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Apple:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update — The Mac OS X 10.5.6 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard versions 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2, 10.5.3, 10.5.4, and 10.5.5. It includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. — Installation recommendations
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9 to 5 Mac:
10.5.6 here...snappieness™ ensues — 10.5.6 is out, go grab it from Software update (377mb here!) or via the standalone installer. — Here are the details or check below. It looks like there are many performance improvements in this one! Yes, we are feeling the snappieness™, are you?
Lessig Blog:
The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal — I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal. To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal after you read what follows.
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Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Net neutrality and the benefits of caching — One of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer tried to define what we at Google mean when we talk about the concept of net neutrality. — Broadband providers — the on-ramps to the Internet — should not be allowed to prioritize traffic based …
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The Technology Chronicles, PC World, CircleID, The Progress & Freedom …, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Epicenter, The Technology Liberation …, Business Technology, internetnews.com, Save the Internet Blog, TechSpot, ChannelWeb, Bits, Communications …, Digital Destiny, Macworld, AppScout and WebProNews
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open Strategy — Yahoo has invited the press to an event in San Francisco today where it will announce the next steps in its open strategy (details found here). — As GigaOm speculated over the weekend, we should be hearing details about the deployment of applications on Yahoo Mail.
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eWeek, Search Engine Land, InfoWorld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Business Technology, Webware.com, Lifehacker, Digital Daily and GigaOM
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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog:
Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox — You may have seen today's news announcing the next generation of Yahoo! Mail — rolling out a “smarter inbox"experience to users. One way to make an inbox smarter: make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo! Mail to content and services built outside the Yahoo! network.
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Epicenter, Between the Lines, TechCrunch, Search Engine Journal, Mashable! and SitePoint
Mussie Shore / The Official Google Blog:
@Twitter: Welcome to Google Friend Connect — We know many of you enjoy using Twitter to see what people are talking about and to let others know what you've been up to, whether it's sharing a YouTube video or checking in on your friend's tweets. To help you and your Twitter network stay connected …
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Mashable!, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, SOMEWHAT FRANK, SmoothSpan Blog, VentureBeat, Epicenter, CostPerNews, Inside Facebook, The Social and Obsessable
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Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google off list of 20 most trusted companies — (12-14) 16:40 PST SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Verizon and FedEx for the first time have made an annual ranking of the top 20 most trusted companies in the United States. — Google, however, dropped off the list …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Janna Anderson Lee Rainie / Pew Internet:
The Future of the Internet III — A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.
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Ars Technica, Local Mobile Search, Yahoo! Developer Network Blog, Technologizer, ResourceShelf and Digital Daily
Associated Press:
Hasbro dropping suit against makers of Facebook game Scrabulous — NEW YORK — Hasbro is dropping its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble. — According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the lawsuit Friday.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion? — With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that? — One could talk about Facebook's fast-growing headcount …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Extraordinary Happenings At BitTorrent — “I have never seen anything like this” said a corporate law partner at a large silicon valley law firm. He was referring to the undoing of a $17 million venture round at BitTorrent and subsequent recapitalization that we reported yesterday.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon's MP3 Store, One Year In: No iTunes Killer; Probably Won't Be — Amazon has been selling digital music from all the big music labels for nearly a year now. It's the first major challenge to Apple's hammer lock on that business. So how did it do? — If you view Amazon's MP3 store …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Technologizer, TechFlash, VentureBeat, Electronista, Lucas Gonze' blog and Silicon Alley Insider
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Palm Pins Its Hopes on Nova — The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January's CES. Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap — Jon Rubinstein got the call in mid-2007 while he was living on the Pacific Coast of Mexico …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Nano Rumors Revived in Otherwise Quiet Lead-in to Macworld — Questionably reliable iDealsChina publishes information and renderings of what it claims to be an “iPhone nano”. — It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours.
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Byte of the Apple:
Steve Jobs Will MAY Be At MacWorld Expo, Event Manager Says — Apple CEO Steve Jobs will give his usual keynote address at the MacWorld Expo next month, says the show's general manager. — Paul Kent, VP at IDG World Expo and the general manager of the MacWorld show, set to start on Jan. 5 …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
The myth of the 99-cent killer app — Stung by criticism from frustrated developers, Apple (AAPL) redesigned its increasingly crowded iPhone App Store last Friday to showcase the most popular paid applications in each category — Books, Business, Games, etc. (See here.)
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Tina Reinvents the Web — NEW YORK — Tina Brown has just been briefed on a series of potential stories when she asks her staff about another element of her new Web site. — “What are we doing on video? I want to put Condi playing the piano up,” she says, referring to the secretary of state performing for Queen Elizabeth.
Times of London:
Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill — Amazon, Britain's most popular website for Christmas shopping, is making its staff work seven days a week and threatening them with the sack if they take time off sick. — The company charges among the lowest prices for products ranging …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
2008 Crunchies Tickets Now On Sale — The nominations for The Crunchies 2008 (startup Oscars) are in. The Award Ceremony will take place at 7:30 PM at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on Friday, January 9. Get your tickets here. — The tickets will likely sell out quickly, even in this crappy environment, so get them now.
Wall Street Journal:
The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World — Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind. — For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers. — If only they knew how to do it.
Cory Bohon / TUAW:
Walmart creates iPhone compatible site — Do you like shopping at Walmart? From electronics to $4 prescriptions, Walmart seems to have everything. But one thing it didn't have was an iPhone application, and now they do. If you visit the Walmart.com website on your iPhone …
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