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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DMFail: Another Reason To Just Not Send Private Messages On Twitter — If you are the kind of person who can't help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you. The site, which has been all the rage on Twitter for the last few days, shows direct (private) …
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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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 …
David Meyer / CNET News:
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision — Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing. — U.S. patent application number 20080319910, published on Christmas Day, details Microsoft's vision of a situation where a “standard model” of PC is given away or heavily subsidized by someone in the supply chain.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Next-gen iMac to include new cooling module? — A new family of iMacs due early next year may include a more sophisticated cooling system, hints the latest reports from sources close to the company's Taiwanese manufacturing facilities. — Backtracking on its report from last week …
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.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Music Labels Might Just Take Their Business To Hulu — Fed up with lousy ad revenues from Google's video-sharing service YouTube (GOOG), we've heard the four major music labels — Universal MG, EMI, Warner and Sony BMG — are in preliminary talks to create their own destination Web site.
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Extra: Samsung S8300 AMOLED Touch Screen Slider With 8 Megapixel Camera To Hit Stores — Building on the success of Samsung U900 Soul, the new Samsung S8300 supposedly going on sale sometime in March 2009, keeps the slider form factor 12.8mm thick and adds a 2.8-inch WQVGA 16 million AMODEL touch screen …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
HP MediaSmart Home Server may get some competition from Apple — HP this week updated its MediaSmart home server, which has many services Mac users would love to take advantage of. Centralized iTunes music database for the home, picture sharing, even file sharing over the Internet.
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Electronista:
LG introduces 3G HSDPA wrist phone — Korea-based LG has introduced its latest mobile device, the LG-GD910 wrist-phone featuring support for both 3G and HSDPA technology. The user interface is presented through a 1.43-inch color LCD touchscreen, while a video camera has been integrated …
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Wired News:
Vaporware 2008: Crushing Disappointments, False Promises and Plain Old BS — Welcome to Wired's 11th annual Vaporware Awards, our annual roundup of the tech industry's biggest, brashest and most baffling unfulfilled promises. — This year, handset makers were exhaling more vapor than anyone …
James Niccolai / PC World:
Cable Repairs Set Back by Second Undersea Break — Efforts to restore normal communications between Europe and Asia have suffered a setback after an important undersea cable broke for a second time, this time at a much greater depth. — Engineers from France Télécom …
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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.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Contract-free iPhones on sale in France for $1100 — Following a recent ruling by local regulators, French consumers can now purchase an iPhone 3G without signing a service contract with Apple-sanctioned wireless carrier Orange, assuming they're willing to digest a considerable markup.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Tagging Service Zigtag (Finally!) Launches — It was two years ago that we first heard of Zigtag, a service that promised to “transform how people search, save and share knowledge & information.” Now, after a nine-month private beta, this semantic tagging service has finally launched.
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Hippies revolt over wireless network voodoo — HIPPIES LIVING in the tiny town of Glastonbury claim that a new wi-fi network is responsible for a spate of health problems. — Glastonbury, which used to be a mecca for Christian pilgrims looking for King Arthur, has now been largely taken …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
12 Questions (and Attempts at Answers) About Next Week's Macworld Expo Non-Stevenote — We're now just over a week before Macworld Expo-a timeframe that would normally be bulging at the seams with speculation about what the Steve Jobs keynote would reveal. This time, of course …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Florida, the Next Hotbed of Venture Capital? — Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston, New York...and Orlando? — The state of Florida wants to tap into the billions of venture capital dollars invested in young companies each year. It is seeking venture capital funds in which to invest money …
