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AppleInsider:
Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA's in new MacBooks — Apple will announce as part of its special media event Tuesday a new family of MacBooks that will abandoned Intel's integrated graphics chipsets for those part of NVIDIA's new mobile platform, AppleInsider can confirm.
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Kevin Rose drops MacBook Blu-Ray Rumor at Live Diggnation event — At the live Diggnation that was just held in London as part of the “Future of Web Apps” Expo, Kevin Rose enlightened us with yet another juicy rumor. He claimed that the new and yet to be announced MacBooks will support Blu-Ray drives.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Profit Maximization V. Survival Maximization — A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are starting to take their advice.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Startup Advice: Worry, But Don't Panic - You'll Miss The Opportunities — VCs and angels sent out a series of “look out!” warnings to their charges last week. Now we're starting to see slightly more positive takes from other investors to their startups: Something along the lines of “Look out!
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
TechCrunch Turns Into F**kedCompany 2.0 — Some of my readers who missed the dotcom boom and bust from the early 2000s may not be familiar with F**kedCompany, a Web site that was dedicated to gloating about layoffs and other misfortunes at Web companies as the tech bubble popped.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
iPhone 3G may be coming to a Walmart near you — Back in June we broke the news that Apple would be mixing things up a bit by moving away from its prior iPhone distribution model and getting a couple of nation-wide retailers in on the action. A little more than two months later …
1938 Media:
Exclusive Google Android Phone Video Review — I love Steven P. Jobs. He along with Joe Namath and Mike Rowe. Anyway, Steven P. has this iphone thing. I have two. I like it a lot. I was a Mac guy before I got it. So Google is run by three really smart guys.
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Twitter Status:
IM: Not coming soon — In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this feature, because this interface, which millions of people were already familiar with …
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Lawrence Lessig / Wall Street Journal:
In Defense of Piracy — Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up. — In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving …
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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
The Bell Now Tolls for Social Networks — I blame David Hasselhoff. — Everything was going fine for the web — the financial world had been unwinding its overleveraged excesses for nearly a year without nary a ripple into Silicon Valley — until the launch of HoffSpace …
Don Reisinger / InformationWeek:
Which Video Editing Program Should You(Tube) Use? — Our software smackdown compares Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple iMovie, Pinnacle Studio, and Corel VideoStudio, with tips on the best package for creating your digital camcorder movie masterpiece. — As affordable camcorders become more powerful …
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Dan Landis / Ripten Video Game Blog:
WoW Whore Has 36 Accounts, Raids by Himself — In what is perhaps the most shining example of obsession and geekiness I have ever seen, a fella by the name of Bradster has 36 World of WarCraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers simultaneously. He mainly seems to be doing …
Aviv Raff / Aviv Raff On .NET:
Sharing is not always a good thing — You all learned about the value of sharing. When I was a kid my mother taught me that I should share my stuff with my friends. Unfortunately, sharing is not always a good thing. Especially, when talking about sharing web-applications across domains.
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