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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 …
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
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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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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Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Fox to allow DVD copying on Apple's iTunes — Also in Apple's movie rental deal yesterday with Fox: Apple will license its FairPlay copy-protection technology to the studio for DVD movie releases. This will allow DVD purchasers to easily — and legally — copy movies to their computers for playback on iPods and iPhones.
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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Insider Chatter, HipMojo.com, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and WebMetricsGuru
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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InfoWorld
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Google suffers patent blow — Google has been hit by a setback in a patent row with Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC. — A federal appeals court in Wisconsin yesterday rejected part of a summary judgment that could have worked to Google's advantage in the case.
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Mashable!
Reuters:
Sony becomes latest to quit rear-projection TVs — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop making rear-projection televisions, becoming the latest company to distance itself from a technology once seen as a promising rival of LCD and plasma displays in the flat-TV market.
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Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! — This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful …
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!
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?
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Wacom Cintiq 12WX Video Review (Verdict: Simply Amazing) — Here's the video review for the new Wacom Cintiq 12WX, a tablet that allows you to draw directly on the screen with extreme precision, great feel and amazing results (even with butter fingers like mine).
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GottaBeMobile
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Digg This: Deal or No Deal? — CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008 — As the year winds down, so often does the Web rumor mill. After all, even the most prolific bloggers have to put in some holiday time with the family.
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