Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority — no wait, hear us out  —  Wait up, hang on here — you’re telling us a personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple’s biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users “are more liberal …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan […]

so, everyone’s asking what happened between me and steve jobs today…  Update 01.16: this is now on Digg, “Steve Jobs tells off fan, calls her ‘rude’: Blogger and podcaster Violet Blue approached the Apple CEO on the Macworld floor to ask for a photo — and got completely blown off.”.

Source:   violet blue
Link:   http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/01…

Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID  —  Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million  —  Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2. digital identity framework …

Source:   Yahoo!
Link:   http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press…

Are you suffering from password pressure?  —  Few things make you feel more helpless than sitting blank-faced at a screen, looking at a flashing cursor and a message saying “PASSWORD INCORRECT” in a disapproving tone.  But that was the one for your bank, wasn’t it?  Or was it?

Source:   Guardian
Author:   Anna Pickard
Link:   http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/17…

Confirmed: Change Your System Time, Watch Your iTunes Rentals Forever  —  Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6?  Awesome.  That pesky 24-hour viewing window once you’ve started the film?  Not so much.  And even if you get a little trigger-happy and click play only two MB into the download, the self-destruct timer activates.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Matt […]

Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court  —  A US District Court judge in Oregon has reaffirmed a magistrate’s award of attorneys’ fees and the dismissal of exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen’s counterclaims against the RIAA without prejudice so that her class-action lawsuit …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Eric Bangeman
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080117…

Google.org Announces Core Initiatives to Combat Climate Change, Poverty and Emerging Threats  —  Reveals its plans for philanthropy; announces new grants and investments  —  In its continuing effort to use the power of information and technology to help people better their lives …

Source:   Google
Link:   http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel…

All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte  —  Reason number 149 I won’t move to Texas: Time Warner confirmed it’ll be testing a new pricing plan in Beaumont that’s based on how much bandwidth you eat up.  That’s right, hard caps.  Totally made-up example …

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Matt Buchanan
Link:   […]

TiVo Gets Jaman with Indie Movies  —  TiVo subscribers will soon be able to use their DVR box to rent or purchase international and independent films from online movie distribution company Jaman (see our profile of the company).  The service will work on broadband-connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 boxes …

Source:   NewTeeVee
Author:   Chris Albrecht
Link: […]

Mapping documents in the binary format (.doc; .xls; .ppt) to the Open XML format  —  I wanted to call everyone’s attention to a few interesting developments in Ecma’s proposed disposition document related to the Office binary formats.  There were a few comments from national bodies that asked …

Source:   Brian Jones: Open XML Formats
Author:   […]