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[Medianews] Ars reviews the Apple TV 2.0: little, black, different

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[Medianews] John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript

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[Medianews] Bumpy road to multi-core: Ars reviews the 12-core 2010 Mac Pro

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[Medianews] iPhones for Toddlers

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[Medianews] Education of a President

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[Medianews] Will Apple's Culture Hurt the iPhone?

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[Medianews] Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

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[Medianews] Apple MacBook Pro 13: Can a Mac Be a Decent Windows Laptop?

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[Medianews] Apple Mac Pro (Mid 2010) Review

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[Medianews] Facebook in Privacy Breach

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[Medianews] Firefox 3.5.14

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[Medianews] Apple Brings FaceTime to the Mac

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[Medianews] Apple Introduces iLife '11 With Major Upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie and GarageBand

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[Medianews] Apple Reinvents Notebooks With New MacBook Air

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[Medianews] Apple Gives Sneak Peek of Mac OS X Lion

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[Medianews] Apple issues review guidelines for Mac App Store

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[Medianews] App Store Will Increase Competition in Mac Software

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[Medianews] FaceTime for Mac opens giant Apple ID security hole

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[Medianews] Apple quietly adds new faster Core i7 to MacBook Pro lineup

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[Medianews] Small World Photomicrography Competition Photos

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[Medianews] Apple Special Event October 2010

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[Medianews] Kerry Sends Draft Consumer Protection Legislation to FCC

Kerry Sends Draft Consumer Protection Legislation to FCC Offers Language to Reform Broken System, Protect Consumers During Broadcast Disputes FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communication

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Record Wireless Sales, Strong Revenue and Earnings Growth Highlight AT&T's Third-Quarter Results Dallas, Texas, October 21, 2010 $2.08 diluted EPS compared to $0.54 diluted EPS in the third quarter of 2009 EPS of $0.55, excluding $1.53 in one-time gains from a previously disclosed tax settle

[Medianews] Kerry outlines bill to resolve TV disputes

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[Medianews] Review: Apple's iLife movie trailers

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[Medianews] Sherlock Holmes in a strange and brilliant take

TELEVISION REVIEW A modern classic, modernized Sherlock Holmes in a strange and brilliant take By Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | October 22, 2010 So what, you might be thinking. Another Sherlock Holme. And that would be a fair so what, given the fact that we've been swimming in Sherloc

[Medianews] Netflix Accounts For 20% Of Peak U.S. Internet Bandwidth: Study

Netflix Accounts For 20% Of Peak U.S. Internet Bandwidth: Study Sandvine Report Finds Median Monthly Data Usage in North America is 4 GB By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 10/20/2010 12:09:52 PM http://www.multichannel.com/article/458744-Netflix_Accounts_For_20_Of_Peak_U_S_Internet_Bandwidt

[Medianews] Android Market Is Attracting More App Developers

App Makers Take Interest in Android By JENNA WORTHAM October 24, 2010 There was cold beer, hot pizza and shop talk at a recent informal gathering of Android programmers in downtown Manhattan. Inevitably the chatter turned to money. One software developer, James Englert, 26, had just released

[Medianews] Pitching Movies or Filming Shows, Hollywood Is Hooked on iPads

Pitching Movies or Filming Shows, Hollywood Is Hooked on iPads By BRIAN STELTER October 24, 2010 Last month at a meeting in Hollywood, it was time to plot out the sequel to "Star Trek," last year's blockbuster reboot of the sci-fi franchise. The attendees all brought smartphones - gadgets far

[Medianews] Think football is a dangerous sport? Try playing fantasy football . . . with your friends.

Personal fouls Think football is a dangerous sport? Try playing fantasy football ... with your friends. By Beth Teitell, Globe Staff | October 26, 2010 With a name like fantasy football, it should at least be fun. But listen to Matthew DiAntonio, 34, of Plymouth, describe the scene at the M

[Medianews] Hands-on airport searches / National rollout of invasive pat-downs this week

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[Medianews] Firefox 3.5.15

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[Medianews] SeaMonkey 2.0.9 Security Update

October 20, 2010 SeaMonkey 2.0.9 Security Update As part of Mozilla's ongoing stability and security update process, SeaMonkey 2.0.9 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as a free download from www.seamonkey-project.org. ... http://www.seamonkey-project.org/news Release Notes http:

