It takes guts—or perhaps something a bit further down the anatomy—to wait until Comcast has been smacked down for singling out P2P, the Obama administration has come to power, and Democrat Michael Copps (temporarily) heads the FCC to roll out a new Internet traffic management system that delays only some kinds of content during moments of congestion.

But that’s exactly what Cox Cable, the third largest cable system in the US, has just announced.

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After we all dived head-first into the vast ocean that is social media, it became abundantly clear that we could use a guide when sailing the seven digital seas with all this free time on our hands. Many services are adding recommendation engines to their crew, and Noovo is the latest to combine a “social discovery engine” with lifestreaming features. The service wants to be a one-stop shop for both sharing and finding interesting stuff from around the Web, so we took it for a spin and spoke with the company’s CTO, Matej Pangerc.

Probably the first thing to understand about Noovo (pronounced “new vo, long “o”), according to Pangerc, is its broad array of features that make it one of the most ambitious services of its kind. Noovo combines the simple lifestreaming features of FriendFeed and Swurl, with the multi-content publishing approaches of Tumblr and Pownce, and the social “find new stuff based on your interests” aggregation engine that Strands and so many similar services are trying to leverage to boost engagement and advertising revenue.

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This week’s PNAS brings with it some bad news on the climate front: even if policy makers and
the general public get on board with drastic CO₂ emission cuts, it’s
already too late to prevent serious changes to the planet’s climate, and those
changed will be remarkably persistent. Those are the findings of a group of
researchers from the US, Switzerland, and France. In their paper, they look at
the effect of increasing CO₂ over millennial time frames, and it’s
worrisome stuff.

Currently, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere are
around 385 ppm, a 35 percent increase over pre-industrial levels. The most
optimistic scenarios arrive at a figure of 450 ppm as the best we might be able
to achieve in the coming decades, but even at that level, changes in
precipitation patterns, temperature increases, and a rise in sea level appear
to be locked in for at least the next thousand years. 

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AOL’s release of millions of “anonymous” search log records in 2006 has been the gift that keeps on giving–not just for researchers, but for journalists, playwrights, and now even documentary filmmakers.

Several of the search histories released by AOL are just so gloriously odd that they cry out for artistic interpretation. What kind of person would search, on a single day, for “how to kill annoying birds in your yard,” “people are not always how they seem over the Internet”, and “pimple that gets whitehead on it that never goes away”? A team of Dutch filmmakers has tried to answer to answer that question through a set of 13 short “documentary” pieces about user 711391.

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Muxtape, the former online music mixtape/mashup service, has finally relaunched as a “legit” place for musicians to showcase their work. The new Muxtape was announced on the company’s blog Tuesday afternoon with 12 of Muxtape’s favorite bands and signups opening up for more bands to join in on the fun “in the near future.”

Muxtape 2.0 allows bands to create their own pages and put photos, music, and links up for fans to explore. For example, Girl Talk’s Muxtape page has four songs available for streaming, and Reggie Watts’ Muxtape page has music, a handful of Vimeo links toward the bottom, and a brief bio. For now, that’s pretty much it, though the site may eventually allow bands to sell concert tickets and offer downloads of their music.

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In September, Apple refused to carry the iPhone/iPod touch application Podcaster in the app store, leading to a great deal of controversy. But four months later, Podcaster has managed to sneak in, be it under a different name and sans certain features. The application is now called “RSS Player” (iTunes link). Originally, Podcaster allowed users to search for and subscribe to podcasts from the application, but in RSS Player this is no longer possible. The only way to add feeds is by entering a feed URL or the link to an OPML file that contains a number of feeds.

The normal price for RSS Player is $4.99, but it’s currently available for $1.99. However, the question is whether RSS Player adds anything to the extensive podcasting features added to the iPhone in version 2.2 of the firmware? The answer: no, yes, and no. In principle, the functionality is the same as what’s now available through the iTunes application on the iPhone and the iPod touch: download or stream audio and video podcasts. However, RSS Player attacks this problem from a very different angle than iTunes on the iPhone.

