground of 'anything, anywhere' cloud-based printing"
PCWorld 2/8
"Windows 8 tablet alternatives to Microsoft's Surface Pro"
PCWorld 2/8
"Facebook redirection bug is now fixed but troubling"
IDG News Service 2/8
"Always-On DRM, Used Game Restrictions Will Destroy Next Xbox, PlayStation"
PC Magazine 2/8
"3 Great Instagram Tips from Model Coco Rocha"
PC Magazine 2/8
"Instagram's new Feed feature is easy to use and ad-free for now"
Los Angeles Times 2/8
"Get used to it: The post-PC employee has arrived"
InfoWorld 2/8
"Google vs. Apple: Platform War of the Decade"
Barron's 2/8
Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers
"Snapchat raises $13.5 million Series A led by Benchmark Capital"
GigaOM 2/9
"Deal would bring Google jets, millions of dollars to San Jose airport"
San Jose Mercury News 2/8
"Eric Schmidt cashing out 42 percent of his Google stock: The former Google CEO is expected to sell off $2.51 billion of his holdings in the search giant, according to SEC documents."
CNET News 2/8
"Schmidt to Sell Google Stake Worth $2.5 Billion"
WSJ.com 2/8
"Google chairman to sell up to 3.2 million shares"
Associated Press 2/8
"Fujitsu to overhaul chip biz, warns of $1B loss"
ZDNet 2/8
Tech Stocks
"Tech Stocks: Apple, LinkedIn push tech stocks to late gains/AOL jumps on results; Coinstar sinks as Redbox gets fewer hits"
MarketWatch 2/8
"Dow posts weekly loss; S&P, Nasdaq extend streak: Stocks on Wall Street gain on Friday after strong trade data"
MarketWatch 2/8
"U.S. Stocks Rise to Highest Level Since 2007 on Earnings"
Bloomberg 2/8
"Stocks Gain as Economy, Earnings Strengthen"
TheStreet 2/8
"Stocks Up as Strong Trade Data Boost Sentiment"
FOXBusiness 2/8
"Apple experiments with devices similar to watches: NYT"
"Insight: Apple and Samsung, frenemies for life"
"Metro's electronics retailer to boost online business -report"
"Tech wizards honored by Oscars organizers"
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