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Wednesday Shortbread
by Ronald Hanaki — 7:15 AM on January 28, 2009

Wednesday

Yahoo! posts net loss but beats expectations
C|Net reports Bartz wants Yahoo! whole, not sold as piece parts
Akihabara News reports Fujitsu to discontinue HDD head business
C|Net reports EU court rejects Intel bid for delay
Lawmakers mull Internet, wireless tax credits
TG Daily reports IBM to pay shareholders cash dividend after layoffs
Ex-IBM exec to go to Apple as lawsuit settled
TechRadar UK shares a rumor: Google to buy Skype
DailyTech reports Facebook pulls away from MySpace in traffic
Ars Technica's hands-on: Noovo, a confused social discovery service
Fudzilla reports full-disk encryption coming
and AM3 performance is not great
[H]ard|OCP reports Galaxy Tech video cards now selling at Best Buy
Gizmodo reports DSTL1 Android smartphone is Battlestar Galactica's iPhone
and Prism 200 lets you see through walls
One small step for a man, one giant leap for teleportation

Software

Linux Foundation opens registration for annual collaboration summit,
posts call for participation for LinuxCon 2009
Ctrl-Z: a return to the Supreme Court's software patent ban?
C|Net reports Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access
Gizmodo's Windows 7 tip: The Windows key is actually useful now, with tons of hotkey shortcuts
InfoWorld reports Microsoft repeats IE8 lock-in warning for XP users with SP3
The Inquirer reports Torvalds warns of Windows 7 threat
Windows 2008 R2 features part I: offline domain join
Microsoft releases source code under Apache license
Phoronix on Intel Moblin V2 Core Alpha: It boots fast
GameDaily reports morpheme 2.0 with PhysX releases
Gizmodo reports iPhone 2.2.1 update available now, fixes bugs
tkArena on DVDVideoSoft’s free video to iPhone converter
and converting MP3s to audiobook files for the iPhone

Gaming

Systems and storage

Multimedia

Power, case, and cooling