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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First digest post done on mac

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Sunday, March 15th 2009

Motion’s J3400 rugged tablet PC boasts dual batteries, outdoor display
Boxee remote app for iPhone and iPod Touch available on App Store
Clock ticks for plasmas, LCDs
Old Habits Die Hard
Surprise! Google Earth used for robbery
Patent bares rumor: Apple TV gearing up for games?
Comcast, Sony to open joint retail store
Sprint Treo Pro now finally available, for real this time
SXSWi: Web Awards Honor 2009’s Big Names, Underdogs
Four Things The New iPhone Must Have!
iPhone 3.0 to have copy and paste, Pre-like features — but no background apps
Windows 7 to officially support logon UI background customization
Cell Phone “Jammers” = “Pandor’s Box”
New Life for Older PCs
Stopper Postcard Measures Delivery Speed While Stressing Out Postal Workers [Pointless]
UK ISPs Could Be Forced To Block Or Restrict P2P
Holy Cats! There is a DRM chip inside the iPod Shuffle earbuds! [Update]
Delivery Status touch for iPhone
Would you buy an Intel smartphone?

Saturday, March 14th 2009

Over 80 bug fixes due in Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Juno”
SXSW: AT&T’s Spotty Service Frustrates iPhone Users
TUAW @SXSW: The iPhone Gaming Panel
Live Images From Google Mars Now Available [Mars]
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation
SXSW: ‘Dead Space,’ a ‘Deep Media’ Case Study
Are You Interested In “Wearable Technology”?
Google Releases Jaiku Code!
Video: Apple Nehalem-based Mac Pro unboxing and hands-on
Apple Facing Lawsuit Over Exploding Ipod
Public Bug Tracking and Open-Source Policy
Will Apple sell iPhone themes on iTunes?
Bell Canada doesn’t want to share next-gen fiber network
Rumor: A Premium App Store for Even Pricier iPhone Apps? [Apple]

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Another late set of posts..

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Saturday, March 7th 2009

New StreamDesk Update
Solving the TinyUrl centralization problem
Schmidt: Google ‘unlikely’ to buy Twitter soon
What the Heck Is Twitter?It’s not a Google killer, and it’s not a Facebook killer.
Why TV Lost
Cydia Opens iPhone App Store for the Jailbroken Community [Jailbreak!]
Has ‘cloud-computing’ lost its VC luster?
Smartstrip surge protector and money saver
All Circuit City stores set to close tomorrow
Did Apple OK price cut on latest MacBook Air?
New Snow Leopard test build has more Cocoa goodness
New CableCARD diagnostic tool for Windows Media Center makes installation slightly less frustrating
Onkyo rolls out Sotec-branded E702A9 media PC
OWC Releases 4GB RAM Upgrades for New Mac Mini

Friday, March 6th 2009

Palm’s Sugar Daddy Serves Up Another Load of iPhone Trash Talk [Palm Vs Apple]
ASUS shows off Wireless LCD prototype, “Green” monitors
Digg CEO Jay Adelson on FoxBusiness.com
Apple’s Time Capsule, Airport Extreme Update Adds Drive Sharing For Older Units [Apple]
Apple denies second round of layoff rumors
The 100 oldest registered .com domains
Hallelujah: Microsoft confirms IE8, WMP, others can be removed from Windows 7
Unlike PCs, Apple’s Mac prices not collapsing yet
White Chocolate Keyboard Most Definitely Melts In Your Hands [Art]
Cydia developer planning independent iPhone App Store, others planning jailbreak service, adult app store
Circuit City RIP, 03-08-09
Twitter power-users, monitor calibration, and Geneva Conventions
Hulu content returns to Boxee in a different form
How To Install a Second Hard Drive in the New Mac Mini [Mods]
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs | Utilities | Macworld
‘Toys “R” Us’ Buys Toys.com Domain Name For $5.1M

Thursday, March 5th 2009

Sapphire launching Radeon HD 4870 with 2GB of memory
firefox 3 in second place
Watchmen Steve Jobs Alter Ego’s Old School Macintosh SE/30 [Apple]
OCZ jumps into the netbook game with the Neutrino
9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features
NVIDIA’s GeForce 9600M causing issues in 17-inch MacBook Pro?
Lars Ulrich ‘pirated’ his own CD
Core i7 laptop weighs 12 pounds, has a one-hour battery
Clearwire stays the course despite losses
HDMI-equipped ASUS Eee Box 206 eyes-on
Georgetown Finally Greenlights Apple Store
Ustream Launches Mobile Video Broadcasting Apps
New Samsung Q1 UMPC, the Q1EX
FireWire target disk mode to the rescue
Windows 7 test build ‘turns off’ Internet Explorer 8
Google Chrome now bundled with Real Player
Safari 4 Buddy 1.0 changes hidden prefs
GameTap to receive major update, lose Mac support
Mac Mini 2009 Review [Review]
Vista SP2 release candidate gets public airing
MSI WindBOX dismounts LCD, acts all proper at CeBIT
Apple Gets Nehalem Early, h264 and VMWare Performance Boosts
YouTube, Universal near new video deal
Joost Continues Fight For Relevancy, Teams Up With Social Network Netlog
Apple developers mark a year of iPhone apps
First look: Qt 4.5 rocks for rapid cross-platform development
ASUS: Our Eee PC 1000He is better than Acer’s Aspire One D150, fashion elegant too
HDTV Pinball Machine is Almost as Good as the Real Thing [Pinball]
7 Cool Research Projects From Yahoo

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