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Newsweek Columnists:
Make Room on the Couch for Steve — Our computers have become great media devices for songs, pictures and now TV and movies. — Newsweek — Steve Jobs's talk last week was nearing an end and coming dangerously close to a letdown. The stuff he introduced—a freshening-up of the iPod line …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google Video could be headed to Apple's iTV — Google is reportedly in talks with Apple to allow users of the forthcoming Apple iTV set top box to view files from Google Video on their televisions. — The iTV was announced at Apple's "It's Showtime" event last week.
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BBC:
Google and Apple 'in video talks' — Technology giants Google and Apple are in discussions over video content for the computer firm's recently announced iTV device, say reports. — US magazine Newsweek reports that Google is talking to Apple about supplying video clips for the player.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Google and Apple talking video? — It's the stuff fanboy dreams are made of: Google and Apple, sittin' in a tree. In fact, if you nearly passed out when Stevie J. walked onto the stage the other day sans mock turtleneck, or started into hysterics when Larry Page rode into CES on the back of that SUV …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
"Hotel Minibar" Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines — Like other computer scientists who have studied Diebold voting machines, we were surprised at the apparent carelessness of Diebold's security design. It can be hard to convey this to nonexperts, because the examples are technical.
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IP Democracy, Engadget, Techdirt, SearchViews, Davis Freeberg's Digital …, UMBC eBiquity, 27B Stroke 6, the LOOSE wire blog, Dvorak Uncensored, digg and Slashdot
David Carr / New York Times:
Contemplating Time Warner Without Time — COVER an industry, any industry, long enough and you will learn that the sky is always falling. Morale has never been lower, competition is beyond the pale, and the customers have lost their minds. Nowhere has the drumbeat been more persistent than in publishing.
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Intel:
Intel, UC Santa Barbara Develop World's First Hybrid Silicon Laser — Chip that Emits and Guides Light Could Drive Silicon Photonics Into Wide Use in Future Computers and Data Centers — Researchers from Intel Corporation and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) …
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Wendy Boswell / Lifehacker:
Technophilia: 15 ways to get more out of Pandora — There's just so much you can do with music discovery engine Pandora: create your own personalized radio stations, find new, original music and share your stations with friends, just to list a few. But listening to Pandora can be a drag on your system …
Michael Geist / Michael Geist's Blog:
30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do — The House of Commons is back in session and, as I promised last month, the 30 Days of DRM project has now concluded. The postings remain accessible via the 30 Days of DRM page, the wiki, and a new PDF version that incorporates all postings into a single document.
Anything But iPod:
RealNetworks & SanDisk Team Up to Release the Sansa Rhapsody — In a move that further fragments the DRM market space, RealNetworks and SanDisk will release a version of the e200 series, dubbed the Sansa Rhapsody. This player will be identical to the e200 series but will come preloaded …
chartreuse:
Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World) — I'm amused by Paris Hilton. — If Madonna was Marketing 1.0 then Paris Hilton is Marketing 2.0. — She's a real life version of what value is and how it is created today. — Every web developer should pay attention to her.
Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
An In-Depth Look at Netscape vs. Digg-Part 5 — The Digg community is often criticized as being immature, especially when compared to the Slashdot community. Before we can compare the Digg community with the Netscape community, let's look at one of the main differences between the two.
Kurt Shintaku's Blog:
BETA: "Warhol" is coming! — "Warhol", is going to be released as MSN Soapbox. It's been in the press for a while and if you don't know what Warhol or Soapbox is, just do a Live Search on it. — I've been working with Warhol for the past couple of months and I really like it.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPod nano (second-generation) — Return of the iPod mini? — iPod nano — Manufacturer: Apple (product page) — System requirements: Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, USB 2.0 port; Windows PC running Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2, USB 2.0 port; iTunes 7.0
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Wal-Mart leaks Zune price — $284? — Thanks to some vigilant Wal-Mart watching by a friendly tipster, we've got a good idea as to the Zune pricetag, though we're still no closer to a specific launch date. By the time we got to the Zune's product page, the pricing info had been removed …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Satellite TV's 3-Headed Rival: Cable Plus Internet Plus Phone — For two decades, Rupert Murdoch worked to become king of the cosmos, launching a ring of satellites that hover over five continents. He wanted to make sure he could beam his movies, networks and sports programming directly …
