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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo Exec Exits For Automattic CEO Gig — Exclusive: Start-ups are once again cool, enough for senior executives to leave the safe confines of large companies to take a flier on tiny tots. A couple of days I had reported that Jeff Graham, former CEO of Peribit and a senior executive …
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Toni Schneider / Toni Schneider's Blog:
Moving On From Yahoo -> Automattic — I wasn't going to write about this until my last day at Yahoo, but then Om Malik (the best informed man in Silicon Valley?) found out about 10 seconds after I started telling people at Yahoo, so here it goes: — After a great time at Yahoo working …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
No XP on Intel Macs, but Vista is good to go — If you've been counting on being able to run Windows on those new Intel-based Macs, Apple's not about tomake it easy for you — at least not if you're attached to Windows XP. According to Apple SVP Phil Schiller, the newMacs announced yesterday …
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
The wonderful world of Apple RSS — Here's an example feed. You can't read it in Firefox, and I haven't been able to get NewsRiver to read it. They must look at the User-Agent header and only return if it's their browser. Apparently it works with NetNewsWire. What are they doing at Apple?
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet — In a recent essay, Kevin Kelly warns of the dangers of anonymity. It's OK in small doses, he maintains, but too much of it is a problem: "(I)n every system that I have seen where anonymity becomes common, the system fails.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
PriceRitePhoto Update #23, The Story Hits the New York Times — In a Flash, Camera Dealers Feel the Web's Wrath - New York Times: What started out as a rant on a blog amplified by Digg and others across the blogosphere has ended in the New York Times with the PriceRitePhoto apparently now out of business.
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nikon.co.uk:
Nikon prepares to strengthen digital line-up for 2006 — Following the success of our digital line-up over the last seven years, which has resulted in more than 95% of Nikon's UK business being within the digital area, Nikon Corporation has made the decision to focus management resources on digital cameras in place of film cameras.
Clay / PSP Sony PlayStation Portable:
Sony Thwarted Again - Firmware 2.60 Hacked - First Homebrew Emerges! — It has only been a couple of days since our in-house Hacker / Coder / Forum Moderator extraordinaire, Fanjita, released the first homebrew game for 2.50 Firmware. Now he's taken the next step and accomplished the unthinkable, running homebrew on 2.60 Firmware!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
When Will Yahoo Acquire Technorati? — I just read a print article in Red Herring, written by Liz Gannes, called "Hungry Hungry Yahoo". Liz discusses Yahoo's acquisition binge and speculates on a few likely candidates for future Yahoo shopping sprees. The article lists 37 Signals …
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Browsing: The Mobile Data Killer App — Simon Judge just pointed out a new presentation from Nokia about Smartphone usage which is really astounding in some of the light it starts to shed about how people with powerful phones on fast networks actually use their devices.
Mister Jalopy / Hoopty Rides:
Hooptyrides Corporate Art Collection (aka Gimmie) — My friend Jose Luis Junior, age 9, wants a PSP so palpably, it reminds me of my intense desire at the same age for an Atari 2600. Though he doesn't have the games he dreams of, he reads game strategy guides like they were novels.
Don Oldenburg / Washington Post:
A Million to One — Chances Are Imitators Can't Match This Student's By-the-Pixel Web Sales Success — Look what Alex Tew did, and you get one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" flashes. It's so simple, so cheap, so mind-bogglingly lucrative that it took the 21-year-old student …
Associated Press:
IBM, Sony, Toshiba Extend Partnership — BOSTON - The partnership among IBM Corp., Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). and Toshiba Corp. that produced the vaunted Cell microprocessor is being extended for another five years to focus on advancing chip designs at extremely small scales.
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Kirk McElhearn / Kirkville:
iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application? — Yesterday's update to iTunes 6.0.2 comes with a surprise: it's spyware and adware. — Since Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, iTunes has been a compromise: both a music management program and sales portal, it clearly separated the two …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Credit Card Rivals to Unite in Data Protection Effort — Two longtime rivals in the credit card business are working together to create a private group that would set new industrywide security standards as early as the middle of this year, a MasterCard executive said yesterday.
