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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Apple's Jobs Keeps His Job, But Legal Perils Remain — While Steve Jobs retains control of the Apple helm, the company faces other legal challenges this year, over patents and monopoly law. — Apple's 10-K annual report — delayed to include the results of an investigation …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple iTV availability to escape Macworld Expo — Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs should have more to say about the company's forthcoming iTV set-top media hub at next week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, but the launch party may have to wait a few more weeks.
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Gadgetell, Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, broadbandreports.com, Engadget, Apple Gazette, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and digg
Zephoria / apophenia:
some thoughts on 2007 (advertising, bullying, and mobile) — I love the idea of "social network fatigue." I can see the Prozac ad now: … OK... i admit, that was far more for my own entertainment than for yours. But seriously, the concept of "social network fatigue" boggles my mind.
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Mitchell / mitchell's blog:
The Mozilla Foundation: Achieving Sustainability — Mozilla is a global community dedicated to improving the Internet experience for people everywhere. We do this by building great software - such as the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird mail client - that helps people interact with the Internet.
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Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's weblog:
Robert asks why Apple doesn't get the negative coverage Dell gets. I answer. — [Photo: My Mac.] — Robert Scoble asks, "If it's OK to print miles of bad press about Dell, why isn't it OK to print miles of bad press about Apple?" — Before I list my top ten reasons for why Apple seems …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
QuickTime zero-day bug threatens Macs, PCs — update A newly disclosed security vulnerability in Apple Computer's QuickTime software could put both Macs and Windows PCs at risk of cyberattacks, experts have warned. — The publication on Monday of the vulnerability and detailed attack code kicks off the …
CheapyD / Cheap Ass Gamer:
CAG's Five Most Under Appreciated DS Games of 2006 — As someone who owns way too many DS games, it's easy to see a few great games that the vast majority of people pass on for one reason or another. While several games, such as Elite Beat Agents, Brain Age and Cooking Mama …
Duncan / duncanriley.com:
Arrington is right, BlueDot rocks — Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch gave his annual list yesterday of Web 2.0 companies he couldn't live without. Included on the list was BlueDot. Writes Arrington: … I've spent 24 hours playing with the service, and I'm hapyp to say he's right …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Have you ever made a profit from a catering business or dog walking? Do you prefer to work alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world record in anything? — The right answers could help get you a job at Google.
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Power-Sipping Bulbs Get Backing From Wal-Mart — As a way to cut energy use, it could not be simpler. Unscrew a light bulb that uses a lot of electricity and replace it with one that uses much less. — From Product to Cause — Articles in this series are examining the ways in which the world is …
John Brockman / edge.org:
GOT OPTIMISM? — THE WORLD'S LEADING THINKERS SEE GOOD NEWS AHEAD — While conventional wisdom tells us that things are bad and getting worse, scientists and the science-minded among us see good news in the coming years. That's the bottom line of an outburst of high-powered optimism gathered …
Jim Courtney / Skype Journal:
We're Back! — It's been a while and lots has happened over the past five weeks. When I left for a week's vacation on the WiFi-depleted island of Cozumel immediately after US Thanksgiving I did not expect to be off the air so long. However, our previous hosting provider …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Use WeatherBill To Bet On The Weather — David Friedberg, a former Googler, is set to launch an ambitious new site called WeatherBill, headquartered in San Francisco, in the next few weeks. WeatherBill won't be a consumer site; rather, they are combining an ecommerce site …
Grant Gross / Macworld UK:
Net neutrality advocates cheer AT&T concessions — Company offers net neutrality sweetner to help telecom merger go down — Net neutrality advocates celebrated this week after AT&T said it would pledge to maintain a "neutral network" in exchange for US government approval of its proposed acquisition of BellSouth Corp.
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BBC:
$100 laptop project launches 2007 — The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year. — The scheme is hoping to put low-cost computers into the hands of people in developing countries. — Ultimately the project's backers hope …
Andrew Liszewski / OhGizmo!:
E-Base Charging Station - Useful In A Useless Way — If anything I'll give the designer of this thing an 'A' for effort. While it's very convenient that most devices have built-in rechargeable batteries these days there is unfortunately the downside of having to organize and store a huge collection of charging cables.
Lifehacker:
Download of the Day: Software for Starving Students (Win/Mac) — Windows and Mac only: Software for Starving Students has released a 2007 edition of its collection of freeware and open-source software. — The collection includes well-known gems like 7-Zip, Audacity, Blender, and OpenOffice.org …
Alex Zaharov-Reutt / ITWire:
Xbox 360 outsells Wii, PS3 in the US — For all the buzz the Wii generated in the US, it wasn't able to outsell the year-old Xbox 360 - but was that just because Wii's were in short supply, although available in much greater numbers than the PS3? — Unfortunately, we'll only ever be able …
Reuters:
Washington Post shoots for closer Web, print ties — The Washington Post Co. plans to have its veteran editors help shape the way stories appear on the Web in the latest example of how top U.S. publishers are retooling news operations for the Internet. — The Washington Post's Web site …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Google plugs Gmail data leak flaw — Google has fixed a security hole in several of its services that exposed the address books of Gmail users, the company said Tuesday. — An attacker could create a malicious Web site that would copy all the entries in a Gmail user's address book …
Theobroma Cacao:
The Year in Mac Development — It's risky to write a "year in review" story since there are just so many of them, but I'm going to carve out my niche and look back at the stories that mattered to Mac developers in 2006. — Intel — This was, unquestionably, the year of Intel for Mac developers.
