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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis [u] — First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple's international online stores suggest it's only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes …
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CNET News, Engadget, Brainstorm Tech, Computerworld, CrunchGear, Macsimum News, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Electronista, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Ixnay on the Blu-ray — My updated if-I-were-a-betting-man wagers for upcoming Apple hardware announcements: all-new iMacs, all-new low-end (plastic) MacBook, new keyboard and mouse, speed-bump/price-cut Mac Mini update. Scratch that previous bet on Blu-ray in the iMacs, though …
Craig A. Hunter / hunter.pairsite.com:
On Palm, Competition, and iTunes Sync — Back when the Pre was announced, a frequent conversation topic among developers was “competition” — as in, it would be great to have some healthy competition against the iPhone. At the time, the Pre looked promising, and seemed to be the first viable competitor …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync
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PreCentral.net, Mashable!, Gadgetell, Computerworld, Electronista, jkOnTheRun, The Official Palm Blog, AppleInsider, OSNews, MobileCrunch, Mobilewhack.com, MacDailyNews, Crave, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo and Engadget, Thanks:atul
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Will Books Be Napsterized? — YOU can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. — Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites.
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TeleRead, jkOnTheRun, Brave New World, GottaBeMobile.com and ResourceShelf, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App — In a bit of “gotcha” journalism, interviewers Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen got Digg founder Kevin Rose to confirm that his company is developing an application for the iPhone. — When Eriksen referred to having seen a sneak preview …
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Gordon Gekko 2.0: Flipping is GOOD. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're F**king Wrong.) — [disclosure: the views expressed below are my own, and do not in any way represent the official position or perspective of either Mint.com or Founders Fund... so please f**k off.] — Dear Jason Fried:
Roy Furchgott / New York Times:
What Do All These Phone Apps Do? Mostly Marketing — When Stanley Works, the hand tool maker, offered an iPhone App that turned the phone into a level, its goal was to create young loyalists to the Stanley brand. — The company does not know if the iPhone app drove a single sale or fostered any brand loyalty.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Matt Cutts: How Google Deals With Web Spam — It's up to Matt Cutts and his team at Google to keep search results as free as possible from Web spam, those pages full of Viagra ads or even malware. A 10-year veteran of the company, he got into this online underworld after working …
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Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World? — A newspaper typically gets applause when it tightens its ethics policies. But there were some loud boos when The Post recently implemented newsroom guidelines governing the use of social media. — The guidelines cover popular social networks …
Boy Genius Report:
Best Buy Mobile's Holiday Playbook: Upcoming Android launches, BlackBerry devices, Nokia Booklet — We were lucky enough to get our hands on Best Buy Mobile's entire Holiday Playbook and after combing through it, there's a couple little nice nuggets of information.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Popularity of Pirated TV-Shows Still Rising — In the US streaming sites such as Hulu offer ‘legal’ platforms to watch TV-shows online. However, in the rest of the world people have to wait for weeks or months until they can watch US TV-shows. — Most TV-show downloads come from overseas …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T Pure now on sale — with Windows Mobile 6.5 — Well hey, look at that — AT&T's riff on the HTC Touch Diamond2, the Pure, has quietly gone on sale, meaning Windows Mobile 6.5 just hit the world a couple days early. The glory won't last long, though: the nicer Imagio is hitting Verizon on the 6th, and the Leo's looming.
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