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John Kremer / Yodel Anecdotal:
Introducing the all-new Yahoo! Mail — My kids, like most, love text messaging. But while their nimble fingers can easily navigate cell phone keypads at lightening speeds, I definitely prefer a full keyboard, and am much more inclined to use email than text messaging.
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Terrence Russell / Epicenter:Yahoo Increases People-Focused Shift With Webmail Facelift
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Rachel Konrad / Associated Press:Yahoo adds features to popular e-mail
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Acer to acquire Gateway: so long cow spots? — Acer — the third largest PC company globally — just announced a definitive agreement to acquire Gateway. The acquisition has been approved unanimously by both boards and is expected to close by December 2007. You know, following the usual international, anti-trust approvals.
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Jason Dean / Wall Street Journal:Taiwan's Acer Agrees to Acquire Gateway for About $710 Million
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:And the packaging will now feature the distinctive dark tones of the Taoyuan pig
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GPhone - It's Confirmed — I'm going to talk about this on the show today, so don't miss Episode 116 of RizWords. — I talked to one of my inside sources at Google today. He spoke on conditions of anonymity, but the guy is someone I trust implicitly. He said that he was baffled …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Phone An Attempt To Take On $100 PC? — Google Phone has been a subject of many rumors lately. Mark Hopkins, a technology podcaster, says he got the confirmation of the Gphone after talking to an insider Google (GOOG). … If that indeed is the case, then it makes sense for Google …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Want This In Photoshop Immediately — This image resizing and manipulation demonstration is sort of jaw dropping, particularly as the video goes on. The related paper, written by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan is available here. — Sphere It -
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google's friend-to-friend ad network — If Google has its way, web advertising is about to get a whole lot friendlier - and the definition of spam a whole lot fuzzier. — Recently, the search giant has, as noted by Bill Slawski, filed a series of patent applications that point to a new …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Fotolog Acquired by Hi Media, French Ad Network — EXCLUSIVE: We had previously speculated that New York-based Fotolog would be the next one to get acquired. And we were right. It has been acquired by Hi Media, a Paris-based interactive media company for roughly $90 million …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Updated: Fotolog Sells To French Hi-Media Group For $90 Million — NY-based social networking/photo sharing site Fotolog has been acquired by Hi-Media Group for a combination of cash and stock worth $90 million. France-based Hi-Media adds Fotolog to its growing portfolio, which includes an ad network and a micro-payments business.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
TorrentSpy Blocks Searches From US Visitors — This service denial seems to be a preventative measure to protect their users, when US users try to search on TorrentSpy they now get this message: … The search redirect will be permanent, TorrentSpy owner Justin Bunnell told TorrentFreak …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:TorrentSpy Cuts Off US Users, Rather Than Tracking Them
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it — Web guru foresees download revolution — Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But yesterday the man known as the "godfather of the net" …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
iPhone Unlocked; Legal Battle Looming? — In the past few days several groups declared victory in the battle to unlock the iPhone — to make the iPhone work on cellular networks other than AT&T's. New Jersey teenager George Hotz published instructions (starting here) for a geeks …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:AT&T legal hits the brakes on (commercial) iPhone unlocks
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FotoFlexer Raises The Bar On Online Photo Editing — Online photo editors keep getting better and better. For hardcore image manipulation, desktop software like Photoshop or Gimp will always have its place, but online editors are free, easy to use and a lot of fun.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
AllofMP3 To Rise From The Dead — The owners of the now infamous cut price Russian MP3 retail site AllofMP3 have posted that the site will soon recommence trading. — The announcement follows a Russian court decision August 15 that found AllofMP3's previous CEO was not guilty …
Intel:
New Intel® vPro™ Processor Technology Fortifies Security for Business PCs — Next Generation Product Offers New Features and Broader Vendor Support — Intel Corporation today further reinforced desktop PC security by unveiling the newest generation of Intel® vPro™ processor technology …
New York Times:
Unauthorized Enjoyment of Song Irks Law Firm — It sounds like the setup for a joke: a law firm picks a fight with a legal blogger over the leak of an internal song celebrating — well, itself. — First, the song: after the law firm Nixon Peabody was named to Fortune magazine's 2007 list …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Bookstores Begin Slow Descent Into Obsolescence — I was in Borders Books today looking for a copy of David Weinberger's Everything Is Miscellaneous, and it suddenly struck me how ironic it was to be looking for a book about dynamic connectedness in this place of static, disconnected objects and finite shelf space.
gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:
World Record 304km Wi-Fi connection — A new world record distance for a 5 GHz Wi-Fi link has been achieved by the Italian Center for Radio Activities (C.I.S.A.R), and Ubiquiti Networks, a leading innovator in outdoor wireless broadband solutions. The distance of 304km (188.89 miles) …
