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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple's Piping Hot Innovation — Want a coffee with your iPhone? — Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Yahoo to patent “smart drag-and-drop,” Ars submits prior art — A patent application filed by Yahoo is being scrutinized by the peer-to-patent web site (http://www.peertopatent.org/ ), a web-based public patent review system that is co-sponsored by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Dell's All-in-One PC Has the Guts, Design to Compete With iMac — Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design. And the company, which in recent years seemed to care …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Dell XPS One Is Better Machine than iMac, Loses Battle for the Software, Mossberg Says — Today, December 27 at 1:01AM EDT, The Supreme Pope of Tech Walter Mossberg has declared the Dell XPS One a better machine than the iMac. And yes, that sound you thought you dreamt was Steve Jobs screaming and Hell freezing over.
Electronista:
Amazon beats Apple to non-DRM Warner music — Amazon today landed a coup by announcing the availability of Warner Music Group albums on Amazon MP3. The store becomes the first to offer music from the label in a universal format withoutdigital rights management (DRM), permitting buyers …
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Center for Democracy & Technology:
Music Download Warning List — Claims to have the “Largest Music & Movie Selection,” “Over 12 million MP3 files,” and to allow users to “Find Any Song for Movie Fast!" — Charges $34.44 for a lifetime membership — Claims to be “legal” on the home page.
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Karl Ribas / Karl Ribas.com Blog:
NEW at Wal-Mart: SEM Services — This should make for a good laugh. — The following is an email marketing campaign that was forwarded on to me from my good friend Gene Carbonell who just so happens to run an online store over at My Health Management.com.
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Georges Yared / BloggingStocks:
Apple's new price target: $300 — Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a truly fun company and stock to watch and write about during the course of 2007. Not a bad name to own either. I have probably written a dozen posts for BloggingStocks about Apple, and I have raised my price target five or six times this past year.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple to Offer Fox Movie Rentals — Twentieth Century Fox and Apple are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple's iTunes Store.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
What Is The ROI Of Requiring User Registration To Access Online Content? — I somehow got logged out of my NYTimes.com registration and just hit the registration wall when I tried to read an article — I almost forgot it was there. Which made me wonder, now that the TimesSelect pay wall is gone …
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
$40K to fill an iPod? One third of PCs use LimeWire instead — Pop quiz: what music and movie downloading app is installed on over one third of the world's computers, according to a new report from Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne?
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple's new laptops: confirmed! — Leave it up to our music industry spies (Ok, well, Just Blaze really) to set the record straight! Apple will 100% be announcing a new laptop at MacWorld. We've also heard the laptop will go on sale a week after MacWorld, too. What laptop is this?
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful — It was 2 o'clock in the morning but in the subterranean retailing mecca in Midtown Manhattan, otherwise known as the Apple store, it might as well have been midafternoon. — Late one night shortly before Christmas …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Movie Industry: DRM Is For Customers, Not For Members — This week several DVD-screeners leaked on BitTorrent. “I Am Legend”, “Gone Baby Gone” and several other movies showed up at BitTorrent sites, presumably leaked with the help of industry insiders. — December is traditionally …
Royal Pingdom:
The major incidents on the internet in 2007 — We have gathered 13 of the most notable internet-related outages and incidents of 2007. Why 13? Though you usually can't blame downtime on bad luck, we thought it was an appropriate number for a collection like this. — Now on to the list!
