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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote — "Fun new products" — 9:50am PT - We're just ten minutes away now... (You can find all our pre-game coverage here). — 10:05amPT - We're seated now, they're playing U2. — 10:07am PT - "Good morning, thankyou for joining us this morning.
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apple.com:
Apple Unveils Mac mini with Intel Core Duo — New Mac mini Delivers Performance Up to Four Times Faster — CUPERTINO, California—February 28, 2006—Apple® today unveiled the new Mac® mini with the Intel Core Duo processor, delivering performance up to four times faster …
Tom Neumayr / apple.com:
Apple Announces iPod Hi-Fi — High-Fidelity Speaker System for iPod Redefines the Home Stereo System — CUPERTINO, California—February 28, 2006—Apple® today announced iPod® Hi-Fi, an all-new high-fidelity speaker system that works seamlessly with the iPod to redefine …
Damien Barrett / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
In Defense of the Apple Rumor-mongering — So Apple's eventtoday is being viewed by a lot of people as a major letdown, and the response from many is along the lines of: … But here's the problem with that argument. Most of us that are being critical of Apple today are beingcritical of the products themselves.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Apple out with third Intel-based Mac, iPod cases — Apple Computer is coming out with a third Intel-based Mac, a revamped Mac Mini using Intel's single-core Core Solo Chip. — Taking the stage at the company's well-publicized product announcement on Tuesday, CEO Steve Jobs said, "We've got some fun things to introduce today.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Apple launches new Intel Mac Minis, iPod Hi-Fi
Apple launches new Intel Mac Minis, iPod Hi-Fi
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Apple Closer to Getting it Right — Initial Thoughts on Apple's …
Apple Closer to Getting it Right — Initial Thoughts on Apple's …
MSN Search's WebLog:
Virtual Earth Team Launches Street-Side Drive-by — The Virtual Earth team is pleased to launch a preview of a new feature we have been working on - interactive Street-side browsing. You can try it out at http://preview.local.live.com Street-side imagery allows you to drive around …
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Jason Cross / extremetech.com:
Why Windows Vista Won't Suck — There's a lot of confusion about Windows Vista these days. Many online discussion forums have a great number of users who express no desire to upgrade to Vista. Sure, we've all seen the screenshots and maybe a video or two of Vista in action, but for many it only seems like new tricks for an old dog.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Vista versions not so confusing after all — Yesterday Microsoft released information about how Windows Vista will be packaged when it's ready for retail delivery later this year. (The press release, unfortunately, is written in very broad strokes. I hope Microsoft publishes a detailed feature matrix soon.)
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google CFO warns of slow growth — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News) Chief Financial Officer George Reyes on Tuesday said advertising revenue growth could slow, sparking a sell-off of as much as 13 percent in the Web search leader's volatile stock.
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Bloomberg:
Google Shares Slide; Finance Chief Sees Slower Growth (Update5) — Feb. 28 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. shares slid as much as 13 percent, their biggest-ever decline, after finance chief George Reyes said growth is slowing at the world's most-used Internet search engine.
sonyericsson.com:
Sony Ericsson introduce new lifestyle of imaging communication with first Cyber-shot™ phones - K800 and K790 camera phones deliver new level of imaging quality — 28 February 2006, London - Sony Ericsson takes digital imaging in camera phones to new heights today with the launch …
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USA Today:
Flickr of idea on a gaming project led to photo website — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Caterina Fake knew she was onto something when one of the engineers at her Vancouver, British Columbia-based online game start-up created a cool tool to share photos and save them to a Web page while playing.
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Alexander Muse / Texas Venture Capital Web 2.0 Blog:
Lists? How about one more? 43 Best Blogs in the Universe! — A friend of ours is starting a new blog network and he launched a new 'Top Blogs' list (I won't mention who is doing it or what it is called) and it reminded me of a post Josh Hallett wrote last August titled, "List of Blogs Nobody Reads by Should and Other Lists."
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Senators back new broadband taxes — WASHINGTON—New broadband taxes may be on the horizon, if an influential senator and his like-minded colleagues get their way. — At a Tuesday hearing convened by the Senate Commerce Committee, several senators from largely rural states called for expansion …
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Dick / Burning Questions:
And There Was Much Rejoicing: New FeedBurner Statistics — Our crack design team has emerged from their cave with a sweeping set of enhancements to our core statistics offering. There are some new concepts, more detailed visibilty into specific item statistics, and a simpler means …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Big Brother Is Reading Your Blog — These days, social networkers are concerned about protecting their privacy, not only from predators and scam artists, but from nosy employers and campus authorities … Social networker Shannon Sullivan was getting worried.
gizmag.co.uk:
Functional redesign of the wall electrical outlet — February 28, 2006 Don'tya just love a simple and clever solution. One of the legacy items in every home that just never seems to get updated is the electrical wall outlet or power socket or whatever you call it.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Why Does Anyone Need Permission To Place Shift TV To A Mobile Device? — A week and a half ago, we noted that all of these hyped up fee-based mobile TV efforts were pretty much doomed, thanks to the rise of place shifting technologies from companies like SlingMedia and Orb (and, most likely …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
AMD's lawyers call on Skype — As part of its ongoing antitrust case against Intel, Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday served Skype with a subpoena demanding documents related to its deal to make one feature in Skype 2.0 available exclusively to Intel users.