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John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Will Apple Adopt Windows? — This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing. There's just one fly in the ointment. — Total posts: 15 — The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Introducing, The Daily Om — Back in the day when I worked for a weekly newspaper in New York, the dismal newsroom taught me something: not everything merits a front page 24 point headline treatment. There are some stories which are short, sweet, touching or simply quirky.
Leander / The Cult of Mac Blog:
First Mac OS X Worm a Wake-Up Call — UPDATE: There's a lot of debate about whether this is a real worm, or merely an elaborate, executable script that the user is tricked into running. It appears to be a worm — it's self-containing code that replicates itself over the Net (def.).
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Microsoft driver flaw saps battery strength — Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a flaw in its USB 2.0 drivers for Windows XP Service Pack 2 that can cause a notebook to consume power at a faster-than-expected rate when using a peripheral device. — The issue, first uncovered …
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Marc Orchant / Office Evolution:
Office Live: bring out the trolls — There's nothing like a big announcement from Microsoft to start what my friend Ed Bott charitably calls "OS food fights". Yesterday's soft launch of Office Live is a classic example of how good ideas can go right off the rails when marketing messes around …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AllPeers is Coming; Exclusive Screenshots — Prague based Allpeers cofounder Matthew Gertner came by my house today to install the product and let me try it out. — Allpeers is a Firefox extension that creates a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser.
Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
Google Warms to Wall Street — Google (GOOG:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) is extending an olive branch. — The search engine giant's shares are down 18% this year, following a Jan. 31 earnings setback that cratered the once-invincible stock. So Google, after long sitting …
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Internet Outsider
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Tom's Future of Web Apps, Translated for Product Managers — I've had a tab open in my browser pointing at Tom's Native to a Web of Data slide for a few days now. It's been nagging me. I needed to do something with the ideas encapsulated in that one slide, and tonight it struck me while I was doing something completely unrelated.
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Dave Beckett
Modculture / Tech Digest:
Amazon to launch music store and MP3 player? — According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is in advanced talks with the four music companies about setting up a digital music service featuring an Amazon-branded MP3 player pre-loaded with a selection of heavily discounted songs.
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Brian / Spam Kings Blog:
Asterisk on pop-up mogul's gold — There's already a tarnish on the gold medal won by Australian mogul skier Dale Begg-Smith at the Olympics in Turin this week. — While the 21-year-old Begg-Smith may not have been involved in doping or cheating on the slopes, the way he richly supported himself …
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
Nintendo: Official Magazine (UK) scans! — MASSIVE thanks to Tallon for all the scans. Very, VERY much appreciated. — Once again, many thanks to Tallon for this awesome work. You really helped us out.
Matthew Maier / CNN:
MySpace unwired — News Corp.'s youth-oriented Web portal extends its influence into the wireless world. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - MySpace.com, the website that has become a nationwide craze, is headed to a mobile phone near you. — If you aren't familiar with MySpace …
Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
BYOB: — Don't be surprised if Apple saves the day for Blockbuster Video — Poor Blockbuster Video hasn't made a profit in years, the stock is down about 90 percent from its 2002 high, NetFlix is cleaning its clock, and nobody - I mean NOBODY - thinks the future looks in any way rosy for this pioneering video rental chain.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
kpcb.com:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Forms $200 Million — Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund — MENLO PARK, CA., February 16, 2006 - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) - a leader in providing relationship and venture capital SM services to entrepreneurs - announced the formation of a new fund, the KPCB Pandemic and Bio Defense Fund.
Bonnie Ruberg / Wired News:
Sex Games Get Down to Business — Sexy mods squeezed into video games may still cause controversy, but racy titles are becoming so popular the industry is planning a convention so developers can chart a path to success. — Evergreen Events will host the first-ever Sex in Video Games Conference this June.
