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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple MacBook Air Looks Absolutely Amazing — It's real. The fabled MacBook Air actually exists. It's ultra-thin, can have normal hard drive or a solid state one and, except for a couple ports, it's all about wireless connectivity. It's an stunning .16 inches thick at the bottom and .76 inches on the top.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
The MacBook Air — Apple just announced the .16-inch thin MacBook Air — a laptop so thin it fits in a manila envelope. The new machine features a full-size keyboard and LED-backlit 13.3-inch display with built-in iSight, and the new larger trackpad supports multi-touch gestures.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery
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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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Steve Jobs Keynote Live From Macworld — Below is the transcript, in reverse chronological order, from the Steve Jobs keynote at the Macworld Expo. Thanks for tuning in! — 10:44am: Newman stopped talking, Steve thanked everyone for coming, lots of applause, its over.
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New York Times, Macworld, Electronista, CrunchGear, Ars Technica, PC World, Bits, Gadget Lab, PDA, Scobleizer, bub.blicio.us and Consumer Passion
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:AAPL: Blogging Jobs; 5M Leopard Units; Wireless Backup; 4M iPhones …
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PDA, Electronista, Podcasting News, eWeek, Engadget, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Byte of the Apple, Computerworld, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Seeking Alpha, Seeking Alpha, Furrier.org and Valleywag
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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IP Democracy, Podcasting News, Bits, The Boy Genius Report, Gadget Lab and Digital Trends
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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 — This one didn't come as much of a surprise given the abundance of information that leaked over the last few weeks. The details for content are all the major the studios with initial offerings are on board and 1,000 titles …
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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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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 …
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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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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.
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, Sophos, InfoWorld, The Register, Computerworld, Security Fix and Zero Day
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.
