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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis [u] — First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple's international online stores suggest it's only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Blu-ray iMacs ‘In A Few Weeks’, Apple Ace Gruber Predicts
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Will Books Be Napsterized? — YOU can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. — Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync — Oh, it's really on now. This morning Palm announced webOS 1.2.1 another point release to its new webOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version, 9.0.1, of iTunes. Moreover, the company has gone …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The model of the new media model — Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very model of the new media company: small, highly targeted, serving a highly engaged public, and profitable.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Wave's unproductive email metaphors — OK, I took a few hours off from playing with Google Wave yesterday. I read all my comments on the post I wrote Thursday about Google Wave, many of which were very ascerbic toward me. — I took the day off and said “what if they are right?” …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
It's Time To Hide The Noise — A few days ago, Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur (@Loic) sent out a retweet with a link to a screenshot of his CTO's Seesmic Web client showing 1,200 Tweets across nearly 20 columns. The joke was that his CTO was trying to achieve a “world record” …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Messages with Enhanced Content — Gmail added a feature that lets you interact with the messages sent by some companies without opening a new page. It's called “sponsored mail with enhanced content” and here's the description: … One of these partners is Netflix.
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy — Table of Contents: — Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts. The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely …
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Why Tech Mergers May End Up Hurting the Web — Suddenly, it's mating season in the tech sector. Xerox is paying $6.4 billion for a piece of the cloud, Adobe is hooking up with Omniture and Intuit with Mint, and that may just be the start. As Om pointed out, this is good news for startups …
Justin / TweetMiner Blog:
Dear Twitter. I Want To Share My Revenue With You. — I'm building http://tweetminer.net and - although I'll always have a free plan - it won't be very long before I introduce premium subscription plans at around $5 - $10 per month. — I may get 1 paying subscriber - I may get 10,000 paying subscribers - who knows?
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Google Search Guru Singhal: We Will Try Outlandish Ideas — Inside Google's search quality group, Amit Singhal runs the core ranking team, which is responsible for those algorithms you hear so much about. The team ran some 6,000 experiments last year that tried tweaking those mathematical formulas …
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
How Microsoft Will Lift Us Out Of the IT-Spending Dumps — I was on a panel a few weeks ago with Rob Enderle and he was asked by an international journalist what he expected in terms of financial news in the next few months. He made a very interesting point that, being an Apple fanboy, I ignored at the time.
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