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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
OMG Britney! On Twitter! — This is perhaps the most exciting news since the May launch of TomCruise.com: I'd like to welcome Britney Spears to our world. She (or rather her people) have launched both a Twitter account and a bloggy sort of site with near constant updates on her fascinating life.
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RotorBlog.com, The Social, Guardian, MediaFuturist, I4U News, GO2WEB20 Blog, TECH.BLORGE.com and Brian Alvey
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple Q4 earnings smackdown — Andy Zaky has a bone to pick with Wall Street — or rather, with the professional analysts who cover Apple (AAPL) at Morgan Stanley (MS), Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC), and the rest. — “I could write a book on what Wall Street analysts don't know,” he says.
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Why This Storm May Stay Away From Apple — VIOLENT waves are tossing about the world's largest financial institutions like toys made of balsa. The dark skies ahead can't be anything but a recession. Sheets of cold rain have already been smacking the retail sector.
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Is Microsoft Recession Proof? — Is Microsoft recession proof? No, of course not. While it can be buffeted back in forth in a mild recession and get through without group parties here and there, it's pretty unclear what kind of Microsoft will emerge at the other end of a deep global recession.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Plans Major Cost Cuts, Including Layoffs — Struggling Internet Giant to Disclose Significant Reductions as Economic Troubles Spread and Rivals Pose Stiff Competition — Yahoo Inc. is drafting significant cost-cutting plans to try to reverse its fortunes from the inside.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA now wants to avoid trial in innocent infringement case — The RIAA has apparently had a change of heart towards a Texas woman accused of sharing music over KaZaA when she was 16 years old. In Maverick v. Harper, the industry group has backed off its demand for a jury trial …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Cloud Computing and Vendor Lock-In — Tim Bray has a thought provoking post on embracing cloud computing entitled Get In the Cloud where he brings up the problem of vendor lock-in. He writes … Tim's post is about cloud platforms but I think it is useful to talk about avoiding lock …
David Leppard / Times of London:
Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones — Everyone who buys a mobile telephone will be forced to register their identity on a national database under government plans to extend massively the powers of state surveillance. — Phone buyers would have to present a passport …
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Dean Bubley's Disruptive …, CrunchGear, Christopher Null, VoIP Watch, open, Gizmodo, textually.org and Pat Phelan
Martin / gHacks technology news:
Google Chrome Adds Greasemonkey Support — One of the elementary things that the Google browser is missing is support for some kind of plugins or extensions that Firefox offers for a long time. Google announced plans to support an extension API in later builds of the web browser …
Mike Elgan / Computerworld Blogs:
ASUS may ship two-screen Windows 7 notebooks in Q1 — SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Asustek, also known as ASUS — the people who make the Eee PC — plans to ship new notebooks that have touch screens on both the top (where the screen normally goes) and the bottom (where the keyboard normally goes) …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
The Internet is no 21st-century boob tube — Remember when you were young and your family used to gather 'round the television eating dinner on TV trays, fixated by programs like M*A*S*H and All in the Family? Chit chat about what happened at school and work was relegated to commercial breaks.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Record Label ‘Infringes’ Own Copyright, Site Pulled — The website of a record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself “The First Ever Donation …
