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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ooma wants voice to be free — Voice over the Internet, so far, has been a game of cheap minutes, shoddy quality, and unreliable connections. It's also been a money-losing proposition. The promise of voice being free has remained just that - a promise. Palo Alto-based startup Ooma promises …
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Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Ooma Puts Out a Call to Ditch Landlines for Web-Based Service — It has been possible for several years now for Americans to dump their landline phone companies and pay much less with services that route calls over the Internet instead of over the regular phone network.
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IDC Home:
PC Shipments Accelerate In the United States And Asia/Pacific, Lifting Growth Above 12%, According To IDC — Worldwide PC shipments grew by 12.5% in the second quarter of 2007 (2Q07), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) returned …
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Sprint:
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to Partner to Accelerate and Expand the Deployment of the First Nationwide Mobile Broadband Network Using WiMAX Technology — Consumers, Businesses and Public Safety Agencies to Benefit from More Coverage Sooner and Enhanced Network Capabilities
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:WiMax goes mainstream: Sprint, Clearwire to build national network
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CNNMoney.com:
Senate looking at Google-DoubleClick — Executives from search engine firm, its target DoubleClick, and competitors expected to appear at antitrust hearing. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Lawmakers in Congress plan to hold hearings to air concerns about Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Web advertising supplier DoubleClick Inc.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: Apple set to grow iPhone family pre-holidays — Apple Inc. this fall plans to accelerate its assault on the 1 billion unit worldwide cell phone market with a second incarnation of its iPhone handset that will likely appeal to an even larger audience, AppleInsider has learned.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pageflakes Blizzard Release Launches — Customized home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this morning under what it is calling its "Blizzard" release. — Among all of the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social networking and customizable themes on pages.
Reuters:
Toshiba recalls more Sony PC batteries — TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp. said on Thursday it has recalled more Sony Corp. laptop computer batteries due to fire risk, rekindling concerns over the safety of Sony-made batteries. — Toshiba is replacing a total 10,000 battery packs after three …
Tony Smith / The Register:
The IBM ThinkPad: 15 years old today — Receive the day's biggest stories by email, sign up here — Forgotten Tech The ThinkPad is 15 today. Sort of. Launched by IBM and now made by Lenovo, the black-clad laptop family quickly established itself as an icon, in many ways re-establishing …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
LOOKS LIKE YOUTUBE IS GOING WIDESCREEN — While perusing YouTube last night, I noticed the thumbnails for all the YouTube videos had all of a sudden switched from the regular standard dimensions to more of a widescreen size. You can see the change in the screenshot, something Gizmodo noticed, too.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Acquires InviteShare — Getting invitations to private betas can be a frustrating experience for early adopters. If you don't know someone who's already in the beta it could end up being a very long wait. Over the last few years invitations for some betas were so hard …
Nokia:
Nokia makes finding yourself faster with new A-GPS service — Technical framework allows service providers to provide their own regional A-GPS services — Espoo, Finland - This Assisted GPS (A-GPS) service helps Nokia Maps users find their current locations faster and get to their desired …
Emre Sokullu / Read/WriteWeb:
The Impact of Facebook's Platform — It has been just under 2 months since Facebook launched their platform initiative, but this self-opening move has already had an extremely positive impact on the company. The changes are not limited to the company itself, however.
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone — Yesterday, TUAW posted about using iASign to activate iPhones on non-iPhone AT&T plans. Today, TUAW reader AJ reports that he's used iASign to activate his iPhone with Vodafone. — He writes that at first he bought an AT&T prepaid card on ebay and used iASign to get it working.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Scripps Buys User-Gen Recipes Site Recipezaar; Reportedly Around $25 Million — Scripps Networks, which has been looking at bulking up its online effort with acquisitions, has made one: it has bought Recipezaar, a Seattle-area based online recipe site. It was started in 1999 under …
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