[Medianews] Thunderbird 3.1.6

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[Medianews] Download MacX DVD Ripper Pro for Free Today Only

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[Medianews] Fwd: Well worth reading US rolls out invasive pat-downs this week

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[Medianews] DISH Network and Fox Networks Reach Comprehensive Programming Agreement

DISH Network and Fox Networks Reach Comprehensive Programming Agreement Viewers Ensured Continued Fox Broadcasting and Fox Television Stations Programming in Major Cities FX, National Geographic Channel, and Fox's 19 Regional Sports Networks Immediately Restored to DISH Network Lineup LOS ANGE

[Medianews] Three Unknown Features of the iPhone 4

Three Unknown Features of the iPhone 4 By DAVID POGUE August 12, 2010 It seems as though Apple dodged a bullet. Ever since the Steve Jobs press conference a couple of weeks ago, in which Apple offered free carrying casesbumpers (or full refunds) to anyone whose iPhone 4 exhibits the signal-dr

[Medianews] Get ready for Verizon's 'Dream Phone'

October 29, 2010 3:00 AM The soon-to-be-unveiled Verizon iPhone is the answer to many consumers' prayers. But a deal with Apple will test the company that Ivan Seidenberg has spent his career building. By Sarah Ellison, contributor The most talked-about cellphone in America is one that doesn

[Medianews] InfoWorld review: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 gains ground

InfoWorld review: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 gains ground Microsoft's new suite for the Mac doesn't match Office 2010 for Windows, but a new ribbon interface, Outlook client, and SharePoint integration help close the gap By Curtis Franklin Jr. InfoWorld October 27, 2010 Microsoft's newly r

[Medianews] New MacBook Air: The best ever

New MacBook Air: The best ever Apple's spectacularly responsive new MacBook Air is the best Air yet -- and might be the best MacBook, period By Paul Venezia InfoWorld OCTOBER 29, 2010 After all the hype about the new MacBook Air releases last week, all the oohing and aahing over the engineeri

[Medianews] 11-Inch MacBook Air Is Ultra Portable And Surprisingly Powerful [Review]

11-Inch MacBook Air Is Ultra Portable And Surprisingly Powerful [Review] By Leander Kahney Oct. 25, 2010 Apple's new 11-inch MacBook Air is astonishing. It's unbelievable. It's the most exciting consumer PC that's come out for years. It's a netbook, but it's not a PoS. It's blazing fast. It's

[Medianews] Apple 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended September 25, 2010

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[Medianews] MacBook Air Has the Feel of an iPad in a Laptop

All Things Digital Personal Technology MacBook Air Has the Feel of an iPad in a Laptop Published on October 27, 2010 by Walter S. Mossberg Some of the nicest, if little discussed, benefits of using an Apple iPad tablet are that it starts instantly, resumes where you left off, and has a long e

[Medianews] Mac Users Are Getting New Outlook From Rival

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[Medianews] iPhone Trick or Treat

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[Medianews] In, and out, and back to envying the iPhone

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[Medianews] Windows Phone 7 meets his Kin

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[Medianews] Questions for Melinda Gates

Questions for Melinda Gates The Donor By DEBORAH SOLOMON Published: October 22, 2010 As the co-chairwoman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, whose $33 billion endowment makes it the largest private foundation in the world, you've focused your efforts on the health and welfare of women in

[Medianews] Is It Virtual, or Is It Rock? A Border-Tweaking Experience

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[Medianews] Good Girls Gone Wild

Good Girls Gone Wild By FRANK BRUNI The New York Times October 29, 2010 IT happened again this month, a familiar pop culture cycle: the provocative pose, the righteous fuss, the blushing assurance that no offense was intended. This time around it involved actresses from "Glee" in GQ magazine,

[Medianews] Funeral for a Friend

Funeral for a Friend By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN The New York Times October 29, 2010 I started to distrust telephones the instant they stopped working. I can't pinpoint when that was - the first time I "dropped" a call, or someone said, "I'm losing you" - and I don't know why the telephone, the ana

[Medianews] Can Negative Publicity Help?

