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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple Tablet Aiming To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines  —  Steve Jobs said people don't read any more.  But Apple is talks with several media companies rooted in print, negotiating content for a “new device.”  And they're not just going for e-books and mags.  They're aiming to redefine print.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons  —  Anyone who has followed Apple news/rumors/patents over the past couple of years has probably noticed a certain trend emerging: Apple seems to be slowly shifting its entire line of products to touch-based computing.
Discussion: Mashable!, Steve Krause, Electricpig and SlashGear, Thanks:atul
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Everything We Know About Apple's Touchscreen Tablet  —  It's looking more and more likely that Apple will release a 10-inch tablet computer in early 2010.  —  Even if you're sick of Apple tablet rumors, we promise you'll like this one.  The latest update comes from a tipster with a solid track record …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Apple Genius Bar: iPhones' 30% Call Drop Is “Normal” in New York  —  How utterly s**tty is the iPhone on AT&T in the New York area?  The average iPhone drops 30 percent of all calls.  And that's considered acceptable by Apple.  —  Giz reader Manoj took his iPhone to the Genius Bar …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
UK internet ad spend overtakes TV  —  Record £1.75bn online spend makes UK first major economy to spend more on web ads than TV, says IAB  —  The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising …
Mark Relph / The Windows Blog:
The Windows 7 Logo Program  —  First, let me introduce myself.  My name is Mark Relph and I am a Senior Director with the Windows Product Strategy Group and I lead a group known as the Windows Ecosystem Team.  My team and I focus on a few specific areas - compatibility of applications & hardware …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
RIM launches TiVo for BlackBerry  —  How long does it take to pump out an TiVo app for BlackBerry?  One year, evidently, as RIM and TiVo have just announced the availability of TiVo for BlackBerry.  Allowing BlackBerry users with a TiVo set-top box to view their program guide and remotely schedule …
blog.seattlepi.com:
Judge overturns Uniloc's record $388M victory over Microsoft  —  A district judge has abolished a high-profile, $388 million award against Microsoft and ruled that the company did not infringe a patent held by software maker Uniloc.  —  The judgment, signed Tuesday by Judge William Smith …
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The Age:
Aussie inventor's $445m Microsoft windfall wiped out
Discussion: eWeek
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Sources: ‘Light Peak’ technology not Apple idea  —  Industry sources are refuting a report claiming that a future fiber-optics technology was an Apple idea that was brought to Intel.  —  Light Peak was an Intel Labs project that the chipmaker was working on before anyone was thinking of using it …
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking  —  ABOUT two-thirds of Americans object to online tracking by advertisers — and that number rises once they learn the different ways marketers are following their online movements, according to a new survey from professors at the University …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Fox Interactive Morphs Into News Corp. Digital Media; Management Reshuffle  —  So the ghost of Fox Interactive Media is finally buried, and now emerges the winner, ready to take on the world...or whatever.  News Corp (NYSE: NWS).  Digital Media (NDM) is the new name of News Corp.'s digital media group headed …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft's Top Executives Get A Paycut  —  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) just completed the worst fiscal year in its history, with revenue down three percent; the first decline in sales in its history.  And its executives did not get off easy.  All of Microsoft's top executives …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iMeem Wipes The Slate Clean With $6 million Funding  —  iMeem may go down in the history books as the little company that could.  The service morphed from an instant-messaging centric social network into a widget service to a full on music streaming service (read an early post by us on iMeem here).
Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:
Akamai's new network aims for iPhone HDTV  —  The Akamai HD Network will work on Flash, Silverlight and iPhone  —  Akamai Technologies is extending its content delivery network to the Apple iPhone as it introduces the Akamai HD Network, a system for streaming high-definition live and on-demand video to a variety of devices.
