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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Exclusive: New Palm phone to have slide-down keyboard, large touchscreen — We have information from a trusted source that the latest Palm smartphone running the Nova operating system will be launched Thursday. The new phone will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Macworld San Francisco 2009 Rumor Roundup — With Macworld San Francisco 2009 (MWSF) beginning next week, MacRumors provides this Rumor Roundup as a summary of major rumors circulating around the Mac Web before the event. — The biggest news about Macworld came early when Apple announced …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
2009: Products I Can't Live Without — At the beginning of each year I traditionally publish a list of my favorite startups and products. This is the fourth year I've done this - previous lists: 2006, 2007, 2008. You guys get to pick the winners of the Crunchies - this list is all mine.
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Tony Bain
New York Times:
Blu-ray's Fuzzy Future — The biggest news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January was not the birth of a new product but the death of one. — A decision by Warner Brothers to withdraw support for the HD DVD video disc format sent shock waves through the electronics industry …
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Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Lenovo debuts three new Y Series midrange laptops — Lenovo has just dropped the dime on its new IdeaPad Y Series notebooks, including the 14-inch Y450, the 15.6-inch Y550 and the 16-inch Y650. All of these guys feature 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen displays, up to 500GB storage …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Soonr nails the desktop to cloud to iPhone connection for documents — In today's world, rarely do we get the opportunity to be sequestered somewhere for a long period of time to work on a project. The rise of laptops and now mobile phones means that business can be done from various places at various times.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Timeline Experiment Seen In Main Search Results — Google's “timeline view,” which was previously only available as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs, is now being seen on some queries in the main Google.com search results. — Todd Mintz tipped us to the query ["book of revelation" …
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Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
RIAA Drops MediaSentry — In another sign of the music industry's recently announced retreat from a five-year-old antipiracy strategy, the Recording Industry Association of America has dumped the company it used to help it gather evidence for mass lawsuits it filed against people it claimed were illegally uploading copyrighted music.
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Google Hopes to Open a Trove of Little-Seen Books — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Ben Zimmer, executive producer of a Web site and software package called the Visual Thesaurus, was seeking the earliest use of the phrase “you're not the boss of me.” Using a newspaper database, he had found a reference from 1953.
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James Ashton / Times of London:
Carter's new phone era — MOBILE-PHONE companies and broadband suppliers such as Vodafone and Virgin Media will be asked for the first time to share with BT the cost of providing basic phone services, including public payphones, under plans being considered by Lord Carter, the communications minister.
Ken Barnes / USA Today:
Music sales boom, but albums fizzle for '08 — Americans bought more music in 2008 than ever before, but album sales — the music industry's main source of revenue — dropped for a fourth year. — According to the Nielsen Co.'s year-end figures, music purchases — CD, vinyl …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
In Silicon Valley, Venture Capitalists Turn Cautious and Focus on the Short Term — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Venture capitalists make their fortunes, or lose them, on the strength of their predictions. As they hunt for barely hatched ideas and nurture them with money and advice …
Sarah Knapton / Telegraph:
Twitter reveals mundane lifestyles of celebrities — Stars using Twitter to post minute-to-minute updates for fans have given an inadvertent insight into their surprisingly mundane lives. — The micro-blogging website offers users the chance to post regular short updates from their computers or mobile phones.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:Link By Link: All a-Twitter About Stars Who Tweet
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