Christmas Present For Apple Bulls: Mac Cleared for Takeoff  —  As hard as it is to believe, many Apple (AAPL) bulls are still missing the best part of the company’s growth story: The improving opportunity for Apple’s computer business.  Unlike the last go-round, when Apple got clobbered …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Henry Blodget
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2008 Web Predictions  —  What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008?  In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us.  Topics include Google, semantic web, online advertising, recommendation systems …

Source:   ReadWriteWeb
Author:   Richard MacManus
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Airborne Internet might bring turbulence  —  NEW YORK - Seat 17D is yapping endlessly on an Internet phone call.  Seat 16F is flaming Seat 16D with expletive-laden chats.  Seat 16E is too busy surfing porn sites to care.  Seat 17C just wants to sleep.  —  Welcome to the promise of the Internet …

Source:   Associated […]

Christmas eve: Apple MacBook is Amazon’s No. 1 top-selling computer  —  Despite fierce competition from machines with more than twice the memory and price points hundreds of dollars lower, Apple’s (AAPL) white 120 GB MacBook has captured the top spot on Amazon’s (AMZN) list of bestselling computers this Christmas eve.

Source:   FORTUNE: Apple 2.0
Author:   […]

Can NBC Do for ‘Quarterlife’ What YouTube Could Not?  —  Scripts by Marshall Herskovitz, the Emmy award-winning writer and producer, have drawn millions of viewers to movie theaters and television sets over the past two decades.  —  But on the Internet, where his 36-part series “Quarterlife” …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Brian Stelter
Link:   […]

When non-technologists write about technology  —  They’re so CUTE!  —  The Economist puts random words in random order: … First, 1994 is calling and wants its metaphors back.  —  Second, got any data to support that? … OK, that’s simply not true.

Source:   blog.pmarca.com
Author:   Marc Andreessen
Link:   http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/12/when-non-techno.html

E-Greetings Gain Ground at Businesses This Season  —  Have you sent out your holiday cards this year?  What about your e-cards?  —  If your second answer was yes, you are in good company.  Once seen as the tacky, last-minute substitute for pen and paper, e-cards have become more acceptable …

Source:   New York Times
Author:   […]

Technology in 2008  —  Three fearless predictions  —  1. Surfing will slow  —  PEERING into Tech.view’s crystal ball, the one thing we can predict with at least some certainty is that 2008 will be the year we stop taking access to the internet for granted.

Source:   Economist
Link:   http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id…

Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7  —  Well, the waiting appears to be over, and the promised 2007 launch date was technically achieved.  Wikipedia/Wikia Founder Jimmy Wales has publicly announced the private beta for Wikia Search - right now.  And the public launch is set for January 7.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   […]

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