Low times for high tech as CES opens

LAS VEGAS - Bill Gates isn’t at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

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Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes

Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection.

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Nobody wants to see Apple Jobs-less

It was the kind of news nobody really wanted to hear: no Steve Jobs at next month’s Macworld Expo, his absence seemingly a dress rehearsal for a time when the man who not only co-founded Apple but revolutionized personal technology won’t be a part of such events.

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Products and Politics Mix at Macworld

Amid iPod upgrades, movie deals and Apple TV price cuts, there was a tinge of politics at the Macworld Conference & Expo.

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Apple Products Unveiled at Macworld

Major product announcements from Apple Inc. Tuesday:

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Apple Bets on Online Movie Rentals

Apple Inc. has redoubled its effort to distribute movies online, gaining a foothold in a promising but unproven business that could eventually bolster its other core products.

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Apple Unveils IPhone Upgrades

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs unveiled a string of new features for the iPhone Tuesday, showing how users can now pinpoint their location on Web maps, text message multiple people at once and customize their home screens.

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All Eyes on Apple at Macworld

Steve Jobs has a tough act to follow at the Macworld Conference & Expo on Tuesday: himself.

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Apple Unveils Cell Phone, Takes New Name

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday made the company's long-awaited jump into the mobile phone business, unveiling a gadget that's controlled by touch, plays music, surfs the Internet and runs the Macintosh computer operating system. He then renamed the company to just "Apple Inc." to reflect its increasing focus on consumer electronics.

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Apple Expected to Launch New Product

Technophiles are eagerly waiting to learn whether the king of digital music can colonize an entirely new category of consumer electronics.

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The release of an iPhone game called "Baby Shaker" has Apple in hot water with angry parents and children's groups, who are demanding answers from Apple..Sometimes you really have to wonder how certain "games" could possibly make it through Apple's approval process.

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Was Gizmodo's source correct about Steve Jobs after all?

Two of my recent articles have contained a strong rejection of information presented by Gizmodo regarding the health of Steve Jobs, based on a report by an anonymous source. Paraphrasing:

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This article looks at how well the speakers did at the Macworld Keynote speech, since this was the first year that Steve Jobs has not given the speech for sometime.

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What's next?

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Macrumors Live Keynote Feed Hacked

Man, hackers suck. Some 12-year-old managed to get into the live feed that Macrumors.com had up from the Macworld Keynote this afternoon. Anyone reading the feed saw a bit of information about iPhoto and then suddenly "OMG STEVE JOBS JUST DIED!"

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MacWorld Apple Keynote Discussion

Thought we should all get together in one place to discuss our thoughts ont he Apple Keynote speech and Macworld. Feel free to leave comments, thoughts, feedback, whatever you like to do with the keynote. Here are a couple sites that have live blog going

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Top 5 rumors we would like to hear come true in Apple's last year at Macworld.

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Roundup of rumors that were buzzing for the past few weeks leading up to Macworld 2009.

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Barring a problem that affects his ability to run the company, Steve Jobs has absolutely no obligation to reveal anything whatsoever about his personal life.

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Steve Jobs is dying. Oh, wait. No. Jesus Diaz was wrong.

Last week, I published an article in an effort to call out Jesus Diaz on his use of an anonymous source as the basis for an article about the "dire" health of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Attempts to contact Diaz went unanswered.

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As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and my doctors. A few weeks ago, I decided that getting to the root cause of this and reversing it needed to become my #1 priority.

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Once again, Apple (AAPL) has showed why analysts and Apple fans have been right to worry about Steve Jobs' health despite the company's assertions that everything is okay.

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CUPERTINO, Calif. -- It is widely recognized both inside and outside of Apple that Steve Jobs is one of the most talented and effective CEOs in the world.

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What's it like working inside Apple when the MacWorld announcements are made? The man who set up many of its email systems and worked there 17 years explains the inside story of the preparation, the unveiling – and why it's sometimes best to avoid Steve Jobs

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Jesus Diaz: Gizmodo's "Douchey" Journalist du Jour

At what point does pushing unfounded speculation regarding Steve Jobs' health become a crime?

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It was stupid, selfish and extremely un-Apple-like. Apple is the master of marketing and prides itself on its highly polished image and well thought out products and services. Yesterday's announcement flies in the face of everything that Apple has done for the past 25 years.

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Now they're Apple, Inc., dammit. They make the damned iPod and the damned iPhone. They own more than 80 damned percent of the damned marketplace for digital damned downloads of music and video, and there seems to be damned-well nothing that anybody can do about it.

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Well, no wonder there wasn't much buzz around Macworld this year. Turns out Jobs won't even be at the keynote next month, and after that, Apple plans on skipping the event (if it's still around, that is) altogether. The news came in a surprise press release late this afternoon.

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Apple to Macworld: "It's not you. It's me."

In a move that is sure to light up both the Mac rumor sites and the punditry like few press-releases in recent history, Apple today announced that 1) Phil Schiller will be standing-in for Steve Jobs during the Macworld Keynote in January, 2009 and that 2) nobody will be standing  …

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CUPERTINO, California—December 16, 2008—Apple® today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo.

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Despite Internet rumors of forthcoming product releases, an Apple representative confirmed that the company has no plans to release any new products before the holidays. "Our holiday line-up is set," Apple spokesman Bill Evans told Macworld.

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iTunes has become a phisher's paradise according to security company Proofpoint, Inc. iTunes is being attacked, not only because of it's popularity but because of it's young user base which is more trusting.

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Tired of waiting and hoping for the Mac of my dreams to appear, I decided to take the technology into my own hands and build it myself. And thus began my experiment to assemble my very own OS X-running machine.

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It is with incredible sadness that I write this note today. MacCentral and MacMinute founder Stan Flack passed away quietly on Monday in his Prince Edward Island, Canada home. According to his sister, Stan died of complications to a pre-existing condition.

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From clothing to gadgets to toys, manufacturers are working hard to create environmentally friendly products for an increasingly eco-conscious consumer base. Take the Apple MacBook Air.

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