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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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CNET News, Engadget, Brainstorm Tech, Computerworld, CrunchGear, I4U News, Macsimum News, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, Electronista, The Huffington Post, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Ixnay on the Blu-ray — My updated if-I-were-a-betting-man wagers for upcoming Apple hardware announcements: all-new iMacs, all-new low-end (plastic) MacBook, new keyboard and mouse, speed-bump/price-cut Mac Mini update. Scratch that previous bet on Blu-ray in the iMacs, though …
Craig A. Hunter / hunter.pairsite.com:
On Palm, Competition, and iTunes Sync — Back when the Pre was announced, a frequent conversation topic among developers was “competition” — as in, it would be great to have some healthy competition against the iPhone. At the time, the Pre looked promising, and seemed to be the first viable competitor …
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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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PreCentral.net, Mashable!, Gadgetell, Electronista, Computerworld, The Official Palm Blog, jkOnTheRun, AppleInsider, OSNews, MobileCrunch, Mobilewhack.com, MacDailyNews, Crave, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo and Engadget, Thanks:atul
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.
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Brave New World, TeleRead, jkOnTheRun, GottaBeMobile.com and ResourceShelf, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Matt Cutts: How Google Deals With Web Spam — It's up to Matt Cutts and his team at Google to keep search results as free as possible from Web spam, those pages full of Viagra ads or even malware. A 10-year veteran of the company, he got into this online underworld after working …
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Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Gordon Gekko 2.0: Flipping is GOOD. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're F**king Wrong.) — [disclosure: the views expressed below are my own, and do not in any way represent the official position or perspective of either Mint.com or Founders Fund... so please f**k off.] — Dear Jason Fried:
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App — In a bit of “gotcha” journalism, interviewers Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen got Digg founder Kevin Rose to confirm that his company is developing an application for the iPhone. — When Eriksen referred to having seen a sneak preview …
Boy Genius Report:
Best Buy Mobile's Holiday Playbook: Upcoming Android launches, BlackBerry devices, Nokia Booklet — We were lucky enough to get our hands on Best Buy Mobile's entire Holiday Playbook and after combing through it, there's a couple little nice nuggets of information.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Popularity of Pirated TV-Shows Still Rising — In the US streaming sites such as Hulu offer ‘legal’ platforms to watch TV-shows online. However, in the rest of the world people have to wait for weeks or months until they can watch US TV-shows. — Most TV-show downloads come from overseas …
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Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World? — A newspaper typically gets applause when it tightens its ethics policies. But there were some loud boos when The Post recently implemented newsroom guidelines governing the use of social media. — The guidelines cover popular social networks …
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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.