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I’ve been playing Skate 2 for a long time now, putting some time into it… not really knowing what to think. Tony Hawk casts a long shadow, even if his most recent games haven’t been up to par with the games in the past, but the series created this idea of what a skate game should look and play like on video game consoles. Skate 2, perhaps even more than the first title, finds its own niche.

First you’ll have to get used to the controls. The left stick controls
movement and helps you get air before doing vert tricks, flicking the
right thumb stick lets you do tricks, the shoulder buttons handle
grabs, you can hit a button and jump off your board and then hit a
button to do an odd force-pull and get your board back and… man.
There is much to learn.

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The security community has long had a tendency to focus on the identification and repair of vulnerabilities. There have been significant public debates about the ethics of publicly discussing unpatched vulnerabilities, and coders will happily brag about their ability to have a fix ready immediately after a vulnerability is disclosed. A new study by a pair of Swiss academics and a Googler, however, suggests that much of this focus has been misdirected. They argue that the ergonomics of the end-users’ update process has a far more significant effect on the adoption of secure web browsers than any discussion of the severity of a vulnerability.

The authors reached their conclusions thanks to the presence of the Google employee on their team. That got them access to the anonymized search logs for use as their base data set. Since many of these requests come from shared IP addresses and proxies, the authors combined them with a unique ID in Google’s PREF setting to distinguish individual end users. Although this ignores users of other search services, three of the four browsers sampled default to using Google. The authors also realize that this probably eliminates the most security conscious of web browsers–those searching anonymously and with cookies disabled–and those with User Agent strings that identify their browsers as something other than what they are. They suspect that this is a small minority.

Regardless of the limitations, the raw data provides not only information on security, but a glimpse into the dynamics of browser choice and use.

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Apple has released iPhone 2.2.1, a minor update to its latest iPhone OS software. And by minor, we mean really minor–don’t get too worked up about anything major, because it seems as if there aren’t many fixes in this little package. iPhone 2.2.1 is meant for both the iPhone 3G and iPhone.

According to Apple’s description, the 2.2.1 update improves the stability of Mobile Safari and also fixes an issue where “some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll.” The update appears to have no other major fixes, though we all know Apple–there may be tweaks hidden beneath the folds.

To get the latest update, fire up iTunes with your iPhone plugged in and click on the “Check for Updates” button on your iPhone screen. It should then ask you if you want to download and install or just download. The 246MB update is a little hefty, but could be worth it for stability improvements. We’ll let you know if we hear about any other hidden gems in this one. (Update: This update is available for the iPod touch as well. Also, we hear that the 2.2.1 update messes with your iPhone’s baseband. This may affect you if you are using an unlocked iPhone, but we are trying to confirm.)

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Rumors of a next-generation Kindle, Amazon’s e-book reader, started appearing on the Internet almost as soon as the initial version hit the market. Now, it appears that the company is finally ready to show the world what it’s had up its sleeve. The company invited the press to an event it will host on February 9th at a location–the Morgan Library and Museum–that suggests it may have books on its mind.

There are a number of reasons that the Kindle’s rumor mill seems to been able to produce a steady stream of material for such an extended period of time. For one, the device has frequently wound up selling out of stock, which suggests that Amazon was tightly managing its supply chain so as not to wind up with an abundance of discontinued hardware in its warehouses. The poor timing of some of these out-of-stock events, such as the one that included the entire holiday sales season, made this logic seem that much more credible.

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When COO Tim Cook told analysts last week that Apple would “not stand for having our IP ripped off,” he was likely referring to the company’s all-encompassing iPhone patent. The patent, titled “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics,” was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office last week and assigned patent number 7,479,949.

The abstract describes a “computing device, comprising: a touch screen display; one or more processors; memory; and one or more programs” and specifically mentions a variety of methods and heuristics for interpreting the touch input and translating it to commands for scrolling, flipping from page to page in the SpringBoard, zooming webpages, and other commands. In addition, it also details the combination of components that the iPhone represents, including Bluetooth, WiFi, cell, and GPS radios, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, and touch-sensitive screen.

