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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
MacBook Pro Core i7 caught GeekBenching itself — If you were excited about the prospect of Core i5 MacBook Pros, which Intel briefly offered up in a contest last month, you are going to be pretty stoked about today's news from MacRumors. — Their forum members found a GeekBench scoring done yesterday …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Unreleased Core i7 MacBook Pro 6,1 Benchmarked? Supplies Constrained — A Geekbench result posted to their site on February 4th has generated a lot of excitement in our forums. The report seems to reveal the results for an unreleased Arrandale MacBook Pro running at 2.66GHz.
SageCircle Blog:
Forrester tells analysts no more personally-branded research blogs with interesting implications for analyst relations — Credible reports - since confirmed - are coming into SageCircle that Forrester management has set a new policy that analysts with personally-branded research blogs must …
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Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise:
Forrester crimps bloggers: epic E2.0 fail — According to Sage Circle, Forrester plans to crimp its analysts from expressing themselves on personal blogs. I first heard of this (where else?) on Twitter via Jim Holincheck, Gartner Analyst. From SageCircle:
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Walt Mossberg, David Carr And Michael Arrington Talk iPad With Charlie Rose — Charlie Rose had The Wall Street Journal/All Things D's Walt Mossberg, The New York Times' David Carr and our own Michael Arrington on his show Thursday night to talk about the Apple iPad.
MightyMike / PPCGeeks:
EXCLUSIVE Breaking News : Windows Phone 7 Details Emerge From The Depths — With the Mobile World Congress event making its way around the corner, we can all be for certain that it is inevitable for Windows Phone 7 to make its long awaited debut. That being said, there have been rumours floating …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Conan Who? NBC Disappears “The Tonight Show” From the Web. — Remember the whole Conan O'Brien/Jay Leno imbroglio from last month? Perhaps NBC wishes you didn't. The GE (GE) unit has removed every episode of the show's seven-month run from its NBC.com site, as well as Hulu …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Looks Like Google May Have A Super Bowl Commercial — While Google is a company built on advertising, for the most part it has stayed out of advertising itself on the dominant medium: television. There has been talk of ads for a while for both Chrome and Android, and Google …
David / TmoNews:
HTC HD2 Coming March 24th, Zeppelin Called Cliq XT? — While we have no reason to doubt the authenticity of such images, this one comes the way of PPCGeeks.com and a user on their forums. A few notables here are the launch date of the HTC HD2 on 3/24, Moto Cliq XT (aka Zeppelin) on 3/10 as expected and the Nokia Nuron, on 3/17.
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Engadget, WMExperts, MobileTechWorld, Android Central, WMPoweruser.com, Geekword, Softpedia News and I4U News
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Proposed battery restrictions could crimp e-commerce, air travel — Stricter federal rules would affect gadget-loving fliers, electronics makers — Computerworld - Buying your next laptop computer or smartphone online could suddenly get a lot more expensive if a little-known U.S. Department …
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Macmillan Books Return to Amazon After Dispute — Electronic and paper books from the publisher Macmillan were returning to Amazon.com Friday evening, ending a week-long public conflict as the parties negotiated over the future price of e-books. — Details of the resolution have not been made public …
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CNET News, Download Squad, TechFlash, Making Light, TeleRead, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Mashable!, GalleyCat, Electronista and Gizmodo
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to phase out its enterprise search offerings for Linux and Unix — Microsoft is going to be phasing out support for Unix and Linux platforms for its FAST enterprise search products as of their next release (some time after 2010). — Microsoft shared that information …
ZDNet:
Symbian tablets ‘very likely’, says Foundation chief — On Thursday, the Symbian Foundation announced that it had completed the open-sourcing of its mobile operating system — the largest such migration in software history. — ZDNet UK spoke to Lee Williams, chief executive of the Symbian Foundation …
