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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Nokia Goes Web2ish, Launches 4 New Phones, Services — Nokia (NOK) is making a splash today with the launch of four new mobile phones, the Nokia music store, a Nokia N-Gage gaming site, and a web services portal called Ovi. The company announced these new efforts at Go Play, an even the company is hosting in London.
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Bonnie Cha / CNET News.com:
Nokia N95: Bigger, badder and made for the USA — Man, does it feel like Christmas in August or what? Yeah, you know what I'm talking 'bout. In addition to several other product and service announcements today, Nokia introduced two new models of the coveted Nokia N95 smart phone: an 8GB version and a North America edition.
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Meet Ovi, the door to Nokia's Internet services — London, UK - Nokia today introduced Ovi, the company's new Internet services brand name. With the introduction of Ovi, Nokia is expanding from a focus on mobile devices to offering a range of Internet services.
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paidContent.org, Digital Media Wire, Tech.co.uk, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Engadget, Financial Times, jkOnTheRun and Gadget Lab
Kent German / Crave: The gadget blog: Nokia's big day — Nokia shot to center stage of cell phone land today …
the Nokia blog:Nokia Go Play Virtual Event Itinerary
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Tech.co.uk, The Register, Engadget, Newlaunches.com, I4U News, Gizmodo and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
AppleInsider:
Apple confirms "Special Event" on September 5th — Apple Inc. will use a special media event on September 5th to introduce a new array of digital media offerings, according to digital invitations issued to analysts and members of the media Tuesday afternoon.
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Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Media Wire, Infinite Loop, Sparkplug 9, ParisLemon and Crave
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Speculation: The Beatles on iTunes Sept. 5 — Yesterday afternoon, Apple (AAPL) e-mailed out press invitations to a "special event" to be held next Wednesday in San Francisco's Moscone Center, and ever since speculation has been mounting that this will be the day that Steve Jobs announces …
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Zoho Launches Application Start Page — Online office tools provider Zoho today released a beta version of Zoho Start, a launch pad for Zoho's suite of office applications. Zoho currently offers a suite of 16 separate apps and utilities, and while they have a common login …
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Antonis Kaladis / AutoPatcher.com:
Sad day — Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and although the download page is merely a collection of mirrors, we took the download page down.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Amazon, Google, Yahoo, And Others Sued For Automating Their E-mail — The companies are accused of violating a patent on automatic message routing held by Polaris IP. The patent has a long history in litigation, but all the cases have been settled out of court.
IDC Home:
Some Social Networks May Never Support Brand Advertising, IDC Finds — FRAMINGHAM, Mass., August 28, 2007 -Hundreds of millions of U.S. consumers have adopted social networking services as a tool to manage their social networks and express themselves. Spreading like wildfire …
Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
Google Web Toolkit jumps out of beta — Google's previously developed in house Web Toolkit, has been taken out of beta mode and released into the wild for JAVA developers to pounce on and enjoy. — The new release is GWT 1.4, and if you aren't that familiar with what it is capable of …
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Caroline McCarthy / Press Association:
MySpace.com to host nationwide concert tour — In a move that further shapes its image as an MTV-like pop-culture hub as well as a social network, News Corp.'s MySpace.com has announced that it will be holding a concert tour this fall. — Appropriately called the MySpace Music Tour …
Ken Norton / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
How Docs & Spreadsheets grew at Google — When we first launched Docs & Spreadsheets last fall, we brainstormed different ways to drive awareness and adoption inside of Google. Should we hold a contest? Put up posters? But before we knew it, something interesting happened — Googlers just started using it.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google, Microsoft-backed group ready to Defend Fair Use — Earlier this month, the Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that professional sports leagues, Hollywood studios, and book publishers were all using copyright notices that misrepresented the law.
Bill Kee / Official Google Blog:
Lights, camera, Gmail — Last month, we invited you to join the Gmail collaborative video, pull out your video cameras and help us imagine how an email message travels around the world. Two Rubik's cubes, a few jaunts in a bottle, beautiful sand animation, and one dog's trip to the Southernmost point …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Adobe Hires Co-Inventor of Image Resizer Technology — The day before yesterday I showed the above video (it has now been viewed nearly 100,000 times), which shows some jaw dropping examples of next generation image manipulation, and said "I want this in PhotoShop immediately."
