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Apple Updates iMac Line — Introduces New Multi-Touch Magic Trackpad — Apple® today updated its all-in-one iMac® line, widely praised as the world's best desktop computers, with the latest Intel Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors and powerful new graphics.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Apple iMac line gets speedbumped, low-end gets a Core i3 — It's not as if we haven't heard the rumors building over the last few months, but Apple's long-standing iMac line is seeing its first real update since the Fall of last year on this fine morning. As predicted, the refreshed iMac line …
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Apple Unveils New Mac Pro With Up to 12 Processing Cores — Apple® today unveiled a new Mac® Pro line with up to 12 processing cores and up to 50 percent greater performance than the previous generation. * Featuring the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors …
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Apple's Official Response To DMCA Jailbreak Exemption: It Voids Your Warranty — I just got a call from Apple's PR department to discuss today's historical DMCA exception ruling that makes iPhone jailbreaking legal. — Unfortunately, because of the legal issues involved …
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The Ask.com Blog:
The New Ask.com is Here: What's Your Question? — Back in November, Doug Leeds, President of Ask.com, shared this post providing a glimpse into the future of Ask.com. At the risk of sounding like a bad sci-fi movie, we're excited to say the future starts now.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Ask.com Gets Back to Its Roots: Launches Q&A Service
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Carl Howe / Yankee Group Blog:
Setting the record straight on iPhone and Android — From our July Report “Why iPhones Matter” analyzing Yankee Group's Link Data: 2010 U.S. Survey Suite, Wave 1-3 — “There's lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Mark Twain — A number of reports over the weekend surfaced referencing …
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Apple's Magic Trackpad Is Here — Apple desktops have touchpads now too. The new Magic Trackpad gives Mac Pro and iMac owners multitouch powers, gestures, and bluetooth connectivity. — The Magic Trackpad is basically a larger version of the MacBook Pro touchpad, with 80% more surface area for all your swiping and pinching.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Googzilla! Yahoo Japan Confirms Google Switch From Yahoo for Both Paid and Algo Search — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — As BoomTown reported earlier today, Yahoo Japan confirmed it would switch its search technology and paid search provider to Google from Yahoo.
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Peter Nowak / CBC News:
Apple to sell iPhone 4 unlocked in Canada — When the iPhone 4 goes on sale in Canada on Friday, it will bring with it something relatively new for Canadian wireless customers — the ability to pit the big three service providers against each other. — Apple on Monday said it will sell …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Check In While Checking Out: CardStar Adds Foursquare Integration — Mobile loyalty card application CardStar is today announcing integration with popular location-based service Foursquare in its newly updated iPhone application, CardStar 3.0. Now, as CardStar users present their mobile phones …
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Forrester: Why Most Marketers Should Forgo Foursquare — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Marketers, hold off on Foursquare — for now. That's the verdict of Forrester Research on location-based start-ups, which, despite their reputation as the hot new media, are still too small for major marketers.
Scott Thurm / Wall Street Journal:
Oracle's Ellison: Pay King — Leads WSJ List of Top-Paid CEOs of the Decade; Diller, Irani, Jobs Rank High — Larry Ellison, founder and chief executive of software maker Oracle Corp., topped the list of best-paid executives of public companies during the past decade …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Twitter to Show Photos and Videos in the Stream [UPDATED] — A new Twitter setting called “Tweet Media” has rolled out to some of Twitter's users, strongly suggesting that the company will soon embed videos and photos in the stream. — Tweet Media, which the Mashable team and others …
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
ZumoCast Streams Media to iPad, iPhone From a Home Computer — The ZumoDrive folks are at it again, but this time, they're taking the cloud storage to your home computer so you can stream media files right to an Apple iPad using ZumoCast. The new ZumoCast service is a take on my …
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Augen's $150 Android tablet hits Kmart circular, coming to stores later this week — We can't say we've heard of Augen before, but the company certainly sparked our interest (and that of Kmart circular readers) this weekend with its $149.99 7-inch Android tablet.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo: comScore Underreported Our U.S. Page Views By 1 Billion Last June — Yahoo just put out a press release calling out comScore for seriously underreporting the site's U.S. page views and duration metrics in its June report. — Yahoo says an error skewed the numbers …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Punch — A video posted by Google shows the name of a new Google Docs feature: Google Punch. A “punch” is a Google Docs filetype, just like a document, a spreadsheet or a presentation. — Here's the video: — One of the definitions of the word “punch” is “an iced mixed drink …
Paul Graham:
The Acceleration of Addictiveness — What hard liquor, cigarettes, heroin, and crack have in common is that they're all more concentrated forms of less addictive predecessors. Most if not all the things we describe as addictive are. And the scary thing is, the process that created them is accelerating.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google, Content Farms & Why This May Be Blekko's Moment — At the beginning of Google's “Searchology” event in early 2007 original Google employee Craig Silverstein opined, “If Google had started a year or two earlier, it wouldn't have worked.” That's because prior to that time (1998) …
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Christopher Mims / Technology Review:
The Search Engine Backlash Against ‘Content Mills’
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