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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Here's where we stand — I know many of you have had issues with the Windows 7 Beta site over the last 24 hours. As you may have noticed the download site has been up and running smoothly since this morning. That said, we apologize for the inconvenience that it caused some of you.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
RIP Good Times.. Hello GREAT Times! The Richter Scales Debut Another Instant Classic — Last night, The Richter Scales brought down the house at The Crunchies for the second year in a row with a brand new song. The song depicts a hilariously overoptimistic startup and pokes fun …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
What We Learned By Watching The Crunchies — Last night Techcrunch held their 2nd annual Crunchy awards. The evening was a near mirror image of last year's event. Sixteen awards were given and big congratulations go out to all of the winners. CBS Interactive's Josh Lowensohn attended …
Greg Kumparak / CrunchGear:
Look out, Microsoft Surface - the iTable might just trump you in every way — Who would have thought that one of the coolest things we've seen at CES would be hidden in a 10×10 booth at the very back of the South Hall? Like a diamond in the rough, there sat the PQ Labs iTablet.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
A Software Populist Who Doesn't Do Windows — THEY'RE either hapless pests or the very people capable of overthrowing Windows. Take your pick. — In December, hundreds of these controversial software developers gathered for one week at the Google headquarters in Mountain View …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
TrueMotion's Way-Better-Than-Wii Game Controller — I'm still mulling over everything I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show, but I know what my sleeper hit is: Sixense's TrueMotion game controller, which I saw demoed at the meeting room of chipmaker Analog Devices, which supplies some of the technology the controller uses.
BBC:
Texting a signal of wider trends — Ask anyone over 25 what digit they use to ring a doorbell and most people will pop up their index finger. — But ask a youngster and they are much more likely to extend a thumb. — “Where texting is happening they use the thumb,” Anand Chandrasekher …
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Times of India:
Mumbai police to look out for unsecured Wi-Fi connections — Text: — MUMBAI: City policemen will be soon seen roaming in the streets with laptops in their hands in search of unsecured Wi-Fi connections. — In an initiative taken by the Mumbai police, in the backdrop of terror mails sent …
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John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
In a Nutshell: Palm Pre vs. iPhone vs. G1 — CES 2009 brought us a new player in the smartphone upper-echelon. Let's drill down and see how the Palm Pre compares with the iPhone and Android's G1. — 1. Multitouch touchscreen/gesture control: All three are capacitive, only the Pre and iPhone have multitouch.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Windows 7 in 2010? Ha! Try July 2009 — CNET's Ina Fried raised a bit of a ruckus earlier this week when she interviewed Microsoft Executive Bill Veghte and published this cautionary note: … My ZDNet colleague Sam Diaz, a self-confessed “hardcore Mac guy,” says that's reason enough to skip the Windows 7 beta:
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPod touch use “exploded” Christmas day — Did Apple's (AAPL) unrelenting advertising campaign for the iPod touch as a game machine ("The funnest iPod ever") pay off this holiday season? — Indirect data from two Web-based sources suggest it did — big time.
Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Yahoo's Web TV faces uphill battle — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc wants viewers to “fall in love” with its effort to bring the Web to the TV, but questions remain about how the service will operate and how successful it will be in reaching consumers. — It's an ambitious undertaking …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm's app store christened App Catalog, games not a priority — Following an apparent rejection of our suggestion of “Immaculate Collection,” Palm's Developer Network site suggests that the official name of its app store for webOS is simply going to be “App Catalog”.
