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8:25 AM ET, January 24, 2008

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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.
Discussion: New York Times, Gizmodo and MacRumors
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Steven Levy / Newsweek:
The Skinny on the MacBook Air  —  Size matters, but has Apple gone too far?  —  Early in my writing career, I had an assignment to follow around a mohel—the guy who does ritual circumcisions in the Jewish tradition.  My subject learned the trade by watching his dad, a renowned figure in the field.
Discussion: Today @ PC World, Engadget and I4U News
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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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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Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Gates Calls for Kind Capitalism  —  Famously Competitive, Billionaire Now Urges Business to Aid the Poor  —  Free enterprise has been good to Bill Gates.  But later today, the Microsoft Corp. chairman will call for a revision of capitalism.  —  In a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos …
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 …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Linux-less Eee PC launched in Japan  —  Asus has formally launched its bonsai laptop, the Eee PC, in Japan, pre-installing the machine with Windows XP Home Edition rather than Linux.  —  The machine's specifications proved to be those of the standard 4GB solid-state disc model - the Eee PC 701 …
Discussion: Gadgetell
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.
Jeremy Kirk / LinuxWorld.com:
Report: Schools will increase spending on open source  —  Educational institutions will increase spending on open-source software and services over the next few years, but that doesn't mean proprietary software will be left in the dark, according to a new report covering 14 countries.
Discussion: LinuxInsider
Nokia:
Nokia Q4 2007 net sales of EUR 15.7 billion, EPS of EUR 0.47 (EUR 0.47 excluding special items)  —  All reported Q4 and 2007 figures are unaudited and can be found in the tables on pages 8-10 and 18-23  —  * As of April 1, 2007, Nokia results include those of Nokia Siemens Networks on a fully consolidated basis.
Discussion: mocoNews.net and IntoMobile
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.
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Growing Online, BBC Is to Join With MySpace  —  The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation is expected to announce a partnership with MySpace on Thursday to make some of its content available on MySpace, the popular social networking Web site.
Discussion: Snipperoo
 
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bono Responds To The Davos Question
Discussion: Beet.TV and Scobleizer
Arn / MacRumors:
Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming in 2008
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sharp's 46/42/37-inch AQUOS X series grabs world's thinnest title
Discussion: Gizmodo
Seth Finkelstein / Guardian:
You say you've never considered the politics of search engines?
Chris Williams / The Register:
100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way
comScore:
comScore Releases December U.S. Search Engine Rankings
Brad Stone / New York Times:
EBay's New Leader Moves Swiftly on a Revamping
Discussion: Techland
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chirp Launches Its Social Screen Saver In Beta
 Earlier Items: 
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Best Buy sold infected digital picture frames
Will Price:
Downturn - Now What?  —  My first year in venture was 2002.
Discussion: Zoli's Blog
Feng / Inside AdWords:
Demographic bidding beta test
Lance Ulanoff / PC Magazine:
DRM-Free Music Spells Trouble
Discussion: Voices and Slashdot
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Why Last.fm's free music won't replace your music collection
Discussion: VentureBeat and New York Times
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Pillaged MySpace Photos Show Up in Massive BitTorrent Download
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Yahoo eyeing online music service
Matt / Photo Matt:
On Ma.tt  —  A few weeks ago I twittered I was heading to the bank …
 

 
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New York Times:
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Lindsey Holden / Politico:
A judge grants a temporary restraining order against LAPD, ruling that they can't force journalists out of protest areas or use nonlethal weapons against them

Carlos Nogueras Ramos / The Texas Tribune:
The case of an independent publisher banned from county buildings in Jeff Davis County, Texas, raises questions about who gets to call themselves a journalist

 
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