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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Windows on the Mac changes everything — The kind of software sold by the formidable Parallels is transforming computing and challenging Steve Jobs, says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — The lines between the Mac OS and Windows are starting to blur.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacUser, Infinite Loop, Download Squad, Blogging Stocks, Daily small biz tech news … and digg
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Parallels to turn it around, help Mac OS onto generic PC boxen
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Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM's Social Networking Push — With collaboration software called Lotus Connections, Big Blue competes with Microsoft as Web 2.0 expands into the business world — In the earlier days of computing, innovations that were created for corporations gradually seeped into consumer products.
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Marc's Voice, Digital Markets, Bloggers Blog, Between the Lines, New York Times and Good Morning Silicon Valley
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.1 Ella — On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 "Ella", named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here's a sampling of what's in the new version:
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Things That, Download Squad, TinyScreenfuls.com, The Gong Show, Forever Geek, The Blog Herald, Monkey Bites and Technosailor
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
German, French groups want open iTunes — OSLO, Norway - German and French consumer groups have joined a Nordic-led drive to force Apple Inc. to make its iTunes online store compatible with digital music players made by rival companies, a Norwegian official said Monday.
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Inside AdSense:
This is a test: Video content on AdSense — There are many things in life that go hand in hand — peanut butter & jelly, wine & cheese, milk & cookies — and for publishers, AdSense & great content sites. We hope that the next perfect pairing will be "great video content & your audience."
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Blu-Ray DRM Cracked — The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend—and it worked a treat. — "We need to kick DRM in the butt!" declares the sigfile of Doom9 forum poster Janvitos, launching his inspection of the format.
Phillip Torrone / MAKE Magazine:
The complete guide to PDFs in iTunes — There are a small but growing number of PDFs appearing in iTunes, users can subscribe to podcasts to automatically receive audio and video - and recently - PDFs. At MAKE & CRAFT we have experimented with this from the start - we have also cataloged …
Steve Wiseman / IntelliAdmin.com:
The 5 sins of Vista — Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Areo Glass to run this way …
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APC, Brandon Live!, Good Morning Silicon Valley, All about Microsoft, Channel 9, Slashdot and digg
Dan Goodin / The Register:
MySpace sues Spam King — You'll never guess what for... MySpace.com has sued self-proclaimed spam king Scott Richter for allegedly using compromised user accounts to send millions unsolicited ads touting ringtones, polo shirts among other things. — We were surprised - nay shocked - when we heard the identity of the defendant.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet — Silicon Valley based Trusted ID, which launched IDFreeze last year to help protect people from identity theft, released their second product this evening - Stolen ID Search. — Type a social security …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Germany Gone Kaput? — Reader Michiel Ouwerkerk just dropped an email to say that Google Germany has disappeared. Sure enough, when I go there, I get a holding page from what looks to be hosting company Goneo: — The message reads (umlauts and other German punctuation omitted, sorry!)
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Chris Garrett / Performancing.com:
Performancing Partners to close — I'm sad to tell you that Partners has to close. While I have every faith it could have worked, it wasn't going to happen fast enough. Without more money invested it wasn't going to happen at all. — Any ads currently in the system will continue …
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
On Space Art in Sebastopol... This is so much fun. Where to start? Okay. So in September last year a few of us went to the O'Reilly FOO Camp. It's an invitation-only event in Sebastopol in California where everyone's expected to present what they're thinking about or working on and where lots of fascinating conversations happen.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch Referral Traffic — In response to a couple of inquiries, here are the top 11 sources of TechCrunch traffic in December 2006 (via Google Analytics): — Digg remains a very important site for overall TechCrunch traffic. I'm surprised by how much traffic BBC and TechMeme sends our way.
Bill Slawski / Search Engine Land:
Google's OneBox Patent Application — One of my favorite search related articles is one that Danny wrote a few years back titled Searching With Invisible Tabs. It stands out because it describes one of the major difficulties involving how search engines work - making a user interface as simple as possible …
Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music — As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.
