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  Apple: DRM-free tunes, unibody MacBook Pro

  At Macworld, Phil Schiller touts 10 million songs sans DRM, plus songs at 69 cents, along with a unibody 17-inch notebook, iLife updates, and more.
  • Sources: Apple to expand DRM-free music
  • New era dawns for Macworld Expo

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  Home-networking push
  for Cisco Systems

  Q&A Tech heavyweight sees big opportunities in the connected home as it prepares to launch its first media-centric products at the Consumer Electronics Show.
  • Full coverage of CES

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• HP offers money for old tech equipment

  Recycling program in United States expands recycling program from a trade-in credit system to no-strings checks. Consumers must pay for shipments, though.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Candace Lombardi)

• Green-tech VC jumps nearly 40 percent in '08

  Solar captured the lion's share of green-tech investments worldwide last year, according to a Cleantech Group report.
  • Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business
  • Green news harvest: How to create clean-tech jobs

  (Posted in Green Tech by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Logitech to slash 15 percent of workforce

  Manufacturer of PC peripherals, based in Switzerland, says the retail environment has "deteriorated significantly" and will "worsen in the upcoming months."

  (Posted in Business Tech by Tom Espiner)

• Steve Jobs' health now a public matter

  In choosing to go public with CEO Steve Jobs' ailments to deflect damaging rumors, Apple may be forced to give regular updates on the health of its founder.
  • Apple's credibility hangs in balance
  • Jobs talks health
  • Full Macworld coverage

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Best Buy offers refurbished iPhones

  Retailer is selling slightly used models of the iPhone 3G at a $50 discount, Reuters reports. And it's just a week since Wal-Mart got into the iPhone business.

  (Posted in Apple by Jonathan Skillings)

• New HP ultraportable first to use AMD Neo chip

  AMD is introducing new chips at CES that target the no-man's land between Netbooks and notebooks. Enter HP's Pavilion dv2.
  • HP shrinks Firebird gaming PC
  • Next-gen Netbook: HP Mini 2140

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Pharos Traveler 137 GPS smartphone unveiled

  Ahead of CES 2009, Pharos announces the Traveler 137 smartphone, an unlocked Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone with integrated GPS.

  (Posted in CES 2009 by Bonnie Cha)

• Meg Whitman, governor of California? Maybe

  Speculation about the former eBay chief executive running for California governor is growing, with the latest hint being that she has resigned from four corporate boards.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• China to Web firms: No porn allowed

  The Chinese government as intensified its campaign against sexually explicit material online by instructing companies, including Google, to curb the availability of porn.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Declan McCullagh)

• Small Indian firms buying their first computers

  Holding "the key to growth in India," according to a market analyst, nearly 22 percent of small companies plan to pick up their first PCs in 2009.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Sol E. Solomon)

• Microsoft elevates server unit, promotes Muglia

  Longtime Server and Tools unit head Bob Muglia is now president of the company's server unit.

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Google to release Picasa beta for Mac

  A long-awaited version of Google's software for editing, cataloging, and uploading photos is set to arrive in beta form.
  • Hands-on with Picasa for the Mac

  (Posted in Underexposed by Stephen Shankland)

• SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone announced

  Sling Media declares a deadline for its upcoming SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone and reveals a new trick in the app's retinue.

  (Posted in Macworld 2009 by Jessica Dolcourt)
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