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• Freescale puts two chip factories up for sale
  Dan Nystedt
  Nov 08 2009

  Freescale Semiconductor plans to sell two older chip factories, one each in Toulouse, France, and Sendai, Japan, becoming the latest chip maker to seek ways to reduce costs amid the global ...

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• Intel readies 2.3GHz, 3.5GHz WiMax support with Kilmer Peak
  Sumner Lemon
  Nov 08 2009

  After keeping operators and users alike waiting for nearly a year, Intel has begun production of a wireless chipset, called Kilmer Peak, that will support three versions of WiMax, 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and ...

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• Third Singaporean mobile operator to offer iPhone
  Sumner Lemon
  Nov 08 2009

  Singaporean mobile operator StarHub will start selling Apple's iPhone before the end of this year, the company said Monday. The announcement means all three of Singapore's mobile operators will ...

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• First iPhone worm spreads Rick Astley wallpaper
  Robert McMillan
  Nov 08 2009

  The first worm written for Apple's iPhone has been unleashed and is infecting phones in Australia. However, the worm, known as Ikee, is only a threat to users who have jaibroken their phones to let ...

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• The AVC Reader Census: A Day Later
  Fred
  Nov 08 2009

  Almost 750 people took the AVC Reader Census/Survey in the past 24 hours. That's a decent sample size. So if you want to know what the readership of this blog looks like, go here. I'm sorry to say ...

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• Mozilla fixes Firefox crash bug
  Gregg Keizer
  Nov 07 2009

  Just a week after it last updated Firefox, Mozilla has rushed out a new version of its browser to fix a crash bug that programmers inadvertently introduced. Firefox 3.5.5, which Mozilla posted for ...

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• Week in review: Tracking down a Modern Warfare pirate, Max Levchin on Slide’s big bet
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 07 2009

  Here’s our rundown of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: How investigators tracked down a Modern Warfare 2 cyber ...

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• Entrepreneur Corner Roundup: Surefire ways to get rejected by an angel investor and clearing up lean startup myths
  Chris Morris
  Nov 07 2009

  Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner: Shoestring marketing for startups – Young companies typically don’t have the budget for a substantial marketing campaign, but ...

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• Chip design firm Stream Processors shuts down after plowing through $26M
  Dean Takahashi
  Nov 07 2009

  Stream Processors, a chip design firm focused on video processing, is shutting its doors after burning through at least $26 million in venture capital and is engaged in an asset sale, VentureBeat has ...

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• Windows 7 sells 234% more copies than Vista
  Anthony Ha
  Nov 06 2009

  It looks like all the positive buzz round Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system paid off in sales. Windows 7 sold 234 percent more copies during its first few days on the market than Vista ...

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