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Dan Tynan / PC World:
The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years — Here's PC World's official (and entirely idiosyncratic) list of the top tech gadgets of the last half century. — We're living in the golden age of the gadget. Don't believe it? Check your pockets. Odds are you're carrying a portable music player …
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Alex Bosworth / Alex Bosworth's Weblog:
Dynamics of Digg — DIgg.com has shot up from non-existence this year to be a net publishing powerhouse, challenging the longstanding giant Slashdot for the crown of nerd news. The way Digg.com did it doesn't seem too complicated, they allow the democracy of users to pick the stories instead of a short list of editors.
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
2006 predictions — 1. Apple will ship two generations of iPods. The first new generation, released in April, will have a satellite receiver built-in. The second will have a low-power FM transmitter built-in. — 2. Jason Calacanis will stay at AOL though Easter 2006, and then will resign to spend more time with his family.
Gina Keating / Reuters:
Warner subpoenaed in music download probe — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE:WMG - news) has been subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General in connection with an ongoing antitrust investigation into the pricing of digital music downloads, the company said in a securities filing on Friday.
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Microsoft Quits MSNBC TV, but Web Partnership Remains — Ending a partnership that soured long ago, Microsoft and NBC announced yesterday that they would dissolve their joint ownership of the cable news channel MSNBC, with NBC taking control. — NBC has completed a deal to assume majority control …
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
The Computer Geeks Who Saved Christmas — Home for the Holidays Often Means Work for Tech Professionals — Stan King is going to Pittsburgh and then Los Angeles to visit family for the holidays; he has already gotten word that he needs to fix computers belonging to his cousins, his nieces and nephews in both places.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Will Have the Right to Sell Its 5% Stake in AOL by 2008 — Google will have the right to sell its new 5 percent stake in America Online as soon as July 1, 2008, according to regulatory filings yesterday by both Google and Time Warner, AOL's parent. — On Tuesday, the companies announced …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Best of GigaOM, eBook Available Now — GigaOM hit the 5000 post mark earlier in 2005, the fourth year of blog's existence! As a blog, it has been an amazing experience for me; writing and developing a very special bond with some of the smartest and most informed readers.
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Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:
Correction to story about Staples processing fees — Mylissa Tsai, the program manager for public relations at Staples emailed the following to us today: "As a frequent reader of BoingBoing, I wanted to make sure to reach out to you and your readers regarding your post this week, "Staples Charges for 'virus scanning'".
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