Yahoo's Sorry Acquisition History When Yahoo CTO and product boss Ari Balogh said the company wants to buy a few social media startups and smartphone application-makers, we took the bait and came up with a list of five companies Yahoo should buy. Here's the problem with our list: Yahoo isn't very good at buying companies. An example of an acquisition strategy gone bad.

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  Video Editing On Linux: Things are looking up! New release of Linux Video Editor, PiTiVi, is right around the corner with a ton of new features. Thanks in part to the financial backing of a cool company. This could be a threat to Apple and it lock on creative types, musicians, graphic designers, etc

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  The MediaTech Store We have a store. The Mediatech101 Store is a base to find resources for media tech. Look at it.  ¶ 1:25 AM 0 comments

  11 of the Coolest Android Prototype Gadgets The Android mobile operating system is invading not only new handhelds but a host of new portable gadgets, including laptops and media tablets. Android is the close system to defeat the iPhone and take down Synbain, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile.

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  Who has the most servers? There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. The data center arms race is pretty fun to watch.

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  Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior I’ve spent the last few days mulling over the future prospects of the new device, and up until a few hours ago my forecast was looking pretty grim. But then a lightbulb went off over my head: pirates are going to save the Kindle DX. $500 is a step price tag, but a buddy with a good scan and Adobe Acrobat, the DX will make its money back in no time.

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  Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior I’ve spent the last few days mulling over the future prospects of the new device, and up until a few hours ago my forecast was looking pretty grim. But then a lightbulb went off over my head: pirates are going to save the Kindle DX. $500 is a step price tag, but a buddy with a good scan and Adobe Acrobat, the DX will make its money back in no time.

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  Apple Rejects BitTorrent Control App This time the company's rejected Maza's Drivetrain, an app that allows users to remotely control the Transmission Bittorrent app, because "this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights." Right...This could be an in for Android or other smart phones. If and when bittorrent becomes a legit means of distribution, this would put the iPhone platform at a disadvantage.

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  What Disney-Hulu Means for Apple The growing popularity of free video-viewing site Hulu could test the viability of Apple's pay-as-you-go iTunes download business. I completely disagree with this article, there is room for both, especially with thee crazy restriction content owners have on Hulu like geography restriction, how long a show or movie is on the site, and quality. But it is good to know the counter agreement.

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  iPod touch web share triples as Windows reaches new low Web market share for the iPod touch has tripled in just five months, outpacing even the iPhone among mobile devices. Also, Windows' share has dropped to its lowest point since tracking began even as the Mac managed to hold its ground. People are starting to use other devices than computer to access the internet, too bad for Microsoft the majority of these devices are Apple products.

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