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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
MacWorld rumblings: Expect a 11- to 13-inch screen on Apple ultra-portable — With Apple expected to deliver a new ultra-portable Mac at its Macworld conference Jan. 15 prognosticators are busy handicapping the device's features. — In a research note Monday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster …
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Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
Striking writers in talks to launch Web start-ups — MOVING TO NEW MEDIA: Aaron Mendelsohn, a Writers Guild board member known for the "Air Bud" franchise, is in a group that plans to produce programming for the Internet independently of Hollywood studios at odds with the union.
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Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
What the Internet Knows About You — We often wonder why there isn't more outrage when companies announce they've lost data about customers or employees. Here's part of the answer: Most Americans don't care what information about them is publicly available.
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Tom Spring / Today @ PC World:Go Ahead Google Yourself, Everyone is
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Can Ribbit Finally Bring Web & Voice Together? — For a long time, I had this belief that the worlds of web and voice would converge, unleashing upon us a whole new class of voice-web mashups. Instead all we got were some marginal ideas and rarely-used widgets. Voice, in particular, remained too difficult for web developers.
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Dan Tynan / PC World:
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007 — These much-ballyhooed products, sites, and services, it turned out, left much to be desired. — Recommend this story? — Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do? — It's not that Vista is awful.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust — REDMOND, Wash. — When he was chief executive of Intel in the 1990s, Andrew S. Grove would often talk about the "software spiral" — the interplay between ever-faster microprocessor chips and software that required ever more computing power.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Can Blogs Do Journalism? — On the face of it, the question of whether blogs can do journalism is absurd — like asking whether sites published on Vignette can do journalism. A blog, after all, is just a content management system — revolutionary because it made web-native publishing free …
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BBC:
Weblogs rack up a decade of posts — The word "weblog" celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. — The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page. — The word was an abbreviation for the "logging" …
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Christina Warren / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
QuickBooks users be cautious of recent update — At the risk of spreading unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt),] It's not FUD, we want to caution Inuit's QuickBooks users of installing the most recent update, without proper back-ups - especially if you typically store lots of important files on the desktop.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Dear Google, My Friends Are Scary, Can I Opt Out? — If you're a user of Google Reader, you've probably already discovered that your friends shared items are starting to show up in your account. In addition, you may have also spotted that Google is moving into the social networking business with the introduction of "Google Profiles."
Business Wire:
Adobe Reports Record Quarterly and Fiscal Year Revenue — Strong Adoption of Creative Suite, Acrobat and Enterprise Solutions Drives 23 Percent Annual Revenue Growth — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE - News) today reported financial results …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Universal, XM settle suit over receiver's ability to record — Universal Music Group and XM Radio have settled a lawsuit filed last year over the XM Inno, a portable XM Radio receiver capable of recording up to 50 hours of programming. The Big Four record labels sued XM Radio in May 2006 …
Brian C / Wallstrip:
12-17-07 Facebook — Today, Lindsay gets poked into Facebook. … 19 RESPONSES SO FAR ↓ — You summed up perfectly why I've stayed off sites like FaceBook and MySpace - the stalker factor! — [...] Today, Lindsay pokes around . Trader Mike — The Dell's gone...how sad.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
GOOG-411 isn't what you think — Google's free 411 service (1-800-GOOG-411) lets you find and call local businesses, but the service isn't exactly as it seems. On the surface, it looks pretty straight forward, but spending lots of money advertising a service that has no clear potential …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Depth of eBay's Problems 1: Disappointed Buyers — I wrote a post Friday with the thought that Amazon should buy eBay, and readers nearly revolted at the idea. The outpouring of rage at eBay was of the sort we don't see here for anything other than cellphone companies.
John Leyden / The Register:
Sys admin admits trying to axe California power grid — A sys admin last week pleaded guilty to attempting to disrupt the power grid in California by shutting down a data centre that managed the state's electrical supply. — Lonnie Charles Denison, 33, of South Natomas in California confessed …
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