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Those who make use of Netflix’s ever-popular “Watch Instantly” streaming service rent fewer DVDs than the rest of the population, a Netflix executive revealed during the company’s quarterly earnings call on Monday. The phenomenon reinforces the fact that online offerings really do compete with physical media for the same pieces of the movie pie, and that could prove worrisome for Blu-ray as online video continues to grow in popularity.

During the call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings noted that there were millions of subscribers using the Watch Instantly feature, and that Netflix had seen a “substitution effect” among subscribers who do so.

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A multitude of factors are contributing to a mobile computing renaissance. Some of these factors include the growing availability of ubiquitous mobile Internet connectivity and the rising popularity of netbooks and other Internet-enabled small form-factor devices. These changes are inspiring a renewed interest in location-aware software and web services.

A framework called GeoClue aims to enable integration of location-aware technologies in Linux desktop applications. It is an abstraction layer that makes geolocation functionality accessible through a standardized desktop-neutral API that is easy for applications to consume. It will provide a C library and also expose its functionality through D-Bus, an interprocess communication system that is widely used on Linux.

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The DTV transition is well on its way to being delayed. Monday night, the Senate unanimously agreed to extend the switchover date from February 17 to June 12, but the leading backer of the idea insists that no further delays–barring emergencies–will be forthcoming.

The Bush Era may have been marked by black-and-white thinking, but the Hope-Powered Era isn’t immune to easy dichotomies of its own. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) made an impassioned speech to his colleagues in the Senate, telling them, “The way I see it, right now we have a choice. We can do the DTV transition right or we can do it wrong.”

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If you’ve been holding off on a 1TB or 1.5TB upgrade in the hopes of buying something a wee bit roomier, Western Digital’s new 2TB hard drive may fit

your needs. Western Digital bills its “Green” series as being eco-friendly; these drives typically trade a bit of performance for variable spin speeds,

lower temperatures, and quieter decibel levels.

WD’s new 2TB drive offers a total of 32MB of cache and is a four-platter design (500GB per platter); arreal density is up to 400GB/inch². The earliest 1TB drives used five platters; Western Digital’s 2TB Green is, in some sense, a bit ahead of the original 1TB curve.

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Over the last few months, we’ve reviewed two major updates to the leading Mac virtualization apps, VMware Fusion 2 and Parallels Desktop 4. In the discussion forum threads for both reviews, we saw a lot of requests to include Sun’s free virtualization program, VirtualBox, in our comparisons. The general consensus was that, while it doesn’t offer all of the bells and whistles that the other commercial programs do, it was fine for many people’s basic needs. Conveniently, around a day after the Parallels review was published, VirtualBox 2.1 came out with some fixes and a bunch of new features:

• Support for VT-x and AMD-V in OS X
• Support for 64-bit client OSes
• Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL for 32-bit Windows clients
• Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots
• New NAT engine
• Integrated host-based networking; “no more fiddling around with network bridges”

With all of these features, it seemed that the time had come to give this thing a go.

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When the Wikipedia pages for Senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd both say that the men have died (when in fact they haven’t) and the changes are reverted five minutes later, is it a public relations disaster for the online encyclopedia or triumph of the communal editing model?

Hardcore Wikipedians are currently working through the answer to that question, and the end result of the deliberations could be a new process for flagging revisions to contentious articles. Wikipedia is no stranger to article vandalism, and it’s not as though the world isn’t aware of that fact by now (see Stephen Colbert’s attempt to rewrite the entry for “elephant,” for instance, or last week’s episode of 30 Rock). But the edits to the Byrd and Kennedy bios attracted national attention after the Washington Post ran a piece about the five minutes of inaccuracy.

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The past several years have seen a number of advances towards the goal of creating a scalable quantum computer. Because quantum objects can be in a number of states simultaneously, these computers could sample a large solution space in an instant, providing solutions to certain problems that are currently very computationally expensive. But it’s not simply enough to have something that can perform quantum computations; the other parts of a traditional computer, such as memory and communication busses will also be needed. Researchers have now demonstrated the teleportation of quantum states between two ions that are a meter apart, a development that has applications in both quantum computing and communications.

