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John Markoff / New York Times:
That iPhone Is Missing a Keyboard* — If there is a billion-dollar gamble underlying Apple's iPhone, it lies in what this smart cellphone does not have: a mechanical keyboard. — As the clearest expression yet of the Apple chief executive's spartan design aesthetic, the iPhone sports …
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Michael Gartenberg:
It's not just the "what", it's the "how" — Dave Winer comments on the new iPhone ads and wonders if his Blackberry can some of the same functions seen in this ad and discovers that it can. (although it would be a real trick to replicate the entire commercial on a Blackberry at the moment)
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:Poll: do you care that iPhone is missing a physical keyboard?
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:SHAKE-UP IN NEWSROOM OF JOURNAL
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Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
An OpenSolaris/Linux Mashup — To non-technical readers of this blog, or those uninterested in the ebbs and tides of the free software world... this might be a good entry to skip. — I was just forwarded a pointer to this note regarding Sun and OpenSolaris, written by the eponymous Linus Torvalds.
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:Apple Clarifies Status of ZFS File System In Mac OS
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CNET News.com, Compiler, The Apple Blog, MacUser, Ars Technica, Between the Lines, Engadget and CrunchGear
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Mahalo Greenhouse Launches — Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered "search service" Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ's D conference in California. The tag line of Mahalo is "we're here to help," and after 15 days of tremendous feedback we've learned one thing: you want to help too!
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Michael Calore / Compiler:
Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox — Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted Safari 3's speed as one of its most appealing features. But in tests by Wired News, the first public beta of Safari for Windows is actually slower than both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 when accessing Ajax-intensive web applications.
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Guardian Unlimited, Ars Technica, Todd Watson, Alec Saunders .LOG, robhyndman.com, Asa Dotzler and digg
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Apple to sell music through UK Bebo network — Apple is tapping into the popularity of social networking sites, as it announces a deal on Wednesday to embed its iTunes internet music download service into the Bebo website. — From Wednesday, Bebo's 8.8m users in the UK and Ireland …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
OpenAds: A step in the right direction — I may be reading too much into this, but I take hope in a $5 million investment VCs made today in the company behind Openads, a free, open-source ad server. They already serve more than 20,000 publishers, 100,000 sites in 20-plus languages over 30-plus networks.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Santa Rosa comes to the Mac: a review of the 17" MacBook Pro — Santa Rosa in the house — Apple MacBook Pro — Quick specs: 2.40GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, 17" 1920x1200 LCD — Price as configured: $2,899 (shop for this title) — Since Apple made the great migration …
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Steve Bryant / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Fails Us Politically (or is it vice versa?) — There's a blog-sharp maw waiting to gnash anyone who is critical of the democratizing power of YouTube. If you deride its star-making potential, you're accused of old media partisanship. If you doubt its meritocratic infallibility …
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Everyscape: A 3D Worldviewer Made From 2D Photos — Everyscape aims to be able to show you the whole world — both inside and out — from its website. It plans to do this with normal 2D photos. Using proprietary technology Everyscape will stitch these photos together and 3D-ify them.
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
BioWare Adapts Complex Event Processing To Online Gaming World — BioWare is using StreamBase's Stream Processing Engine, which is able to analyze up to 350,000 messages per second, for tracking players' actions and movements. — Complex event processing, a new technology …
James S. Granelli / Los Angeles Times:
AT&T to target pirated content — It joins Hollywood in trying to keep bootleg material off its network. — AT&T Inc. has joined Hollywood studios and recording companies in trying to keep pirated films, music and other content off its network — the first major carrier of Internet traffic to do so.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Ron Conway: Third-rate VCs are paying off entrepreneurs — Ron Conway, the most prolific investor in the latest wave of Internet companies, is hot for video companies, and ways to monetize them. — However, he's upset by some recent investment practices, he says.
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Mark Androvich / GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony threatens to pursue legal action against PS3 hackers — Pledges to "aggressively pursue" pirates — Following reports that hackers have cracked PlayStation 3's anti-piracy software, SCEA has declared that it will "aggressively pursue" anyone caught engaging in such activity with legal action.
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
'Mr. Wizard' dies at 89 — Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died today. He was 89.
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Nicholas Carr / Britannica Blog:
From Contemplative Man to Flickering Man — Michael Gorman asks, in the second part of his essay "Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason," "Is the astonishing spread of computer technology to change not just our society and personal lives but also the very nature of human intelligence?"
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Act now to stop Congress from legalizing spyware! — The SPY Act, a new anti-spyware law, makes it impossible for consumer rights groups to sue DRM companies for putting spyware in their DRM (like Sony did last year, with its rootkit DRM). The irony is that spyware is already illegal …
