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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.
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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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 …
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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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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.
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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Arn / MacRumors:
Snow Leopard Screenshots Show Little New — Over the holiday weekend, some screenshots and video of the developer release of Snow Leopard were posted to a german site. — Overall, the images show little new from the WWDC build originally released back in July, but may be of interest to some readers.
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Guardian:
Less killing, more kissing: new breed of computer games bring people together — A new generation of designers and developers is putting the social element back into video games, using online networks such as Facebook as platforms to turn people from across the world into poker aces …
