Here are my news picks for the week…

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

CrunchPad Leak Roundup
Apple updates iPod Shuffle ‘VoiceOver’ software
Some More Thoughts On The DiggBar
Eavesdropping On Google Voice and Skype
AnyDVD HD adds more BD+ support
Associated Press chairman “mad as hell” at new media
10 tweaks to make Windows 7 even better
Report: Conficker worm bites University of Utah
Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

New in Gmail Labs: Inserting images
Sweden Sees Boom In Legal Downloading
Microsoft fined over alleged price fixing of Office
Songwriter claims Google ‘exploited’ him
Apple Offers Another Fleeting Glimpse At The App Store’s All-Time Leaders
HTC Fiesta is “an Android phone,” so says Bluetooth SIG
Heat blamed for iPhone Wi-Fi problems
Best Buy strikes again: WD hard drive switched out for 8-year-old Maxtor, no refund given
Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail?
Shock: iTunes price increase hurts songs’ chart positions
Steve Jobs still involved in ‘key aspects’ of running Apple, testing out that iTablet you so desire?
Humanity’s Fate
6 Half-Truths About the Cloud
Steam powered iPod charger made from LEGOS
A WINE Release Worth A Toast
Steve Jobs Still Involved in Apple, Still Expected to Return in June

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Why Engadget Is Blocking the DiggBar
Less obscure Microsoft Office 14 64-bit evidence
Windows Live Hotmail Service Disruption Locks Out Users
Cable-cutting vandals disconnect Silicon Valley
RIM picks up ex-Apple and Microsoft design guru
Huge Apple Purchase Sparks 32GB iPhone Rumors
Apple gives prizes as tally nears 1 billion Apps served
Apple retiring .Mac HomePage and .Mac Groups on July 7
When Will Apple Hit 1 Billion App Downloads?
MacHeist 3 Charity Breakdown
iTunes 8.1 Kindly Suggests You Get New iPod Shuffle By Scrambling Old Shuffle’s Brains [IPod Shuffle]
Apple Launches ‘1 Billion App Countdown’ Promotion
Public outcry led to taser policy change
Make your glossy iMac screen matte
Microsoft ordered to pay $388M in patent infringement suit
Apple Turns on Push Notification Services for Developer Testing

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Microsoft Remains on Offensive with ‘Apple Tax’ Report and Latest Laptop Ad
Apple bullish on iPhone refresh sales
Nintendo DSi Sells 600,000 in Opening Weekend
CompUSA Comes Back From the Dead
Leaked pics of the CrunchPad make it look dangerously close to availability
Review: SanDisk slotRadio
Openmoko Phone Not Dead After All
AT&T uses Twitter during service outage
Apple announces end of .Mac HomePage
Qualcomm developing FLO TV accessories for iPhone OS 3.0, other smartphones
In Depth: 10 Reasons why we’ll see an iPhone This June
YouTube, Universal to launch ‘Vevo’ music video site
Yahoo adds Delicious data to search partnership
Apple makes giant NAND flash memory order
iTunes isn’t the only online music store that has variable pricing
Legacy Locker
Intel talks Moorestown, new Atoms; Larrabee may drop this year
French “3 strikes” law suffers shocking defeat
Eye-Fi’s 4GB WiFi SDHC cards start to ship out
AP orders affiliate to pull embedded YouTube vids
Apple sued over iPhone, MacBook multi-touch tech
Microsoft Order To Pay $388 Million In Patent Case
Apple Admits White MacBook’s Notorious Crack Problem

