• Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes (AP)

  AP - Apple Inc. is cutting the price of some songs in its market-leading iTunes online store to as little as 69 cents and plans to make every track available without copy protection.

  
  
  

• Even in recession, CES to have stuff worth seeing (AP)

  AP - The recession figures to tone down the flashiness of this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, but the lineup of innovative products likely will measure up to those of past years.

  
  
  

• Apple's Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO (AP)

  AP - Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer whose gaunt appearance in the past year has alarmed the Mac and iPod lovers who look to him as an oracle, said Monday he has an easily treated hormone imbalance and will remain in charge of the company.

  
  
  

• SEO and PPC Cannibalization - ClickZ

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  Author : Bruce Clay, Inc. SIMI VALLEY, CA -- 01/06/09 -- Bruce Clay, Inc. has created two new search engine optimization tools that are available for free on their Web site ( http://www.bruceclay.com/web_rank.htm ). These new tools are the Search ...

• China issues 3G licences: government (AFP)

  AFP - China issued long-awaited third-generation mobile phone licences Wednesday, a move that will pour billions of dollars into new networks as consumers buy video- and Internet-enabled handsets.

  
  
  

“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.” - Albert Einstein

“I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man.” - Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture 2005