MacBook Air – Yahoo & Del.icio.us – Amazon & France – The Free Line 1.22.08


The MacBook Air may be the most recyclable computers on the market but that’s not enough for GreenPeace. On the other hand, this year they didn’t protest outside MacWorld Expo — so that’s good news for Apple.

Yahoo is now including a small icon next to some listings in the search results to show exactly how many people have bookmarked that site with Del.icio.us. So far, there’s no word that De.licio.us popularity will affect the actual rankings. But we’ll keep you posted.

News Worth Knowing - Scientists have rigged a monkey’s brain to make a robot walk — over the Internet. The robot was in Japan and the monkey was in North Carolina.

Amazon is currently being fined 1,000 Euros a day for offering free shipping in France. A French court ruled that the amount of the shipping discount violates a 1981 French law that prohibits book sellers from selling more than 5% below list price. Jeff Bezos is rallying the consumers, but right now France may be the only country where Amazon’s free shipping practice is illegal.

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