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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from the Macworld 2009 keynote  —  9:07AM “If you wanna hear some new things today — I have three new things...”  —  9:07AM “The last year was our biggest ever, 9.7 mil Macs.  We did it by growing twice as fast as the rest of the industry.”  “The hardware THE leopard (!)...”
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Live from Apple's last Macworld  —  This is a live coverage of the valedictory keynote Steve Jobs decided not to give — sending Apple (AAPL) senior vice president Phil Schiller to Macworld 2009 in his place.  —  Schiller's remarks began shortly after 9 a.m PST (12 noon EST),
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Apple Revamps iLife for '09 with iPhoto Facial Recognition and More  —  Today at Macworld 2009 in SF, Apple showed off a new iPhoto with true facial recognition, a better iMovie and other iLife updates—$79 solo, $99 for family, requires Leopard, available late January.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple unveils all-new 17-inch MacBook Pro  —  Apple just confirmed the totally expected yet eagerly anticipated unibody 17-inch MacBook Pro.  They're calling it the world's thinnest and lightest 17-inch laptop.  It features a 1900 x 1200 LED backlit display, with a 700:1 contrast ratio …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Say hello to iWork 09: Like iWork 08, but plus one  —  Whoever predicted that Apple would introduce iWork '09 today gets a gold star.  Keynote, Pages and Numbers all received what I would consider minor updates; no need to run around all willy nilly for these, methinks.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Sting Teaches You to Play Guitar in Garageband '09  —  In one of the odder announcements during the Macworld keynote, Sting, along with others like Norah Jones, will teach you to play guitar and piano in Garageband '09.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Confirmed: iTunes Going DRM-Free.  Unclear: Does Anyone Care?  —  In 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs predicted that half the music offered at his iTunes store would be sold without digital rights management-the lock-and-key system that the music labels wrap their songs-by the end of that year.
Discussion: hypebot
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iTunes Gets DRM Free, New Prices, Purchase Over 3G  —  iTunes is going DRM free and breaking their single-price rule with three prices: .69 cents, .99 cents, and $1.29.  Not surprised, given the pressure from other music stores.  The iPhone will allow 3G downloads too.
Discussion: Gizmodo
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music, pricing
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network  —  The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively.  LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.  —  The quirky site …
Motorola Media Center:
Motorola Unveils World's First Mobile Phone Made Using Recycled Water Bottle Plastics  —  Latest devices to be displayed at 2009 International CES in Las Vegas  —  Las Vegas - CES - Jan. 6, 2009 - Today Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced two new mobile devices that will make social responsibility …
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Kent German / CNET News:
Surfing with the Motorola A3100
Discussion: NEWSFACTOR, CES 2009 and Electronista
Jack Shafer / Slate:
How Newspapers Tried to Invent the Web  —  But failed.  —  A moment of sympathy, please, for newspapers, whose readers and advertisers have been fleeing at a frightening rate.  —  It would be easy to accuse editors and publishers of being clueless about the coming Internet disruption …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Comcast starts new year with new network management system  —  Comcast says that, as of December 31, it has turned over a new leaf, network management practices-wise.  The new-and-hopefully-improved “protocol agnostic” system the company unveiled to the Federal Communications Commission in September is now in effect.
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
New Comcast Throttling System 100% Online
Discussion: PC World and Maximum PC all
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
ZOMG!  Pranksters hit MacRumors keynote coverage  —  Some nasty pranksters, likely associated with Web forum 4Chan, have hacked into Apple gossip mainstay MacRumors' live-blog coverage of Tuesday's Macworld keynote.  Hosted on a separate domain, MacRumorsLive.com, the site was plagued …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
HTC announces HTC S743: U.S. edition, suckaz  —  Not forgetting about those ever-important arrogant American consumers, HTC has crafted a U.S.-specific version of their HTC S740 Windows Mobile Standard device.  Supporting 850MHz/1900MHz HSDPA bands (sorry, T-Mo users), they're taking …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HP unleashes a series of new low-cost computers at CES  —  Hewlett-Packard is launching a bevy of new products today that show it is designing its products to take into account the lighter pocketbooks and energy usage concerns of consumers.  —  These products being unveiled this week …
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Dan York / Disruptive Telephony:
Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X provides screen sharing, WiFi access, chat features and Twitter-like mood messages  —  UPDATE: Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X is now available for download.  —  Tonight out at the “ShowStoppers” event at MacWorld in San Francisco, Skype announced the new 2.8 Beta …
Chris Meadows / TeleRead:
Disney DVD debacle: Wall  •E vs. DRM  —  As anyone who's watched his adventures knows, Wall  •E knows all about obstinate, malfeasant corporate software that does nothing except step on individuals' rights.  Which is why it's so ironic that the DVDs of Wall
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone announced  —  Six months after announcing its intention to bring SlingPlayer to the iPhone 3G, Sling Media has another announcement to make—just not the one you're wishing for.  —  SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone isn't ready yet, Sling said on Tuesday, but it is on its way.
Anne Thomas Manes / Application Platform …:
SOA is Dead; Long Live Services  —  SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession.  SOA is survived by its offspring: mashups, BPM, SaaS, Cloud Computing, and all other architectural approaches that depend on “services”.
Staska / Unwired View:
Apple patents iPhone Mobile Navigation / Mapping App  —  With the introduction of iPhone 3G with a GPS sensor, many fans expected a bonanza of various navigation apps for the new phone.  —  And, to be sure, there are quite a few of them using location capabilities.
Discussion: MacNN and GPS Obsessed
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Was Apple ‘Adequate but Late’ on Jobs?  —  Some corporate governance experts question whether the tech giant could have been more forthcoming about its CEO's hormone imbalance  —  Apple (AAPL) investors got answers to some of their nagging questions about the health of the company's chief executive …
Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft promotes Bob Muglia to president  —  After working for 21 years for Microsoft, Bob Muglia has been promoted from vice president to president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB), which generated some US$13 billion in FY08, or about 20 percent of the company's total revenue.
Discussion: Microsoft and All about Microsoft
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
Yahoo Gives Itself Permission to Change Your Search Marketing Campaigns  —  If you conduct search advertising through Yahoo, you just got a brand spanking new addition to your search marketing team: Yahoo.  —  Through an update to their terms and conditions, Yahoo gives itself permission to hijack your search marketing campaigns.
 
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Clearspring Lays Off 20%, President And COO Jay Rappaport Leaving
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Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
The history of Apple fans: A MacHeads review
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InfoWorld:
IBM finalizing free Symphony office suite for Macs
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
MediaSentry may be gone, but RIAA tactics will live on
Discussion: p2pnet and Tynan on Tech
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Debian 5 release approaches... binary blobs included
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InfoWorld:
Bringing Macs into business: Real-life IT stories
Discussion: The Open Road and The Register
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
I Am Boycotting IE Mobile Until Microsoft Gets Its Act Together
Discussion: Technologizer and IntoMobile
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
If a 13 year-old can launch a startup you have no excuse
Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Amazon adds new S3 twist: Make people pay to access your data
Discussion: The Noisy Channel
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