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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Washington Post Flubs Story On RIAA — RIAA Still Not Going After Personal Copies (Yet) — from the who-needs-to-read-the-details? dept — Back at the beginning of December, we helped debunk a story making the rounds claiming that the RIAA was going after a guy named Jeffrey Howell for ripping his own CDs to his computer.
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
First Hands On: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 — There's no better sign of Microsoft's increasing acceptance of the Mac population than the latest version of Office for Mac 2008, the first Office with native support for Intel-based Macs. Like its Mac-side predecessors …
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Sue Dunlevy / NEWS.com.au:
Rudd online porn-free plan questioned — A RUDD Government plan to censor internet pornography and violence could undermine another of its election promises - to speed up our internet access. — The Internet Industry Association has warned the downside of censoring access could be a reduction in the speed of access to websites.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Now You Can Graph Your Twitter Usage — Twitter has the potential of breaking into the mainstream this year. A lot of what's going on around Twitter is not dissimilar to the earlier days of blogging; we're seeing evangelists, some basic mainstream adoptions, and even some tracking services.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple daytrading: How to cash in on the Macworld keynote effect — The buzz among Apple (AAPL) traders today is a thought experiment that Matt Haughey worked up at A Whole Lotta Nothing. He writes … Haughey worked the numbers and the result is the chart above, which he calls the Keynote Index Fund (click chart to view full size).
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BBC:
Put your questions to Bill Gates — Bill Gates is to answer your questions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. — The software supremo and co-founder of Microsoft is preparing to step down from the helm of one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Gawker Media Gets Strung Out on Sci-Fi — Online blogomerate Gawker Media is best known for outsider snark-fests like New York's Gawker and Washington D.C.'s Wonkette . But the company minors in geekier fare like gadget site Gizmodo, game blog Kotaku and Lifehacker, a productivity site.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
WebGuild Using Questionable Tactics To Promote Events — Are you going to the Web 2.0 Conference later this month? No, not the one put on by O'Reilly in San Francisco. I'm talking about the Web 2.0 Conference & Expo put on by WebGuild later this month. — Or do you plan on attending the popular Future of Web Apps Conference?
Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Preview: Las Vegas' Greatest Gadgets Show — Kevin Costner, Yoko Ono, Mary J. Blige and Danica Patrick will be hawking products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week—but they'll hardly be noticed. — As usual, the main attraction at CES will be the blizzard of new gadgets …
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Ian Smith / Download Squad:
The 5 most annoying programs on your PC — Elephantware. That is what we are talking about. Bloated programs that make brand new PCs boot like Pentium 2s with 64 MBs of RAM. — This is software that causes your screen to freeze while it works, consumes enough system resources to display …
Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
Celestron Digital Microscope Rocks Digital Screen and 2-Megapixel Camera — A sub-$300 microscope with 3.5-inch digital screen and built-in camera is being launched at CES 2008 next week. Celestron's LCD Digital Microscope has three magnification levels of 4x, 10x and 40x …
Rodney Rumford / Facebook Applications Reviews …:
Some Brands on Facebook Get It Wrong — We have been looking at trends occurring on facebook for brands and how they can engage with applications. From a facebook application perspective many brands are somewhat missing the mark on how to create engaging applications that users will actually use & share on facebook.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Redfly Mobile Companion is the Palm Foleo For Windows Mobiles — Remember the Palm Foleo? This REDFLY Mobile Companion is just like that, except it's for Windows Mobile phones. The MC looks like a small 8-inch screen laptop (styled in Famicom colors), has a keyboard and touchpad, but weighs 1.9 pounds and measures 9x6x1 inches.
BBC:
Technologies on the rise in 2008 — A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007 from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii. — But what will be making the headlines over the next 12 months? — Here the BBC News website gives its predictions for five technologies that could become big in 2008.
