Apple’s Piping Hot Innovation  —  Want a coffee with your iPhone?  —  Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) …

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Apple’s new laptops: confirmed!  —  Leave it up to our music industry spies (Ok, well, Just Blaze really) to set the record straight!  Apple will 100% be announcing a new laptop at MacWorld.  We’ve also heard the laptop will go on sale a week after MacWorld, too.  What laptop is this?

Source:   The Boy Genius […]

Amazon beats Apple to non-DRM Warner music  —  Amazon today landed a coup by announcing the availability of Warner Music Group albums on Amazon MP3.  The store becomes the first to offer music from the label in a universal format withoutdigital rights management (DRM), permitting buyers …

Source:   Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
Link:   http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/12/27/amazon…

Google suffers patent blow  —  Google has been hit by a setback in a patent row with Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC.  —  A federal appeals court in Wisconsin yesterday rejected part of a summary judgment that could have worked to Google’s advantage in the case.

Source:   The Register
Author:   Kelly Fiveash
Link:   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/27…

Dell’s All-in-One PC Has the Guts, Design To Compete With iMac  —  Something interesting is going on at Dell.  The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design.  And the company, which in recent years seemed to care …

Source:   Personal Technology
Author:   Walter S. Mossberg
Link:   http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20071227/dells-all-in-one…

The technology with impact 2007  —  The last 12 months have seen plenty of talking points around technology - from the iPhone, to Facebook, the launch of Vista and the XO laptop - but what were the developments, stories or gadgets which had the biggest impact?

Source:   BBC
Author:   Jane Wakefield
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7153642.stm

Apple to Offer Fox Movie Rentals  —  Twentieth Century Fox and Apple are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple’s iTunes Store.

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Link:   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119873001823452323…

Digg This: Deal or No Deal?  —  CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008  —  As the year winds down, so often does the Web rumor mill.  After all, even the most prolific bloggers have to put in some holiday time with the […]

Managing your shared items  —  We’ve gotten a lot of helpful feedback about our new sharing feature.  We’d hoped that making it easier to share with the people you chat with often would be useful and interesting, but we underestimated the number of users who were using the Share button to send stories to a […]

Details of Apple’s Mysterious New Portable Device  —  I have been working on gathering more information about a new Apple (AAPL) portable device from several different sources during the past 6 months.  I have pieced together the puzzle which portrays a picture of what can be perhaps best described …

Source:   Seeking Alpha
Link:   http://seekingalpha.com/article/58345-details-of…