Good News, Bad News By ROB WALKER The New York Times October 29, 2010 When the Gap unveiled a new logo earlier this month, the reaction was swift, intense and very, very negative. In fact, some people detested the look so much it actually inspired them: somebody set up a Twitter account (@Gap

[Medianews] Nudge the Vote

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[Medianews] McDonald's Workers Are Told Whom to Vote for

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[Medianews] The Great Unwashed

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[Medianews] Apple's 2010 MacBook Air (11 & 13 inch) Thoroughly Reviewed

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[Medianews] Turning PC into Apple Macintosh: Hackintosh

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[Medianews] $50 iTunes Gift Cards for $35 @ Walmart

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[Medianews] 8 Reasons Why I Sold my iPad and Bought a MacBook Air

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[Medianews] Buy a house, clean your floor, move your butt: Ars reviews Kinect

Buy a house, clean your floor, move your butt: Ars reviews Kinect By Ben Kuchera I'm standing in front of my television, and as I lift both hands to the air, palms facing inward, the crowd goes wild. They stand and cheer. This is what it has come to: adulation for no effort. It's like I've jus

[Medianews] The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air

The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air By Chris Foresman Apple CEO Steve Jobs is no stranger to superlatives. Every product Apple makes is "insanely great," "amazing," or even "magical." So when he unveiled the latest MacBook Air models, declaring them to be the "future of no

[Medianews] Introducing the Ars Technica Reader for iPad

Introducing the Ars Technica Reader for iPad By Clint Ecker We're pleased to announce the official availability of the Ars Technica Reader for iPad, made possible in partnership with IBM. We thank IBM for supporting the Reader for iPad, and we hope you will enjoy version 1.0. In the rest of th

[Medianews] Lack of Flash Gives MacBook Air Two Extra Hours of Battery Life

Lack of Flash Gives MacBook Air Two Extra Hours of Battery Life By Charlie Sorrel November 4, 2010 We sometimes sneer at cellphones equipped with Adobe's Flash browser plug-in: On tiny, energy-efficient mobile processors, the plug-in spikes CPU-usage, causing a big drain on battery life and often

[Medianews] New Mac Airs: Beautiful and Usable

New Mac Airs: Beautiful and Usable David Pogue NOVEMBER 4, 2010 I'll be straight with you: I've always been a sucker for the MacBook Air, which looks more like a sheared-off, ridiculously thin piece of an airfoil than an aluminum laptop. I actually bought one. I used it as my main laptop for

[Medianews] Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement

Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement David Pogue October 21, 2010, 10:46 AM It's a big month for Mac fans. Yesterday, Apple showed off a preview of the next Mac OS X version, called Lion (coming in summer 2011); a new MacBook Air laptop (faster, solid-state instead of a hard drive, available i

[Medianews] Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself

Opt Out of a Body Scan? Then Brace Yourself By JOE SHARKEY The New York Times November 1, 2010 HAVING been taught by nuns in grade school and later going through military boot camp, I have always disliked uniformed authorities shouting at me. So I was unhappy last week when some security scre

[Medianews] Olbermann Suspended From MSNBC for Campaign Donations

Olbermann Suspended From MSNBC for Campaign Donations By BRIAN STELTER AND BILL CARTER November 5, 2010, 2:14 pm 4:15 p.m. | Updated Keith Olbermann, the pre-eminent liberal voice on American television, was suspended Friday after his employer, MSNBC, discovered that he made campaign contribut

[Medianews] CJR: Olbermann Out For Now / But was it the right call?

Campaign Desk - November 5, 2010 04:21 PM Olbermann Out For Now But was it the right call? By Joel Meares http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/olbermann_out_for_now.php?page ___ Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman

[Medianews] Kinect Pushes Users Into a Sweaty New Dimension

Kinect Pushes Users Into a Sweaty New Dimension By DAVID POGUE The New York Times November 4, 2010 With the money Microsoft has spent on failed efforts to design hardware, you could finance a trip to Mars. Its failures make up quite a flop parade: WebTV. Spot Watch. Ultimate TV. Ultra Mobile

[Medianews] A Love Letter to Camera

A Love Letter to a Camera David Pogue October 28, 2010 Dear Canon S95, I don't often write love letters to gadgets. But you, you're something special. Truth is, I've been searching for someone like you for years. The Canon S95 has a sensor with 88 percent more area than most pocket cameras'

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