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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Rumor: New Mac Mini Coming to Macworld 2009 — Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac Mini, at January's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, according to an Apple corporate employee who contacted Wired.com. — The source, who wished to remain anonymous (to keep his job) …
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Yahoo! Mail Blog:
Take a tour of Yahoo! Mail's new smarter inbox — As you may have heard, we've been working on a new smarter inbox to help make your life easier. We're happy to announce that today, some of you will begin to experience the smarter inbox, and we wanted to give everyone a chance to see what it looks like and what it can do.
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Yahoo! Developer Network Blog:
Yahoo! Mail rolls out a smarter inbox — You may have seen today's news announcing the next generation of Yahoo! Mail — rolling out a “smarter inbox"experience to users. One way to make an inbox smarter: make applications that can work within it, opening up Yahoo! Mail to content and services built outside the Yahoo! network.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple Loses Shine as Mac Sales Slow — PC Maker Eschews Discounts Even as Rivals Slash Prices and Consumers Pull Back; Worries for 2009 — Even Apple Inc. is beginning to suffer in this year's dismal holiday season, and worries are mounting the recession will weigh on its business next year.
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9 to 5 Mac:
10.5.6 here...snappieness™ ensues — 10.5.6 is out, go grab it from Software update (377mb here!) or via the standalone installer. — Here are the details or check below. It looks like there are many performance improvements in this one! Yes, we are feeling the snappieness™, are you?
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MacFixIt, Ars Technica, Computerworld Blogs, TheAppleBlog, TG Daily, Neowin.net and NEWSFACTOR
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Times of London:
Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill — Amazon, Britain's most popular website for Christmas shopping, is making its staff work seven days a week and threatening them with the sack if they take time off sick. — The company charges among the lowest prices for products ranging …
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Beyond Search, AccMan Pro, CNET News, Andrea on Amazon …, Valleywag and diversity.net.nz
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter has made Dell $1 million in revenue — Everyone loves talking about Twitter's business model — because there isn't one yet, and they'll keep talking about it until there is one. But it's becoming more clear that while a business model is of course important, Twitter is perhaps …
BBC:
Serious security flaw found in IE — Users of the world's most common web browser have been advised to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. — The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SlideShare Sends PowerPoint To The Cloud With New Plugin — SlideShare, a startup that we've likened to a YouTube equivalent for PowerPoint presentations, has released a new plugin for Microsoft Office 2007 that allows users to edit and publish presentations directly to their SlideShare accounts.
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Intel-Powered Convertible Classmate PC: The Touch Netbook to Emulate — CES 2009 is undoubtedly going to be the show for touch-enabled netbooks and leading the pack will be Intel's Convertible Classmate PC. While MSI and ASUS have hinted at their respective touch-capable Winds and Eee PCs …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
The myth of the 99-cent killer app — Stung by criticism from frustrated developers, Apple (AAPL) redesigned its increasingly crowded iPhone App Store last Friday to showcase the most popular paid applications in each category — Books, Business, Games, etc. (See here.)
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Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Swedish Police Warn of Tampered Credit Card Terminals — Swedish police are unraveling a scheme where criminals stole credit card details by tampering with a point-of-sale (POS) terminals at a Toys R Us store in Malmö. — One terminal was found to be equipped with a bogus keyboard overlay …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Vator.tv gets a centralized, Twitter-like news feed — Vator.tv, the “YouTube for start-ups” has a new feature going live on Tuesday morning that lets companies post short updates to their Vator.tv-hosted information pages. Similar to Twitter, the messages are limited to just a few hundred characters …
Rod McGuirk / Associated Press:
Australia OKs Facebook for serving lien notice — You've been “superpoked” — and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that they lost their home after defaulting on a loan.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SEC Gives Social Investing Site kaChing Green Light To Take On Mutual Funds — Every social investing site wants to turn the insights of its trading members into financial products that people can actually link to their brokerage accounts. Finding the few brilliant stock pickers in the crowd …
Anil Dash / Movable Type:
The Web is in Motion via Movable Type Pro — Today, we're launching a new application for Movable Type Pro, called Motion. If you're just looking for the headline to put on your blog, you can think of it this way: — Microblogging like Pownce or Tumblr or Twitter plus
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Virgin Media stands by targeted ad technology — The boss of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, said he still intends to use its position as the UK's largest ISP to introduce controversial targeted advertising technology such as that used by Phorm, despite accusations of cyber-snooping from internet privacy campaigners.
John Cook / TechFlash:
BlueKai gets $10.5 million to help advertisers target shoppers — In these tough economic times, not many startups are raising funds, especially at higher valuations than previous venture capital rounds. But Bellevue-based BlueKai, a 13-person startup led by online advertising executive Omar Tawakol …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion? — With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that? — One could talk about Facebook's fast-growing headcount …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Video game industry pins hopes on hits — With the global economy on the brink of collapse, those in the video game industry are holding on tight to the notion that their business is, if not immune from the financial woes, then at least more protected than those in other sectors.
Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
Mystery T-swivel device is really Compal Tabasco MID — Remember that unknown T-swivel device I showed you last week? The one that all the smartphone sites swooped in on and cautiously identified as the Palm Roteo? Well, it's not unknown anymore and contrary to its Treo keyboard, it's not the Roteo either.
