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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
MacBook AirHead: why Apple's new laptop is basically useless — First, let me just say that the Air is an extremely impressive piece of technology. The miniaturization, the optimization of space, the blatant disregard for current standards — it's everything a revolutionary machine should be.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
MacBook Air Hands-on — Here's our take on the MacBook Air. It's super light, super fragile, and super small. If you just tap the screen lightly, the whole thing closes because it's so light. The keyboard looks a little weird because it's black on the aluminum, but the keyboard feels great.
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MacRumors, PaulStamatiou.com, Crave, Engadget, Gearlog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, jkOnTheRun, The Technology Chronicles and Gadget Lab
Forbes:
Jobs Fails To Wow At Macworld — SAN FRANCISCO - — You could hear the collective sigh from the crowd. When Steve Jobs unveiled the newest member of the Macintosh fold, the skinny MacBook Air laptop, the Mac-faithful sighed with pleasure. But it was just a momentary exhale.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
MacBook Air battery replacements: $129, free install! — We've got word back from Apple on MacBook Air battery replacement. The good news is a new MBA battery is the same as a new MacBook Pro battery: $129. And hey, installation is even free! The bad news hasn't changed though …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
MacBook Air doesn't have a user-replaceable battery — We sort of understood it with iPods, and we grudgingly accepted it with the iPhone, but the MacBook Air has a sealed, non-user-replaceable battery, and that means we're suddenly a lot less in love. We're digging for details …
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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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Robert Scoble to Launch Online Video Network At Fast Company — Robert Scoble, who pioneered tech videoblogging at Microsoft with Channel 9 and produced hundreds of segments during his tenure at PodTech, is launching a new business television network for Fast Company.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Apple Reinvents Film Biz With iTunes Movie Rentals — Apple is about to turn the movie rentals business on its ear. — The new iTunes movie rentals service, announced Tuesday by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during his Macworld Expo keynote, is powered by deals with all the major film studios …
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Apple:Apple Enhances Revolutionary iPhone with Software Update
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:Apple TV Take 2: $229, No Computer Required, Direct Rentals (Netflix Screwed)
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New York Times, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Infinite Loop, Byte of the Apple, louisgray.com, Zatz Not Funny!, Engadget and MacRumors
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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Fails Macworld Keynote Test — Many Twitter fans have become very much used to following big events via Twitter, its immediate nature and 140 character limit provides key points of what exactly is going on. — Unfortunately for Twitter users, Twitter completely failed during Steve …
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:Now we know what Twitter's good for: not much
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dreamhost Overbills Customers $7.5 Million; Uses Homer Simpson To Deliver Apology — There's a fine line between humor and condescension; more than a few customers felt that hosting provider Dreamhost crossed that line today. — The company overbilled nearly every customer, by a total $7.5 million dollars.
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Josh Jones / DreamHost Blog:
Um, Whoops. — Hello.. how's your morning going? — I hope it's been a little better than mine. — We had a teensy eensy weensy little billing error last night... my first clue something was up when I saw this morning's daily billing report (so far): $7,500,000.
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InfoWorld, TECH.BLORGE.com, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Data Center Knowledge, WebProNews and DreamHost Status
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.
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GigaOM:
700 MHz Auction Update — So 214 bidders have been approved for the forthcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction, which starts on Jan. 24. The big bidders include AT&T, Verizon and Google. These bidders will go after 1,200 licenses. — The bidding will conclude on March 24; down payments will be due by April 11.
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Another Media Exec Leaves Yahoo — As Yahoo narrows its focus on a few key priorities, it's not surprising to see those whose projects fall outside those areas leave the company. And Yahoo's media group, whose once lofty mission to produce original, Hollywood-style content has been scaled …
