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Android netbooks on their way, likely by 2010 — The image above shows a netbook Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google's mobile operating system Android. Huh? You thought Android was for mobile phones, right? Well, as we've written before, Google is planning to use Android for any device — not just the mobile phones.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google's iPhone app has a hidden menu — In November, Google launched voice search capabilities for its native iPhone application. It took a fairly pointless app and made it cool, interesting and useful. But alongside that update Google added a hidden menu, which it revealed today on the Google Mobile Blog.
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget:
Mysterious pink iPhone 3G hits eBay, cue onslaught of rumors — Say wha'?! An iPhone in a hue other than black, white, or silver? While a red model has been rumored since before the 3G even launched, we've never thought about a pink one — let alone one hitting eBay.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
TWPLY - From Alleged Spammer to Sold on Sitepoint in Less Than 24 Hours — Earlier today, ultra Twitter master Robert Scoble called Twply a spammer. Twply basically takes any “@” reply messages on Twitter and sends them to your email. It's hard for me to call Twply a spammer …
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Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Do you remember 2008? Techmeme (still) does, with a chronological top 50 list — If you're like me, you're not happy at all about 2009. As of this evening, no signs of economic recovery have yet emerged, and it feels like people haven't even gone back to work.
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Laura Brunow Miner / JPG Magazine:
JPG Magazine Says Goodbye — Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media. — We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
If you love Windows XP, you'll hate Windows 7 — My colleague Jason Perlow has been playing with Windows 7, and he hates it. The sad thing is, all the things he hates are improvements, in my opinion, which just goes to show that you really can't please everyone.
Brendan Gregg:
Unusual disk latency — The following screenshot shows two spikes of unusually high disk I/O latency during a streaming write test: — This screenshot is from Analytics on the 7410. The issue is not with the 7410, it's with disk drives in general. The disk latency here is also not suffered …
Todd Haselton / LAPTOP Mag:
Exclusive Hands-On with Voodoo's Firefly Concept Gaming Laptop — Lots of neat and ground-breaking laptops will be on display this coming week at CES, and Voodoo may just lead the pack. — The world has never seen the HP branded Voodoo Firefly prototype, dubbed the “HP Firefly with Voodoo DNA …
The Internet Economy:
Steve Jobs' greatest Macworld video hits, 1998-2008 — The news that Steve Jobs will no longer give the keynote speech at Macworld disappointed everyone from casual consumers of Apple gadgets to die-hard Mac fanatics. His annual appearances weren't merely corporate product demonstrations …
Barbara Rodriguez / Associated Press:
More Colleges Expected to Offer Online Interviews — RALEIGH, N.C. — For her college interview, Avery Cullinan put on her best outfit but didn't bother with shoes. She sat in her living room, smiled into her computer's webcam and told an admissions officer more than 800 miles away that Wake Forest University was right for her.
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
The Coming Venture Capital Boom — No, I am not a Pollyanna. I see the today's carnage as much as everyone else. This year is going to be tough. The destructive firestorm of leveraged, momentum investing has destroyed much of the forest. But the forest will begin its renewal because Life Goes On …
William M. Bulkeley / Wall Street Journal:
How Text Messages May Save Languages — Can a language stay relevant if it isn't used to send text messages on a cellphone? — Language advocates worry that the answer is no, and they are pushing to make more written languages available on cellphones. — Texting is the cheapest …
