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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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Ryan Naraine's Security Watch, InfoWorld, Sophos, The Register, Zero Day, Spyware Sucks, Insanely Great Mac and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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
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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.
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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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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paidContent.org, Guardian Unlimited, Gizmodo, mocoNews.net, Daring Fireball, p2pnet, Silicon Alley Insider, Techlog, Mark Evans, The Apple Blog, creativebits, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, CrunchGear, 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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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Locked and loaded: FCC finalizes rules & bidders for 700MHz — Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission released its final set of rules (PDF) and bidder list (PDF) for next week's 700MHz spectrum auction. Of the 266 applications originally received by the FCC, 214 bidders have made the final cut.
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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.
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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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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
VMware Acquires Thinstall to Take Virtualization to the Desktop — Unless you're an information technology manager or a Wall Street banker still drooling over VWware's $32 billion market cap, virtualization is not sexy. But it soon might be, with VMware's agreement to buy desktop virtualization startup Thinstall.
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