Note: This article was not penned by me. I found it here. But, that blog has been deleted by the author. So I am recreating the post here. If anyone know the name of the actual author, please do let me know. I would be happy to give credits to him/her.

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Macbooks
You heard the rumors, now get the details. Apple has just released a major update to the MacBook line, leaving the original white plastic model in the mix but lowering the price to $999; the two new models are priced at $1299 and $1599. You can see a video overview of the new beasties at [...]

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In a move that surprised everybody and nobody simultaneously, Apple has released a brand-new 24-inch LED Cinema Display to spruce up the languishing product line.
In addition to a new form factor that brings their look in line with newer iMacs (and now the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models announced today), the displays have an [...]

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Reports out on the web today say Apple has just sent out invites to a special media event on Apple’s campus for October 14. The invite reads, “The spotlight turns to notebooks,” and has a ray of light shining over the back of an unidentified Apple notebook.

he invite-only event will be taking place at Apple’s [...]

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This comic is a week or so old.
Randall Monroe, the creator of xkcd, suggested that if YouTube commenters had to listen to their comments read back to them aloud, it might lead to better discussion on YouTube. Some Googlers thought that was a pretty fun suggestion, so they did it. YouTube now has an audio [...]

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“He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his BlackBerry.  ”Telecommunications of the United States is a premier innovation in the past 15 years, comes right through the Commerce committee so you’re looking at the miracle John McCain helped create and that’s what he did.”
So now we know what McCain has been [...]

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Reposted from Wired
It didn’t ignite the crowd at the Pepsi Center in Denver Tuesday night in the same way as Hillary Clinton’s speech did, but the 2008 Democratic National Convention keynoter of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner lit up the micro-blogging service Twitter as its geek community celebrated a throwaway line in Warner’s speech.
Warner, a [...]

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Lots of talk today across the web about Mozilla Labs’ new project, Ubiquity.
If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity
Ubiquity prototype lets users take command of Firefox
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On
This blog has a nice writeup: Ubiquity In Depth
Quoted from Ars Technica:
Mozilla Labs has released the [...]

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Article from Techdirt by Mike Masnick.
As TiVo and other DVRs became increasingly popular, various cable companies realized it probably made sense to offer similar features themselves. While some started selling home DVRs, a few realized that perhaps they could short-circuit around this by offering a remote, centrally-managed DVR instead. Time Warner was one of the [...]

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Article courtesy of Wired’s Danger Room blog.

Two weeks ago, the Navy canceled plans to build the rest of its hulking stealth destroyers. At first, it looked like the DDG-1000s’ $5-billion-a-copy price tag to blame. Now, it appears the real reason has slipped out: The Navy’s most advanced warship is all but defenseless against one of [...]

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