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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Exclusive: Apple to adopt Intel's ultra-mobile PC platform — Apple Inc. will form a closer bond with once-rival Intel Corp. early next year when it begins building a new breed of ultra-mobile processors from the chipmaker into a fresh generation of handheld devices, AppleInsider has learned.
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Daisy Whitney / TVWeek.com:
Perez Hilton Pulls Videos From YouTube — Celebrity gossip queen Perez Hilton said he's unlikely to post videos on YouTube any longer and instead will probably host them on his own site, Perezhilton.com. — The blogger and the biggest video-sharing service are feuding after YouTube pulled …
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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple expected to announce sales of 5 million iPhones at Macworld — Insiders tell us that Apple expects to announce sales of roughly five million iPhones at Macworld 2008 in January. Of these, around one million are expected to come from Europe. Apple is seeing very strong Christmas sales despite …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Apples For The Army — Given Apple's marketing toward the young and the trendy, you wouldn't expect the U.S. Army to be much of a customer. Lieutenant Colonel C.J. Wallington is hoping hackers won't expect it either. — Wallington, a division chief in the Army's office of enterprise information systems …
New York Times:
In Trade Ruling, Antigua Wins a Right to Piracy — PARIS — In an unusual ruling on Friday at the World Trade Organization, the Caribbean nation of Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States — up to $21 million …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:WTO Gives Antigua Only $21 Million In Sanctions; US Says ‘Not So Fast...’
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
Why all Vista users should upgrade to Windows XP — Now that Microsoft has announced the availability of the RC version of Service Pack 3 for our old friend, XP, I'm delighted to tell you all that not only is this upgrade substantial and extremely helpful. Believe it or not …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Comcast, DirecTV settle suit, agree all HD looks excellent — In the competition for customers between cable and satellite providers, one of the key selling points is HD. Who has more high-def channels? Whose HD programming looks the best? A Comcast ad campaign touting its HD picture …
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Dembot:
8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die — Recently, I have met with many people including top executives from most of the largest studios as well as people from some of the top internet companies that are building studios, top investors in the VC world that are turning towards the studio business …
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Katie Fehrenbacher / Earth2Tech:
Tesla's Chairman and New CEO Talk Transmission Snags and Raising Another $40M — The two people most responsible for helping Tesla get its first car to its customers look and sound a bit overwhelmed. Chairman Elon Musk calls into an interview with Earth2Tech from his home …
heise Security:
Antivirus protection worse than a year ago — The effectiveness of antivirus software has fallen off, and more and more pests can now slip past these barriers. This is the sobering conclusion the german computer magazine c't comes to in issue 1/08 with a test on 17 antivirus solutions.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
One Million Deaths Per Day On Duels.com — There are a fair number of our readers who admit to being addicts of Duels.com, a World of Warcraft-like game that lets users create characters, add weapons and spells, and duel each other. It's asynchronous, meaning one player can fight another without both having to be online.
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Aaron Linde / Ars Technica:
Study: Wii gaming no substitute for exercise — Younger gamers looking to con a Wii out of parents this year by selling them on the physical benefits of “active” gaming, it's time to dream up a new strategy. A UK study entitled “Energy expenditure in adolescents playing new generation computer games” …
Kenji Hall / Business Week:
Does Japan Need the iPhone? — The world's most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple's high-tech gadget — The Japanese fell for the iPod. So why should they not embrace the iPhone, too? It's tempting to think that Japan's love affair with Apple's …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Can an airline exec run Red Hat? You'd be surprised — When former Delta Airlines chief operating officer James Whitehurst takes over as CEO of Red Hat on New Year's Day he'll face the worst kind of doubters-the quiet ones. But Whitehurst could very well take Red Hat to the next level.
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