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John / John's Blog:
Apple Software Update — What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad — not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Think before you install — Look, people, it's 2008: You're responsible for what you install on your PC. — The outrage is spewing forth over Apple's move to include Safari 3.1 as part of its Software Update program. The new twist is that Windows users who never had installed Safari …
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Download Squad, greg hughes, WebProNews, p2pnet, TechBlog, TECH.BLORGE.com, E-Commerce Times, Adnans Sysadmin/Scripting Blog and Clickety Clack
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Mozilla CEO says Apple's Safari auto-update ‘wrong’ — A lot of people appear to be bent out of shape about Apple using its auto-update service to distribute the Safari Web browser on Windows. The CEO of Mozilla, which makes the rival Firefox browser, calls it bad business.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Apple Takes the Spyware-Style Low Road, Pushing Safari on Windows
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Breaking: Sony Won't Charge $50 To Remove Bloatware — Responding to a tidal wave of outrage, Sony has reversed a plan to charge $50 to remove all the pre-installed applications — often derided as “bloatware” or “craplets” — from its high-end TZ-series notebooks.
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InfoWorld, Download Squad, TECH.BLORGE.com, Electronista, CyberNet, Insanely Great Mac and Slashdot
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Sony drops its $49 “no crapware” fee — The blogosphere is buzzing today with contempt for Sony, which just outlined its Fresh Start program and immediately ran into a buzzsaw of criticism for its plan to charge $49 for the privilege of getting a crapware-free PC.
Paul Miller / Engadget:Sony hates you, offers $50 “Fresh Start” option to build your laptop crapware-free
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OhGizmo!, Ryan Block, Valleywag, TechConsumer, Electronista, Download Squad, Gadgetell, CyberNet, TGDaily.com, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog, The Boy Genius Report, TechSpot, TECH.BLORGE.com, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Gizmodo, Out of the Box, Gearlog, Mark Evans, michael parekh on IT, Crave, Guardian Unlimited, p2pnet, Boing Boing Gadgets, Michael Gartenberg, 9 to 5 Mac, jkOnTheRun, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Hardware 2.0
louisgray.com:
LinkedIn Company Detail Shows Silicon Valley Carousel — How Select Tech Titans Stack Up (Click for larger image) — Last night, LinkedIn rolled out a major upgrade to the professionally-oriented social network and career/recruiting database, adding new company profiles …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow—Like AOL? — For now, Facebook continues to take over the world. Its global traffic is about to blow past MySpace's, its image (and Mark Zuckerberg's) has recovered from the Beacon fiasco, and it has raised a big enough cash pile that it should be able to power through any downturn.
Farhad Manjoo / Salon:
The Wall Street Journal's Web site is already (secretly) free — Late in January, Rupert Murdoch put an end to speculation that he would set free the Wall Street Journal's subscription-only Web site. — While he planned to “expand” the site's free offerings, “the really special things …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Epicenter, Technology Evangelist, TeleRead, Lost Remote and Boing Boing
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Bloggers, Legit News Photos For Free — PicApp, a San Francisco-based company is offering copyright news and stock photos from large photo banks like Getty Images and Corbis for free. The company is likely to announce availability of its public beta service later today.
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Capture and find anything! — Evernote Beta lets you capture any information from your real and digital life and then find it all easily anytime. — The latest version of Evernote, currently an invitation-only beta, gives users more options than ever before to create and find their memories …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
At Launch, Mytopia Shows Social Networks How To Play Nicely Together — There is a new casual gaming network in town that's got some serious cross-platform chops. Don't be fooled by the cutesy graphics. Today, Mytopia is simultaneously launching across Facebook, Bebo, MySpace …
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Rumor: new Mac mini in development — Less than a year ago, AppleInsider, citing sources for whom the site “holds the utmost respect,” declared the “impending demise” of the Mac mini. Less than three months later, the Mac mini got a drop-in upgrade to Core 2 Duo.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Oprah Going to Save the Internet? — Don't look now but Oprah is at the top of the iTunes podcasting chart. Her discussion series with writer Eckhart Tolle is bringing not just podcasting to her huge audience, she's doing a ten week “class” by live video with a Silverlight player and Skype discussions.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google wants to fill in the TV white spaces — Google is planning a conference call with journalists on Monday to discuss a company filing with the FCC regarding the use of unused portions of the TV spectrum band, known as white spaces. — On the 11:30 a.m. EST call will be Rick Whitt, Google's Washington telecom and media counsel.
Allan Leinwand / GigaOM:
Coming Soon: The Cisco Blade Server? — The movement toward blade servers in the enterprise data center has been growing steadily for some time, backed by manufacturers like IBM and HP. But expect to soon see networking giant Cisco Systems enter this market as well, setting themselves …
