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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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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, kottke.org, Business Logs, New Media Musings, Mobhappy and O'Grady's PowerPage
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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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 …
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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GadgetMadness
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:Why do new PCs come with so much junkware?
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
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 …
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.
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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makezine.com:
MAKE's "Best of Macworld SF 2006" — We podcasted live, and we posted over 100 photos realtime via a WiFi camera + EVDO as we walked around. Now we've picked the top 5 products we liked the most at Macworld SF 2006. It's safe to say our picks aren't likely to be the same ones you'll see in the usual "best of" lists.
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
8086 and Apple, the Stock Story — With little or no news that is impressive enough to merit a big piece, some interesting tid-bits about Apple, and its stock, that is in gravity defying mode. Rob Hof of Business Week, who doesn't blog enough, though he should, points me to this story over on News.com …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:Apple's share price an in-joke for Intelites
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Techdirt, Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, Daily Wireless, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Feld Thoughts
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.
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 …
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.
Bruce Gain / Wired News:
The Ultimate Geek Car? — STUTTGART, Germany — Mercedes-Benz probably didn't have the geek set in mind when it designed its new flagship 2007 S-Class sedan. But when the luxury car hits U.S. streets in February, it'll be packing a bundle of electronics that would make David Hasselhoff green with envy.
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jossip.com:
Jossip Exclusive!! Colin Farrell sex tape proprietor speaks — » More Colin Farrell, Nicole Narain, Sex, Sex Tape — Since we've got nothing better to do than send off emails to anonymous Hotmail accounts at 1am, we decided it might be worthwhile to check in with "John Taylor," …
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Video search engine company, Truveo, sold — for $50 million! — Wow, you can launch a start-up these days, and in two years sell it for a pretty nifty sum. — Truveo, the Burlingame start-up that was launched in January 2004, has been sold to AOL. We've heard from a pretty good source that it was $50 million.
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