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Stephen Baker / Business Week:
Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy — This online business model has Americans happily toiling for attention on for-profit sites that don't pay them money — It's dawn at a Los Angeles apartment overlooking the Hollywood Hills. Laura Sweet, a graphic designer in her early 40s …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
The Dream iPhone Pro — Here's the new iPhone Pro, something that we don't expect at MacWorld 2009 at all. However, we do expect something like this to come at a later date. Why? Because it just makes sense. — Click on image above for higher resolution version
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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player — In Battle of the Game Consoles, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox Widen Leads Over Sony's PlayStation — TOKYO — For most of this year, Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 videogame console seemed finally to be taking off after a slow start.
TheGuru / Symbian-Guru.com:
Samsung i8510 Brings Surprise NAM 3G Support — I really can't begin to explain how exciting this is: a new version of the Samsung i8510 has been found on the FCC's website, this time sporting dual-band UMTS (850/1900MHz) with HSDPA. Yes, that means Samsung is finally bringing …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Massive Christmas iPod Touch Sales Boost App Store Downloads — Apple's new iPod Touch appears to have been a huge hit this holiday season with evidence that the high end iPod has seen massive gains in marketshare. — The first impact was seen in early sales numbers for App Store applications on Christmas day.
Chicago Sun Times:
Power failure prompts outages for AT&T mobile phone users in Midwest — FROM SUN-TIMES NEWS GROUP WIRE REPORTS — Sunday was a confusing day for many AT&T mobile phone users throughout the Midwest after a power failure in Michigan caused many people to lose service for most of the day.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Tubes Are Clogged — If you've been having trouble accessing some of the web's most popular sites this morning, you aren't alone - reports have been pouring in that major sites like Amazon, CNN, and ESPN have been having sporadic outages in some areas across the United States.
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Ars Technica, DSLreports, SANS Internet Storm Center …, The Official Posterous … and digg.com
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV — Yahoo's Widget Channel software for TVs and video devices shows a link to Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site, stock prices, and an advertisement. Intel, Yahoo, and several partners will show the technology off at CES 2009.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
With a Digital Stereo, Cisco Systems Is Starting a Push Into Home Electronics — Your plumber would like to take you dancing. — Cisco Systems, the dominant provider of the digital pipes that run the Internet, is making a big play in digital entertainment.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name-The Sequel — BoomTown's been just one week gone and yet another goofy, traffic-generating debate “erupts” in the blogosphere, involving the usual suspects. — (Hey, it's Loïc Le Meur and Michael Arrington again, fresh from their equally meaningful Are-French-folks-lazy-or-what? debate!)
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
2009: Netbook or notebook? — 2009 may be the year of the Netbook. But there's a big if. — Here's the choice: Will consumers buy a thin, light, relatively fast $1,800 MacBook Air or a thin, light, ultrasmall, not-as-fast $450 Hewlett-Packard Mini 1000 Netbook?
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
On Twitter, Followers Aren't Really Friends — This past weekend, we had yet another tempest in a teapot here in the blogosphere, this time over what, exactly, determines the authority of a tweet on Twitter. Some argued that the number of followers is the best yardstick with which to measure …
