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Nate Mook / betanews.com:
XP Won't Run on Intel MacBook, iMac — With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows. Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple's use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) …
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Rosyna / [unsanity] Weblog:
Lost in Transition: Overcane of Antflower Milk — Today Apple announced the MacBook Pro. It has quite a few changes compared to the previous PowerBook. For one, it uses an Intel Core Duo (formally known as Yonah) chip. This is a dual core processor and no, unlike what Steve Jobs stated, this does not have two processors.
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Henry Norr / macintouch.com:
Macworld Expo 2006: Day 1 — Impressions — Steve Jobs' Jan. 10, 2006, Macworld Expo keynote marked an important milestone in the history of the Mac platform, but not as big or, frankly, as exciting a moment as I and many others had expected. — What made the day historic, of course …
google.com:
Google Analytics Status Update — We've added enough capacity that we are re-opening signups on an invitation basis. Many of our users who previously submitted their email address to us will be receiving an invite shortly. — As you may know, we experienced extraordinarily strong demand shortly after we launched last November.
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Claus / Grand Stream Dreams:
Dealing with the Dell... So Pop got his new Dell. Shipping was fast and delivery was also. It came in less than a week from the order date—even with standard shipping. The order was correct, with nothing missing. Lavie was able to unbox the system and hook it up without any issues.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:Why do new PCs come with so much junkware?
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register — Cory Doctorow: When editing my own Wikipedia entry got me smeared in the pages of The Register, the irony was too delicious. Andrew Orlowski's account of my editing of my Wikipedia entry was founded on a factual error …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites — In a bit of unintended humor, Wall Street closed Apple's stock Tuesday, the day the company unveiled its first Intel processor-based computers at Macworld, at $80.86. — That may mean nothing to the average person, but techies will no doubt catch …
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Jason Kelly / Bloomberg:Apple Comeback May Help Jobs's Stock Grant Eclipse $800 Million
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Michael Brick / New York Times:
In a Flash, Camera Dealers Feel the Web's Wrath — The last best address leads to a metallic gray warehouse by the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Trash haulers go about and there is a dull buzzing sound in the hallway. Graffiti gives information that white people are devils.
Staci / PaidContent.org:
Friendster Sales Saga Continues; Viacom Takes A Pass : [Staci D. Kramer] When I first heard last December from a reliable source that Viacom had made a $20 million offer for Friendster, I held back from reporting it because I couldn't confirm enough details. At first, it seemed like a done deal …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple? — A new version of Apple's iTunes for Mac appears to communicate information about every song you play to Apple, and it's not clear if there's any way to turn this off, nor what Apple's privacy policy is on this information.
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
MASSIVE Blog for Sale — I'm about to begin brokering what is likely to be the largest blog ever sold. As most people know, blogs are sold all the time. Most are somewhere in the top 10,000 blogs around, and they go for a couple of grand. — This is one of the defining blogs in the industry.
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
SpotRunner: Easy TV ads for local businesses — Think it's tough getting local advertisers to embrace Internet advertising? Try TV advertising. The complexities and cost of producing a video and buying air time are too daunting for most small business owners.
Carly Mayberry / Reuters:
E! swings 'Vine' online — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - E! Networks is launching a broadband channel that will deliver streaming video and original content exclusively for the Web, the channel said Tuesday at the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour in Pasadena.
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Chris Morris / CNN:
PlayStation 3 price - $500? — Analysts, developers say they expect Sony's new console to break new price barriers. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - While there was little doubt the Xbox 360 was going to be a hit in the just completed holiday season …
garmin.com:
Garmin Announces GPS Product Support for Mac OS X — MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO/January 10, 2006/PR Newswire — Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (Nasdaq: GRMN), today announced that it will immediately begin to make its line of GPS and mobile electronics devices compatible with Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger."
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
1000Tags - Another Stupid, Brilliant Idea — I was talking with an entrepreneur earlier today about about milliondollarhomepage and what a simple, brilliant concept it is. It's one of those things that will really only work once (although I have some further thoughts on that below).
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
What Is 30Boxes? — In case you were wondering why I did not go to the Steve Jobs Show yesterday, let me tell you the reason: I was meeting with 83 Degrees co-founders Julie Davidson, Nick Wilder and Narendra Rocherolle, the Webshots trio, that are working on an online calendar called 30 Boxes. 30 days 30 boxes.
