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IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available — We're excited to make the IE8 Release Candidate available today for public download today in 25 languages for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server customers. You can find it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8. Please download it now and try it out.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
New Internet Explorer 8 accelerates browsing — Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of the most commonly used web browser in the world, has left beta testing and is now available as “Release Candidate 1.” This isn't the final release version per se, but it's close enough …
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Reportedly Under the Knife at Stanford Hospital Today — Ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked into Stanford Hospital over the weekend and was scheduled for surgery this morning, we hear. — At a party in Silicon Valley last night, a Stanford staffer who had just come …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Report: Steve Jobs Is In The Office Today — Perhaps it's because I'm stuck in a Munich hotel with the flu, but this most recent round of rumors about Steve Jobs undergoing surgery today is annoying me more than normal. The entire report is based on something someone heard someone else say at a party.
securitylabs.websense.com:
Barack Obama's Site Leading to Trojan — Change has finally arrived in the United States of America, marking the dawn of a new era. The US Presidential campaign has shown the world how governments can leverage Web 2.0 to better understand and garner support from their citizens.
Alex Brooks / World of Apple:
Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent — According to the US Patent Office Apple was awarded patent number 7,479,949 on January 20, 2009. The patent which was filed on April 11, 2008 covers multi-touch and all associated gestures such as pinch, swipe and rotation. — The patent is titled:
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Paul Boutin / Industry Standard:
Just how much is Twitter's burn rate? — Relentless biz-blogger Kara Swisher is pushing again for Facebook to acquire Twitter. Twitter will never IPO on its own, she says, and Facebook is Twitter's most natural fit as a parent company. — But there's an important number missing …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Should Facebook-or Someone Else-Take Another Run at Twitter? — Twitter-the non-money-making start-up that lets a user update status in a pithy manner-had a banner day last week with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, which followed all the tweets about the successful airline crash …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
More Signs of a Google Webdrive — The long-awaited and much-delayed GDrive is likely to be released in the near future as more pieces of its integration are revealed. Cédric Vergé noticed a change in one of the CSS files for Google Apps: there's a class named “webdrive” and an icon for the new service.
PR Newswire:
Netflix Announces Q4 2008 Financial Results — Subscribers - 9.4 million Revenue - $359.6 million GAAP Net Income - $22.7 million GAAP EPS - $0.38 per diluted share — Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today reported results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008.
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Michael Calore / Epicenter:
Mozilla Goes to Bat for Open-Source Video on the Web — If Mozilla has its way, you'll soon be able to watch streaming video on sites all over the web without ever having to use a plug-in. — The software maker announced Monday that native support for the open-source Threora video format …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Should Yahoo Buy The New York Times? — Carol Bartz, the new Yahoo (YHOO) CEO, is getting ready for her coming out party tomorrow: she hosts her first earnings call for the company following the release of Q1 results. The numbers are likely to be ugly, but that won't be all that surprising.
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Apple:
iLife '09 Shipping January 27 — Major Upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie & GarageBand — Apple® today announced that iLife® '09 will be available tomorrow, January 27, and features major upgrades to iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand®, with breakthrough new ways to organize and manage photos …
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Lifehacker, Boy Genius Report, Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Macsimum News, TechSpot, Macworld, iLounge, MacDailyNews, Between the Lines and MacRumors
Brandon Schauer / Adaptive Path:
Dopplr's moment of long wow — This month Dopplr delightfully surprised me, supplying me with something I didn't know I needed. The result: I'm now a more loyal Dopplr user. It's a great example of a long wow moment. — Dopplr is “an online service for smarter travel.”
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Bill Gates Issues Buffet-Like Letter on Foundation, Says Market Rout Hurt Endowment — In a letter inspired by billionaire Warren Buffet's annual letter to shareholders, Bill Gates issued a 20-page look at the state of his foundation, saying his huge charity will give out a record amount …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
IBM Beefs Up Tivoli for the Cloud — Today IBM announced that six universities are using its cloud computing expertise to set up and manage clouds located in Qatar, Africa and in Japan. It is using Hadoop for allocating resources in the cloud — something it first began doing in 2007 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Coach Carol: Are They Crying? There's No Crying! There's No Crying at Yahoo! — One of the first things Carol Bartz said when she made her public debut as new Yahoo CEO was that everyone should give the company “some friggin' breathing room.” — Some heard “frickin',” while others heard “frackin'.”
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Senate OKs unnecessary delay to digital TV switch — Every night for the past couple of months, the weather person on one of my local TV news programs has been counting down the days to the nation's switch to digital television. I can almost say it in my sleep: In February 17 …
Emily Steel / Digits:
Layoffs at Fox Interactive Media — News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media digital division is laying off about 5% of its work force, or about 100 people, amid continued cost-cutting efforts, according to a person familiar with the situation. — The cuts, which started in the last month …
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Isle of Man Plans Unlimited Music Downloads — PARIS — Two generations ago, the Isle of Man gave the world the Bee Gees. Now it says it wants to help the wounded music industry stay alive. — The island, a rainy outpost in the Irish Sea, is promoting an offbeat remedy for digital piracy …
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
U.S. Defense Department Mimics Google, Microsoft in Cloud Computing Effort — Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — When the Defense Department's John Garing met Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to learn about cloud computing, he liked what he saw. Enough to send him back to Washington ready to change how government technology works.
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Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Chip complex delaying Apple's new iMac line, says analyst — Apple's next-generation iMacs are being held up for business reasons and a minor technical obstacle, according to one Wall Street analyst. — Kaufman Brothers' Shaw Wu, citing supply chain checks, says the new iMac appears …
Judi Sohn / WebWorkerDaily:
Will the Last One to Leave GrandCentral Please Turn Out the Lights? — We've been worried about GrandCentral for a while now. The free service that promised “one number for life” started with such promise. And then Google bought the company and the technology way back in July 2007...and they left it to rot.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
WebbAlert Stops Filming; Impact For Federated Media? — Morgan Webb's WebbAlert show has stop filming as of today. She noted in her farewell post, “When I started WebbAlert, my TV show X-Play only taped three episodes a week so I had the time to dedicate my video blog.
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AppleInsider:
Apple releases NVIDIA Graphics Update 2009 — Apple on Monday released a software update that addresses issues with its Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI adapter and also boosts HD video performance on some current Mac notebooks and previous-generation Mac desktops.
Dawn Kawamoto / Webware.com:
The Knot marries WedSnap — Weddingbook is the highest-ranking wedding-planning application on social network Facebook, which recently awarded developer WedSnap $25,000. — (Credit: WedSnap) — The Knot on Monday announced that it has acquired WedSnap, the developer of the popular online wedding-planning application Weddingbook.
The Wrap:
“THEWRAP.COM,” AN INDEPENDENT VOICE IN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS, DEBUTS ONLINE ON JANUARY 26, 2009 — Top Quality Reporting, Curation, and Commentary Aims to Change the Face of Industry News — TheWrap.Com, a bold and independent new voice covering the business of entertainment and media, debuts on January 26, 2009.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM CEO: Buggy smartphone software is the “new reality” — While our experience says otherwise, we really hope that the practice of launching buggy smartphones hasn't been institutionalized. The Wall Street Journal just published a report about the “bumpy launch” of the BlackBerry Storm …
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