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Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
iTunes Plus: Everything you need to know — Apple's iTunes Store is almost completely DRM-free, and will be entirely DRM-free from spring. This means files downloaded from iTunes work on heaps of devices that aren't from Apple. What better way to celebrate the final bullet to the living corpse …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
How to Get, Install and Play With Windows 7, Pain Free — You've been thinking about installing Windows 7 Beta 1 now that it's totally available to anyone. Well, here's our complete guide to grabbing, installing and playing with Windows 7—it's (mostly) painless, so no excuses! — Are You Ready?
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:Deep inside the Windows 7 Public Beta: an in-depth tour
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Newsgator Secures $10 Million Sixth Round Funding — RSS feed aggregator Newsgator has raised a $10 million sixth-round funding. The company has lined up past investors, including Masthead Venture Partners, Mobius Venture Capital and Vista Ventures, for this latest funding.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
R.I.P. Enterprise RSS — It's with a heavy heart and a sense of bewilderment that we conclude that the market for enterprise-specific RSS readers appears to be dead. Two years ago there were three major players offering software that delivered information to the computers of business users via RSS.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
CES attendance figures are grim at 110,000, down 22 percent — The International Consumer Electronics Show drew only 110,000 visitors — down 22 percent from last year — over its five-day run in Las Vegas, the lowest turnout in a long time. — The Consumer Electronics Association …
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Ars Technica, mocoNews.net, Strategic heading, IntoMobile, Silicon Valley Watcher, AdAge, Obsessable and Technologizer
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Are trade shows dead? My answer might surprise you
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Revealed: The Times Made Up That Stuff About Google And The Tea Kettles — Yesterday an article in The Times of London set the web abuzz over new findings that every Google search contributed 7 grams of CO2 to the atmosphere - half the amount produced when heating a tea kettle (heaven forbid!).
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Wall Street Journal:
Genachowski Picked to Head FCC — WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama intends to nominate his technology adviser Julius Genachowski to head the Federal Communications Commission, a source close to the Obama transition team said. — Mr. Genachowksi, 46, is a former Harvard Law School classmate of Mr. Obama.
David / TmoNews:
HTC 2009 lineup leaked, G2 included — A few moments ago a story leaked through engadget to the gadget freaks of the world and inside that information is something you guys have ALL been clamoring for...possible sighting of the G2. Not this G2. I'm talking about code-name Sapphire …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Major Shake-up At Sling Media: Krikorian Brothers, Hirschhorn, White, Wilkes Leaving — Little more than a year after Sling Media's sale to EchoStar (NSDQ: SATS), the co-founders and the top team at Sling Entertainment are leaving the company, paidContent.org has learned.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Why You Have To Jailbreak the iPhone — If you own an iPhone and you're fairly technical, then you've no doubt gone through the steps necessary to “jailbreak” your iPhone - the process that opens up the phone to allow for the installation of unapproved third-party applications.
Pascal Meunier / SANS Institute:
CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors — Experts Announce Agreement on the 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors - And How to Fix Them — Agreement Will Change How Organizations Buy Software. — Project Manager: Bob Martin, MITRE — Questions: top25@sans.org
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Hardware Hacker Charged With Selling Cable Modems That Get Free Broadband — Update — In the first case of its kind, a Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges for allegedly selling hacked cable modems capable of stealing free, anonymous internet service from broadband providers.
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Intel's Dilemma — The chip giant is too big to hide from the economy's woes, and this could crimp innovation for years to come. — Let's face it. The folks at Intel are smarter than the rest of us. The problem: The smarter you are—and you've got to be smart to dominate …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google Again Gains U.S. Search Share — Google's (GOOG) share of the U.S. search market increased to 72.07% in December, from 71.97% in November and 65.98% a year ago, according to research firm Hitwise.com. — Yahoo's (YHOO) share was 17.79%, up a tad from 17.70% in November, but down from 20.88% a year ago.
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Digital Daily, WebProNews, Industry Standard, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Beyond Search
Channel Insider:
Dire Predictions: Tech Vendors That May Not Survive 2009 — In the Channel Insider 2009 Market Pulse Survey, e asked solution providers which vendors they thought would go out of business or be acquired in 2009. The results may shock you. Based on their perceptions and predictions …
Steve Grove / YouTube Blog:
Congress Comes to YouTube — Have you ever wondered what your elected representatives actually do in Washington, D.C.? Ever pondered what day-to-day life on Capitol Hill consists of? Do you want to connect with your Senator or Congressman, but don't feel like sitting down to write a letter?
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Tech giants team on education push — Microsoft, Intel, and Cisco plan to announce Tuesday that they are working together to help ensure that proper standards are created for measuring digital literacy. — The three companies aren't coming up with the assessment criteria themselves …
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David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
Obama's big idea: Digital health records — President-elect wants to computerize the nation's health care records in five years. But the plan comes with a hefty price tag, and specialized labor is scarce. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President-elect Barack Obama, as part of the effort …
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Boonty Casual Game Platform Sold To Nexway — We just got word that the social game site Cafe.com is selling Boonty, the company's underlying digital distribution platform, to Nexway, a leading EU player in legal online distribution, for an undisclosed sum.
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Tech Spending to Decline in '09 — Finally, the prognosticators are proclaiming the bad news is official: The recession will extend to the tech sector in 2009. — Tracy O via Flickr — Spending on information-technology goods and services this year will contract 3% compared with 2008 to $1.66 trillion …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
IBM microscope 100 million times stronger than MRI — IBM Research on Monday announced that it has built a new nanoscale microscope (link to YouTube video) capable of creating images with 100 million times finer resolution than existing MRI technology. — The project was made possible through …
Chromatic / O'Reilly Media:
The Evolution of Python 3 — I know it's been a while, but was the process successful from your point-of-view? — Guido van Rossum: It doesn't even matter so much whether it's successful from my point of view as long as it's successful from the community's point of view. It's interesting.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Boxee: WebTV That Makes Sense. Is That Good or Bad for Big Cable? — This year's Consumer Electronic Show, like every year's CES, was peppered with big talk about merging your PC and your TV, led by a new widget initiative from Yahoo (YHOO). And my reaction was the same one I have every year: Why?
