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7:50 AM ET, March 1, 2006

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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 …
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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.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Apple Closer to Getting it Right — Initial Thoughts on Apple's New Mac Mini Announced Today  —  Last October I wrote about the fact that Apple had released Front Row but that they had released it with the wrong PC, the iMac.  The iMac is a computer that has a built in monitor …
Mike Kobrin / PC Magazine:
Apple Debuts iPod BoomBox
Discussion: Gearlog and What's New Now
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Apple Event Live Update
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.)
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Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:
NEW LIVE.COM SERVICE: STREET-SIDE (PREVIEW)  —  Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has more details plus screenshots: … Update: The preview seems to be live already....here's the Street-Side view of the W Hotel and Starbucks on 4th Ave and Seneca Street, Seattle:
Discussion: All Points Blog
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.
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's …
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.
Discussion: Valleywag
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Paul Kapustka's Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Super-Stealth Ether to Launch Tonight  —  Tonight at midnight the doors open (to beta testers) at Ether, the new super-stealth startup that is wholly-owned by the pay-per-call folks at Ingenio.  —  The concept of Ether is straightforward, but it has a massive back end infrastructure (thankfully Ingenio already had it built).
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.
Adam Pasick / Reuters:
Napster plays blame game  —  NAPSTER'S chief executive has blamed technical glitches from Microsoft and music player makers for hampering his company's ability to compete with Apple's iTunes music service.  —  "There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months …
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.
Lifehacker:
Put Wikipedia on your iPod  —  Free, open source software Encyclopodia brings the vast knowledge-base of Wikipedia to your iPod.  —  You can install Encyclopodia from any OS, but it does require you to install it on a separate bootable partition of your iPod.  Installation is quick and easy (at least it was using Windows).
Lee Odden / Search Engine Roundtable:
Meet The Blog & Feed Search Engines  —  Detlev Johnson of Position Tech moderates this session that gives attendees a chance to hear from representatives who operate major blog and feed (RSS/Atom) search engines and about how they operate.  Speakers include: Adam Hertz of Technorati …
 
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Brian Montopoli / News Blog:
YouTube Can't Keep A Good Video Down
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Pundits On Search  —  Danny Sullivan is the moderator on this panel …
Discussion: Matt Cutts and Scobleizer
Simon Hayes / NEWS.com.au:
Copyright makes web a turn-off
Adam DuVander / webmonkey.com:
Master Pages Mastery
Mike / Techdirt:
What Problem Do Blog Classifieds Solve?
Blogbuy / BlogBuy Blog:
BlogBuy Helps Blogs Disintermediate Ecommerce Sites
Charles / Yet Another Software Blog:
Doom!  Doom I say!  —  Classic Nicholas Carr post yesterday.
 Earlier Items: 
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
What Happens When an A Hole Tries to Sell an A Hole — MPAA Tries …
Discussion: Newsome.Org, Techdirt and LawGeek
sonyericsson.com:
Sony Ericsson introduce new lifestyle of imaging communication …
gizmag.co.uk:
Functional redesign of the wall electrical outlet
Discussion: Gizmodo
Ed Oswald / betanews.com:
Windows Live ID to Replace Passport
Paul F. Roberts / eWEEK.com:
Who's Reading Your Cell's Text Messages?
Mike / Techdirt:
Why Does Anyone Need Permission To Place Shift TV To A Mobile Device?
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Launches Google News Mobile
 

 
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