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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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Associated Press:
Teen untethers iPhone from AT&T — NEW YORK (AP) — A teenager in New Jersey has broken the lock that ties Apple's iPhone to AT&T's wireless network, freeing the most hyped cell phone ever for use on the networks of other carriers, including overseas ones. — George Hotz, 17 …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, iPhone Central, Lost Remote, broadstuff and Finding JTAG on the iPhone
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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Silicon Alley Insider, The Gong Show, Read/WriteWeb, Mashable! and Ian Landsman's Weblog v2.0
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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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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The credit crunch could help venture capitalists — The current credit crunch caused by the subprime loaning crisis may help venture capital returns, and therefore start-ups. — That's the argument of venture capitalist Keith Benjamin, of San Francisco's Levensohn Venture Partners …
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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.
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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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 …
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Insider Chatter, BloggingStocks, Joe Duck, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, Howard Lindzon and David Card
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.
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Gizmodo, Gadgetell, Listening Post, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Macsimum News and PalmAddicts
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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Download Squad, Webware.com, ExtremeTech, TechCrunch, Today @ PC World, TECH.BLORGE.com, Search Engine Land, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, BloggingStocks, WebProNews, Podcasting News, Natural Search Blog, Apple 2.0, The Pondering Primate, Insider Chatter, GigaOM, Gadget Lab, Portfolio.com, ParisLemon, Cathode Tan, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Gearlog, The Raw Feed, Engadget, contentSutra.com, Between the Lines and Valleywag
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.
John Leyden / The Register:
Internet ramraiders rear-end domain parking service — Domain name parking service NameDrive restored its services on Friday after coming under a concerted and ferocious denial of service attack from unidentified hackers. — The motives for the attack remain unclear but NameDrive reckons …
