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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.
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 …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
3 down, 1 to go: Warner Music Group drops DRM — Warner Music has bent beneath the force of the anti-DRM winds sweeping the globe. The label will now offer its complete catalog, DRM-free, through Amazon's new MP3 store. — The announcement means that EMI, Universal …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Wal-Mart Kills Video Download Store Before Christmas, No One Notices — Honestly, if we hadn't been tipped to this, we probably would've been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart's video download store caught pneumonia and died on Dec. 21.
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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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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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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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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.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
New product release today — Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... It's with much anticipation that I say this. — I have a new product that may be familiar to those of you who used Radio 8, and in other ways may be completely new. — The idea is simple.
Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
Did you get a Zune for Christmas? — Microsoft's Zune digital media player is catching on, if this holiday season is indication. — Microsoft first released the Zune last year and introduced a new line in November in time for the holidays. Early on, there were reports that the 80 GB models were tough to find on store shelves.
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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?
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 …
