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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
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9 to 5 Mac:
Is the 5 USB Mac Mini a fake? — So, one of our readers, Dave - who happens to be an expert at PCB design, has spent some time looking at the Mac Mini image posted today and he believes it is a fake. There have been many posts around the web on why. — Firstly, the dispersion of artifacts isn't consistant with an unedited image:
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Most. Boring. Apple. Rumor. Ever. — Weird but true: Writing the guide to judging Apple rumors which I posted last week was both cathartic and disillusioning. Ultimately, it left me feeling that the best response to about seventy percent of Apple-related gossip is to ignore it …
Ray C. He / Facebook Developers:
Commenting with Facebook Connect — Since Facebook Connect launched, we've seen over 6,000 developers make their sites more social using Facebook Connect. One of the most common features we've seen sites add with Facebook Connect is the ability to allow users to log in with a single click …
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Mashable!, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, Net and Thethirdeye.org
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:Facebook Launches First Public Connect-Enabled Widget
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Look who leaked U2's new album — U2 and, inset, the cover of No Line On The Horizon. — Asher Moses — Full CD-quality copies of every song on U2's upcoming album, No Line On The Horizon, have been leaked on to the web after Universal Music Australia accidentally put it up for sale on its online music store two weeks early.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
New in-the-wild attack targets fully-patched Adobe Reader — Locked and loaded — Free whitepaper - Best practices in SOX compliance — Security watchers are warning of a serious unpatched vulnerability in Adobe's Reader program that's actively being exploited to install malware on the PCs of unsuspecting users.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Quicken Online Can't Believe Mint Is Doing So Well; Sends Threatening Letter — Intuit, the company behind the well-known Quicken suite of money management software that includes Quicken Online, can't believe how well its competitor Mint is doing. In fact, they were so bewildered …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Test Updates for Windows 7 Beta Users — Starting February 24, we will be releasing up to 5 test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) via Windows Update. These updates allow us to test and verify our ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7.
CNBC.com:
Sprint Shares Skyrocket 20% on Palm Pre Deal — Sprint [PALM Loading... () ], which also reported a narrower-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, saw its shares rise leap almost 20 percent to $3.25 Thursday. — The person, who asked not to be named, said the exclusivity period …
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Electronista, Phone Arena, Gizmodo, Unwired View, CrunchGear, PreCentral.net and Thethirdeye.org
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Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:
SAP snags Coghead — SAP has acquired the assets of Coghead minus any of its customers following Coghead's demise. As Rafe Needleman says over at CNet, this paves the way for others to swoop in and sweep up stranded customers although there is some doubt whether this will work.
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J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek:SAP Buys Cloud Computing Startup Coghead
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Venture Capital Dispatch, The QuickBase Team …, TechCrunch, Webware.com, Collaboration 2.0 and Pulse2
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
A snow leopard on Live.com is causing some to lose their minds — I saw the story once and I thought: Oh, that's kind of funny. I saw it twice and I thought: Hmm. I saw it three times and saw it all over Twitter and thought: This is getting ridiculous. There must be a shortage of stories …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Paid apps finally infiltrating Android Market? — We just got a tip that if you're running the latest T-Mobile G1 OS, you'll now see paid applications finally appear in the Android Market. We're in the process of booting up our G1, so we can't confirm this ourselves, but it sure as heck does seem likely.
Elizabeth Holmes / Digits:
CBS Strikes Back at Hulu — Is this the start of a Web video war? — A day after news broke that Hulu had pulled its video content from CBS Corp.'s TV.com because of “contractual” issues, CBS fought back with a statement declaring its own rights. — “CBS Interactive is well within …
Stephanie Simon / Wall Street Journal:
Parents Give Up Facebook for Lent — They're a little too old to give up potato chips, Guitar Hero or Red Bull for Lent. — But as Christian parents ponder an appropriate sacrifice, they find themselves mulling a choice they'd have once seen as preposterous: A Facebook fast — not for their teens but for themselves.
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Blog on Fire:
Fire Eagle Location Streams — Introduction — User location is interesting, obviously. As location data becomes increasingly stale, it becomes less interesting and less useful. It's much more helpful to know where someone is, rather than where they may have been recently.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Cable providers eye offering TV shows online: report — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc are talking with owners of major cable television networks about ways to give cable subscribers online access to much of the networks' programing, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.
Timothy Prickett Morgan / The Register:
IBM lands 25 teraflop iDataplex cluster in Bluegrass State — Louisville slugger — Free whitepaper - Utilizing IT to put data to work — IBM has signed up another customer for its iDataplex super-dense x64 rack servers, this time landing the University of Louisville in Kentucky …
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Jack Dorsey on the Twitter ecosystem, journalism and how to reduce reply spam. Part II — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. (Credit: Joi Ito via Flickr) — On Wednesday we posted the first half of an interview with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (@jack), in which he talked about the conceptual roots of the site.
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines in 0.2 seconds — Google is normally quite secretive about their search infrastructure but, in a break from tradition, they have revealed that a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000 machines.
Thanks:atul
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
The Windows Empire Strikes Back — Since Vista's launch, Mac enthusiasts and Microsoft critics have successfully mounted a rebel campaign against the Windows PC. Apple's brand was resurgent, and Macs were the cooler computers. Mac sales growth blew away Windows PCs, while Apple computers rapidly gained market share.
Gamasutra:
EA's Riccitiello: Recession ‘Blessing In Disguise’ That Can Clear Away ‘Junk’ — Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello says the current economic climate is “a blessing in disguise,” because it will force the industry to rethink stagnant attitudes and methods — and lead to “clearing away” …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Free Fred Wilson — Fred Wilson finds himself on two sides of the fundamental issue of our time: the user's right to access data the way he or she wants to. On one side, that of the user, Wilson is an investor and board member of Boxee, a startup that translates web pages into a form more easily consumable on a TV screen.
CNN:
Meghan McCain tells GOP to get tech savvy — (CNN) — The Republican Party needs to change — at least when it comes to its use of technology, Meghan McCain says. — In a column on the Daily Beast Web site, the daughter of Sen. John McCain says the GOP is likely to continue its decline …
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 boot animation customization will not be supported — Microsoft has announced that it will not support changing the Windows 7 boot animation by those who want to personalize their rigs further than just changing wallpapers and themes. — Microsoft has definitely opened up a few doors …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The TechCrunch 2008 Year in Review — One of the best decisions we ever made at TechCrunch was when we launched CrunchBase, our open startup directory, at the end of 2007. We aspired to make it the best current source of information about technology startups, people and investors.
Thanks:sampad
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Amid PR follies, Facebook attempts to humanize — Facebook has a lot of communication problems. Most recently, changes made to its terms of service sent a ripple through the internet community, leaving users feeling like they had unwillingly ceded ownership of their data to the site.
