[Note: For most of this week, I’m at CES in Las Vegas, and thus working on Pacific Standard Time. The Linkpost is going up later in the day for CST readers as a result.]
• Apple Intros Fastest Mac Ever — New Mac Pro has 8 cores standard, base costs $300 more. Uses Intel’s new Penryn chips.
• Bono, you are dead to me. And by the way, stop poaching my engineers — Fake Steve Jobs on Bono’s appearance in Bill Gates’s CES video.
• Microsoft offers $1.2b for Norwegian search company — FAST specializes in corporate search.
• Comcast Plans to Offer a Huge Menu of Films — Dramatically expanding on-demand services, and setting up a Web site for watching TV shows, free.
• Japan’s Matsushita to develop Internet plasma TVs with Google, YouTube - report
• Paramount in HD-DVD blow — May drop support for HD-DVD, going Blu-Ray only. Also No Blue Skies For Blu-Ray
• Jerry Yang offers sneak peak of Yahoo’s future: Life! — New initiative to save Yahoo from irrelevance.
• Geeks.com Website Hacked, Customer Data Stolen — Bought anything at Geeks.com lately? Start checking your credit card statements.
• Q&A: Author Nicholas Carr on the Terrifying Future of Computing
• Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond – If you’re trying to sell a company or a person on using social online tools.
• Majority of new PCs ship without Windows Vista, Gates (unintentionally) reveals — Conclusion reached by mashing different numbers from different sources; take with a grain of salt.
• Stealth MBR rootkit — Affects all NT-based Windows OSes, including Vista. Easy fix: run “fixmbr” from the Windows Recovery Console.
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