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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The Year of the Simpler Gadget — THE National Bureau of Economic Research hardly stunned the nation this month when it announced that the United States had been in recession since December 2007. — And, as it turns out, the buyers of consumer electronics could very well have been a leading economic indicator.
Brad J. Ward / SquaredPeg:
There's something going down on Facebook. Pay attention. — I really need you to listen up for this post. Please. — Something is going down on Facebook, and it has implications for your school. — Several weeks ago I was contacted by my friend and colleague Michelle at Winthrop …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What the recession means for the Mac — Money gets tight. Buyers get picky. Price-sensitive consumers — the kind Steve Jobs and Apple famously “choose not to serve” — start shopping for bargain basement PCs and Taiwanese netbooks. Mac sales plummet. — That's the conventional wisdom.
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Need a Ride? Check Your iPhone — SOON you may no longer need to stick out your thumb to catch a ride. Instead, you may get one by tapping your fingers on your iPhone. — Avego, based in Kinsale, Ireland (www.avego.com), is demonstrating an iPhone application intended to let drivers …
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Smart Mobs
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Sony teaser site says “revolutionary new VAIO” coming January 9th — Look, we're not going to speculate on what Sony has coming on January 9th. Let's just say that it wouldn't be totally surprising to see some weird, long netbook. Okay? Okay. — [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Gizmodo
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
“Holy F**king S**t I Was Just In A Plane Crash!” — A Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver last night. The engine on the right side burst into flames. Passengers escaped out the left side on slides. 38 people were hurt. Fortunately no one was killed.
Ronald Ho / Docs Blog:
Access Google Docs from your Desktop — If you often work with Google Docs, you probably want more ways to access your docs quickly. A recent example is the handy Docs gadget in Gmail that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs right from within Gmail.
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Mashable!
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia bids to dislodge Intel as rivalry gets ugly — Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What's at stake? Only the future of the personal computer. — Though the Santa Clara, Calif., neighbors (only a couple of miles from each other) …
ChannelWeb:
Microsoft Extends XP Availability For Distributors — Microsoft system builder partners who've been feeling queasy about the impending Jan. 31, 2009, deadline for selling PCs with Windows XP pre-installed can now breathe a bit easier, as Microsoft is giving them a way to obtain XP licenses through distribution after the deadline.
Macenstein:
Is this the new Mac mini? — An anonymous tip (the best kind). Thoughts? — Click to embiggen.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Twitter Venn, text snowflakes and other entertainments — One of the interesting things about Twitter is the fast-growing “tweecosystem” of add-ons and applications that expand or exploit the basic service. I've just been playing with a new one called Twitter Venn, which lets you display searches as Venn diagrams.
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Data Mining
CdrInfo.com:
First Hybrid Blu-ray/DVD Movie Title Announced For Japan — Japanese entertainment software developer Pony/Canon will release the first movie title on a hybrid Blu-ray/DVD disc in Japan in February, in an effort to accelerate the transition from the DVD to the Blu-ray format.
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