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Engadget:
Live from Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote … MOST COMMENTED ON (7 DAYS) — CES 2008 ultimate swag bag giveaway: like a Xmas stocking in January (7537) — Paramount following Warner out the HD DVD door? (195) — Goodbye CES, hello Macworld (134)
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Paul Colligan's …, Zatz Not Funny!, BBC NEWS, CyberNet, Tech~Surf~Blog, hypebot, Josh Bancroft's …, Valleywag, Paul Kedrosky's …, Void Inside, BloggingStocks and Ryan Block
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs Keynote Live From Macworld — This post is being updated live, in reverse chronological order, from the Steve Jobs keynote at the Macworld Expo! — 9:48am: One button interface for iTunes rentals on Apple TV. Remarkably simple to use, at least in the demo
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
The Macworld 2008 Keynote Liveblog — 8:54 PT We're inside. Media scrum heading for seats. Coldplay on the PA, crowd shots on the monitors. Here with Scott McNulty, John Gruber, John Moltz and a whole lot of press. — The action starts here shortly before 9 am PT on Tuesday (12 noon ET) — don't miss it!
Macworld:
Macworld Expo Keynote Coverage — Steve Jobs will be delivering the keynote address for Macworld Expo beginning at 9 a.m. PST on Tuesday. Once the event is under way, Macworld's team of editors will begin live blogging from the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Zoli's Blog, Mashable!, MacUser, The Apple Core and mydigimedia
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.
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
New Gmail for the iPhone — We've just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had to make Gmail faster and more fluid.
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Wall Street Journal:
Ticketmaster Buys Major Reseller — Ticketmaster has agreed to pay about $265 million for TicketsNow, a Web site for reselling tickets to concerts and sports events.
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TechCrunch, pehub.com, HipMojo.com, Seeking Alpha, paidContent.org and Silicon Alley Insider
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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 …
Danny Dumas / Gadget Lab:
Breaking: Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details — An Apple insider told Wired today that the company's new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen …
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Crave, paidContent.org, Guardian Unlimited, mocoNews.net, Daring Fireball, p2pnet, Techlog, Gizmodo, Mark Evans, Silicon Alley Insider, The Apple Blog, creativebits, CrunchGear, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, Cult of Mac, ParisLemon, PalmAddicts, Ubergizmo, Technology Live, GracefulFlavor, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Digg
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook buying Plaxo? — Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo, we've just heard from a source. — This follows a rumor previously published by Valleywag asserting that such a deal is underway. — While these types of rumors should be taken with more than a grain of salt …
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Dorian Benkoil / JackMyers.com:
Condé Nast Portfolio Expands Online Apps with Google, Facebook and LinkedIn — Condé Nast Portfolio has been quietly building its www.Portfolio.com ad-supported website with an emphasis on audience quality vs. size, although the site now boasts somewhere between 900,000 …
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Silicon Alley Insider
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Carey: Portfolio.com To Supply 30 Percent Of Magazine's Total Ad Revs By Next Year
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New York Times
Business Wire:
JiWire to Provide iPhone™ and iPod touch Users With First Ever Ad-Supported Free Wi-Fi Access — JiWire Wi-Fi Advertising Network Members to Offer “Ads for Access"™ Payment Alternative at Premium Airports, Hotels, Cafes — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—JiWire …
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
FCC Approves Google For Wireless Auction — The 700MHz wireless spectrum auction on January 24th opens with 214 bidders chasing the big prize, with Google competing with an assortment of telecoms both big and small. — As part of the process of lining up bidders who will pay upwards …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:Locked and loaded: FCC finalizes rules & bidders for 700MHz
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Kelly K. Spors / Wall Street Journal:
New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue — Users Can Customize Appearance of Spots, Use Video and Audio — If you're not making money off your blog, 2008 might be the year. — As more people see potential in earning money off the Internet, there is a quickly expanding array …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New Video Explains the Basics of Data Portability — We've been writing a lot about data portability here lately, and specifically the DataPortability.org Work Group. High level members of Google and Facebook staff joined the group a week ago yesterday, key people from LinkedIn, SixApart …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Samwer Brothers Invest In Facebook — In a very brief press release, serial German entrepreneurs Alexander, Marc and Oliver Samwer announced today that they are investing in Facebook - presumably as part of Facebook's recent $15 billion valuation round with Microsoft.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Swedish prosecutors dump 4,000 legal docs on The Pirate Bay — As the calendar pages turned from 2007 to 2008, one constant remained for the motion picture and music industries: The Pirate Bay's willingness to ignore their threats (and copyrights) to the point that the Swedish group's site …
