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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
Discussion: Micro Persuasion
Jon's Radio:   Stanford, meet the lightnet. Apple, get a clue.
BBC:
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 …
Discussion: Spyware Confidential
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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 …
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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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
Twas The Blog Herald that's been on the market
Discussion: Newsome.Org
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.
Discussion: Random Bytes
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Gather Them Eyeballs!
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 …
Discussion: CyberJournalist.net
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Download Squad and Boing Boing
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.
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 …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Base & The v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO Contest  —  Damn — just when I thought I could ignore the latest SEO contest, it does something interesting.  First, Greg Rockstar Boser notes that while Yahoo already has picked up 130 matches for v7ndotcom elursrebmem (and I see 296 myself, right now), Google comes in with zilch.
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Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
One Answer to Too Much Tech: Sorry, I'm Not Here  —  You get text messages on your cell phone, but you never, ever send one.  You don't do certain e-mails during the day, only at night, after 9.  You carry your BlackBerry everywhere you go, except on the golf course.
Discussion: Techdirt
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Apple helps `mere mortals' create a personal Web site  —  Apple Computer, whose click-and-listen iTunes technology helped spawn the digital music revolution, is hoping to do the same with Web publishing.  —  The new Intel-powered Macintosh computers grabbed much of the attention …
Discussion: TechSpot

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