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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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch — both $499 — Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND capacity into their chubbier iPhone.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Apple store is down: 16GB iPhone imminent?
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view — This post is not about the potential Microsoft/Yahoo merger. — Instead, let's just assume for the moment that Microsoft succeeds in its bid for Yahoo. — What would a Microsoft/Yahoo merger mean for startups in Silicon Valley?
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Google Wants Microsoft-Yahoo — Startups and their funders are fretting about a dried-out M&A pool in the wake of Microsoft-Yahoo. But in a thoughtful post, Marc Andreesseen tells them to quit worrying and get on with their work. And while he doesn't say so explicitly …
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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last100, Download Squad, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Mobile Gadgeteer, the::unwired, jkOnTheRun, Phone Scoop and Mashable!
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
IFPI sues Baidu, Yahoo China over deep linking MP3s — Chinese search engine Baidu.com is not only the biggest search engine in China, but the third largest search engine globally. According to comScore metrics for December 2007, Baidu.com handled 3.4 billion queries that month to Microsoft's 1.9 billion.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization? — On the UK's Guardian newspaper site today, writer Jemina Kiss suggested that Web 3.0 will be about recommendation. “If web 2.0 could be summarized as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation and personalization,” she wrote.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft declares its modeling love with a new language, ‘D’ — A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named “D,” which will be at the heart of the Microsoft's push toward more intuitive software modeling.
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Todd Ritter / Download Squad:
IPv6 coming to a root server near you — IPv6 authoritative nameserver records are in the process of being added to six of the world's thirteen DNS root servers. Root servers are the computers at the top of the DNS hierarchy that are crucial in helping you turn downloadsquad.com into an IP address for your computer's benefit.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr's Version Of A Mass Protest — Some users aren't happy at the prospect of a Microsoft takeover of Flickr's parent company, Yahoo. To protest, they do what Flickr users do - upload images. — In this case, the images are all anti-Microsoft, and there's some really creative stuff.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
MySpace Developer Platform Goes Live (Sorta) — MySpace is holding an event in San Francisco tomorrow with 250 application developers to ceremonially launch its application platform...for developers only, that is. — Over the next month, developers big and small will have the opportunity …
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Times of London:
My online life: no hobbies, no opinions, no friends, no fun — I knew my online life had to change when my boss decided that he would join Facebook. As the resident young person in an office of thirty and forty-somethings I was tasked with setting up his online profile.
Danny Mendez / Download Squad:
Yahoo may align with Google against Microsoft's takeover proposal — On Friday, we reported that Microsoft was attempting to acquire Yahoo, offering the company $44.6 billion for the takeover. Google isn't taking the new threat lightly, so Google's CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo's CEO Jerry Yang on Sunday.
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Electronista:
MS intros 6000/7000 wireless laser mice... Microsoft this morning reworked its Wireless Laser mouse options for desktop and notebook owners with a pair of mice focused on simplicity rather than sheer control. Both the Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 (pictured) for the desktop …
Lessig Blog:
20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack — I wasn't going to do this, but then someone ask me to do it, and someone else told me (to my horror — not that it would be insane for anyone, but insane for her) that she was for Clinton. So consider this my precinct captain duty for the lessig blog.
