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AppleInsider:
Photo of next-gen Apple Mac mini in the wild [u] — A photo making the rounds on the Internet appears to conform to descriptions of a next-generation Mac mini published by AppleInsider earlier in the year. — The photo shows the rear of a Mac mini that includes five USB ports instead of 4 …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Discontinues 20" Cinema Display, Product Refreshes Coming? — Apple has removed the 20" Cinema Display from the online Apple Store and has notified resellers that the product has been “end of life'd” and can no longer be ordered. — While it may be possible that Apple has simply chosen …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Macworld, Computerworld Blogs, The Apple Core, MacDailyNews, CrunchGear, Gearlog, MacBlogz and I4U News
Arn / MacRumors:
Leaked Photo of the Next-Generation Mac Mini? — A possible image of the next generation Mac Mini was first posted to a MacRumors forum discussion thread. The image depicts what could be the next Mac mini. — The original leaker also claimed the following specs: — Intel Core 2 Duo
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Testers get SP2 Release Candidate for Vista and Server 2008 — Microsoft has released the Release Candidate build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to the public. The build can be downloaded by anyone willing to test it. — Microsoft today released …
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Fred / A VC:
Why Hulu Should Embrace Boxee — For those that don't know, Union Square Ventures is an investor in Boxee and I am on the board. For the past several weeks I have watched Boxee's management try their hardest to convince Hulu that Boxee is a big step forward for Hulu and Hulu's content partners.
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Homotron.net, The Register, Ars Technica, Todd Watson, TECH.BLORGE.com, fierceonlinevideo.com …, last100 and Engadget
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Marc Hedlund / O'Reilly Radar:Hulu's Superbowl Ad and the Boxee Fight
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WebProNews, techblog.dallasnews.com, InformationWeek, HotHardware.com News, Darren Herman, PC World, OStatic blogs and TVbytheNumbers
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
The Presidents of the United States of America Unleash Multiple-Album iPhone App — Dave Dederer, former singer and guitarist for nineties hitmakers The Presidents of the United States of America, has fashioned quite a second career for himself as the vice president of business development for Melodeo …
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PC World, Ars Technica, Pulse2, iPhone Buzz, Mashable!, Macworld, Obsessable, AppScout, mocoNews.net and Digital Noise
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Kathleen Richards / East Bay Express:
Yelp and the Business of Extortion 2.0 — Local business owners say Yelp offers to hide negative customer reviews of their businesses on its web site ... for a price. — Send a letter — The phone calls came almost daily. It started to get creepy. — “Hi, this is Mike from Yelp,” the voice would say.
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PC World, blogs.chron.com, Gadgetell, The Apple Core, Obsessable, Pulse2, Techcraver.com and GPS Obsessed, Thanks:atul
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
HP CEO Mark Hurd's Memo to the Troops on Pay Cuts — Here is the letter Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd broadcast to employees Wednesday explaining the company's disappointing reversal in outlook for the fiscal year and its plans to reduce pay and benefits across the board.
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Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
Your Ads, Richer — Yahoo! adds video, images and custom links to search ads — Ever since we launched pay-per-click advertising, the ads have looked more or less the same: A headline, a line of ad copy, a link. They haven't changed because, frankly, the combination works pretty well.
