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The Official Palm Blog:
A Message to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers — As many of you are aware, we are in the process of building our next generation software platform. We are very excited about how this is coming together. It has a modern flexible UI, instant performance, and an incredibly simple and elegant development environment.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Palm kills the Foleo dead — We are seriously not going to take credit for this, but holy crap, Palm just cancelled the Foleo, just like we asked them to! Palm CEO Ed Colligan just posted a message to the company's official blog stating that they've decided to cancel the Foleo mobile companion …
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire BlueLithium — Important Next Step in Yahoo!'s Mission to Lead the Transformation of How Advertisers Connect To and Engage With Their Customers — SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News) …
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Todd Teresi / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! to acquire BlueLithium — Advertisers seek essentially three different outcomes when they buy display (or graphical) ads online — either to build brand awareness, promote something new, or drive some kind of transaction (a lead, a sale, a new customer).
Think Secret:
Touch-screen iPod to take center stage — Apple will at last unveil a touch-screen iPod with a 3.5-inch display at its media event Wednesday, sources have confirmed, some 20 months after Think Secret first broke word of the device's development. — The new iPod will feature similar dimensions …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
After ditching Apple, NBC opts for flex pricing and more DRM with Amazon — With a market cap of$34 billion, Amazon isn't exactly the smallest company in the world. But they are certainly smaller than Apple when it comes to power and influence in the downloadable entertainment scene.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
NBC says goodbye to Apple, hello to Amazon — NBC Universal didn't waste any time replacing Apple. — Episodes of The Office and Heroes will begin appearing at Amazon's Unbox starting next Monday, according to a statement released by the companies. — Amazon customers can download …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Business 2.0 RIP — We're sad to report that employees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after finishing its October issue. — As we wrote in July, executives at Time Inc. were weighing whether to shutter the seven-year old business …
Zune Insider:
Price Drop — Some of you may have already heard, but tomorrow we're dropping the suggested retail price for Zune to $199. It's part of the normal product lifecycle, something we've had on the books for months. We just got some research back and customer satisfaction with the 30GB device is really high …
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Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Evidence of GDrive in Google Apps — Rumors of an online storage solution from Google have been circulating for years. These rumors became stronger in July last year when references to Platypus and GDrive were accidentally made available on the writely.com domain.
Jeff Kearns / Bloomberg:
Yahoo May Attract Microsoft Bid, Bear Stearns Says — Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. rose the most since May after it was named a ``top pick'' by Bear Stearns & Co., which said shares of the most-visited U.S. Web site may rise on speculation it will be acquired by companies such as Microsoft Corp.
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Charles Forelle / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Loses Bid in Europe For Office Standard — BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. failed to make its Office software file format an international standard, losing a closely watched vote that reflects the software titan's broader battles in Europe and around the world.
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Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Sony edits Wikipedia, downplaying Halo 3's graphics — The Internet sees everything. It used to be you were safe to strike out at your enemies via Wikipedia edits, but with the advent of WikiScanner, those days are over. Which is why we're discussing a small edit made to the Wikipedia page of Halo 3.
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
iPhone Becomes Leading U.S. Smart Phone Model in July — Apple Inc.'s iPhone outsold all smart phones in the United States during July, and equaled the sales of the most popular feature phone, according to iSuppli Corp. The iPhone accounted for 1.8 percent of all mobile-handset unit sales to U.S. consumers during July.
Reuters:
HBO buys film made in 'Second Life' — HBO said Tuesday that it has acquired the rights to a short-form documentary shot entirely within Second Life, as entertainment companies increasingly turn to virtual worlds as a source for new content. — My Second Life: The video diaries of Molotov Alta …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
$15 Million For VideoEgg As They Redefine Their Business — VideoEgg has just closed a $15 million series D round of funding led by Focus Ventures with WPP, Maveron, and August participating. VideoEgg cites plans to accelerate the development of their ad products and international sales network as the reasons behind the investment.
