Is MacBook Air Worth the Money?  Five Slim Laptops Face Off  —  Updated with battery life stats, by popular demand.  We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop.  It’s so thin!  You can’t argue with that!  But if you’re in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the […]

Time Warner Cable Eyeing Overage Charges?  - Memo says trial will determine national deployment…  Time Warner Cable may be exploring the possibility of implementing overage charges for its RoadRunner cable broadband service.  According to excerpts from a leaked internal memo posted to our forums …

Source:   DSLreports - front page
Link:   http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable…

A decentralized Twitter?  —  Andrew Baron is a smart guy, and he’s not a techy, so when he explains technical issues he does it in a way non-technical people can understand.  —  Dembot: “If you hosted your own Twitter, just like you host your own website, you could put your twitter anywhere.”

Source:   Scripting News
Author: […]

Perspective: Myspace Still Kicking Facebook’s Ass in Traffic  —  While the media and Silicon Valley have lost our collective minds over the rise of Facebook over the past year, traffic analysts Hitwise released numbers today indicating that things are not as they might seem.

Source:   ReadWriteWeb
Author:   Marshall Kirkpatrick
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Library of Congress Teams with Flickr  —  The Library of Congress and photosharing site Flickr today announced a partnership that will put photos from the LoC’s collection online in a social environment and users to interact with them.  The Library is home to more than 14 million photographs …

Source:   ReadWriteWeb
Author:   Josh Catone
Link:   […]

REPORT: FACEBOOK THREATENS TO BAN GAWKER’S DENTON  —  This post was updated at 9:11 a.m. PST with comment from Nick Denton.  —  Facebook isn’t too happy with Gawker Media founder Nick Denton over some screenshots of a member’s profile that he posted on Gawker.com on Tuesday, Portfolio.com reports.

Source:   Webware.com
Author:   Caroline McCarthy
Link:   http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9851664-2.html

The Passion of Steve Jobs  —  Even more than when he’s performing on stage, Steven P. Jobs’s passion for personal computing comes through when he talks about the years he spent cajoling his designers to build what he presented today as the world’s “thinnest” computer.

Source:   Bits
Author:   John Markoff
Link:   http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion…

My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven  —  If you’re reading this, then chances are you already know about Web 2.0.  Even if you don’t know the term itself, you’re one of millions worldwide who are actively creating, sharing or benefiting from user-generated content that characterizes Web 2.0 phenomena.

Source:   Library of Congress […]

Microsoft Security Advisory (947563)  —  Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution  —  Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2002 …

Source:   Microsoft
Link:   http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory…

Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL, Developer of the World’s Most Popular Open Source Database  —  Sun Growth Strategy Accelerates With New Position in $15 Billion Database Market  —  Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement …

Source:   Sun Microsystems
Link:   http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-01/sunflash…