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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 …
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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InfoWorld, Sophos, The Register, Zero Day, Insanely Great Mac, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Spyware Sucks
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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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Macworld Expo Predictions — Predictions and advance commentary for tomorrow's Macworld keynote, some based on consensus rumors, some based on no more than wishful thinking on the part of yours truly. This is all conjecture and tea-leaf-reading (well, mostly), so, please, no wagering.
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:JiWire Launches Free, Ad-Supported iPhone, iPod Touch Hotspot Access
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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far) — We know Plaxo is for sale, presumably looking for north of $100 million and telling people around Silicon Valley that they've had an offer for north of $200 million. Revolution Partners, an investment bank, has been pitching them to all the big potential buyers.
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.
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, WebProNews, HipMojo.com, Seeking Alpha, paidContent.org and Silicon Alley Insider
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 …
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 …
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
MacWorld: What will Steve Jobs unveil in today's keynote speech? — Photo: aarontait on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — It's that time of year again - the bi-annual MacWorld orgy in San Francisco. It's four days of Mac heaven for fan boys, gadget obsessives and will vie with last week's CES …
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David Rothman / TeleRead:
New Sony Reader firmware due in February '08—with PDF resizing — Hooray! PDF resizing from within the Sony Reader PRS-505 will be a feature of the new firmware update due in late February. Let's just hope that it'll work on existing books. “There was also some talk of a future compatibility …
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Justin Mullins / New Scientist:
Invention: Expressive pen — Expressive pen — While the written word has taken great leaps in recent years with the advent of computer-based publishing and the global dissemination of text across the web, the humble pen is more or less the same device it has ever been.
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook: 1 in 50 UK Internet visits — Facebook's market share of UK internet visits to All Categories increased to 2.01% in December. The social networking website accounted for one in every fifty UK internet visits in the last month of 2007, with its market share peaking on Christmas Day.
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 …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Google Apps coming to Clearwire customers via new partnership — Don't look now, but it seems Google is teaming up with wireless broadband provider Clearwire in order to bless its customers with the Google Apps communication suite. Though no definitive date was provided, Clearwire will …
