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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Dell Recalls Batteries Because of Fire Threat — Dell is recalling 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could erupt in flames, the company said today. This will be the largest safety recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
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B2Day, Engadget, B.L. Ochman's weblog, CrunchGear, Gadgetell, Blogging Stocks, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, GottaBeMobile.com and Slashdot
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Alex Gruzen / Direct2Dell:
Dell Details on Notebook Battery Recall — Alex Gruzen, Sr. VP - Mobility Product Group — Dell announced a recall today of lithium-ion batteries sold in many of our notebook computers over the past two years. You may have seen the recent New York Times story or have seen other details in the blogosphere.
CNET News.com:
Dell to recall 4 million batteries — update Dell and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission plan to recall 4.1 million notebook batteries on Tuesday, a company representative confirmed Monday. — The recall affects certain Inspiron, Latitude and Precision mobile workstations …
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
AOL acquires Userplane to expand AIM network — A brief interruption of my holiday schedule to announce a great news: portfolio co Userplane has been acquired by AOL LLC a couple of weeks ago, and I just heard that the official press release is now up there.
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Black Voices:
AOL Acquires Userplane — Company's Industry-Leading Web-Based Chat & Instant Messaging Services Will Expand the AIM Network, Serve Social Networking Audiences and Emerging Online Communities — AOL LLC today announced that is has acquired Userplane (http://www.userplane.com) of Los Angeles …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Private Blogger Blogs Not So Secret — Google's Blogger, the grand daddy of the modern weblog publishing platform, today unveiled a new beta version that among other things touts enhanced privacy settings. For the first time on Blogger you can specify if a blog is public, private or by invitation only.
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:The New Blogger — As noted by Tony Ruscoe, Blogger migrates to Google Accounts.
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Googling Google, InsideGoogle, Digital Inspiration, Tony Ruscoe's Blog and The Blog Herald
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Xbox offers do-it-yourself games — ONE OF THE HOTTEST online trends is to get people to create and contribute their own material — things like reviews, photos and videos. — But will user-generated content work for video games? Microsoft plans to find out.
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Sara Ivry / New York Times:
Segway Plans 2 New Models of Transporter — The Segway Human Transporter was introduced in late 2001 after a flood of anticipation, a barrelful of venture capital and a promise from its inventor, Dean Kamen, to revolutionize the way cities worked. Since then, the two-wheeled vehicle …
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Tina Gasperson / NewsForge:
Open source project adds "no military use" clause to the GPL — GPU is a Gnutella client that creates ad-hoc supercomputers by allowing individual PCs on the network to share CPU resources with each other. That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is the license its developers have given it.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Wiki.com partners with MindTouch, says $3 mill domain is a deal — Entrepreneur John Gotts has agreed to pay almost $3 million to purchase the domain wiki.com. With skeptics saying that he'll back out of the deal through a contract clause or that the purchase is a huge sign of a bubble …
Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Verizon adds multiroom DVR — Verizon Communications plans to offer a digital video recorder that allows its TV customers to watch recorded programs on multiple TVs in any room in the house, the company said Monday. — The new multiroom DVR, made by Motorola, lets customers view recorded programs on up to three televisions at once.
Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn't Know Who to Ask — Many people ask me for advice about getting a job in Silicon Valley, so here's the inside scoop. Not everyone will agree with this advice, and some will outright deny what I'm saying …
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Scobleizer, Chris Pirillo, The Bb Gun, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Lifehacker, Search Engine Journal, Andrew Lark, ben barren and digg
Jeremy Wright / b5media:
Call for Bloggers: All Ye Business Folk — It has been quite some time since we've put out a call for bloggers. Especially for starting new blogs. After a summer of relaxation, we're thinking that now is the time to look at the possibility of launching some new blogs.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Verizon Is Rewiring New York, Block by Block, in a Race for Survival — It's 9 in the morning, and a team from Verizon has been stringing fiber optic cable along a residential side street in the Bronx for three hours. In a basket about 20 feet in the air, James DeMattia guides the cable …
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Techdirt, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, dailywireless.org, Mark Evans, TechEffect, CNNMoney.com and broadbandreports.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Browster 2.0 makes MySpace easier to use — Browser plug in Browster released version 2.0 of its product this weekend and is aiming to make MySpace profiles easier to view. A Windows download for IE and Firefox, Browster preloads pages from search results and provides a live minibrowser when inserted lightning bolts are hovered over.
USA Today:
HSN to offer point and shop by TV remote — See something you like on Home Shopping Network? Point your remote at the TV. Hit "select." And buy, buy, buy! — At least, that's what HSN (IACI) hopes its viewers will do. — On Monday, HSN is announcing the nation's first shop-by-remote system for digital TV customers.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
NetVibes, the slick "homepage" company, raises $15 million — NetVibes, the Paris based company that lets you personalize your home page with cool little modules that you can drag across the screen, has raised $15 million in more financing. — If you go there and play …
