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  Source: Apple to beef up DRM-free offerings

  Moving further away from its one-price-fits-all model, the company will allow top four music labels more price flexibility.

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  HP ultraportable first
  to use AMD Neo chip

  Hewlett-Packard is launching an ultraportable notebook using AMD's new Neo silicon.

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• 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
  • Start of new era
  • Jobs talks health

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• 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)

• 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)

• Video game console sales hot for the holidays

  Microsoft said its Xbox 360 had the strongest holiday season of its lifetime, while Sony and Nintendo both tout their own sales success.

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Online video viewing jumps 34 percent

  U.S. Internet users watched 12.7 billion online videos in November, an increase of 34 percent versus a year ago, according to ComScore data.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Steven Musil)

• Microsoft still pushing 'Apple tax' notion

  Ahead of Macworld, top Windows marketer says consumers can't afford to go Mac. But with the economy in tatters, will people be buying any PCs other than Netbooks?

  (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)

• Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business

  Company creates unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Amazon Video On Demand coming to Roku Player

  The pay-per-view online video service is the box's first move beyond Netflix. The service, formerly known as Amazon Unbox, offers more than 40,000 movies and TV shows.

  (Posted in Crave by John P. Falcone)

• Vegawatt plugs in grease-fired restaurant generator

  Start-up Owl Power Systems to announce series A venture financing to build its Vegawatt distributed generator, which runs on a restaurant's fryer vegetable oil.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Update: Twitter blames celebrity hack on 'individual'

  After a number of most popular accounts were compromised, Twitter has come out and said that it was a hacker, not the phishing scam making the rounds recently.
  • Oops! Twitter hack snares CNN anchor

  (Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

• Apple's last Macworld beginning of new era

  A Jobs-less Macworld might take some of the fire away from this week's event, but it could be a sign that Apple wants to shift the leadership burden across more of its team.

  (Posted in Apple by Tom Krazit)

• Intel, Adobe to tune up Flash for TV devices

  Companies to fine-tune Flash Player and Flash Lite for Media Processor CE 3100 to help Flash videos play nicely with digital TVs, Blu-ray players, cable set-top boxes, and AV equipment.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Jonathan Skillings)
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