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**** Microsoft Goes Big At Macworld Expo <http://rss.macworld.com/click.phdo?i=fa5100df6e3c0c4b2f758e9c8b629ea6>
David Dahlquist, Macworld

Macworld Expo without Apple is a strange enough concept, but Macworld Expo with Microsoft as one of the largest and most visible companies present? It may seem like something out of Bizarro World, but Microsoft had one of the most prominently displayed booths on the Macworld Expo floor last week.

**** Apple To Wrap Digital Books In FairPlay Copy Protection <http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/02/apple-ibooks-drm-fairplay.html>
Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times

When Apple launches its iBook store to sell titles for its new iPad device in March, many of its titles are expected to come with a set of handsome digital locks designed to deter piracy.

**** Macworld Expo 2010 Reboots <http://db.tidbits.com/article/11002?rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tidbits_main+%28TidBITS%3A+Mac+News+for+the+Rest+of+Us%29>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

If, last week, you heard a faint Macintosh startup chime from the direction of San Francisco, it was the sound of Macworld Expo rebooting after the crash caused by the disappearance of Apple from the exhibitor list. The good news is that although the show was notably smaller than previous incarnations, in terms of floor space and exhibitor count, the reboot was successful. Macworld seems essentially unaffected - indeed, even improved in places - without Apple's presence.

**** Jobs Is Said To Assist With Book On His Life <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/technology/companies/16apple.html>
Brad Stone, New York Times

Apple’s chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, according to two people briefed on the project.

**** Swede's iMac Takes A Burnin' And It's Still Turnin' <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/15/swedes-imac-takes-a-burnin-and-its-still-turnin/>
Steven Sande, TUAW

**** Apple Secures iPhone Trademark <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/15/apple-secures-iphone-trademark/>
Dave Caolo, TUAW

**** They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: IDG Pulls Off An Apple-Less Expo Hit <http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/they_said_it_couldnt_be_done_idg_pulls_off_an_apple-less_expo_hit_will_no-s/>
Chuck La Tournous, The Mac Observer

The question about what effect Apple's absence would have on the show hung like a pall over the Moscone Center. Until the show floor opened, that is. From that point on, I literally heard not one vendor or attendee even mention Apple -- at least until I asked about it. It was simply a non-issue, lost in the bustling crowds on the show floor; stomped on by rows of people four or five deep trying to get into exhibitor's booths.

**** Publishers Fear The Bite Of Apple's Revenue Model <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a739bace-1a9a-11df-bef7-00144feab49a.html>
Kenneth Li, Financial Times

The question haunting publishers is whether they will suffer the same fate as the music industry, which was hit by Apple's 2003 deal to unbundle the album format by offering downloads of individual songs via iTunes.

Alternatively, could the iPad become this generation's iPod - a galvanizing force that will alter the media landscape and retrain consumers weaned on free web content to begin paying again?

**** Google: Apple Is A Valuable Partner <http://www.itpro.co.uk/620518/google-apple-is-a-valuable-partner>
Georgina Prodhan, Reuters

Google sees Apple as a valuable partner and sees no reason for that to change, a senior executive said today, amid rumours that Microsoft's Bing search engine may replace Google on the iPhone.

**** Macworld Expo Shines Even Without Apple <http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/techdrmac/~3/uMnBCtKqBRs/6868599.html>
Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle

The first Macworld Expo without Apple's participation was even better because it left more time to explore non-Apple products and even some presentations critical of the iconic company.

**** Steve Jobs' 6 Sneakiest Statements <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/steve-jobs>
Brian X. Chen, Wired News



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**** You, Too, Can Soon Be Like Tom Cruise In 'Minority Report' <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=fb552cee49dc9f5c14b06f660f6a8450>
Jennifer 8. Lee, New York Times

Gesture-based computer interfaces are almost a reality, says John Underkoffler, who led the team that dreamed up the version shown in the 2002 science-fiction movie.

**** Microsoft Starts Over In Phone Software <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=84ee3885e233921f4a4efc33ac45e08c>
Ashlee Vance, New York Times

The frenetic pace of the mobile phone industry has forced some of the technology world’s largest players to make a break with the past.



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**** The Night They Burned Ranum's Papers <http://chronicle.com/article/The-Night-They-Burned-Ranums/64115/>
John Castellucci, The Chronicle Of Higher Education

At about 2:30 a.m. on May 22, 1968, as New York City police entered Hamilton Hall, on Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus, to clear it of demonstrators, files belonging to Orest A. Ranum, an associate professor of history, were ransacked, and papers documenting more than 10 years of research were burned. The fire came at the tail end of a month of protests that had roiled Columbia, paralyzing the university and provoking the biggest police bust ever undertaken on an American campus. Members of Students for a Democratic Society, which led the protests, denied responsibility for the arson, claiming that if anyone had set fire to Ranum's papers, it was the police.

**** It’s A Plot! No, It’s Not: A Debunking <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=b47894daa045c9a806e5ceac71c673f6>
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

In “Voodoo Histories,” the journalist David Aaronovitch deconstructs a dizzying array of conspiracy theories with logic, common sense and at times exasperated wit.

**** How The Frisbee Took Flight <http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2010/02/16/inventor_frisbee/index.html>
Ben Van Heuvelen, Salon

It began with two sweethearts tossing a tin lid in 1937 and ended up a testament to the American Dream

**** Summer Of '09 <http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=d5f295c089d30d3fa060da74897e763c>
Andrew Hudgins, Slate Magazine



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**** Govt Will Play Active Facilitator Role In Efforts To Grow External Wing: SM Goh <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1037811/1/.html>
S.Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

With Singapore nearing its constraints of land and labour, Mr Goh said the government must increase the country's Gross National Product (GNP) and he urged companies in the frontline to lead the way.