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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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John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Slew of new features—including movie rentals and HD video—en route to Apple TV — The Apple TV just got a whole lot more useful. — Steve Jobs unveiled a major feature update to the Apple TV today during his Macworld keynote address in San Francisco that aims to transform the device …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple unveils the Apple TV, take 2 — Apple just admitted that the first Apple TV didn't quite work out — so it's back with a new model that can access iTunes directly, and streams movies from the new rental store in both DVD quality and HD with 5.1 surround.
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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!
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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 …
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.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:AAPL: Blogging Jobs; 5M Leopard Units; Wireless Backup; 4M iPhones …
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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.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sizing it up: MacBook Air vs. the rest — So just how thin and lightweight is the new 13.3-inch MacBook Air. We've pitted it against the 13.3-inch Dell XPS M1330, 13.3-inch Sony VAIO SZ, and Apple's own MacBook to see how it stacks up, literally. Not bad Stevie, not bad.
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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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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.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Electronic Arts will bring ‘Spore’ to the Mac this year — This post has been updated to confirm when we should expect an official announcement from EA. — As has been anticipated, Electronic Arts is set to announce Tuesday that it will be bringing its highly anticipated game Spore to the Mac sometime in 2008.
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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 …
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.
Josh / Redeye VC:
The earlier the better... Most VC's typically “pass” on a deal with a line like “you're too early for us, but let's stay in touch as you execute your plan and hit your milestones." Why wouldn't they? This non-pass pass gives the VC a second opportunity to see a deal …
