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- Newsweek: What would Apple be without Jobs?
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- The larger issue around Jobs' health, and the one that Apple is failing to address in any meaningful way, is the question of succession at Apple. Jobs says only that he will remain in charge for the time being. Who is his heir apparent? No one knows.
- Macworld And CES 2009
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- Coverage of tech's biggest conferences of the year.
- iPhone 3G Gets Excel Editing App
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- MobileFiles Pro lets iPhone users view, edit, and wirelessly transfer Excel files on the handset.
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- Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes
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- AP - Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online music store to 69 cents and plans to begin selling all tracks without copy protection.
- Apple drops anticopying measures in iTunes
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- Apple said it would begin selling song downloads without the anticopying measures and move away from its insistence on pricing songs at 99 cents.
- Video games inspired by TV, movies, board games
- AP - Like so many American creations - baseball, comic books, rock 'n' roll - the video game is a mongrel art form. Literature, music, art and film all get jumbled together in this relatively new medium, but even that isn't enough: Designers have to figure out how to make the whole package interactive as well.
- Clearwire Launches Portland WiMax, Delays D.C., Chicago
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- Integrating Clearwire and Sprint Xohm has shifted the company's focus recently from launching WiMax networks to dealing with more mundane administrative formalities.
- Live blog: Macworld 2009 keynote
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- CNET - We're posting live updates from Macworld 2009 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, where Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, is delivering the keynote speech.
- TechSmith's screencast service Jing goes pro
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- TechSmith's Jing project graduates from its beta phase to a full paid product. $15 a year gets you enhanced video quality, no watermarks and exporting to YouTube.
- Apple creates 17-inch screen 'light laptop'
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- Apple's final appearance at the Macworld trade show has opened with a focus on new software for Mac computers and a thin 17-inch laptop, the MacBook Pro.
- Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage
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- Mischievous Internet forum 4Chan appears to have hacked into one of the Web's most popular Apple blogs just as executive Phil Schiller took the stage at the Macworld Expo.
- Hackers hit MacRumors keynote coverage
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- CNET - Some nasty pranksters, likely associated with Web forum 4Chan, have hacked into Apple gossip mainstay MacRumors' live-blog coverage of Tuesday's Macworld keynote. Hosted on a separate domain, MacRumorsLive.com, the site was plagued by offensive messages about Apple CEO Steve Jobs' health and general inanity (i.e. SEX ME) before finally succumbing to technical difficulties.
- Are tech workers back to a 9-to-5 existence?
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- The paycheck is about to become Silicon Valley's hottest commodity, and the key to its resurgence.
- Ex-eBay CEO Meg Whitman Considering Run As Calif. Governor
- The move could pre-empt another prominent Republican woman -- Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard -- from seeking the position.
- LiveJournal confirms layoffs, says rumored numbers exaggerated
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- The staff cuts have hit both its San Francisco and Moscow offices, the company confirmed after a rumor on Gawker hinted at massive layoffs.
- Video: Macworld rumour roundup
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- Guardian technology correspondent Bobbie Johnson considers the rumours circulating ahead of this year's Macworld expo in San Francisco
- Apple unveils photo software revision
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- Apple unveiled revisions to its iLife media software package Tuesday at the Macworld 2009 show for developers in San Francisco.
- Tech memo to Team Obama
- So president-elect Barack Obama wants to make the deployment of broadband Internet networks part of a sweeping stimulus package that he hopes would create new jobs, update the nation's hospitals, schools and other facilities, and lift the United States out of recession.
- Thailand blocks 2,300 sites deemed insulting to king
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- BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has blocked 2,300 Web pages deemed insulting to the country's revered monarchy and plans to block another 400, Communications Minister Ranongrak Suwanchawee said on Tuesday.
- Social Security begins taking online applications
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- AP - The Social Security Administration, bracing for the coming eligibility of 80 million baby boomers, is introducing an online application that will allow people to apply for retirement benefits in as little as 15 minutes.
- Daily Tidbits: Charles Schwab updates trading platform
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- Investment firm, Charles Schwab has updated its trading platform to make it easier for clients to find information and use that to their advantage.
- Smart homes haven't caught on
- Despite the spread of broadband Internet and home networks, consumers remain deeply skeptical about smart-home technology, according to a new study.
- Conversion to digital TV hits snag in U.S.
- A federal program that helps consumers prepare for the transition has run out of money.
- Logitech to cut 500 jobs
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- The world's leading maker of computer mice will join Sony, Philips and Motorola in laying off workers because of the economic downturn.
- Technology start-ups find it harder to sell
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- Only six venture-backed start-ups went public last year, the fewest since 1977 and down from 86 in 2007, according to new data.
- Motorola Phone Made From Recycled Plastic Bottles
- NewsFactor - Motorola on Tuesday announced two new mobile devices with social responsibility and social connectivity in mind. The Moto W233 Renew is made of plastic from recycled water bottles, while the Motosurf A3100 is a high-speed touch tablet with a customizable home screen. Both devices are debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show.
- Logitech Cuts Jobs, Abandons Targets
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- The cuts, which amount to 500 jobs or 15% of the company's salaried workforce, would be in sales, marketing, legal and IT departments.
- HP offers money for old tech equipment
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- Recycling program in United States expands recycling program from a trade-in credit system to no-strings checks. Consumers must pay for shipments, though.
