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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple quietly updates $999 white MacBook with unibody specs — Hmmm, what's this? Did Apple just update its lowly, $999 white plastic polycarbonate MacBook to more closely align with its new unibody MacBooks? Why yes, yes it has... sometime in the last 3 days according to Google's cache.
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
White MacBooks Upgraded, Nearly Match Unibody Specs — Despite all the fanfare about the new, upgraded unibody MacBooks, the old (polybody?) MacBooks are still on sale for $999. Thankfully, Apple has updated the base specs on our sad, white friend. — The upgrades aren't trivial either …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Android G2 Photos: Thinner and No Keyboard — Here they are: Alleged spy photos of the second generation Android cellphone, the thinner, shinier, and totally lickable T-Mobile G2 made by HTC. It has no keyboard and its back looks oh-so-soap-bar-smooth: — As you can see, it has a 3.2 megapixel camera.
Michael Pinto / Fanboy.com:
Social Media “Experts” are the Cancer of Twitter (and Must Be Stopped) — Nearly a day goes by on Twitter without yet another social media “expert” choosing to stalk me. At first it started innocently — back in the day (about a year ago) various techie friends started …
Bloomberg:
Apple's Disclosures About Jobs's Health Said to Face SEC Review — Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators are examining Apple Inc.'s disclosures about Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs's health problems to ensure investors weren't misled, a person familiar with the matter said.
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Reuters:
Microsoft expected to cut jobs — NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expected to post a quarterly profit that misses its own target and announce thousands of job cuts this week as the global economic slump hurts even the technology industry's biggest players.
The Official Google Blog:
Search findings from the U.S. presidential inauguration — Today, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States of America. As we observed throughout the presidential campaign, many people in the U.S. turned to Google Search to find information.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Day Live Web Video Streaming Failed Us — Yesterday was supposed to be the day that live Web video streaming took on TV broadcasting. CNN.com alone served a record 21.3 million streams, with a peak of 1.3 million simultaneous streams. And Akamai reported a peak of 5.4 million …
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Microsoft expected to deliver Windows Mobile 6.5 OS to handset makers in mid-2009, say sources — Microsoft is expected to start delivering its Windows Mobile 6.5 OS (operating system) to handset makers in mid-2009 following the expected debut of the new mobile OS in the upcoming Mobile World Congress …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
How Canadian ISPs throttle the Internet — Canada's Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) famously decided last year to allow Bell Canada to single out P2P traffic for bandwidth throttling between the hours of 4:30pm to 2am. But even as it allowed a practice …
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Tom Steinberg / mySociety:
Blimey. It looks like the Internets won — The vote on concealing MPs' expenses has been cancelled by the government! — In other words - we won! — This is a huge victory not just for transparency, it's a bellweather for a change in the way politics works.
Erin Biba / Wired News:
Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location — Inside the GPS revolution it's more than maps and driving directions: location-aware phones and apps now deliver the hidden information that lets users make connections and interact with the world in ways they never imagined.
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Open government — The secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source technologies and products. — The claim comes from one of Silicon Valley's most respected business leaders Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
New York City and Google Team Up for New Information Center — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg guest blogged on the Official Google Blog today to announce a new website and Information Center. The effort is a partnership between NYC and Google. The new site is nycgo.com.
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Innovation Doesn't Take a Vacation in an Economic Downturn — By the end of 2008, Venture Capital had been officially declared dead. Startups were laying people off so fast that even TechCrunch couldn't manage to keep up. University Endowments and Foundations, the source of the “capital” …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
The top 10 things we hate about the iPhone — Look, we love our iPhones as much as the person, but at this late point in the game, there are some things that are just inexcusable. Here's our top 10 things we hate about the iPhone, and we'll post up our top 10 things we hate about the Bold later on.
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Seagate To Fix Hard Drive Problems Soon — The hard drive company, which has seen its share of troubles due to the weakening economy, has another issue to worry about: failing hard drives. Users of its Barracuda 7200.11 desktop hard drive, as well as several other models including …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Announcing The Create A Twitter Revenue Model Contest — First the good news: — Twitter's traffic is surging — yesterday, Hitwise announced it passed Digg. — The micro-blogging company finally hired a revenue boss, Kevin Thau, in December. — Twitter cofounder Evan Williams …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Red Hat set to surpass Sun in market capitalization — In what may come to be seen as a deeply symbolic moment in the history of operating systems, Red Hat is on the verge of surpassing Sun Microsystems' market capitalization for the first time. — Sun, perhaps unfairly, represents a fading Unix market.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple Q1 2009 earnings smackdown — It's that time of year again. — After the markets close on Wednesday, Apple will report its earnings for fiscal 2009 Q1. And once again blogger Andy Zaky has challenged the professional analysts — most of whom, in his opinion, are clueless …
Byron Acohido / USA Today:
Hackers breach Heartland Payment credit card system — Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) on Tuesday disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants. — Robert Baldwin, Heartland's president and CFO …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Verizon Wireless Is Q4's Big Winner, Sprint The Big Loser (VZ, S) — Wireless companies will begin posting Q4 results next week when Verizon (VZ) reports Tuesday and AT&T (T) reports Wednesday. How'd they do? — Based on a survey, Morgan Stanley says Verizon Wireless did best …
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Charles / SiriusBuzz.com:
Sirius XM Rate Increase For March 11th CONFIRMED — For those of you who may have heard the news about the “potential” Sirius XM rate increase this afternoon, I can unequivocally confirm that this is in fact true. Customer support representatives are now confirming to the general public …
Jason Kottke / kottke.org:
The country's new robots.txt file — Here's a small and nerdy measure of the huge change in the executive branch of the US government today. Here's the robots.txt file from whitehouse.gov yesterday: … And it goes on like that for almost 2400 lines! Here's the new Obamafied robots.txt file:
BBC:
Windows worm trickery for Vista — The Conficker virus has opened a new can of worms for security experts. — Drives such as USB sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm, according to researchers. — The “Autoplay” function in Vista and early versions …
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. Global:
Please Click Here for Large Photo — SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (SANYO) is pleased to introduce its new line-up of Xacti Dual Cameras, a line-up that redefines digital imaging by allowing greater flexibility for camera lovers and users all over the world with an amazing line-up of cameras …
