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Last.fm Overheats and Goes Offline

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Music service Last.fm, which was bragging about server uptime a week and a half ago, shuts its doors for the afternoon, claiming “datacenter temperature issues beyond our control” required them to go offline. The outage began around 12:30 pm PST, so we’re at two hours and counting. Updates are on their Twitter account.
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Facebook apps see drop in traffic after redesign

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Last week I asked, “Is Facebook an unsafe environment for business?”, questioning CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to somewhat ignore developers’ concerns for the greater (company) good.
Turns out I wasn’t far off in asking that question.
Facebook beat site AllFacebook writes today of grim statistics facing the company: a decline of 15 to 25 percent of traffic [...]

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Facebook Hits 200 Million Users

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In less than eight months, Facebook More about Facebook has doubled its user base by signing up 100 million people from around the world, officially hitting 200 million on Wednesday.
Its population is now higher than Brazil’s and Japan’s.
The ubiquitous online hangout, available only to college students when it opened in 2004, has been growing rapidly [...]

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Sources: Google In Talks To Buy Twitter

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Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.
Twitter turned down an offer to [...]

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Nvidia Trying For Single-PCB GeForce GTX 295

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As per the reference obtained by Expreview, Nvidia is working on single-printed circuit board iteration of dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 graphics chip. The design of the new iteration is currently dubbed as P658.
The dual GTX 295 had two PCBs and design dubbed as P656. In out tests of the Asus GeForce GTX 295, we found [...]

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