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Christine Monaghan / Apple:
Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models — Apple® today added new models of the iPhone™ and iPod® touch which have double the memory, doubling the amount of music, photos and videos that customers can carry with them wherever they go. The revolutionary iPhone now comes …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
16GB iPhone just around the corner? (updated) — There's been plenty of conjecture (pictured) about a 16GB iPhone — and its mysterious absence from the initial lineup — ever since the 16GB iPod touch graced us all with its minuscule presence, but things are starting to look up.
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Nick Miller / Sydney Morning Herald:
Torvalds pans Apple with ‘utter crap’ putdown — Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux operating system. — Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds.
Brittany Bohnet / Official Google Blog:
Be part of the Super Tuesday action — They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing! Today marks an exciting day in the race to the U.S. Presidency: voters in 24 states will choose their party candidates. This will be the largest number of primaries taking place at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system.
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InfoWorld:
Driver problems still haunting Vista — When Steve Sinchak's new Intel network card became “really slow” after upgrading his Windows Vista PC with a pre-release version of Service Pack 1, he tried uninstalling its software driver and replacing it with a new one.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:Vista SP1 will contain undocumented fixes
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Fourth undersea cable cut near UAE, suspicions rise — For the fourth time in a week, an undersea communications cable has apparently been cut (or “failed due to a power outage,” as some sources suggest), and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious.
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eWeek:
Google, Yahoo Going After Outlook — Google and Yahoo are rolling out Web software on steroids to compete with Outlook, another clue why Microsoft is shelling out $45 billion and going into debt for Yahoo. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Business software units of Yahoo and Google …
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Jeremy Kirk / IDG News Service:
Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain-Name Trade — A civil suit filed by Dell sheds light on typosquatting, creating ad-filled Web pages with URLs that are similar to brand-name sites. — Recommend this story? — A civil suit filed in Florida by Dell and its Alienware subsidiary …
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Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Magnum Video Surfaces; WTF?!? — What you can't tell from the video above is that the guy holding the Magnum is actually 11-inches tall... We're honestly not sure exactly what to make of this, but we have to assume that in reality it's is some sort of crazy internal prototype built to test some new hardware.
Opera:
Opera unleashes innovative technology in latest mobile Web browser — Opera Mobile 9.5 — Faster speed, new interface and Opera Widgets bring users closer to a full desktop experience — Exclusive preview at Mobile World Congress 2008 (February 11-14, Barcelona)
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 and 7000 Slim Down, Get Slanty Like Sports Cars — Perhaps the biggest deal about Microsoft's latest pair of laser mice—Laser Mouse 6000 and 7000—is that they break from the standard form factor for MS grippers—less glaringly round, and more about lines and angles.
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Ryan / WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform:
WordPress 2.3.3 — WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit posts of any other user on that blog. In addition to fixing this security flaw, 2.3.3 fixes a few minor bugs.
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Grant Gross / IDG News Service:
FCC Approves Sale of Nationwide Spectrum to AT&T — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved the purchase by AT&T of 12MHz of wireless spectrum that covers 60 percent of the U.S. — AT&T bought the spectrum from Aloha Spectrum Holdings. The spectrum, in the highly coveted 700MHz band …
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David Meyer / CNET News.com:
ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses — The great migration from Internet Protocol version 4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A Bad Month For SEO's Reputation — We seem to be going through another wave “SEOs are scumbags” incidents, and I find myself with little energy to push back against them with yet another defense of the industry. It's not that SEO doesn't deserve better treatment.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft reorg could come next week — Microsoft is expected to announce organizational changes in the coming days, shaking up some of the leadership in its Windows and Windows Live groups, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. — The changes have been in the works for some time …
