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