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Jonathan Silverstein / ABCNEWS:
iTunes: One Billion Served — Apple iTunes Hits Its Billionth Download — Feb. 23, 2006 — There's been a counter on Apple's iTunes Web page since early February that's been ticking up to the music service's 1 billionth download, and sometime last night it happened.
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Boing Boing
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Peter Nowak / Globe and Mail:
What the other Steve is saying about Apple's striking resurgence — Auckland — After being all but written off by the tech industry in the mid '90s, Apple Computer Inc. has made a startling resurgence. But that doesn't mean its latest strategies sit well with Woz.
Gary / ResourceShelf:
Google Temporarily Stops Registrations for New Google Web Page Creator — Web Search—Google — Google Launches Web Page Creator (Beta) THEN Temporarily Shuts Down Registrations to Use It — Well, here we go again. Google announces a new service and then within hours …
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Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:Google unveils Web page creator
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Search Engine Lowdown, The Pondering Primate, PC World's Techlog and Online News Squared
John Borland / CNET News.com:
MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites — The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it sued a new round of popular Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several that serve as search engines but do not distribute files themselves.
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IP Democracy
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Here Comes Open Source Telecom — My latest Business 2.0 article, The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom, just went online over at the CNN Money website. This is a story about a stealthy startup called Vyatta, that has build the world's first commercial open-source router …
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CNN
Phillip Torrone / MAKE: Blog:
Linux powered, wireless sniffing web radio boom box — Isnoop writes - "For the past few months, I've been working on a web radio boombox. I've hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to run Damn Small Linux off of a USB flash drive.
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
GQ Magazine Sends a Message — The men's monthly ventures into a new arena — text messaging readers via cell phone. But will advertisers answer the call? — GQ is about to push its men's magazine franchise into the quickly growing world of wireless media.
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The Pondering Primate
Jonathan Berger / Official Google Blog:
Mac Widget time — Q. Which fruit was not an iMac color: Blueberry, Lime, Strawberry, Orange, Grape? — Q. Which phrase is not originally from Steve: "insanely great," "There's one more thing," or "Great artists steal"? — Q. Where did the famous 1984 commercial air?
Jason Snell / Macworld:
MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests — Latest laptop looks and feels like a PowerBook — Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday—three 2GHz models bought with our own coin—and the testing started immediately. Macworld Lab has been churning away on benchmark testing …
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Gear Live
PC Magazine:
'V-Chip 2.0' Turns On In March — The V-chip, a small device that allowed televisions to filter out content, was first introduced as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As of Jan. 1, 2000, all analog televisions sold in the U.S. include a V-chip. Now, according to an FCC mandate …
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Engadget
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Thursday: Inside online advertising — The PaidContent mixer last night was loud, crowded and a lot of fun. I spent most of my time with Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org, Cory Bergman of Lost Remote, and the inimitable Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome and Tech TV fame).
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mobile content news
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Net video explosion triggers traffic jam worries — Blame Steve Jobs, or maybe YouTube.com. — The amount of video online is skyrocketing, whether it's "Lost" episodes or movie trailer mash-ups. The phenomenon is putting new stress on ISP networks, which are seeing the demands on their bandwidth burgeon.
gamesindustry.biz:
PRESS RELEASE: Turbine Grants Midway North American Rights to Distribute The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar — WESTWOOD, Mass., FEBRUARY 23, 2006 – Turbine, Inc. announced today that Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc. NYSE: MWY) will co-publish …
Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Googlefasting: Day 1 — I'm frustrated. Utterly frustrated. I don't think I'll be able to make the seven days, seriously. I thought that Yahoo! would be a great substitute, but that's turning out not being the case. Googlefasting is painful. — I had to catch myself a few times …
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InsideGoogle
Merlin / 43 Folders:
5 apps to rescue the distracted — Has your Mac turned into a shooting gallery full of distractions? Do your eyes spin like pinballs every time you sit down to work? Try a few of these apps to help discourage attention-grabbers and force your sickeningly versatile computer (and yourself) into doing just one thing at a time.
Guardian:
What they can't teach you at game design school — Aleks Krotoski — In 1997, the University of Abertay, Dundee, launched the first masters degree in computer game technology. Abertay's pragmatic course teaches coding for console systems, 3D animation, game music composition and technical direction.
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Joystiq