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Between the Lines, Marksonland, Search Engine Roundtable, Screenwerk, WebProNews, Mashable!, Search Engine Watch and Conversion Rater
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Upcoming Verizon news: BlackBerry Niagara, Hub updates, Netbooks, Apex — One of our trusty ninjas just hit us up with a couple details on some of Verizon's upcoming products and product offerings. First off.. Netbooks. We've been told that Verizon Wireless will 100% start selling Netbooks in stores around May of this year.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sprint: Customer defections continue; Can Palm's Pre reverse the slide? — Sprint Nextel showed some signs of improvement in its fourth quarter, but is still losing customers at a rapid clip. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said the company has “high expectations” that the Palm Pre handset can attract customers to the wireless provider.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
DocStoc Does Its Part To Rid The Web Of Download Links — Document sharing site DocStoc has launched DocShots, a free service that allows publishers to convert any document on a website into a hoverable link that provides an instant online document preview.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Twitter gets half the press coverage of Facebook, but a fraction of its traffic — Ever heard the phrase “why is everyone always talking about Twitter?” Well, here's the reason, maybe. The micro-messaging service is getting half of social network Facebook's press coverage …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Stantum's mind-blowing multitouch interface on video! — We just got a look at some amazing touchscreen interaction, running on a humble resistive touchscreen with some OMAP hardware backing it up. Stantum's technology is a software-based refinement to resistive touchscreens that allows …
Arn / MacRumors:
Turn-By-Turn iPhone GPS App Already Available in iTunes — It seems despite all the anticipation about Turn-by-Turn GPS routing for the iPhone, an App already exists in the App Store that delivers this basic functionality. — XRoad Co.'s G-Map U.S. West and G-Map U.S. East apps were released …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Gmail With Custom Colors — You can now make Gmail as ugly or pretty as you want - by choosing your own colors. Go to Gmail -> Settings -> Themes, and click “Choose your own colors”. This opens a window where you can configure a template with instant preview. Hit Save & Close, and Gmail will appear in your custom colors.
Chris Soghoian / CNET News:
Recovery.gov blocked search engine tracking — Update: As of 8 a.m. PST, within three hours of this story first going live, it appears that President Obama's Web team has (silently) pulled the robots.txt file from the Recovery.gov Web site. The site is now open to Web crawlers of all kinds.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
How Much Data Fits On A Pin? — Researchers invent a technique that could cram 10 trillion bits onto a surface the size of a quarter. — For decades, hard-disk makers have been shrinking the electromagnetic media that store data to cram more information into a tinier footprint.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
MTV Pioneer Launches $99 Music Videos on the Web — Verizon is sponsoring latest channel from web studio Next New Networks — Back in 1981, Fred Seibert helped create MTV. Now he'd like to recreate it on the web with a new network devoted to music videos made in a day for $99 or less.
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paidContent.org, NewTeeVee, Webware.com, Epicenter, Hollywood Reporter, Digits, MediaPost, ClickZ and Mashable!
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple buying up available flash RAM supplies for next iPhone — A report issued on the flash RAM market indicates that Apple is inhaling supplies of memory components in preparation for the next generation iPhone, causing part shortages and raising the spot price for memory.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Pinch Media Data Shows The Average Shelf Life Of An iPhone App Is Less Than 30 Days — There may be more than 20,000 iPhone apps out there that have been downloaded more than 500 million times, but what is the average shelf life of each app? Greg Yardley, CEO of Pinch Media …
Etgar Lefkovits / Jerusalem Post:
‘Kosher’ GPS device gets official launch — It lists thousands of kosher restaurants and includes the Book of Psalms, the three daily prayer services, the Traveler's Prayer, a Hebrew calendar, and two versions of Grace After Meals. — Welcome to the “kosher” GPS device.
Julie Steenhuysen / Reuters:
Scientists make advances on “nano” electronics — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two U.S. teams have developed new materials that may pave the way for ever smaller, faster and more powerful electronics as current semiconductor technology begins to reach the limits of miniaturization.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Day 4 - Pirate Bay Defense Calls Foul Over Evidence — Prosecutor Håkan Roswall began the day by again referencing the case in Finland against the administrators of Finreactor. Fredrik's lawyer Jonas Nilsson requested a copy of the case notes for the defense.
USA Today:
Google sued in Italy over uploaded video content — By Eric J. Lyman, Special for USA TODAY — MILAN, Italy — An Italian judge on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to a case in which Google (GOOG) could be held responsible for content it hosts but does not produce.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Telstra executive sparks Microsoft security scare — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks during a news conference at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and (inset) Telstra Chief Executive Sol Trujillo. — Asher Moses — An unnamed Telstra executive has sparked a major security scare …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Comcast: 50Mbps speeds to 65% of territory by end of 2009 — Comcast has some aggressive plans for its “superfast” wideband connectivity in 2009. The cable giant hopes to roll out DOCSIS 3.0 to 65 percent of its reach before the end of this year, which amounts to some 30 million homes and businesses.