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Now what could Apple want with 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips?
Unconfirmed: Apple Orders 100 Million 8Gb Chips for New Handhelds [Rumor]
Amazon, Wal-Mart, raise MP3 download prices
Unbelievably Detailed Wall-E PC Case Mod [Mods]
Microsoft Ordered to Pay $388 Million for Patent Infringement [Lawsuits]
Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell?
Video: HY Research’s Beagle Board-based MID
Fake Virus Warnings Are Ploy for Cash
Intel aims for 2-second boot time with Moblin Linux platform
For Some App Developers Palm & Nokia Are No-Gos
Conficker wakes up, updates via P2P, drops payload
Arcade Classic Galaga Comes to the iPhone in a Remix Version
Google Voice on the iPhone coming soon
Apple accused of touch screen patent infringement
Nvidia gives CUDA a profiler and hardware debugger
CFLs Causing Utility Woes
Sims creator Will Wright leaves E
Google updates Gmail, Calendar for iPhone
Google My Stuff May Rise From The Dead
Is Microsoft Back to Its Old Tricks?
Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed
News: Yahoo! launches Messenger app for iPhone, iPod touch
Sun’s VirtualBox
Quicklook – Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter
AP is fighting last century’s battle
Apple reveals first set of sessions for WWDC 2009

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Google Adds All-Important Java Support To App Engine
News: NPD: iTunes still #1 in music downloads, Amazon grows
Will Apple pretend iPhone video recording requires the new iPhone?
iTunes Variable Pricing Live, More Countries Supported
iTunes Store now infected with variable pricing, Amazon still $0.99
Three-tiered iTunes pricing due Tuesday

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro
Microsoft: New Zune hardware coming this year
Intel launches new chip logos, rating system
Google Voice App Comes to iPhone and iPod Touch Soon [Google Voice]
Understanding Windows 7 Libraries
Video: 128GB SSD slotted into Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9
FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses
ShoveBox for Mac and iPhone
FriendFeed lifestreaming goes real-time for better and worse
Video: Acer Aspire One D250 gets unboxed
Windows 7 will allow downgrades too
2TB Time Capsule in the works?
Rumors suggest slew of new iPhone features
Myk Melez: The Extension Bootcamp Tutorial
Full-length Sony films headed to YouTube?
Next iPhone to make you a film editor?
Apple keeps SD rental hits coming with nearly 300 new titles
T-Mobile to use Google Android OS for home devices
Review: Pogoplug makes any USB drive a NAS
Mozilla reveals roadmap for Firefox 3.6, scheduled for 2010
News: Apple planning to bring camera to iPod touch?
iPhone OS 3.0 beta suggests 802.11n, video publishing coming
Microsoft, Lionhead settle alleged homophobia suit
Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes appear
Stanza eBook Reader for iPhone Updated
HP extends Windows XP supply until April 2010
Giant Lego Nintendo DSi Timelapse Construction Video [Nintendo]
MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry For $136,000 (Not $20M)

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This is the start of the weekly series that replaces the old daily ones.

Here are my news picks for the week…

Monday, March 31st 2009

Google launches free music download service in China
Disney signs deal with YouTube
Windows 7 .NET Interop Sample Libraries
Skype now officially available on iPhone

Tuesday, April 1st 2009

Latest iPhone 3.0 Beta Allows 11 Pages of Apps (180 Apps)
Correction: Starter wallpaper more secure than I thought
Rob Janoff, Creator of the Apple Logo
News: Apple releases iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 with push notifications
32GB High End iPhone and a Low End Version in Works?
What is Europe’s top browser? Stats says it’s now Firefox 3
Windows Marketplace for Mobile preview video teases the app store you want, don’t yet have

Wednesday, April 2nd 2009

Happy Birthday, Gmail, You Cute Lil Five Year Old [Techversary]
Samsung introduces Mondi, first WiMax Mobile Internet Device
Palm opening WebOS SDK up to developers
Adrollo Launches Dynamic Ad Network Platform For The iPhone
Microsoft Office opening for iPhone
Finest Internet Jokes for April Fools’ Day 2009
Latest iPhone developer agreement bans jailbreaks
TUAW Bookshelf: Apple II Reference Manual
Woz exits Dancing with the Stars
Apple Turns 33, No Fooling
Snow Leopard, Juno, and Pro App updates, oh my!
10.5.7 extension hints at upcoming Nehalem-based Xserve
News: Apple moves up in Greenpeace electronics rankings
Best April fools day jokes of 2009
4 Ways to Make Skype on the iPhone Even Better

