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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
What is the mystery port on the MacBook Pro? — So, today's case spy shots would reveal a couple of interesting nuggets if they turn out to be the final designs of Tuesday's MacBooks. Firstly, the 13 inch-ish case is sans Firewire. Systems Admins will have to move those Boot images over the network now for all but the Pro models.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Higher Quality MacBook and MacBook Pro Case Photos Leaked — MacX.cn has posted a series of higher quality images of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro cases that were originally posted last week. While there had been some doubts about the details of the blurry photo, these new images show every angle …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment — IT started with a Harvard physicist acting on a hunch. It ended up producing a new material, called black silicon, that could have a broad impact on technologies ranging from ultrasensitive sensors to photovoltaic cells.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Launches “My Ads” Self Serve Ad Platform: Is This Their Google Moment? — MySpace launches their self serve ad platform, called My Ads, tonight, which was first talked about a year ago. Like Facebook's similar product, it allows anyone to quickly create a targeted ad and serve it on MySpace.
Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0:
Google Android: 1.5 Million T-Mobile HTC G1s Have Been Pre-sold — Whoever thought Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) would not give Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) a run for it's money when it comes to mobile handsets was wrong. Later this month, Google will be releasing it's Android operating system on the T-Mobile HTC G1 phone.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:1.5 million T-Mobile G1s already pre-ordered
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps — Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the organization's 38,000 employees …
Alex Zaharov-Reutt / iTWire:
A Netbook-style clamshell for the iPhone is coming! — OLO - it's the name of what looks like a notebook or netbook computer, but in place of the trackpad, you slot in your iPhone - and use its screen as a trackpad instead! Genius of an idea - or as dumb as the Palm Foleo that never was?
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites — “Thou shalt not link to outside sites” — a long-held commandment of many newsrooms — is eroding. — Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
AC/DC Electrify BitTorrent Album Downloads — AC/DC will release its new album ‘Black Ice’ worldwide on October 20th, in physical format only since the band doesn't sell its music online. However, the upcoming album has already been digitized by pirates, as it leaked to BitTorrent five days ago.
Richard Dooling / New York Times:
The Rise of the Machines — “BEWARE of geeks bearing formulas.” So saith Warren Buffett, the Wizard of Omaha. Words to bear in mind as we bail out banks and buy up mortgages and tweak interest rates and nothing, nothing seems to make any difference on Wall Street or Main Street.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
TechCrunch Turns Into F**kedCompany 2.0 — Some of my readers who missed the dotcom boom and bust from the early 2000s may not be familiar with F**kedCompany, a Web site that was dedicated to gloating about layoffs and other misfortunes at Web companies as the tech bubble popped.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Employees, not hackers, cause most corporate data loss — Earlier this summer, we covered a report suggesting that the majority of corporate data loss comes from risky employee actions and systemic failures at the corporate level when it comes to implementing comprehensive IT security policies.
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Steven Musil / CNET News:
Report: MP3 players threaten users' hearing — People who listen to personal music players for only five hours a week at a high volume may be doing permanent damage to their hearing. — A team of nine experts on the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks …
