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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Interview: Sony's Thoughts On the MacBook Air — During the Keynote, Jobs compared the Macbook Air to Sony's TZ ultraportable, implying it had a small keyboard and screen, was too thick, and was not that good. Here's what Sony thinks of the Apple MacBook Air:
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Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:Is MacBook Air Worth the Money? Five Slim Laptops Face Off
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louisgray.com:
Can We Talk About Twitter for a Second? — About a year ago, I wrote how I had completely sworn off instant messaging, and how, despite its fast-rising user base, I had no intention of using Twitter. And so far, I haven't given in to the siren song. While I hadn't expected to ever gain …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Centeralization vs. Decentralization: What's The Value Of Twitter? — Although I haven't had time to use Twitter recently, I've been following all the discussions about Twitter, because it's become a flashpoint for innovative thinking about online communication and media.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Keynote Roundup — Miscellaneous thoughts and observations from yesterday's Macworld Expo keynote: — OFFICE 2008 — I was interested to see whether Microsoft would get some demo time during the keynote to show Office 2008. The Mac BU hasn't always gotten stage time, but, I think …
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Savio Rodrigues / InfoWorld:
More thoughts on Sun & MySQL — First off, kudos to Sun for valuing MySQL at this price. The deal represents ~36% of Sun's Cash & Cash Equivalents (of $2.7B) on hand at the end of their last quarter (Sept. 2007). But considering how cheap debt is these days, Sun could probably fund a portion of the deal through cheap debt.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com To Offer DaaS Service, New Pricing Model, Competition — CRM and SaaS provider Salesforce.com have announced that there Force.com Cloud Computing Architecture (our review here) is to now offer Development-as-a-Service (DaaS), a new pricing structure and a developer competition.
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The Digg Reel — The Digg Reel Episode 1 - The Big Digg Debut — Missed a week? See more episodes — Embed Code — Download — Episode 1 — Quicktime High Definition (141 mb) — Download Now — View All Video Downloads — Welcome to the very first episode of the Digg Reel!
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook's Ass in Traffic — While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they might seem.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Social software Twitter, Facebook called on for higher purpose — Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public health threats is expected to launch Thursday. — The project, called Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disaster …
DSLreports:
Time Warner Cable Eyeing Overage Charges? - Memo says trial will determine national deployment... Time Warner Cable may be exploring the possibility of implementing overage charges for its RoadRunner cable broadband service. According to excerpts from a leaked internal memo posted to our forums …
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NEWS.com.au:
Google bows to Church of Scientology over Cruise video — Scientology ... Tom Cruise and wife Kate Holmes / AP — SCIENTOLOGISTS have forced internet giant Google to remove a leaked web video that featured Hollywood star Tom Cruise praising the niche religion.
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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide PC Market Grew 13 Percent in 2007 — Hewlett-Packard Widens Its Position as Leading Vendor of Worldwide PC Shipments — Worldwide PC shipments totaled 271.2 million units in 2007, a 13.4 percent increase from 2006, according to preliminary results by Gartner …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project — The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon.
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Kate Holton / Reuters:
Yahoo, T-Mobile say sign mobile Internet ad deal — LONDON (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc has agreed a deal to provide targeted display advertising on T-Mobile's Internet service Web ‘n’ walk in Britain, the two groups said on Thursday. — Mobile Internet advertising has grown rapidly in recent years …
Longofest / MacRumors:
IBM To Release Lotus Symphony For Mac, Notes iPhone Compatibility — The Associated Press reports that IBM will be releasing a version of its free Lotus Symphony office suite that is compatible with Macs next week, along with a version of Lotus Notes for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Internet routing shows growing pains—again — The growth of the Internet — Every conduit can take a 144-fiber cable — Thanks to the virtualy infinite bandwidth of fiber—or rather, the empty tubes that can hold multi-fiber cables—the Internet has continued to get faster for almost four decades …