Teleportation, from a quantum perspective, doesn’t mean the same thing as it does to everyone who immediately thinks of Star Trek’s transporters. In general, it involves two entangled quantum objects, a sender and a receiver, and the quantum state of the former is sent to the latter. A measurement can be performed on the sender that, thanks to the entanglement, changes the state of the receiver. The results of the measurement of the sender can then be used to manipulate the receiver, placing it into the same state as the sender.

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Kanye West has just learned a valuable lesson when it comes to doing things on the Internet: don’t use the same password for everything. We’re only half kidding, but Kanye claims that nearly every account he had across the web has been “hacked” and that those behind the hacks are spreading rumors that he has starred in not just any porn, but bisexual porn.

In a gloriously all-caps blog post, Kanye said that his Twitter account, MySpace account, and personal Gmail account have all been hacked since sometime last week. He expressed extreme frustration that his fans have believed some of the claims made on these accounts, and that Rolling Stone magazine had even reprinted an allegedly fake statement made on Twitter about Steven Colbert. He even found out that he has 12 “unauthorized” Skype accounts under his name.

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After the official release of KDE 4 last year, I took a close look at nascent projects that aimed to port the desktop environment to other operating systems. These ports have matured significantly over the past twelve months and are beginning to approach the point where they are robust enough for general use.

The open source KDE desktop environment, which is one of the two most popular Linux desktop stacks, underwent a significant transformation during the transition to version 4. Many parts of the environment were written from scratch and large parts of the underlying development infrastructure were overhauled. One of the major changes that accompanied this transition was the adoption of Qt 4, the next major version of KDE’s underlying toolkit. Qt licensing changes that coincided with the launch of Qt 4 made it possible for the KDE developers to port the desktop to Windows and Mac OS X. The porting effort was also greatly simplified by KDE’s adoption of the CMake build system.

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AMD released a group of new, low-power Opteron HE processors today, with parts immediately available from HP and, um, Rackable Systems (we discussed that company’s concept of server “physicalization” recently). Dell, Sun, and “other solution providers” are expected to launch SKUs based on the new processors within the first quarter.

AMD is launching three new HE (aka, low-power) flavors of the 2376,
2374, and 2372, at 2.1GHz- 2.3GHz, and one “SE.” The “SE” parts are
cutting-edge Opteron parts with a correspondingly higher power
consumption. In this case, the new part in town is the 2386 SE, at
2.8GHz and a 105W ACP. Typically, CPUs that are classified as SE at the
beginning of a launch cycle are later relaunched as standard parts with
a lower ACP/TDP.

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Verizon Wireless started selling its new femtocell–an in-home cellular network extension–under the Network Extender name Monday for $249.99. The service is meant to offer better coverage in homes and small offices by allowing existing cell phones to use broadband as backhaul. Up to 3 calls may be in progress at any given time.

There’s one small problem, however: Unlike Sprint Nextel, which allows all outside users to be barred from using its femtocell offering, Airave, Verizon has an exception in its manual. At any given time, “unregistered” users could be making a call without your permission.

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Nonprofit organization Games for Change (G4C) is continuing its march to save the world through gaming. Aided by some vicarious funding from the AMD Foundation, G4C today launched a new toolkit designed as a crash course to help non-profit organizations learn how to create “social issue digital games.”

The Games for Change Toolkit is primarily a Flash-based presentation containing video, reference material, and links to demonstration games that cover various aspects of game design, from the initial concept to production and distribution. While an actual SDK may not be involved, the toolkit introduces nonprofit organizations to both the broad potential and finer details of bringing an issue-conscious game into reality.

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Dealing with illicit file-sharing using “graduated response” has proved controversial across Europe (and now across the US, too), largely due to the nuclear option backed by the music industry: total disconnection of a user’s Internet connection. Given the Internet’s importance, critics argue that a ‘Net disconnection is a grossly disproportionate response to the problem at hand.

