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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Here's where we stand — I know many of you have had issues with the Windows 7 Beta site over the last 24 hours. As you may have noticed the download site has been up and running smoothly since this morning. That said, we apologize for the inconvenience that it caused some of you.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
How-to: Burn your Windows 7 .ISO to DVD disc — It seems that some of you who have downloaded the Windows 7 beta 1 .ISO file are a little uncertain as to what to do with that .ISO file. Fear not, here's a quick rundown to get you going! — #1 - Download the Windows 7 Beta 1 .ISO file!
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Windows 7 Beta Rollout Fails Without BitTorrent — With an official Windows 7 torrent, Microsoft would not have had problems at all. In fact, BitTorrent would have helped to get the Beta out faster than Microsoft servers are technically capable of. — The larger the demand and the greater numbers …
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John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
In a Nutshell: Palm Pre vs. iPhone vs. G1 — CES 2009 brought us a new player in the smartphone upper-echelon. Let's drill down and see how the Palm Pre compares with the iPhone and Android's G1. — 1. Multitouch touchscreen/gesture control: All three are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have multitouch.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
RIP Good Times.. Hello GREAT Times! The Richter Scales Debut Another Instant Classic — Last night, The Richter Scales brought down the house at The Crunchies for the second year in a row with a brand new song. The song depicts a hilariously overoptimistic startup and pokes fun …
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Winners and losers from the Crunchies awards — SAN FRANCISCO—Friday night's Crunchies awards were host to more than 80 different nominated start-ups and large Web services. The winners, which had been chosen by once-a-day user voting since late November, were finally announced to an audience …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows — THEY'RE either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows. Take your pick. — In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 — CNET's Ina Fried raised a bit of a ruckus earlier this week when she interviewed Microsoft Executive Bill Veghte and published this cautionary note: … My ZDNet colleague Sam Diaz, a self-confessed “hardcore Mac guy,” says that's reason enough to skip the Windows 7 beta:
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Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Yahoo's Web TV faces uphill battle — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc wants viewers to “fall in love” with its effort to bring the Web to the TV, but questions remain about how the service will operate and how successful it will be in reaching consumers. — It's an ambitious undertaking …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPod touch use “exploded” Christmas day — Did Apple's (AAPL) unrelenting advertising campaign for the iPod touch as a game machine ("The funnest iPod ever") pay off this holiday season? — Indirect data from two Web-based sources suggest it did — big time.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm's app store christened App Catalog, games not a priority — Following an apparent rejection of our suggestion of “Immaculate Collection,” Palm's Developer Network site suggests that the official name of its app store for webOS is simply going to be “App Catalog”.
Aviv / MacBlogz:
iPhone Tethering: AT&T May Shock Us All and Charge $10 — AT&T may shock and surprise most of us as well as their competitors and charge much less than initially expected for an iPhone tethering plan. Additionally, sources report that there is much buzz surrounding iPhone tethering internally at AT&T.
