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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple Files 10-Q and 10-K — Apple to Record Non-Cash Charge of $84 Million — Apple® today filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2006 and its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
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Apple Says Options Probe Exonerates Executives — Apple Computer today exonerated its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, of any wrongdoing in a stock options backdating probe. — In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple said that while its investigation revealed …
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Ed Sutherland / internetnews.com:
Bloggers Rebuff Microsoft 'Gifts' — A tactic by Microsoft (Quote), AMD (Quote) and a PR firm to gain traction for Vista is instead reaping a whirlwind of controversy. — Edelman, the PR agency behind Vista's launch, sent Acer Ferrari laptops sporting the Windows Vista operating system and AMD processors to tech bloggers.
Mike / Techdirt:
And By The Time Anyone Reads The Sneaky Fine Print On AT&T's Concessions, The Merger Will Be Done — from the fooled-ya dept — A few hours ago, we wrote about the concessions AT&T agreed to in order to get their merger with BellSouth approved — possibly today.
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PJ Doland / The Frosty Mug Revolution:
Genius Grant Please, or The NSFW HTML Attribute — UPDATE: The idea expressed below has been significantly improved and a brief spec document and example is now available. You might, however, still want to read what follows before proceeding to the aforementioned link.
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PJ Doland / The Frosty Mug Revolution:A Semantic Solution for Presenting NSFW Content
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Guba CEO steps down, says more execs may follow — Guba CEO Thomas McInerney has stepped down from the video-sharing site, marking the second executive shuffle within the sector in a week. — McInerney told CNET News.com that two other Guba executives are likely to follow him.
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NewTeeVee, GigaOM, HipMojo.com, splashcastmedia.com, Valleywag, Mashable! and Screenwerk
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Original thinking — Hugh MacLeod accused me of being an Original Thinker when we were in Cork, Ireland recently. — I was struck w th how boring all the speakers were and how much fun it was to listen to Hugh. Both of us also spoke at LeWeb3 - so I was running into Hugh quite a lot.
Susan Crawford blog:
The day the internet became cable television: Dec. 29, 2006 — As part of the AT&T/SBC merger that is expected to be approved today, AT&T is now pledging to keep its "wireline broadband Internet access service" neutral. — AT&T joins the trickster pantheon with this move.
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Daniel Jalkut / Red Sweater Blog:
Macintendo Family Values — Nintendo and Apple Announce Strategic Partnership — Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Apple Computer Inc. today announced a multi-year, strategic partnership had commenced earlier this year and will culminate in the January 9, 2007 launch of the partnership's first product: Podfondo.
Paul Hampel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cartographers hit the road to bring updated online maps — In an SUV crammed with high-tech gear, Dan Donovan and Ben Woodley trolled last week through a new and virtually treeless subdivision in Troy, Ill. — A green arrow on a dashboard monitor connected to a roof-mounted Global Positioning …
Gizmodo:
No Tunes For You: iTunes Store Gags on Christmas Download Traffic — Okay, so now we see why iTunes sales numbers allegedly plummeted 65% since January of this year: Forrester Research wasn't counting Christmas Day, when everyone who just got an iTunes gift card or shiny new iPod decided …
Onethumb / SmugBlog:
Google's gone evil. — Some of you might remember how worried Google has been about the possibility of Vista and IE7 recommending Microsoft's Live.com search engine over Google when they shipped. — I certainly know I remember meetings at Google where this very fear was front-and-center …
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
First John Edwards announces on YouTube. What Happens Next? — During my flight back to the States yesterday, a Washington, D.C. policy reporter who was covering the John Edwards YouTube announcement emailed me a request to do an interview. While I would have been happy to talk using Skype …
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
The HDTV Dilemma: Pay for TiVo's Recorder Or Settle for Cable's? — If you just got a high-definition television, one of the best things you can buy to complement it is a digital video recorder, or DVR, the tapeless gadgets that save programs so you can watch them when you choose.
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Michael Fahey / Kotaku:
Feature: The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market — The rise and fall of the PlayStation 3 on eBay is one of the most talked about gaming stories of the year. In order to paint a broader picture, I've tracked pricing trends from preorders to Christmas Eve and surveyed retailers to determine just how hard the PS3 grey market has crashed.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Social Media is No Mo — As we conclude 2006 and head into the new year it is my conviction that the phrase "social media" is moot. — Social media, according to Wikipedia, includes "the online tools and platforms that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences and perspectives with each other."
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Open The Dialogue, Chip Griffin, HighTouch, PR 2.0, Logic+Emotion, Data Mining and Cymfony's Influence 2.0
The Bad Astronomer / Bad Astronomy Blog:
The Top Ten Astronomy Images of 2006 — This past year has been — like most are — up and down for science in general and astronomy in particular. We've had stunning successes and heartbreaking setbacks, all of which seem huge when dealing with them at the time.
