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Apple cures the common cold and other stuff (CNET)

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

CNET - Seth Weintraub of 9to5Mac, a blogger with good sources within the Macintosh community, is reporting that Apple has invented a new manufacturing process for MacBooks.

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Kids keep parents in the dark about cyberbullying (CNET)

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

CNET - Online bullying could be more pervasive than you think.

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A broken link economy? Then fix it (CNET)

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

CNET - Just as many of you settled into your seats to watch Thursday evening’s debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Allen Stern of CenterNetworks was attracting his own crowd on Twitter after raising a question that strikes at heart of the blogosphere.

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Mozilla CEO John Lilly: World Domination Is Overrated

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

John Lilly became chief executive of Mozilla in January, moving up from his role as chief operating officer. He’s been with the company that created the open source Firefox browser since 2005, the year Firefox 1.5 was released. Before Firefox, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominated the Web. Now Microsoft’s share is down and Mozilla’s share is 20 percent. The size of the organization makes Mozilla’s tremendous success that much more remarkable. Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., it has fewer than 200 employees.

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Lindependence: A Low-Key Revolution in Software

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

Larry Cafiero is sitting in his cluttered office in the Santa Cruz Mountains looking nothing like a revolutionary. Friendly bearded face. Casual blue jeans. Comfy work shirt with the little penguin logo. Yeah, penguin logo. See, Cafiero is a Linux guy. Maybe you know one—or a Linux woman. Maybe you know that to love Linux is to live Linux—that you don’t just use free and open source software, you embrace it and evangelize it. Some more than others.

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Again! Tech That Doesn’t Work Won’t Let Us Work

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

Yes, I am an angry guy. I yell at other drivers. I roll my eyes when I have to stand in line for more than two minutes. I complain about Wall Street’s greedy executives, out-of-touch politicians, and our local newscast idiots, with their pancake makeup, chiseled cheekbones, and chirpy laughter. Stuff that doesn’t work—especially business technology—is at the top of the list of things that make me angry. Computer equipment and software were the sixth most-complained-about category at the Federal Trade Commission in 2007.

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Mozilla CEO John Lilly: World Domination Is Overrated

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

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The iPhone Apps Sweepstakes

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 12:00 pm

At first, Jon Trainer had visions of retirement. The software developer had created a game that could be played on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch devices, and sales were through the roof. Users of the iPhone couldn’t get enough of the .99 “Bullfrog Touch,” which pits a ravenous swampland amphibian against a swarm of invading insects. After two weeks, reality set in. “People moved on,” Trainer says. The number of nifty new software-based games, tools and other pastimes came flooding into the online App Store, elbowing aside early entrants.

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Hanky-panky distorts Obama iPhone app results (CNET)

Posted on 10.05.08 by templeton @ 10:00 am

CNET - It looks like either somebody drinks a lot of coffee and talks really fast, or somebody diddled with the results of the phone recruitment feature in the Barack Obama campaign’s iPhone application.

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Google postpones Yahoo online ad deal (AFP)

Posted on 10.04.08 by templeton @ 4:00 am

AFP - Google said it is postponing a planned online advertising tie-up with Yahoo to allow more time for US anti-trust regulators to consider the ramifications of the deal.

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