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Doug Mohney / Inquirer:
Apple develops Microsoft Vista of opportunity — It's not the iPod, stupid — PUNDITS and analysts, having seen the latest Steve Jobs magic show, are frothing all over themselves by proclaiming that sales of iPods will equal more marketshare of Macs, especially the new, improved Intel-a-toshes.
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Renai LeMay / CNET News.com:
Firefox for Intel Macs planned for March — The Mozilla Foundation has set a March launch date for a version of its Firefox Web browser that will run on Apple Computer's Intel version of Mac OS X. — "We are targeting the official release of Firefox for Intel Mac OS X in late March …
Daisy Whitney / tvweek.com:
NBC: iPod Boosts Prime Time — 'The Office' Scores Demo High Following Top Download Ranking on iTunes — NBC's "The Office" delivered a 5.1-its highest ratings ever-last Thursday among adults 18 to 49, a bump the network credits in large part to the show's popularity as an iPod download.
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Larry Angell / ilounge.com:iTunes boosts prime time ratings for NBC, ABC
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Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
A BLOGGER IS JUST A WRITER WITH A COOLER NAME — Why Blogging vs. Traditional Media Has Been Oversold — I've been thinking of what I am — about what any media person in the digital age is — since having coffee last week with a 30-something newspaper editor who bemoaned the fact …
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Mac users 'too smug' over security — Technology commentator Bill Thompson is worried about the lack of herd immunity among his fellow Apple Mac users. — The first known computer virus, the Elk Cloner, is 25 years old. Since its appearance we have seen hundreds of thousands …
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Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
The Mystery Blog — I was intending to wait to announce the mystery blog until the seller posted his view of the process, the whys and the wherefores and such. However, the time we'd agreed for him to post to has come and gone, and he's in bed dead sleeping.
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Digging Out the News — A Web Site Invites Readers to Be Editors, — But the Approach Presents Some Risks — What would happen if a Web site's readers — instead of editors — could decide which stories should be published? — Technology journalist Kevin Rose decided to find out.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Gather.com Issue — "News 2.0″ sites are launching faster than I can keep up. Gather is the most recent. — Gather is a social news site that allows user to submit content and generate a revenue share based on activity on the site. They boast $7m in venture funding over two rounds.
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Paper fires journalist — Borrowed too much from Wikipedia — THE Honolulu Star-Bulletin has fired its entertainment reporter Tim Ryan following an investigation into his stories which seemed to lean a little too heavily on Wikipedia content. — According to editor Frank Bridgewater …
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Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Anonymity on a Disc — WASHINGTON, D.C. — To many privacy geeks, it's the holy grail — a totally anonymous and secure computer so easy to use you can hand it to your grandmother and send her off on her own to the local Starbucks. — That was the guiding principle for the members …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Acquires SearchFox Assets — Reliable sources are reporting that SearchFox, which announced that it will be shutting down as of January 25, 2006, has sold its assets to Yahoo. At least some of the employees have moved over to Yahoo as well. — There is no indication of price.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
No Page Reload Required: See Sponsored Ads in Various Categories on Yahoo Movies Pages — Is Yahoo testing something new with sponsored links on some pages found on Yahoo Movies? — Allow me to explain. — Sponsored links on Yahoo Movie pages for thousands of films and actors are found …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Michael Dell Should Eat His Words, Apple Chief Suggests — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 - It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival.
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Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
Rootkits In Commercial Software — By now many of you have heard that Symantec released a security advisory last Tuesday that reported its use of rootkit-like cloaking technology in its SystemWorks product. The Symantec use of rootkit-like cloaking raises the question of what exactly defines a …
