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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 …
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ParisLemon, CrunchGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Digg
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.
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Amy-Mae Elliott / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
Macworld2008: Steve Jobs keynote speech leaked? — Apple CEO's stage notes appear on Wikipedia — We're used to seeing the online tech world go crazy with rumours and speculation in the days before Macworld, but this year a new element has been introduced to the mix.
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Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Help-Key: How to turn the Macworld Keynote into a fun, healthy drinking game — With The Keynote (that Keynote) at 9:00 tomorrow morning, we're not sure who exactly would buy into a Macworld Keynote Drinking Game other than college students, but it's an exercise in foolishness any way you look at it, so I had to indulge.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Fake Apple Keynote “Leaked” on Wikipedia
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Byte of the Apple, MediaShift, Portfolio.com, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs and VoIP Blog
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.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES — A Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations?
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Sophomoric Pranks Do Not a Journalist Make — Last week gadget blog Gizmodo admitted to pulling a prank at CES 2008 in which they used a device to turn off TVs on the exhibit floor and during company presentations. In their post about the prank Gizmodo apologized ("It was too much fun …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Gizmodo on integrity... Brian Lam of Gizmodo does a great turnaround and questions his critics and their integrity. — Oh, excuse me, I've now gotta turn off all of the Apple monitors at MacWorld to prove I'm “independent” and “not part of Apple's PR machine.”
Associated Press:
MySpace, states move to block sex offenders — ALBANY, New York (AP) — MySpace has reached an agreement with more than 45 states to change to help prevent sexual predators and others from misusing it, state officials said Monday. — Several states' attorneys general said in a statement …
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K.C. Jones / InformationWeek:
Netflix Subscribers Get Unlimited Streaming Video — The DVD rental company bucks the market trend and increases its on-demand services starting at $8.99 a month. — Netflix customers can now rent as many movies and television shows as they want. — The company announced Monday …
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
The ocean as watercooler: floating data centers stay cool — A new Silicon Valley startup called International Data Security (IDS) has sent some big waves through the data storage industry by announcing (PDF) its intent to set up a fleet of data-serving cargo ships.
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
HD DVD fires back, slashes hardware & software prices — HD DVD's response to being unceremoniously jilted by Warner going into CES was ... nothing. A canceled press conference, downtrodden Toshiba press conference and rumors of further losses left great doubt that red had anything left in 2008, but now HD DVD is firing back.
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Chris Silver Smith / Search Engine Land:
20 Awesome Images Found In Google Maps — The introduction of satellite images into map search interfaces has excited both virtual sightseers and local app developers. Further innovations like Google's Street View have caused consternation from privacy advocates while further pumping up the buzz about online mapping.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
AP Sues AHN Media For Copyright Infringement — The Associated Press is following up on its threats to go after offending companies that copy or rewrite its stories, or use it “improperly": first it sues Moreover and its parent company Verisign in October last year, and now it has filed …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Ohloh ranks the world's coders, and helps them advertise too — Ohloh, a company that ranks the nation's top open source coders, is opening its service to let other developers to track and rank their own teams. — It's the latest move by Ohloh, a Bellevue, WA company that already distributes …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
More Than Games, a Net to Snare Social Networkers — FRIENDSHIP means being able to sink each other's battleships. — That is the thinking of Mark Pincus, a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has built several Internet start-ups, including Support.com and the early social network Tribe.net.
