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Chippy / UMPCPortal:
New Sony UMPC info includes specs and a sub $1000 price. — Our podcast partner, Sascha, from EeePCNews.de (which has just relaunched as netbooknews.de) reports that he's secured some new info on the Sony UMPC. … The Sony Vaio P will run on an Atom Z250 (1.33 as we've tested on the WiBrain i1 …
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Facebook Is No Friend of Power.com — Power.com is a start-up based in Brazil that aims to be the portal through which people access all of their favorite social networking sites. Facebook would prefer that its members access it directly, thank you very much.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Social Media Today, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, VatorNews and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
The Facebook Breastfeeding Debate Continues — Earlier this week we posted about Facebook's ban on breast feeding. The debate has gained a lot of coverage in the media. So much that the CBS early morning show recorded the following segment on the topic.
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Bits
AppleInsider:
Macworld site rife with concealed banners (photos) — Despite lessened expectations for next week's Macworld Expo, the Moscone Center venue for the trade show already sports roughly a dozen sprawling, cloth-concealed banners that hint at several product announcements.
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dailymobile.se:
Pictures: Sony Ericsson C510 ( Kate ) — Here are some high quality pictures on the Sony Ericsson C510 aka Kate, the successor of the Sony Ericsson K770. The phone will be shipped in feb 2009. — Specifications: — 3.2 MP AF camera and LED — Face detection — Smile shutter
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IntoMobile, SlashPhone, Gizmodo, Unwired View, Obsessable, Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog, MobileCrunch and SEMC Blog
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Reinventing conservatism, one tweet at a time — Since the humbling results of the November election came in, the conservative movement has been scrambling to assess what happened—and to figure out how to prevent it from happening again. Much of this effort, in light of the Obama campaign's …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ballmer's CES Keynote Promises To Be A Snoozer (Non-Announcements Revealed!) — The annual Consumer Electronics Show is going to be so boring this year that even Bill Gates is not showing up. He gave his farewell keynote (and his 13th) last year. This year, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will try to rouse the crowd.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
The Alternative to the iPhone Pro — Knowing that it is very hard that Apple would ever release an iPhone Pro with physical keyboard, Mat Brady from planetmat has sent me another image of a potential accessory. It looks great. — Mat says that he created the accessory answering readers' feedback on sliding keyboards.
John Cook / TechFlash:
EMC buys SourceLabs, operator of open source site Swik.net — SourceLabs, an open source software support startup based in Seattle, has been sold to storage giant EMC for an undisclosed price, according to a source familiar with the deal. — The evidence suggests it is true …
The Daily Beast:
The Year (Ahead) in Media — My New Mantra for 2009 by Tina Brown — Blogs and Stories — Journalists will moonlight as bloggers. Bloggers will moonlight as investigative reporters. And other predictions you can bank on for 2009 — if we still have banks.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy — Spotify is a music service that gives users access to a huge library of music, through a lightweight application that looks like a mashup of the best parts of iTunes and Last.fm. Music is streamed, partly supported by P2P technology, but it plays instantly, like we've never seen before.
Andy Merrett / The Blog Herald:
JournalSpace blogging platform dies: why you must keep your own backups — It may not have been the largest free blogging platform available, but for anyone who used JournalSpace for their blog the events of the last week were catastrophically significant. — Three days ago, JournalSpace lost all of its data.
comScore:
Despite Weak Season, Online Spending Trends Outperform Brick-And-Mortar Across Several Key Retail Categories — Sport & Fitness Ranks as Top-Growing Online Category for the Season — comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released online spending data …
Jon / p2pnet:
Has the RIAA terminated MediaSentry? — p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- MediaSentry and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG's RIAA may soon be going their separate ways, p2pnet understands from confidential sources. — We're told another online scalp-hunter, BayTSP …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone, MySpace, Facebook Race To Micropayments In 2009 — Application platforms, broadly defined, are here to stay. Facebook's platform, first launched in 2007, now has tens of thousands of applications. MySpace, which mostly relies on Google's OpenSocial platform, has 4,500 apps available to users …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Facebook Traffic Reaches Peak - Christmas Eve — On Christmas Day 2007 Facebook reached a peak in traffic that wasn't surpassed until July 2008. Traffic reached a new high on Christmas Eve 2008 when Facebook saw its highest ever traffic level - reaching 2.18% of all US Internet visits compared with 1.42% average for November.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
UK tech start-ups call for more support — The UK's technology start-up community is increasing pressure on the government to provide more support to help young companies survive the recession. — Among the suggestions to aid start-ups are: a one-off financial stimulus package …
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Marshall Krantz / CFO.com:
An Open Secret — Open-source software is quietly gaining ground well beyond the data center. — Last November, Openbravo, an open-source software (OSS) company in business for less than three years, celebrated the one-millionth combined download of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and point-of-sale applications.
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The Open Road
