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Scott M. Fulton, III / tgdaily.com:
Analysis: Just how different are Intel-Macs from Intel PCs? — San Francisco (CA) - The very first Apple computers, distributed nationwide in 1977, had a hood you could pry off to reveal the CPU, the memory, and the motherboard. But almost three decades later, the company that pioneered …
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Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
Win Some, Lose Some — Bob's Prediction Average Was Down for 2005, but 2006 Is Looking Better Thanks to Apple and Burst — It is time for my list of predictions for high-tech in the year ahead. Two thousand and six will look completely different whether you are a home or business computer user.
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Dan Warne / apcmag.com:
Intel Macs may boot XP after all — Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can't boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne. — Tech journos far and wide have been quick to jump on the story that while Apple says it isn't doing anything to specifically prevent people …
jkOnTheRun:
New MacBooks- can they dual boot or not? — Apple surprised no one last week with the MacWorld announcement that the Intel Macs are coming. The news had leaked weeks before and the general reaction to the news was good, although many are voicing displeasure at the rather bland name- MacBook.
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Stepto / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there? — Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been receiving on the recent WMF issue.
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grc.com:
The Windows MetaFile Backdoor? — Description: Leo and I carefully examine the operation of the recently patched Windows MetaFile vulnerability. I describe exactly how it works in an effort to explain why it doesn't have the feeling of another Microsoft "coding error."
Business Week:
Math Will Rock Your World — A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they're mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data — Neal Goldman is a math entrepreneur. He works on Wall Street, where numbers rule.
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Stephen Baker / Blogspotting:
My secret life: keeping the math cover story out of the blog — I've been leading a secret life on this blog. For months and months I worked on this math cover story. I was talking to mathematicians and people who use math, and it was dominating my thinking.
John Mark Walker / onlamp.com:
There Is No Open Source Community — Conventional wisdom says that powerful individuals drive open source by working against the grain to institute a methodology of sharing that would balance the power between software vendors and users. — While this makes for an entertaining narrative …
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John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft hopes to cash in with click-on ads — Advertisers pay top dollar to place products in popular television shows and movies. — Now, Microsoft is hoping to expand on the concept with a new technology that allows viewers to click on cars, clothing or other products that appear in online movies or TV shows.
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Another Forrester take on Google Personalized Home for Mobile — My colleague, Charlie Golvin, covers the consumer wireless space and participated in the Google Personalzied Home for mobile briefing with me today. He offers the following thoughts on the service and asks for your thoughts as well:.
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:Google enables personalized content, RSS on mobile phones
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Business Week:
Putting The Screws To Google — How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty — What if 2006 is the year big media players take aim at Google's (GOOG ) kneecaps? No, not with more lawsuits; the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers — on behalf, in part …
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Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
Anti-spyware guidelines get final version — A coalition of software companies have agreed on standard methods for identifying and combating spyware, those unwelcome downloads that have plagued Internet users with pop-up ads and other annoyances. — The Anti-Spyware Coalition …
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MikeG / Mike Grehan says:
[Warning: This post may contain traces of strong language. It also contains large chunks of my personal life. People who suffer queasy allergy at the slightest hint of sentimentality should remain within reach of a plastic bucket. It's a very long post. Side effects may include feelings …
acmqueue.com:
A Conversation with Phil Smoot — ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 10 - December 2005 / January 2006 — The challenges of managing a megaservice — In the landscape of today's megaservices, Hotmail just might be Mount Everest. One of the oldest free Web e-mail services, Hotmail relies …
