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Will Apple Launch a Quad-Core Macbook Pro at Macworld?

Source: All About Jazz
December 31, 2008

Some are speculating that Apple's top-of-the-line notebook could receive a significant chip upgrade at January's Macworld Expo.

When Apple refreshed its MacBook family in October, it mysteriously left out the 17-inch MacBook Pro -- Apple's high-end notebook designed for creative professionals. Incidentally, APC noticed Intel quietly added a new quad-core mobile processor to its CPU line. APC deduces that it's likely Apple stalled on upgrading the 17-inch MacBook Pro to await Intel's quad-core mobile processor, dubbed the Core 2 Extreme ...

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Apple Shares Drop as Jobs Health Rumors Resurface

Source: Michael Ricci
December 31, 2008

The company refuses to comment on Web report. The stock is down 56% for the year. Shares of Apple Inc. were on their way to a gain Tuesday when a website reported that Chief Executive Steve Jobs was in “rapidly declining" health.

The company's stock sank from about $88 to $84.72 within minutes of the report, which cited an anonymous source and was posted on the Gizmodo technology website. The shares then recouped about half of their loss to finish ...

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U.K. Plans to Ask U.S. for Website Ratings

Source: PC Magazine
December 30, 2008

The U.K. minister for culture plans to not only work to establish a movie style ratings system for Web sites, but to work with the Obama administration to implement a similar program within the United States, Reuters reports. As of now, there has been no response from the president-elect. The kind of ratings used for films could be applied to websites in a bid to better police the Internet and protect children from harmful and offensive material, Britain's minister for ...

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New Web Technologies of '08 You Need to Use Now

Source: All About Jazz
December 30, 2008

Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds with their utility and ingenuity — and become must-haves.

For this list, we've compiled the most truly life-altering nuggets of brilliance to hit center stage in 2008: the ideas, products and enhancements to the web experience so huge ...

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MP3 Player Saves Pair Lost in Mountains

Source: PC Magazine
December 30, 2008

In what could have been a tragic ending, a pair of French outdoor enthusiasts were saved when they became lost in the Swiss mountains, Reuters reported. What saved them? The faint light of their MP3 player, which rescuers were able to see. The light from an MP3 player saved two lost tourists from a chilly night stuck out in the snowy Swiss mountains, rescue authorities said Saturday. The two—a skier and snowboarder, both from France—had got lost late in the ...

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Rockmoto Matches Music with Motorcycles

Source: HypeBot
December 30, 2008

Motorcycles and rock and roll - it seems like a pretty obvious connection. But no one's been helping to make it, until now. The Motorcycle Industry Council has launched RockMoto.com, a music centered social networking site to foster the connection that includes Features include:

Pandora-enhanced music player: A partnership with Pandora allows community users to submit their own rockin' playlists to the site and duplicate it on their online profile. Videos: RockMoto publishes fresh videos every ...

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How Youtube Changes the Way We Think

Source: All About Jazz
December 29, 2008

Two years ago, a YouTube member named MadV—who silently performs magic tricks while wearing a Guy Fawkes mask—put up a short, cryptic video. He held his hand up to the camera, showing what he'd written on his palm: “One World." Then he urged viewers to respond.

The video was just 41 seconds long, but it caught people's imagination. Within a few days, hundreds of YouTube users had posted videos—shot on webcams, usually in their bedrooms—displaying their own scrawled messages: “Don't ...

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Tuneroom Finds then Sends Songs to Mobile

Source: HypeBot
December 29, 2008

MP3.com founder and serial entrepreneur Michael Robertson is at it again; this time helping to further his belief that mobile phones are the next MP3 players. Tuneroom is a music search engine designed to send songs wirelessly to any mobile phone and serve as a compliment to his previously launched Load2Mobile which wirelessly loads song collection to mobiles.

Users can browse Tuneroom from a PC and locate songs to send a phone or visit Tuneroom via any mobile ...

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