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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery — We sort of understood it with iPods, and we grudgingly accepted it with the iPhone, but the MacBook Air has a sealed, non-user-replaceable battery, and that means we're suddenly a lot less in love. We're digging for details …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
MacBook Air Hands-on — Here's our take on the MacBook Air. It's super light, super fragile, and super small. If you just tap the screen lightly, the whole thing closes because it's so light. The keyboard looks a little weird because it's black on the aluminum, but the keyboard feels great.
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The Technology Chronicles, Crave, Engadget, jkOnTheRun, Electronista, Gearlog, Gadget Lab and Ode to Apple
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
MacBook AirHead: why Apple's new laptop is basically useless — First, let me just say that the Air is an extremely impressive piece of technology. The miniaturization, the optimization of space, the blatant disregard for current standards — it's everything a revolutionary machine should be.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:Apple MacBook Air Looks Absolutely Amazing
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Engadget, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Infinite Loop, eWeek, Consumer Passion and bub.blicio.us
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet — Thanks for all the great toys, Uncle Steve, but did you have to go and break the Internet? I and about 7,000 other people were all signed up to get Twitter updates from MacRumors, but I never saw a single one — and in fact the entire Twitter.com network …
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Steve Jobs Proves the Interweb Can't Beat TV ... Yet — Live media events are great, when they work. But watching live services like Twitter collapse around the Steve Jobs keynote this morning provides more great examples (if needed) why the Interweb isn't yet TV.
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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
Apple Premieres iTunes Movie Rentals With All Major Film Studios — New Apple TV Software Lets You Rent Movies Directly from Your Widescreen TV — Apple® today announced iTunes® Movie Rentals featuring movies from all the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox …
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John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Slew of new features—including movie rentals and HD video—en route to Apple TV — The Apple TV just got a whole lot more useful. — Steve Jobs unveiled a major feature update to the Apple TV today during his Macworld keynote address in San Francisco that aims to transform the device …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Apple TV Take 2: $229, No Computer Required, Direct Rentals (Netflix Screwed) — Holy crap, Jobs admitted Apple TV failed at getting computer content to the square screen. Apple TV Take 2 requires no computer, you can rent from iTunes directly from the box—movies and music—and it's only $229.
Michael Gartenberg / JupiterResearch:iTunes Does Movie Rentals & Apple TV Update - First Take
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:Macworld.Ars: iTunes HD movies only for rent on Apple TV
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote — Thanks for joining us for our live Macworld 2008 keynote coverage! We're in, so click on, all our real-time updates are posted just after the break. — Note: this time we're updating from bottom to top, with the latest updates below.
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last100, Business Week, ParisLemon, Jason Brooks, Gizmodo, Zero Day, Apple, Tech Trader Daily, Techlog, Apple 2.0, Podcasting News, Infinite Loop, Between the Lines, Search Engine Land, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Forbes, WebProNews, Business Technology, PDA, Hardware 2.0, BBC NEWS, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, NYT, The Technology Chronicles, Digital Daily, Microsoft Watch, eWeek, AppScout, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Guardian Unlimited, Electronista, CNET News.com, Ars Technica, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, jkOnTheRun, The Apple Core, Scripting News, louisgray.com, Switched, Zatz Not Funny!, Dembot, Tech~Surf~Blog, Orbitcast, BloggingStocks, Furrier.org, Big Tech, dailywireless.org, CyberNet, TechSpot News, Paul Colligan's …, Gearlog, Engadget HD and Lost Remote
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Samwer Brothers Invest In Facebook — Serial German entrepreneurs Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer have invested in Facebook, we've heard from a very reliable source - presumably as part of Facebook's recent $15 billion valuation round with Microsoft. We are still trying to nail down the size of the investment.
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Apple:
Apple Enhances Revolutionary iPhone with Software Update — Apple® today announced a free software update for its revolutionary iPhone™ that allows users to automatically find their location using the redesigned Maps application*; text message multiple people in one message …
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Crave, Podcasting News, Gizmodo, Bits, CyberNet, Social Media and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
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Victoria Shannon / International Herald Tribune:
Amazon.com is challenging French competition law — PARIS: The online retailer Amazon.com said Monday that it would pay €1,000 a day in fines, rather than comply with a court ruling upholding French limits on price discounts for books. — The company decided to pay …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
TicketMaster Buys Online Scalper TicketsNow For $265 Million — Just in time for the Super Bowl and ahead of IAC's breakup, Ticketmaster has struck a deal to acquire online ticket scalper TicketsNow for $265 million. This follows eBay's acquisition of StubHub for $310 million last year.
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Apple Announces Time Capsule Server for Wireless Time Machine Backup — At Macworld 2008, Apple just announced Time Capsule, a full Airport Extreme base station with 802.11n wireless and four Ethernet ports, plus server grade hard drives to back up all of the Leopard Macs in the house.
Patrik / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
First Rogue Cleaning Tool for Mac — We've just found the first Mac rogue application and it's called MacSweeper. — It claims to clean your Mac from compromising files and it will always find something to fix/clean but the only way to do so is to buy the program.
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CNET News.com, Sophos, Ryan Naraine's Security Watch, InfoWorld, Technology Live, Computerworld, Security Fix and The Register
Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
Net Neutrality Groups Press FCC — Call for swift and decisive action against Comcast — Free Press, the organization behind SaveTheInternet.com, responded to the Federal Communications Commission's expressed intent to investigate Comcast and Verizon Wireless over alleged content blocking.
