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NYT: Apple to Buy Music Start-Up Lala

The NYT’s Brad Stone confirms Bloomberg’s scoop from earlier today; reports that it’s a talent acquisition. ★ ...

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Daring Fireball — 4 days ago

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VMware Fusion 3

My thanks to VMware Fusion for sponsoring this week’s DF RSS feed. VMware Fusion 3 is a great update to what was already the best virtualization software for Mac OS X. It lets you run over 140 different x86 operating systems — including everything from DOS to Windows 7 to Google Chrom...

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Daring Fireball — 4 days ago

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EtherPad to Shut Down After Google Acquisition of Parent Company AppJet

No more new accounts, and the existing EtherPad service is scheduled to shut down March 31. The team is joining Google’s Wave team. If you want my opinion, it ought to be the other way around: keep EtherPad going and abandon Wave. As Glenn Fleishman writes: I’ve been using [Google...

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Daring Fireball — 4 days ago

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Droid Video Recalls Duncan Davidson’s iPhone Debut Photo

Duncan’s photo from Macworld Expo 2007, showing people examining the for-display-only original iPhones, truly is an iconic image. The original iPhone was awe-inspiring. There’s no other way to put it. His photo captures that. ★ ...

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Daring Fireball — 4 days ago

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Mark Coleran, Designer of Fictional UIs for Movies

Some great work. (Via Metafilter.) ★ ...

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Daring Fireball — 4 days ago

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Kottke on Google Public DNS

Surely there’s some good reason why Google is providing free DNS servers. Why? I say Jason Kottke nailed it: it’s about speed speed speed. Every tenth of a second matters. Faster DNS makes for a faster web experience. The faster your web experience, the more you use Google web service...

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Daring Fireball — 4 days ago