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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple's MacBook Air Is Beautiful and Thin, but Omits Features — Apple finally has entered the subnotebook market, introducing a lightweight laptop meant to please road warriors. But, typical of Apple, the company took a different approach from its competitors.
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USA Today:
MacBook Air: The sexy kind of skinny but with some flaws — Apple has earned a sterling reputation designing beautiful products that usually perform as splendidly as they look. — The MacBook Air laptop that CEO Steve Jobs unveiled last week turns heads.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Health Login Page — Want to get a first live glimpse of Google Health, which Google's Marissa Mayer announced will be rolled out in early 2008? Point your browser to: — www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?se rvice= health — However, I didn't get past the login screen, so all we see at the moment is the intro page.
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg: New Algorithm Changes — Just wanted to give everyone some insight into some of the changes we've been making this week. As we've talked about in the past, Digg's promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page.
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The EveryBlock Blog:
Introducing EveryBlock — “What's happening in my neighborhood?" — For a long time, that's been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering.
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Henry Work / TechCrunch:
EveryBlock Launches as Local News Aggregator for SF, NYC, and Chicago — EveryBlock launches today as a geographically-filtered news and data aggregation service for San Francisco, New York City, and Chicago. The site attempts to answer one deceptively simple question: “What's happening in my neighborhood?”
Richard Jones / Last.fm:
Free the Music — A few days ago we sent out some cryptic invitations to a press conference in New York that Felix and Martin are presiding over. We've had fun in the office reading the rumors and speculation, but it's time to spill the beans: — As of today, you can play full-length tracks …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Oh, My Aching Google...Down 10%! — Google's down almost $60 on the day, or more than 10%. So here's our question: — How are all you folks who assured everyone that Google and search are recession proof feeling? Are you backing up the truck? Or are you beginning to think we might have a point?
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InfoWorld:
Sources: Vista SP1 due out in next few weeks — The wait is nearly over for the first service pack for Windows Vista, according to sources close to Microsoft. — Microsoft has said the highly anticipated service pack would be out in the first quarter of this year, but some say it could be available …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
AT&T boosts DSL speeds; still playing tortoise to FiOS hare — AT&T has announced a much-needed speed boost for its U-Verse DSL service. Beginning in February, the telecom will begin offering AT&T Yahoo! High Speed Internet Max, which will top out at 10Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up.
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Fuji launches a bunch of new smart cameras — Cameras are getting smarter. Fujifilm is introducing seven new models today with features such as automatic “red eye” removal and face detection. That takes some image processing smarts that haven't been doable in the past.
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Matt / Photo Matt:
On Ma.tt — A few weeks ago I twittered I was heading to the bank to wire money for a life change. People got excited, and assumed I was buying a house, fancy car, plane, company, jewelry... it was really amusing to see where people's imagination went. I'm afraid the truth is much less exciting, at least to other people.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chirp Launches Its Social Screen Saver In Beta — Today, Chirp is launching in private beta. Chirp is a screen saver, previously covered here, that lets you bring social feeds from Flickr and Facebook onto your desktop. Other social Websites will be added in the future.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Facebook moves into international translation efforts — As has been long expected, Facebook has begun to work on making its service available in multiple languages as it expands internationally—and it's doing so by utilizing the power of its millions of users by enlisting them to volunteer a few minutes.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
The truth about the iPhone's sales numbers — The iPhone has managed to stay atop the news almost constantly since its launch last June—and sales haven't been too shabby either. Market research firm Gartner said that the company managed to capture 20 percent of smartphone sales during …
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Yahoo eyeing online music service — LOS ANGELES - Yahoo Inc., is in early discussions with major record labels over offering unprotected MP3s either for sale or for free as part of an ad-supported service, two record company executives familiar with the talks said Wednesday.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
YouTube expands mobile video service — SAN FRANCISCO - YouTube is expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the videos available on its Web site, hoping to widen its sway on pop culture. — Beginning Thursday, most people equipped with the latest generation of mobile phones …
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Electronista:
Canon unveils 12-megapixel EOS Rebel XSi — Canon helped inaugurate next week's PMA show tonight by upgrading its entry digital SLR. Now dropping “Digital” from the camera name, the EOS Rebel XSi jumps from 10.1 to 12.2 megapixels while also using the same DIGIC III image processor as higher-end cameras such as the 1D Mark III.