The UK Intellectual Property Minister, David Lammy, appears to agree, and disconnection may not turn out to be a feature of the UK’s graduated response program after all.

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Warner Music has been keeping itself very busy as of late by sending YouTube takedown notices for videos it believes are unauthorized, and its zeal has now caused a bit of embarrassment for one of its own artists. The band Death Cab for Cutie had posted several of its videos–found via YouTube–to its official website, but fans found over the weekend that they couldn’t watch them… due to a copyright claim from Death Cab for Cutie’s own record label, Warner Music. The blooper left the band red-faced (it has since removed the embeds from the site)–and it highlights how crazy the DMCA takedown game has become.

The simplest explanation for the mixup is that whoever put the videos on Death Cab for Cutie’s website managed to find unofficial uploads of the videos–that is, ones that weren’t expressly authorized by Warner Music. (This is just our theory; it’s unclear exactly how it was determined to use these specific videos on the site.) Warner, in its latest effort to apparently remove every bit of content it didn’t explicitly authorize from the Internet, then sent a DMCA notice to YouTube. Subsequently, the videos were yanked, leaving Death Cab for Cutie’s site with no Death Cab for Cutie videos.

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A new report from the EU Committee of Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs is good news for the gaming industry. Compiled by Toine Manders, a Dutch politician on the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the report describes gaming as “predominantly nonviolent” and “a winning form of entertainment.” He also stressed that the PEGI ratings classifications should be endorsed by the European Parliament, in order to make the game ratings as universal as possible.

PEGI, which stands for Pan European Game Information,
is the ratings system in use in parts Europe. Using a series of icons
to describe the type of content in a game, the system gives a
recommendation on the age-appropriateness of gaming titles. While the
system isn’t quite as elegant as the ESRB ratings found on games in
North America, its use and familiarity in a large number of European
countries makes its widespread adoption an easier task than
adopting a whole new system.

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Here is a proposed law that we know Ars Technica readers will just love. It’s the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414), introduced into Congress this month by Representative Peter King, Republican of New York. The bill’s text says that Congress has found that “children and adolescents have been exploited by photographs taken in dressing rooms and public places with the use of a camera phone.”

What’s King’s solution? One year after the passage of the Alert Act, all mobiles with cameras made in the United States must emit a “tone or other sound audible within a reasonable radius of the phone.” And the legislation would forbid manufacturers to program an option that would allow consumers to disable the noise.

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Movie and TV show recommendations appear to be one of the Next Big Things for startups–upstart Jinni has just entered a scene we previously saw Clerk Dogs step into. Launching with its own semantic database and site, Jinni brings a unique mix of automation and human knowledge to the movie and TV show recommendation game. Ars spoke with Phoebe Spanier, Marketing Manager at Jinni, and scored 500 beta invites for Ars Technica readers.

Jinni says it is building a better movie recommendation system by filing films under a long list of granular categories, such as plot, time period, mood, and audience. According to Spanier, the company uses a dual approach of automated semantic metadata processing of things like existing movie reviews and film professionals to provide further insight. Jinni has indexed over 15,000 titles so far, focusing not on a particular genre or just new releases, but on “titles people would rent on DVD or buy online.”

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While Congress debates the $6 billion dollar boost to broadband included in President Obama’s stimulus package, there’s an even tougher issue facing lawmakers and regulators: what to do about the enormous leverage that the nation’s three dominant telcos have over special access rates–the wholesale prices that Verizon, AT&T, and Qwest charge cell phone companies and smaller carriers pay for entree to their high-speed digital circuits.

A new study suggests that the Federal Communications Commission’s methods don’t accurately measure the degree to which any real competition exists for the kind of circuit line services wireless companies and enterprise computing-dependent businesses rely on. It’s not the first time that concerned parties have pointed this out. But outfits like Sprint are piggybacking on the report, complaining that special access rates are too high and touting reform as a big component of economic stimulus.

