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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
New Disc May Sway DVD Wars — Consumers wary of buying new high-definition DVD players because of a technology war reminiscent of the days of Betamax versus VHS will soon have a new kind of DVD that might make the decision less daunting. — Warner Brothers, which helped popularize the DVD …
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IP Democracy, Gizmodo, PaidContent, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Kotaku, Neowin.net, O'Grady's PowerPage, Crave RSS, Microsoft News Tracker, The Tech Report, I4U News and digg
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Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
I like big charts and I cannot lie — I've always been a big fan of charts, tables and other ways of analyzing and visualizing data. On my own blog I will often plot things just to get a handle on them. Even here I've posted some analyses that I've done of the data that the Reader team has on hand.
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LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Google Calendar Up Threefold Since June — As you resolve to get your schedule more organized in the new year, do what more and more people are doing - use Google Calendar. A few weeks ago, Google Calendar overtook MSN Calendar in market share of US visits, and is quickly approaching Yahoo! Calendar.
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Guardian:
What Jobs told me on the iPhone — Will Apple's chief executive unveil a tablet Mac or an 'iPhone' at Macworld next week? Former sales boss David Sobotta describes the meeting which explained key thinking — Next week, Steve Jobs will stand on stage in San Francisco to make his keynote speech …
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CrunchGear, The Apple Blog, Tech Trader Daily, 21talks, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs and digg
Alan Boyle / MSNBC:
BLUE ORIGIN REVEALED — After years of working behind closed doors and locked gates, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has finally lifted the curtain that shrouded Blue Origin, his space tourism venture. — Among the goodies now displayed on Blue Origin's Web site are photos and videos …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Brazil Orders YouTube Shut Down — A Brazilian court agreed yesterday that until YouTube completely removes a sex tape, it should be shut down, according to Reuters. — The tape shows Daniela Cicarelli, a model and ex-wife of Ronaldo, having sex with her boyfriend at the beach.
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Adobe brings Premiere back to the Mac — Adobe will announce on Thursday that it will revive a Mac version of Premiere, the software maker's video program aimed at professional editors. The new Mac version will only run on Intel-based Macs and will be part of a larger Adobe Production Studio suite …
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MacUser, Digital Inspiration, Monkey Bites, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Apple Blog and Apple Gazette
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Develops First Truly Double-sided LCD — Seoul, Korea - January 4, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels announced today that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display.
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Christopher Drew / New York Times:
U.S. Bars Lab From Testing Electronic Voting — A laboratory that has tested most of the nation's electronic voting systems has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.
symantec.com:
When PDFs Attack! — We have received reports of a significant problem relating to Adobe Acrobat files and Cross Site Scripting (XSS). A weakness was discovered in the way that the Adobe Reader browser plugin can be made to execute JavaScript code on the client side.
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Google:
China Mobile, Google Launch Cooperation: Creating Leading Mobile Search Service in China — China Mobile, the world's largest mobile telecommunications carrier, and Google, the world's largest search engine, announced today a cooperation to provide mobile and Internet search services in China.
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
Vista laptops for bloggers furor misses the real story — I've been reading the classic blogger tempest in a teapot about Microsoft's PR agency of record, Edelman, sending out about 90 fancy Ferrari laptops preloaded with Windows Vista to high-profile bloggers and have been amazed …
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Cathode Tan, TechBlog, Global Nerdy, A View from the Isle, CrunchGear, Smalltalk Tidbits … and duncanriley.com
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Sandisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops — Sandisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable. — The switch, however, will cost you a few hundred dollars more.
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Best Blogfights of 2006 — If bloggers know how to do one thing really well, it's fight. — Blogging is driven largely by raw emotion. When a blogger goes on an opinionated tirade about one topic or another, it's often an honest emotional reaction rather than anything malicious.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Fewer Excuses for Not Doing a PC Backup — If there's one New Year's resolution even more likely to fail than "I vow to lose weight," it's "I vow to start backing up my computer." — After all, setting up and remembering to use a backup system is a huge hassle.
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