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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity, August 24, 2007, 12:00PM EDT — It's high noon, Apple and AT&T — we really hate to break it to you, but the jig is up. Last night the impossible was made possible: right in front of our very eyes we witnessed a full SIM unlock of our iPhone with a small piece of software.
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rediff.com:
Forget iPhone, the Gphone is here — Google, the nearly $13.5 billion search engine major, is believed to be a fortnight away from the worldwide launch of its much-awaited Google Phone (Gphone) and has started talks with service providers in India for an exclusive launch on one of their networks.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Could The GPhone Be Nigh? — Todays completely unsubstantiated rumor comes from Rediff News, a usually well respected source of news based in India. Rediff is reporting that the Google Phone is set to be launched in 2 weeks time! The GPhone is said to simultaneously launch in both Europe …
Bloomberg:
Google May Start New York Transit Guide to Boost Ads — Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, provides online transit guides for more than a dozen U.S. cities including Dallas and San Diego. Now it may take on the biggest.
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:Google to add transit maps for New York
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vnunet:
Court orders pirate to use Windows — A man convicted of illegally downloading an episode of Star Wars has been told that he can no longer use his computer with an Ubuntu Linux operating system. — Scott McCausland pleaded guilty last year to 'conspiracy to commit copyright infringement …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Movie pirate forced to ditch Linux — House-arrest Ubuntu fan left staring at Windows — A BitTorrent admin convicted of uploading movie files is being forced to ditch Linux if he wants to use his PC. — Scott McCausland (AKA sk0t), the ex-admin of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker …
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Ars Technica
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Internet Radio Saved - For Now — Net radio broadcasters have reached a deal with SoundExchange, the group that collects royalty fees for record labels, that will put a $50,000 cap on royalties for individual broadcasters. The cap will apply to broadcasters as a whole.
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Nokia:
Nokia and Matsushita Battery agree on costs related to BL-5C batteries — Matsushita Battery to cover the direct costs related to the advisory — Helsinki, Finland and Tokyo, Japan - Nokia and Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan are in agreement that Matsushita will cover …
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Tony Smith / The Register:Nokia battery recall to cost Matsushita up to $172m
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InfoWorld
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
IBM to open source collaboration software? — InfoWorld is reporting that IBM may soon open source key parts of its Jazz collaboration software. Jazz comes from the Rational side of IBM's business, and is a development tool that facilitates code collaboration between developers.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
NY Times Launches My Yahoo Clone A Decade Late — from the 1996-is-calling...-it-wants-its-idea- back dept — We were just wondering why the NY Times doesn't seem to understand the basic workings of the internet, and perhaps the answer is just that they're still a decade behind the rest of us.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
MySpace Has What Facebook Will: Ad Targeting — Earlier this week, a lot of attention was paid to Facebook's new advertising platform, in particular how the company was going to let marketers use profile information to better target their ads. It wasn't a surprise, given the fascination Silicon Valley has with Mark Zuckerberg's baby.
Joe Mandese / MediaPost Publications:
'Hey! Nielsen,' Why Are You Going Viral? Researcher Develops Social Network To Measure TV, Internet, Music, Celebrities — FIRST THERE WAS MYSPACE. THEN there was Facebook. Now the world's biggest researcher is launching "Hey! Nielsen," a new online social community where people can discuss …
Narayan Kamath / en.blog.orkut.com:
Coming Soon: A New Look! — Remember the first time that you logged into orkut? Maybe you received a coveted invitation from a friend, heard about it in a blog, or stumbled upon it when searching for a social network on google.com. But no matter when your first login was …
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
In Primary, Tech's Home Is a Magnet — SAN FRANCISCO — For presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa, the place to be is the state fair. Diners are popular in New Hampshire. But for those visiting Silicon Valley, it's the Googleplex. — The destination, Google's headquarters …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Princeton's itty bitty USB Bluetooth 2.0+EDR module — Remember that crazy small, RF receiver used with Logitech's VX Nano? Meet the Bluetooth 2.0+EDR equiv, the Princeton's PTM-UBT3S which measures just 19-mm (0.75-inches) long. So yeah, it's small, in fact, it's claimed …
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DailyTech
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Five Suggestions to Improve Viddler — Continuing the "Five Things" trend, today we take a look at Viddler. Viddler is currently my favorite video sharing service. They kick YouTube's arse in every way, from their innovative timed tagging/commenting to larger-sized videos.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mary Meeker Fixes YouTube Math—Then Changes Assumptions to Back Into New Estimate — Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker and team dutifully rechecked their YouTube advertising calculations and produced a new set of estimates this morning. As expected, if Mary had stuck with the assumptions she made yesterday …
