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Mike / Techdirt:
Does The iPhone Need Patents? — from the questions,-questions dept — A bunch of folks have noted that Steve Jobs seemed mighty excited about the 200 or so patents Apple has filed around some of the technology involved in the iPhone (or whatever it's going to be called).
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
With all due respect, sir, I don't think we can backdate the iPhone trademark — Looks like Cisco's been iPh0wn3d. Apple has not agreed to license Cisco's iPhone mark, as the networking giant implied earlier this week (see "Keyboards across country shorted out by 'iPhone drool' ").
Valleywag:
IPHONE: Media winners and losers — Nothing like a big story — and this week's unveiling of Apple's new cellphone was a huge story for the tech press — to sort out the players. Who got access? Who's stuck explaining embarrassingly wrong predictions? Who got caught up in the notorious …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Phone Shows Apple's Impact on Consumer Products — Apple's new iPhone appears to be the clearest statement yet of what Steve Jobs's impact has been on consumer electronics. — It is not that he invents new technologies. He refines existing ones. — Mr. Jobs himself acknowledged …
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Alan Sipress / Washington Post:Apple Chief Benefited From Options, Records Indicate
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
eBay buys StubHub, online ticket reseller, for $310M — StubHub, an online site for reselling tickets to events, has been acquied by eBay for $310 million, minting the latest Silicon Valley millionaires in co-founders Jeff Fluhr and Eric Baker. — The controversial company has grown steadily, badgering eBay's business for years.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents — It is no secret that the MPAA and other anti-piracy organizations track down alleged pirates by uploading fake torrents. Up until now it was always unclear where those files came from, and how to identify them. — The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs try …
PR Newswire:
SAP Announces 2006 Preliminary Results — WALLDORF, Germany, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP - News) announced today that after a preliminary review of its 2006 fourth quarter results, it expects fourth quarter product revenues to be approximately euro 2.20 billion …
CBC News:
'Craplets' could damage Vista launch: Microsoft exec — A senior Microsoft Corp. executive says the company is concerned that uncertified third-party software loaded onto new computers by manufacturers could hurt the launch of consumer versions of its Windows Vista operating system later this month.
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, Bink.nu, Microsoft News Tracker, Channel 9, Gadget Lab and Slashdot
Percy Cabello / mozilla links:
Planned features for Firefox 3 — In today's Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) meeting, developers released a preliminary list of requirements for Firefox 3. The new target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year. — Among the list of mandatory requirements, read …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Check Your Google Standing With Free Tools — We are sharing a small list of online tools to help you guage your site rankings in Google. These tools are absolutely free and you don't have to share your email address for using any of them. — Live Google PageRank …
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Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Search Engine Journal, Googlified, The Blog Herald and WebProBlog
Christopher Grant / Engadget:
Hands-on with IPTV on Xbox 360 — We had a chance to check out Microsoft's IPTV offering for Xbox 360, announced earlier this week during Bill Gates' CES keynote, and get answers to some of the questions that have been nagging at us since first hearing about the service.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Download of the Day: Tab Effect (Firefox) — Organize photos with your OS in 5 easy steps- DLS Imaging Tip [Download Squad] … Windows only: Firefox extension Tab Effect adds a tab switching cube effect to Firefox. — If you've ever played with Virtue Desktops for the Mac or XGL/Compiz on Linux …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Senator to FCC: Don't even think about a broadcast flag — Senator John Sununu (R-NH) has just announced that his office is working on legislation that would prevent the FCC from creating specific technology mandates that have to be followed by consumer electronics manufacturers. What's his target?
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Sony to Include Portable Movie Files on Blu-Ray DVDs — Hands On: Crysis! — The CES demo of Crytek's gorgeous first-person shooter Crysis is a brief one—too brief, considering the amazing DirectX 10 graphics and effects. You could run through the thing in about 5 minutes without really trying …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Firms Fret as Office E-Mail Jumps Security Walls — Companies spend millions on systems to keep corporate e-mail safe. If only their employees were as paranoid. — A growing number of Internet-literate workers are forwarding their office e-mail to free Web-accessible personal accounts offered by Google, Yahoo and other companies.
GameDaily:
Breaking: MTV in Talks with Ziff Davis — 1UP.com may soon join GameTrailers as part of MTV Networks. A well-placed source informed GameDaily BIZ that MTV Networks and Ziff Davis Media are currently negotiating a deal. More within... At the end of December, the always interesting PaidContent.org
Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
CES: Audiovox DV7600XM XM Mini-Tuner Home Theater System — The Audiovox DV7600XM is a 600-Watt 5.1 Dolby Home Theater System with a XM Mini-Tuner docking station. — It provides an impressive audio show, supported by five satellite speakers and a passive subwoofer.
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
New PayPal key to help thwart phishers — Additional password-generating security measure should be opened to beta users within the next month — Over the next few months, Ebay will be offering its PayPal users a new tool in the fight against phishers: a $5 security key.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
How to Lose Your Shirt in Second Life — Magnus Rothlisberger, a resident of Second Life, describes in the Second Life Herald how he lost the equivalent of $1,153 on blackjack tables in the virtual world. It's hilarious partly because it's so well-told,but also because it's so awful.
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