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http://daringfireball.net/ - Mac and web curmudgeonry/nerdery. By John Gruber.
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This lengthy New York Times story on the escalating rivalry between Apple and Google hit while I was at SXSW; I didn’t have time to do much more than point out the curious choice to describe Apple employees as Steve Jobs’s “underlings”. (Perhaps “minions” is ...
Mobile
Apple
conversations.nokia.com - 5 days ago
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conversations.nokia.com —
Do you want to help create a smartphone
concept device of the future? Between March and May...
2010 we want to harness the collective thoughts of the Conversations readership to map out a concept device of the future. This isn't just about creating the ...
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The official Nokia Blog
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Unwired View
found this 5 days agofound this
Submissions in by March 27 “will be considered for” the grand opening of the iPad App Store. Seems a little nutty that the vast majority of them have been tested (by developers) only using the simulator.
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App Store
Apple
iPad
A comprehensive look at just how broken the system is. ( Via Tim Bray .)
Update: Fireballed at the moment. Here’s a text-only version from Google’s cache .
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money.cnn.com - 43 hours ago
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money.cnn.com —
The message seems to be that Palm is
in serious trouble — not just merely “struggling”, but...
in dire straits. I don’t really understand why. Their WebOS phones are, to my eyes, the best competitors to the iPhone. People who ...
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Forbes: ‘Palm’s Stock Plummets After Analysts Cut ...
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IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis
found this 43 hours agofound this
Compelling 60 Minutes interview with author Michael Lewis, on the Wall Street financial collapse.
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blog.macmillanspeaks.com - 18 days ago
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blog.macmillanspeaks.com —
After the events of the past several weeks,
I have been in touch with many of you....
It has become clear to me that there is far too little accurate information available in this time of unprecedented change. The issues we all face together are complex, ...
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Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, ...
blog.chrisgran.de - 2 days ago
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Delightful catch by Chris Grande. Here’s Paul Thurrott
in July 2007 , regarding the iPhone: And what’s...
up with the lack of cut/copy and paste? This is a basic OS feature that Apple included in the first Mac OS almost 25 years ago. It’s ...
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Paul Thurrott’s Curiously Shifting Thoughts on ...
mhpbooks.com - 46 hours ago
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mhpbooks.com —
Quoting a report in the subscriber-only Publishers Marketplace:
At least one independent publisher of scale was told...
categorically by Amazon in a recent phone call initiated by the etailer that Amazon would not negotiate agency selling terms ...
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Amazon Playing Hardball With Book Publishers Over Kindle ...
Wikipedia’s media format policy:
The preferred formats are JPEG for photographic images, SVG for
drawings and line-art illustration, PNG for non-vector graphic
iconic images, Ogg Vorbis for sound and Ogg Theora for video.
So, there’s one major site that uses Ogg. But, I ...
Online
Wikipedia
daringfireball.net - 2 days ago
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daringfireball.net —
With Microsoft’s announcement this week that IE9 will
support H.264 HTML5 video , three of the big...
four browsers — IE, Safari, and Chrome — will soon support H.264. The only major browser holdout is Firefox. 1 Mozilla is ...
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youtube-global.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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youtube-global.blogspot.com —
Around the globe, YouTube has become a metaphor
for the democratizing power of the Internet and information....
YouTube gives unknown performers, filmmakers, and artists new ways to promote their work to a global audience and rise to worldwide fame; ...
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YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself
Calling out sites that force you to enter, say, credit card numbers, in a precise format, even though removing things like spaces and dashes is programmatically trivial. ( Via Sarah Harrison .)
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Free iPhone app (also available for Android and BlackBerry) that, like the aforelinked web site, offers a database of instructions for getting a human customer service representative from a list of over 600 companies.
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Android
BlackBerry
In my piece on backups earlier this week, I mentioned that I wasn’t storing my Yojimbo library on Dropbox. A bunch of Yojimbo users emailed me to tell me you can do it, and you can even use it for syncing a shared Yojimbo library between multiple Macs — if you’re careful never ...
Hardware
Mac
apple.com - 2 days ago
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apple.com —
CUPERTINO, California March 18, 2010 Apple is sad
to announce the death of Apple Board member Jerome...
B. (Jerry) York. York, the chairman, president and CEO of Harwinton Capital, joined Apple s Board of Directors in 1997. He was the former CFO of IBM ...
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Apple Director Jerome B. York Passes Away