Thursday, April 3rd 2009

Register.com goes down taking millions of websites, email address and network communications with it.
New Nmap version detects the Conficker worm
New flat-speaker tech could make public places even louder
The Beast unveiled: inside a Google server
Gmail’s search gets suggestive with labs add-on
Streaming iPhone via bluetooth in the car
Digg To Finally Fix Search – See The Screenshot
SlingPlayer for iPhone will only work with new Slingboxes
Windows 7 Sensor and Location .NET Interop Sample Library
Intel turns Moblin over to the Linux Foundation
Android App of the Week: GV Dials Numbers With Your Google Voice/Grand Central Number [Android Apps]
iPhone OS 3.0 beta successfully jailbroken
DiggBar Launches Today!
Windows 7 to support third-party codecs… like all other Windows versions
Free Online Stanford Course on Developing iPhone Apps
Adobe AIR, Flash big hit at Web 2.0 Expo conference
Apple Considers Having Stolen iPhones Call Police [Patents]
New iPod shuffle saw 50 percent sales increase in first week
Firefox beats IE in Europe: A duopoly to come?
Behold the Google Server, ye nations, and weep
Despite Funky HTML Encoding, Boxee Still Plays Hulu Video Just Fine [Boxee]
Canadians weigh in on network management: they don’t like it
Real or Imagined Threats?
Tabletize your laptop via USB for $99
Palm opens up, and goes back in time
ASUS 16-inch F50SV-X1 laptop now available
Video: NVIDIA’s ION-based netbooks and nettops are go for launch
What if IBM doesn’t buy Sun?
Netflix: Two Billion DVDs Served

Friday, April 4th 2009

How Linux killed SGI (and is poised to kill Sun)
Windows on Netbook PCs: A Year in Review
HP TouchSmart tx2z with 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD now $450 off with coupon
Demo your iPhone without cables
MacHeist entices, annoys buyers with new TweetBlast
Google shows off Gmail mobile Web app
Google brewing ‘offline’ web office apps
AT&T tweaks wireless terms of service to forbid video streaming, filesharing, data tethering
How the Conficker Problem Just Got Much Worse [Conficker
VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better
Tutorial released for Apple logo LCD mod
51,324 LEGO blocks + 1 virgin gamer = 1 LEGO DSi
Original founders buy and relaunch FileFront
Isaac Mizrahi designs Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Sneaky Surfing Actually Increases Productivity
Using Your Tabs
Texas Just Now Bans Vista From Government Computers [Vista]
Apple Ordering 3.2 and 5-Megapixel Camera Sensors for iPhone and Future Product?
Ready or not, IPv6 is coming
Apple Leaks Nehalem Xserve Info
Big shifts in microblog/social networking world
Google makes Gmail search accessible to all comers
Asus Eee Linux-based Skype Videophone
Gmail Marks Five Years In Beta
Windows 7 Taskbar .NET Sample Library – an Overview

Saturday, April 5th 2009

The 7 Time Saving Firefox Add-Ons To Make Your Lives Easier
Next up for Microsoft’s ‘real life’ Windows star: 7-Eleven ads
Microsoft’s second Laptop Hunters commercial: Giampaulo buys an HP HDX
FCC Pressed to Investigate Apple, AT&T Regarding Skype Over 3G [Net Neutrality]
Week in Apple: Chrome, iPhone jailbreaks, security, and more!
Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks
XP is still so popular that MS decided to make it much harder to steal.
Week in review: was-Conficker-a-bust? edition
Tweet Quality
Rumor: Xserve refresh coming up soon
Week in Microsoft: builds 7068, 7070 will run on inexpensive laptops
Buying advice: Network-attached storage
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta – Expectations Too High?