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The Joel Tenenbaum file-swapping case continues to get weirder–and we’re still months away from an actual trial. Not only has the RIAA now appealed the judge’s order allowing one particular hearing to be webcast, but music industry lawyers are now seeking sanctions on Tenenbaum’s lawyer, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson.

The webcasting issue is perhaps the oddest; the RIAA appears to believe that broadcasting pretrial hearings will influence the potential jury pool for the trial. Although the judge called the group’s arguments “specious” when she rejected them, music industry lawyers have now appealed the ruling to the First Circuit Court of Appeals. The First Circuit then agreed to consider the appeal, delaying this week’s expected hearing until sometime in February.

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Welcome to Ars Technica v5.0! As you can see, our look has changed drastically. Come on in for the 50-cent tour, including a peek at what’s behind the curtain and a discussion of the philosophy driving our redesign.

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This week in open source, we looked at a new GTK+ debugging tool, a D-Bus bridge for GNOME’s Evolution e-mail client, GiiNii’s new Android-based tablet, and Mozilla’s new version of Ubiquity.

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Seagate admitted (and hopefully recovered) from multiple hard drive firmware issues this week, Chinese executives from several LCD manufacturers were convicted of price fixing, and both Intel and AMD cut CPU prices.

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Seagate admitted (and hopefully recovered) from multiple hard drive firmware issues this week, Chinese executives from several LCD manufacturers were convicted of price fixing, and both Intel and AMD cut CPU prices.

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The top Apple news for this week was fairly eclectic and included Obama’s staff preferences for Macs, Apple’s first fiscal quarter conference call, the disappearance of iGoogle for iPhone, SEC investigations into Steve Jobs’ health, iWork ’09 trojans, and more. Read on in case you missed it.

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The top Apple news for this week was fairly eclectic and included Obama’s staff preferences for Macs, Apple’s first fiscal quarter conference call, the disappearance of iGoogle for iPhone, SEC investigations into Steve Jobs’ health, iWork ’09 trojans, and more. Read on in case you missed it.

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Ars goes to science online, model-makers check out shrinking glaciers and growing galaxies, and oceanographers ponder how much ocean chemistry is influenced by fish poop.

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Ars goes to science online, model-makers check out shrinking glaciers and growing galaxies, and oceanographers ponder how much ocean chemistry is influenced by fish poop.

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This week in gaming brought us the inauguration of the 44th president Barack Obama as seen from Fallout 3, the release of an unexpected first-person gem for the DS in Moon, and more industry drama as Microsoft and Sony trade words.

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This week in gaming brought us the inauguration of the 44th president Barack Obama as seen from Fallout 3, the release of an unexpected first-person gem for the DS in Moon, and more industry drama as Microsoft and Sony trade words.

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Ars Technica’s roundup of the week in politics.

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In this week’s top Microsoft news, we cover the Windows 7 taskbar, marketing Windows 7, the media and Windows 7, a potential software center for Windows, Windows Mobile 6.5, SP2 for Vista and Server 2008 R2, the youngest MCP, Windows 7 and SSDs, Microsoft and Obama’s inauguration, and tweaks in the deployment tools for Windows.

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In this week’s top Microsoft news, we cover the Windows 7 taskbar, marketing Windows 7, the media and Windows 7, a potential software center for Windows, Windows Mobile 6.5, SP2 for Vista and Server 2008 R2, the youngest MCP, Windows 7 and SSDs, Microsoft and Obama’s inauguration, and tweaks in the deployment tools for Windows.

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Ars recaps the week’s most popular stories from the world of technology news.

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According to a recent job posting, Microsoft is looking for a marketing manager for Windows 7. If you got the job, what would you do?

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The One Laptop Per Child project has donated 5,000 XO laptops to the United Nation Relief Workers Agency to give to Palestinian children in Gaza.

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It has been 25 years since the original Macintosh was introduced. The Ars staff looks back at our favorite Macs and Mac moments in honor of the iconic personal computer.

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Researchers in Japan have found a cheap way to paint on electromagnetic shielding to suppress millimeter wave radiation.

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