Techmeme: NJ Teen Unlocks IPhone From AT&T Network (Peter Svensson/Associated Press)

2:50 PM ET, August 24, 2007

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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.

Peter Svensson / Associated Press: NJ Teen Unlocks IPhone From AT&T Network

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.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, Read/WriteWeb, Mashable! and Ian Landsman's Weblog v2.0

Doug Caverly / WebProNews:

NY Subway System To Get Mapped By Google — Subways have a bad reputation, but Google's not (too) afraid - at long last, the search giant is mapping New York City's subway system, and this move is likely to draw in more users than all of Google's other transit-related projects.

Discussion: The Raw Feed

Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Google to add transit maps for New York

Discussion: Search Engine Land

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.

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 …

Discussion: A VC

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 …

Discussion: CyberNet Technology News, UNEASYsilence, TechSpot News and Neowin.net

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 …

Discussion: Ars Technica

Tony Smith / The Register:

Nokia battery recall to cost Matsushita up to $172m — Nokia's decision to recall 46m mobile phone batteries is going to cost their manufacturer, Matsushita, up to $172m, the Japanese company admitted today. — Matsushita - better known for its Panasonic brand - said it would shoulder the ¥10-20bn …

Discussion: 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.

John Ribeiro / InfoWorld: IBM may open source Jazz collaboration software

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.

Discussion: Download Squad, The Bivings Report, mathewingram.com/work, Bloggers Blog, Rev2.org, michael parekh on IT, TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb and Silicon Alley Insider

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 …

Discussion: paidContent.org, Mashable!, AttentionMax and Media Buyer Planner

Keith Benjamin / VentureBeat:

Technology stocks swinging back into favor — [Editor's note: This is an Op-Ed piece written by Keith Benjamin, a venture capitalist at Levensohn Venture Partners] — Looking back at the public markets, a few strategies have worked very well over the last five years.

Discussion: CNET News.com

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, WebProNews, TechCrunch, Google Blogoscoped, Google Operating System, Mark Evans, Googlified, muhammad.saleem and Mashable!

Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:

'Second Life' radio station emerges — CHICAGO—One of the predictions in the lead-up to this weekend's Second Life Community Convention here has focused on the potential for lots of talk about organization. — There are plenty of critics who claim, however erroneously …

Discussion: Valleywag

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 …

Discussion: Insider Chatter and Social Media

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