Top Items:
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Steve Jobs keynote live from Macworld 2006 — Yes, yes, this post is where all the action's gonna happen for today's live Stevenote-keynote coverage. Bookmark it, refresh it, do your thing — just be sure and come back some time around 9:00AM Pacific / 12:00PMEastern.
RELATED ITEMS:
PC Magazine:
MacWorld: Apple Unveils MacBook Notebook, Intel-Based iMac — The wait is over. The debut of Intel notebooks at MacWorld arrived today during Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote speech. — The 15.4-inch MacBook Pro features the Intel Core Duo processor, a blazingly faster and more efficient processor than the previous G4 chip.
Discussion:
Gearlog
Clint Ecker / Ars Technica:
MacWorld 2006 Live Coverage — This is a live transcript/summary of what's going on at Macworld right now. We will have a more reader-friendly report on today's show shortly. — Please note that this transcript takes place in reverse chronological order. The beginning of the keynote is at the bottom of this page.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Macworld Expo Live Keynote Coverage — Please visit Macworld News or the Macworld Expo topic page for more details from the show. — Steve Jobs started his Tuesday presentation with a recap of some of Apple's highlights from the previous calendar quarter.
Kevin Rose / my blog:Macworld 2006 — Kevin Rose, the former TechTV nerd says he knows …
Discussion:
MacInTouch
Mike / Techdirt:
We Sat Around Waiting For Google Video And All We Got Was This? — from the needs-a-bit-of-work-it-appears dept. — Remember the good old days when Google used to "wow" people with their new products? AdSense. Gmail. Google Maps. These were products that took what was apparently …
RELATED ITEMS:
John Markoff / New York Times:
U.S. Office Joins an Effort to Improve Software Patents — The United States Patent and Trademark Office plans to announce today that it will cooperate with open-source software developers on three initiatives that it says will improve the quality of software patents.
RELATED ITEMS:
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
Debate on DRM — Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited's Lloyd Shepherd on DRM and says it's one of the most depressing things he's read. Shepherd wrote: … Doc points to others making arguments in refutation of Shepherd's thesis (Tom Coates and Julian Bond), and ends his post with:
RELATED ITEM:
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
Digging The Madness of Crowds — Earlier today, O'Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages.
Discussion:
Web 2.0 Explorer, Venture Chronicles, ben barren, TJ's Weblog, Steve's Theft, Mashable*, Geeking with Greg, The New Foo and SiliconBeat
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Apple to Sell S.N.L. Skits for iPod Use — "Saturday Night Live" fans looking to watch classic skits from the show may not have to depend on reruns and DVD compilations for long. — Apple is set to announce today that it will sell a limited number of archived "Saturday Night" …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
TOP TEN BLOGGER LIES — 1. I don't consider myself an A-Lister. — No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway. Uh-huh. — 2. I don't care about traffic. — Of course I don't. Even though I'm a freelance consultant, and my blog is my primary way of marketing myself.
Discussion:
Get Real, John Cook's Venture Blog, cruel to be kind, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and B2Day
USA Today:
Macworld's turn: Apple may unveil retooled laptops — LOS ANGELES — Now it's Apple's turn. — After tech firms last week tried to out-dazzle each other at the Consumer Electronics Show with gadgets that marry the Internet, consumer technology and entertainment, Apple Computer takes center stage …
Discussion:
Todd Bishop's Microsoft …
RELATED ITEM:
Reuters:
AOL buys video search company — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online company AOL on Tuesday said it had closed a deal in December to purchase Truveo Inc., a video search company. — Financial terms of the deal were not provided. — The deal was the largest purchase by the Time Warner Inc. division …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
A DVD combo? Don't hold your breath — For consumers, a device that could play both HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs would take a lot of risk out of adopting the new video players—but one may not arrive for a while. — Legal agreements, intellectual property issues and technological pride …
Discussion:
Digital Tech Life
Nancy Hass / New York Times:
In Your Facebook.com — AS far as Kyle Stoneman is concerned, the campus police were the ones who started the Facebook wars. "We were just being, well, college students, and they used it against us," says Mr. Stoneman, a senior at George Washington University in Washington.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Fiber-optics cut affects Sprint service — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp.'s wireless, long-distance and Internet customers along the West Coast were without service for several hours Monday after a fiber-optic cable was cut west of Phoenix. — The problem was compounded …