Eric Miraglia / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
YUI 3.0.0: First GA Release of YUI's Next-Generation Codeline  —  YUI().use("node", function(Y) { Y.one("#message").setContent("Hello, World!")  We're pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0.  YUI 3's core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intuit QuickBooks 2010 Includes App Store  —  Intuit launched QuickBooks 2010 on Monday, including the must-have feature of recent software platforms, an app store.  —  Both QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2010 include the new Intuit App Center, which allows users to download plug-ins …
Discussion: Macworld and MacNN
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
OnLive raises big round from AT&T and others for on-demand gaming  —  OnLive is announcing today it has raised a third round of funding from AT&T Media Holdings, Lauder Partners and its existing partners as it moves toward the launch of its video games on demand service, which will let you play high-end games with no special hardware.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user  —  A sensitive e-mail mistakenly sent by a bank to a Gmail address that prompted a court to order Google to deactivate the account was not viewed by the recipient and has been deleted, the bank said on Tuesday.
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
New Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements to Cover Fraud  —  New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim's dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report.
Discussion: CNET News and Maximum PC, Thanks:ritubpant
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Huddle Launches iPhone App, Microsoft Office Plug-In And Web Conferencing Tool  —  Collaboration applications are becoming increasingly popular in the enterprise space.  Startup Huddle.net has been steadily accumulating innovative features to its business-friendly collaboration platform …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Adobe boss takes seat at Dell  —  Annoyed with Adobe?  Feel the company's customer commitment to be a little weak?  Somewhat annoyed at the company's opaque price tier structure when it comes to Creative Suite sales in the UK and Europe in comparison to the US?
Discussion: content.dell.com
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Warner's $4.2 Billion AOL Fire Sale  —  When AOL CEO Tim Armstrong isn't busy hiring former Google executives, he's preparing for his company's spinoff from the Time Warner (TWX) mother ship, which is is supposed to happen by the end of the year.  So when it does, how much will the Internet company be worth?
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Video: LG GD510 touchscreen ‘Pop’ is heavy on hype, light on specs  —  Gotta hand it to LG, it pulled out the big hitting hyperbole with the launch of its otherwise simplistic GD510 touchscreen phone.  LG begins with a reminder that it launched “the world's first full touchscreen phone” — the Prada — back in January 2007.
Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Ribbit injects voice into Google Wave release  —  Ribbit, one of the earliest web-based telephone services (acquired last year by British telecom giant BT), plans to ride Google Wave's coattails — announcing the integration of several gadgets allowing voice calls, phone conferencing …
Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Meets The iPhone; Access Files On The Go  —  Dropbox, the easy to use file access manager which syncs your files across all your computers and the web, has introduced an iPhone application to make it even easier to access your files anywhere in the world.
Matt Brezina / Xobni Blog:
Xobni now featuring Twitter!  —  Tonight we're launching a feature we've wanted to launch for a while and one which we've been using internally with much glee.  Twitter is now integrated with Xobni.  When you click on an Outlook email message from a contact, that contact's Xobni profile will now contain their recent tweets.
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Don Clark / Digits:
New TI Factory Shows How the Chip World Has Changed  —  It was a big deal when Texas Instruments announced plans in 2003 for a massive chip factory in a suburb of Dallas, its home town.  Six years later, the company is finally preparing for production there-under a strategy that has changed dramatically.
Thanks:atul
 
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Two Romanians to face phishing charges in US
Discussion: Softpedia News
Paulbradshaw / Online Journalism Blog:
The end of objectivity - web 2.0 version
Discussion: racetalkblog.com
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Palm Pre Woes — When the Cloud Goes Down
Matt Holliday / Inside Facebook:
New England Patriots Use Facebook As Primary Online Presence
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Craigslist's Missed Connections as Art
Discussion: PSFK and Mashable!
Peter / Local Onliner:
San Diego Hyperlocal Site Launches ‘U.S. Local News Network’
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Friendster Partners With Intelius. Let The Scams Begin.
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
HP Envy 13 Review: The MacBook Imitated, Not Duplicated
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, sets out on a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Financial Times:
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Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
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