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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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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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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.
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The Raw Feed
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 …
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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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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 …
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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.
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
SunRocket Sues Vonage Over Use of Customer List — Confidentiality Agreement an Issue in Case — When Internet phone start-up SunRocket suddenly closed its doors last month, several competitors offered special rates and other incentives to attract its former customers.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Source: Major Apple event on September 5th — Apple's new line of iPods will indeed be introduced in September, in line with recent speculation and rumors. But contrary to the report provided by AppleInsider yesterday, the announcement will not be happening mid-to-late September.
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 …
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.
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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.
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 …
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
YouTube vows to protect video makers in InVideo ads — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Google has promised to give content makers control over advertisements overlaid on video clips they post to its YouTube video sharing Web site. — The company is seeking further feedback on the video advertising service …
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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