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The success of ASUS’ Eee PC has led to a massive push by come PC makers to come out with their own versions of the low-powered low-profile “netbook” computers. Now with big names Dell, HP, and Acer getting in on the netbook fad, PC manufacturers are coming to the sober realization that less is not more when it comes to the bottom line.

The margins on these small computers are so thin that it’s hard to generate a good deal of profit on them. Much of the appeal for the Eee PC wasn’t it’s small size, but its minuscule price, starting at $299.
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Google is having trouble beating local search engine Yandex in Russia, so they’ve decided to splash out some cash and purchase contextual ad Begun for $140 million.

Begun is owned by U.K. based Rambler and distributes ads to about 143,000 sites in Russia, with 40,000 advertisers on the books. These sites will now have access to Google’s ad formats and targeting methods which should keep everybody happy about the deal.
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Okay, I’ve been purposefully trying to avoid writing about the iPhone 3G, partly because I don’t have one yet and wanted to write a bit more about it when I got one, but it’s a slow summer and the iPhone is still the hottest topic in the tech blogosphere right now, by far.

A month ago, I was 100% sure I was going to get an iPhone. Earlier this week, I was ready to wake up early and head to the Manhattan Beach Apple Store to get my hands on one. Now, I’m going to wait a little bit and then make a decision, and I’m not fully convinced the iPhone is the best smartphone on the market.
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It’s generally good advice not to go to a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner when you’ve just put someone in the hospital while driving drunk. In fact, it’s rather ghoulish and makes Steve Irwin stingray costumes seem positively highbrow.

Joshua Lipton, a huge tool from Rhode Island, drove drunk and put an unfortunate 20 year-old woman in the hospital for weeks. Before sentencing, Lipton decided it would be funny to dress up in stripes and an orange jumpsuit for Halloween. The problem is: he posed for some pictures, and they ended up on his own Facebook page. These pictures were used in sentencing, and he got two years. Hope he kept the costume.
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The extortion that goes on in the domain parking/buying/auctioning business is pretty ridiculous. Domain parking is something nobody really likes but is difficult to figure out fair ways of preventing. Today, Go Daddy began offering up much awaited .me domains, and the domain parkers got on their horses and started firing away.

But a funny thing happened on Go Daddy: the servers seized up and weren’t able to reject domain requests that were already taken earlier in the day. Thus the domains were sold to several people at once, and of course, all of them had their credit cards or PayPal accounts charged.
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