Filed under: Storage SSDs will apparently get a serious (extreme, if you will) upgrade in the coming year, with SanDisk’s announcement of a new technology dubbed ExtremeFFS (Flash File System). It is, as you can possibly guess, a new file system, but it’ll use page-based methods so that the data’s location on the drive won’t be tied to its physical space, as it is now.

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SanDisk announces ExtremeFFS for "100 times faster" SSD write speeds

AppleInsider : Apple tells Mac mini fan to hang in there   —  Apple appears to be taking its policing of the rumor mill to the phones, in one case dialing a customer who expressed concern over Internet reports on the Mac mini’s fate to assure him the situation would be addressed in due time.

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Apple tells Mac mini fan to hang in there (AppleInsider)

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch : LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Staff   —  We’ve just heard from LinkedIn that the Sequoia-backed business network will be cutting 36 of 370 employees, or around 10% of the company.  LinkedIn is saying that some of these employees will be reassigned to new roles (though the company won’t comment on how many new roles there will be).

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LinkedIn Cuts 10% Of Staff (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo : MySpace Music CEO Debuting Tomorrow?   —  MySpace’s very, very long search for someone to run the social network’s new music site is just about over: A person familiar with the situation says the company has just about wrapped up negotiations with Courtney Holt, who heads up digital music at Viacom’s (VIA) MTV.

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MySpace Music CEO Debuting Tomorrow? (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

Filed under: Gaming It looks like the new Quantum of Solace game for the Xbox 360 has a little something extra bundled in with the package: according to reports, an explosive 48 hour Xbox Live Gold trial membership card with a secret “Netflix code” on the back is included. Nobody seems particularly stunned to hear that the companies plan to aggressively push the streaming movie service when the NXE goes live on November 19th, though no other details of the trial have emerged yet

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Netflix bundling 48 hour trials with some Xbox 360 games

Fisher joins Lloyds TSB from Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

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Lloyds TSB Names Mark Fisher Director of Group IT & Operations

ViVOtech provided NFC provisioning software for phones enabled with Visa payWave technology.

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ViVOtech Enables First Latin American NFC Mobile Phone Payment Pilot in Guatemala

Group is made up of more than 100 experienced attorneys.

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Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell Forms TARP Group

What happens when you can’t fit the Xbox 360 hardware into an ultra slim case when building a portable system? You go wireless of course, like this gamer did.

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Feature: Portable Xbox 360 is Ultra Slim, Uses Wireless Visual Interface

The ultra slim card mouse from Japantrendshop plugs “into the TypeII PC card slot on your laptop — it gets charged this way as well.” Available now, priced at $107. Video after the break

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Card Mouse