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Microsoft Talking Smack About Apple

Ahh, now you know why I still read my feeds. TechMeme doesn’t catch stuff like this, invaluable as it may be. Frank Shaw works for Waggener Edstrom and heads the Microsoft account and has his take on Apple’s week at MacWorld.

Video Summary - Jobs at MacWorld

Here's a clever video summary of yesterday's MacWorld announcements which contained nothing for music fans or the industry and let me to ask, "Has Apple Gone As Far As It Can Go With Music?"

Macworld Too Much For Twitter

Oh, dear.  It's done it now.  Twitter was already known for experiencing an embarrassing amount of downtime, but the microblogging service crashed during the Macworld keynote, and users are not happy.

Has Apple Seen the Height of its Success with Music?

At yesterday's MacWorld keynote, Steve Jobs unveiled no new  major music initiatives at  iTunes or with the iPod line.

iTunes Movie Rentals, Waifish Macbook In The Air

Well, it's not going to cause quite the media-wide paroxysm the Jesus phone (iPhone, for the uninitiated or unacquainted with light-hearted sacrilege) caused last year at Macworld, but there'll probably be sufficient tremulous giddiness about the world's thinnest notebook computer, the MacBook Air.

The Macworld Keynote Is Leaking

Fake Steve Jobs says that something in the air is the Woz's SBDs. Ha, ha. Everybody loves a good fart joke. But depending on whether the supposed Macworld keynote leak on Wikipedia was the real deal, a promotional buzzworthy plant, or a fake, the Real Steve Jobs might not find it all that amusing.

Simplicity Marketing from Apple, Nintendo, & UPS

Like anyone else, I find Steve Job's product launch presentations to be mesmerizing.

Live Blogging Leads Macworld Keynote Coverage

Coverage of the Steve Jobs keynote at the Macworld conference took on several different forms this year. Some publications took the traditional journalistic approach by writing articles after the fact, while others experimented with the less formal, more reactionary approach of blogging.

Options, Bugs, Phones - Time For Macworld

The Macworld Conference & Expo starts next week in San Francisco, but the parade of Mac fandom led off by Steve Jobs' keynote will have negative news about stock option shenanigans, earnings restatements, and a daily diet of Apple bugs offsetting the positive Mac vibe.

French Publishers Sue Google Over Torn Pages

The French Publishers Association (SNE) has joined a lawsuit targeting the Google Book Search service. The group's objections stem from its interpretation of intellectual property laws. It also - this is not a joke - objects to the way in which Google depicts search results as "ragged-edged" pieces of paper.