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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Jobs talks up Apple cell phone — Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs has been boasting about his company's much-rumored iPod cell phone amongst inner circles, AppleInsider has been told. — The remarks are uncharacteristic of Jobs, who is often regarded for his obsession with secrecy …
John C. Dvorak / MarketWatch:
Missing the point about YouTube — Commentary: Pent up demand and ease of use add up to explosive growth — BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — YouTube, the privately-held video sharing website, now delivers an estimated 100 million videos a day to its users. The site has been online for barely a year.
BBC:
Twenty five years of the IBM PC — Computer firm IBM made technological history on 12 August 1981 with the announcement of a personal computer - the IBM 5150. — Costing $1,565, the 5150 had just 16K of memory - scarcely more than a couple of modest e-mails worth.
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Texting study to catch criminals — The individual styles of hundreds of people's text messages will be analysed in a study that aims to help police with criminal investigations. — Researchers will scrutinise volunteers' SMS messages to tease out patterns in the language and style of texts.
Sarah Szabo / ce.org:
CEA FORMS ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO EXPLORE GAMING EVENT OPTIONS — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA®), the owner and producer of the International CES®, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, announced today that it is forming an advisory committee …
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
whocalled.us — Here's another take on Suburban Mom Embraces the Surveillance Society. whocalled.us is a site where people can share comments about the identity of phone spammers. Get a call from an unrecognized number on your cell? Look it up to see who it was, where they are, and who else they called that didn't like it.
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Verizon V640 EVDO ExpressCard Review: MacBook Pro — For anyone that has picked up a MacBook Pro, or any other laptop computer that has replaced the PCMCIA card with the newer ExpressCard format, you will be happy to hear that a couple of options have become available for getting on the Internet while on the go.
TIM / LibraryThing:
Forums are broken: Introducing LibraryThing's new Talk feature — This post introduces the Talk feature. — Although still developing, we think Talk is our most significant addition since LibraryThing started mining for book recommendations and similar libraries.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CrunchGear, For the Gadget Obsessive — The Crunch Network is expanding today - CrunchGear, our newest blog, was just released into the wild on a shiny new server. CrunchGear is all about new gadgets, gear and computer hardware. We've covered gadgets occasionally in the past (Sonos …
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USA Today:
Google promises all searches stay private — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a message for Google users: Your searches are safe. — AOL has been in hot water this week for inadvertently releasing customer searches for a research project. But Schmidt, speaking …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Zune vs. Heightened Airport Security — A reader sent in this tip about the clash between a friend and airport security, with a little bit of Microsoft Zune thrown in. Apparently, this Microsoft-insider friend was flying somewhere today, and when he got to the security check …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Firefox code gets vetted — Mozilla is now using technology that automates the bug-checking process for Firefox, its popular open-source Web browser. — The company has licensed Coverity's Prevent to scan the source code of the browser and help detect flaws in the software before its release …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Elgg - social network software for education — Written by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus. This is the second in a two-part series. — In part one of this series, e-learning 2. - how Web technologies are shaping education, I described the way in which teachers and students …
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Q&A with Fotolog Co-Founder Adam Seifer — Fotolog, one of the many photosharing sites out there, says it already has four million members. And with no attempts at creating a non-English site, users are mostly in Latin America. (Unintended consequence of a Flat world?)
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Fanpop: an easy, fun way to share topical information — Fanpop is a recently launched site that brings together user submitted links, syndicated headlines, forums and social networking. It calls itself a place for fans to share their favorite content regarding any topic.
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Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
Web 2.0 Around the World — In our current international edition, I got to put together a fun map of the best Web 2.0 sites from around the world. Here's a link the actual list and you can see the map in this digital version of the magazine (pp.105-109). The sites that made it are:
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Del.icio.us Traffic More Than Doubled Since January — Traffic to del.icio.us has more than doubled since Yahoo! acquired it in December 2005. According to Hitwise data from its sample of 10 million US Internet users, the market share of visits to del.icio.us was up 122% from January 2006 to July 2006.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:Traffic fight: Hitwise says Del.icio.us is soaring
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Thomas J. Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Weighing a Switch to a Mac — Ten years ago, if you were a Windows user, the idea of switching to a Macintosh might not have seemed enticing. An abundance of new Windows software was arriving on store shelves, while the selection available to Mac users seemed to be falling behind, often relegated to a back corner of the same store.
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