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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Announces New iMacs, Mac Minis, AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule — Apple today announced updates to its iMac and Mac mini desktop lines, including a 24-inch iMac that is priced more affordably than ever before and a Mac mini with powerful new integrated graphics.
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Apple introduces new iMacs with more affordable pricing — Apple on Tuesday announced updates to its iMac line of all-in-one desktops, including a 24-inch iMac that is priced the same as the company's previous-generation 20-inch model. — The new iMac line starts with the 20-inch iMac …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple announces Nehalem based Mac Pro — News is just breaking across the wires as we speak, but Apple has announced a new Nehalem based Mac Pro with a starting price of $2,499. The new systems feature a 2.26GHz or 2.66Ghz Xeon CPU, start with 3GB of memory, a 640GB hard drive, and the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB of RAM.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
A Sneak Peek Look at Microsoft's New Kumo: A Spidery Cloud? A Cloudy Spider? — Here below are three screenshots of Microsoft's internal test of a new search product called Kumo. — The long-expected upgrade to the Live Search product from Microsoft (MSFT) is being tested for a public rollout later this year.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Kumo: Doomed — Kara Swisher's Microsoft spies have been good enough to send her the Kumo search memo from Satya Nadella. Satya asks his comrades to help test Microsoft's new search service, codenamed Kumo (screenshots here). — Kara has the full, uninterrupted memo here.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:Microsoft to start testing ‘Kumo’ search service
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock Ditching Firefox, Moving To Google Chrome — Flock, a social-focused browser startup that has raised nearly $30 million in venture funding, has ceased building on top of the open source Firefox browser, say multiple sources. The next version of the Flock browser will be built on Google's open source Chrome browser platform.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Video: Jon Stewart explains Twitter (or tries to) — Earlier, we posted about Twitter chief executive Evan Williams explaining Twitter to Charlie Rose. Tonight brings perhaps a better Twitter video explanation, compliments of comedian Jon Stewart. — In his Daily Show segment …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
White House Denies Shunning YouTube — The blogosphere was abuzz on Monday over reports that the White House's official Web site had stopped putting YouTube videos on its pages after privacy advocates raised concerns about the practice. — Now the White House is denying that it has changed …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Tragic Last Days of Circuit City — Liquidation: It's an ugly word for the ugly process of shutting down a retailer by selling off stuff little by little until there's nothing left that anyone's going to buy at any price. And my most recent visit to my local branch of the soon …
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Amazon VOD Launches on the Roku — After much anticipation, Amazon VOD finally landed on the Roku player this morning, expanding the capabilities of the $99 set-top box beyond Netflix. Roku owners will have access to Amazon's VOD library of more than 40,000 titles, including the ability …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook and Oodle Launch New Classifieds Product Today — Today, Facebook and Oodle will announce the launch of the new classified product which will replace the old Marketplace application. In contrast to the previous iteration of the application, all classified listings can be posted for free.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Arrington Back At TechCrunch (For Good?) — TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is back after a month off in Hawaii. Will he stick around for good? — In his post — “Back I Am” — Arrington doesn't specify if he's returning to work full-time or if he's going to take on something new.
Kakul Srivastava / Yodel Anecdotal:
More videos for everyone! — Last year, we introduced video to the Flickr community, allowing Pro members to upload 90-second video clips or, “long photos” as we (and others) like to say. Since then, our Pro community has helped define what video on Flickr looks like.
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Elad Blog:
Twitter is to Facebook as Google was to Yahoo! — My friend David King, (former Googler, founder and CEO of Lil Green Patch (# 1 social game on FB) and one of the smartest people I know) came up with an analogy I thought was really interesting to explore. His basic premise:
Thanks:atul
Reid Hoffman / Washington Post:
Let Our Start-Ups Bail Us Out — President Obama noted last week that “we have lived through an era where, too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity.” As the $787 billion stimulus is sorted out, we should consider not only what's there but also what's missing.
Thanks:atul
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Mag:
Hands-On with the VIA Nano-Powered Samsung NC20, Coming to U.S. in March — Last year Samsung unveiled its 10-inch NC10 netbook, which quickly became one of the most popular netbooks on the market. Samsung has released its bigger brother, the NC20, featuring a 12.1-inch screen.
Hindustan Times:
Why Obama can't stop outsourcing — The Indian information technology industry has reacted with a mix of hope and caution after President Barack Obama said last week that he will not allow US companies that send jobs away to enjoy his tax breaks. — Obama is presumably talking …
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Carly Fiorina has surgery for breast cancer — (03-02) 23:01 PST San Francisco — Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a Republican who has been widely expected to explore a U.S. Senate run against Sen. Barbara Boxer, was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery at Stanford Hospital on Monday, her chief of staff said.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Adobe and Time Warner Partner; HBO Flash Site On the Way — Adobe and Time Warner are announcing Tuesday they have formed an online video alliance. It's unclear exactly what that means, but the two companies say they'll work on finding solutions for issues like digital rights management …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Down‚ But Not Out — At the moment there is no estimate for when the site will return. The problem can't be fixed remotely we were told. However, people are on their way to the ‘secret’ location where the Pirate Bay hardware is located to find out what the problem is.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AMD, Nvidia play dueling graphics chip launches — AMD and Nvidia each launched graphics chips Tuesday, but the big question is whether consumers will buy them. Both announcements were timed with the CeBit confab in Hanover, Germany. — First, AMD rolled out its ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
TiVo partnerships target cable market — TiVo announced two deals Monday that will help the company better target the cable market with its next generation of high-definition digital video recorders. — Specifically TiVo said it will work with set-top software maker Alticast to make it easier …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Forrester is Wrong About Paying Bloggers — Analyst firm Forrester published a report this morning telling corporations that it's a good idea to engage bloggers in “sponsored conversations,” or the exchange of goods or credit in exchange for blog coverage. The report, titled …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Tap Tap Revenge 2 Has Landed — The sequel to Tap Tap Revenge, the iPhone's most popular game ever, is hitting the App Store tonight. The original version(iTunes link) of the game has been downloaded over six million times and spawned a number of spinoffs featuring licensed music from Weezer and Nine Inch Nails.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
RCTiger.com: Real-time web-based tank warfare — We received an email today telling us about RCTiger.com, a German website that lets you move little remote control tanks around a simulated battlefield. While I was quite skeptical at first, once I started the game I was taken aback at the fun …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Report: iPhone takes 2/3 of mobile Web in February — The latest browser share numbers suggest that the iPhone OS still dominates mobile Web browsing, though it appears as if Apple gave up some ground in the post-holiday months to competition from Google and even Nokia.
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