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Electronista:
Microsoft asks just $15 for each XP netbook — Microsoft's determination to wrest control of netbooks from Linux has seen it drop the bulk price of Windows XP for the systems to under $15 per copy, according to a leak from an unnamed source. Although Microsoft has never publicly disclosed …
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Seth H. Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Windows 7 application limit opens door for Android — We all know that Google Android netbook devices will be hitting the streets in the coming months. They are going to be running on really inexpensive ARM-based hardware and be getting an easy, unified interface, care of Google.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Flash Charges into the Living Room — Adobe is making a major push to bring its Flash platform to the living room, announcing a version of Flash that's optimized for televisions, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on Monday. — Flash is already installed …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Twitter overhyped, or another example of macromyopia? — Twitter is everywhere. Is it overhyped? Or is it another case of Macromyopia; over-estimating the short term effects and under-estimating the long term impact. No doubt there is a lot of hype and attention around Twitter, fueled by Ashton Kutcher, CNN, and Oprah.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Washington, D.C. will be 1st to get free mobile TV — Washington will be the first U.S. city to get free digital TV broadcasts for mobile devices like cell phones, laptop computers and in-car entertainment systems, broadcasters were set to announce Monday. — Broadcasts using new …
Douglas Quenqua / New York Times:
Recklessly Seeking Sex on Craigslist — THIS is it, Melvin thought: Craigslist is about to get me killed. — A recent divorcé who lacked the money and confidence for a conventional date, Melvin, 35, had been lured to a stranger's apartment by the promise of anonymous sex.
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
New ‘Get a Mac’ ads don't acknowledge ‘PC Hunter’ talking points — We were worried that Apple would somehow try to respond to the PC Hunter advertising by switching their message. They didn't. They are staying on their message. Our favorite? Legal Copy: (more below) — Also see them at Apple
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left? — I'm listening to Dave Winer and Jay Rosen “reboot the news.” Jay is a journalism professor and Dave is a geek that helped either birth or bootstrap all sorts of publishing technologies including blogging, RSS, OPML, XML-RPC, and more.
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Christopher Price / PhoneNews.com:
Apple Consolidating AV Cables Ahead of iPhone HD Launch — Apple has advised Apple Authorized Resellers to begin placing on clearance both the Apple Composite AV Cable and Apple Component AV Cable. PhoneNews.com has learned that Apple will be consolidating these cables, ahead of the launch of the next iPhone.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
How Many New Twitter Users Post-Oprah? A Lot. Maybe Over A Million. — Late last night, former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block tweeted out that he had done some research to attempt to quantify the “Oprah Effect” — that is, the number of users who signed up for Twitter after Oprah featured the service on her show on Friday.
Bobbie Mixon / EurekAlert!:
‘Instant on’ computing — Materials researchers say rebooting soon may be a thing of the past — The ferroelectric materials found in today's “smart cards” used in subway, ATM and fuel cards soon may eliminate the time-consuming booting and rebooting of computer operating systems by providing an …
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
He makes $1 million crowdsourcing sources — Peter Shankman, who describes himself as a marathon-running, sky-diving, cat-loving PR guy, says he is grossing nearly $1 million a year by using the web to help reporters find sources for stories. — He crowdsources sources with a nifty …