Sunday, April 6th 2009

Google Car Pulled Over by the Cops – Now in Street View
Data Centers get ‘black box’ flight data recorder
Web Slices a rip off of OS X feature?
Report: Sun rejects IBM offer, IBM withdraws bid
Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support
Sony: PS2 is the gateway drug to the PS3
25 Rare Wordpress Templates 2009
Wii MotionPlus Given July 10 Release Date By Obscure Amsterdam Retailer [Unconfirmed]
Leaked Dell Internal Product Roadmap Reveals Mini 11 Netbook [Dell]
Sneak peek at Windows Mobile 6.5 themes
Archos 2,4 flash players appear
iPhone 4G IV could support 802.11n

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Here are the links for: Wednesday, February 11th 2009…

How Palm’s OS Went From PDAs to Smartphones [Palm OS]
50 Seriously Useful Windows 7 Tips
New Palm Pre details emerge
Elevator music files for Chapter 11
Ripdev launches anti-piracy service for iPhone developers
MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users
mophie’s Juice Pack Air: world’s thinnest iPhone 3G battery / case
Windows 7 Enterprise Edition Customer Benefits
Vizio Drops Out of Plasma TVs [Plasma]
NVidia’s Ion Netbook Platform First Appearing in a…Desktop [Nvidia]
Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 Per Scanned Book
Know Your Rights: Does the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech infringe authors’ copyrights?
Palm’s done with PalmOS, plans to get Pre on other carriers in 2010, speaks to patent issues
Sirius XM may go into bankruptcy
Minor OS X Dock bug could result in serious data loss
Alcatel assembling a Lego (or Lego-esque) phone?
Microsoft places stamp of approval on Vista-based Ion SFF PCs
Google Brings Location-Awareness to Email
Pandora handheld sneaking towards production, hopefully
Windows 7 handcuffs for productivity
News: Rockstar switches to iTunes for GTA music partnership
Core i7 (Nehalem) Based MacBook Pros Possible in Q4 2009?
SanDisk shows off multi-level cell make-over
Analyst predicts cut-price, updated 3G iPhone models
Archos 10 netbook reviewed: a little rough around the edges
Adobe relaunches AIR developer’s trading website

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Here are the links for: Wednesday, February 4th 2009…

A closer look at the Windows 7 SKUs
Samsung 8-Megapixel Memoir Phone is Like Digital Camera That Takes Calls [Samsung Memoir]
7-inch USB-based MIMO monitors now shipping
17-inch MacBook Pro delayed, shipping in two weeks
Half-Life 2 engine used to create fire drill demo
New Snow Leopard Build (10A261) Seeded to Developers
Meizu M8 gets English-language video review
Gmail Adds New Move To and Labels Drop-Downs, Autocomplete
Gates unleashes mosquito swarm onto TED talk audience (Update: Maybe not?)
Watch and Listen To The Geniuses of This Week’s TED Conference On Your iPhone [IPhone Apps]
Why Your Avatar Matters
Mark Finkle: Fennec – The Inside Story
It’s official: DTV “hard date” moved to June 12
Chinese man killed by exploding cellphone; a few helpful tips
New Steam Update Gives You the Ability to Specify Content Download Region
Google Latitude coming to other devices, iPhone included
Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone?
T-Mobile G1’s RC33 update includes Google Latitude
Symantec brings back Norton Utilities
Deck out your iPod Video with a 240GB hard drive upgrade
Panasonic: 15,000 jobs to be eliminated
First impressions with the Eee PC 1000HE and its delectable keyboard
Quake in your browser
Apple: Welcome to the obsolete list, PowerBook G4
Firefox 3.0.6 fixes yet another JavaScript bug
Time Warner swings to 4Q loss on hefty writedown
Google Earthlings fly to Mars
Known bugs in Windows 7 beta
Disk Encryption Standards Could Muddy Data Recovery
Google & The Big Ideas
Windows 7 auto-elevation mistake lets malware elevate freely, easily
Second Windows 7 beta UAC security flaw: malware can silently self-elevate with default UAC policy

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