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Q&A with Jobs: 'That's what happens in technology' — It's not every day you slice the price of a popular product by one-third. — But Apple CEO Steve Jobs did just that Wednesday with the iPhone. By the end of the day, the combination cellphone, iPod and Internet device was available for $399, down from $599.
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John Markoff / New York Times:Apple Cuts iPhone Price Ahead of Holidays
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Macenstein:Apple announces new gear; Screws early adopters
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Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
"We found it!" — Here's a search box: — Search in Reader — Doesn't seem all that special, does it? Most Google sites have it. But let's look at where it is: — That's right, search is finally in Google Reader. Now you can find that that apricot recipe you came across a few months ago and now have a craving for.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Reader Adds Search — As mentioned in the previous post, Google Reader is now mature. But how could it mature be without having a search feature? The wait is over: Google Reader finally added search. — You can search all your feeds, the feeds from a folder or the posts from a single feed.
Philip Fung / Facebook Blog:
Public Search Listings on Facebook … Starting today, we are making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in to Facebook. We're expanding search so that people can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily. The public search listing contains less information …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Are Books Passé? Web Giants Envision the Next Chapter — Technology evangelists have predicted the emergence of electronic books for as long as they have envisioned flying cars and video phones. It is an idea that has never caught on with mainstream book buyers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon & Google To Enter eBook Business — The New York Times is reporting that both Amazon and Google are entering the eBook business this year, joining Sony and others who already have products (image is Sony's Reader). — The new Amazon product and service will be called The Kindle and will compete directly with Sony.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
e-Books, Yet Again — Amazon Gears Up To Fail — Amazon is about to introduce yet another attempt at an e-book, the NYT reports. The Kindle will go on sale this fall for $400 to $500. The NYT summarizes the many failed attempts to introduce e-books, and wonders if this one will finally succeed.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
High-Speed Video Store in the Living Room — If you had to make a master list of all the world's problems, "limited access to movies" probably wouldn't appear until page 273,996. — Truth is, life is teeming with opportunities to see movies: movie theaters, video stores, DVD-by-mail services …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPod touch first hands-on — Here she is, the iPod touch! It's definitely thinner than the iPhone, and feels completely solid (as we'd hope it would). The home button is far smaller, the face is completely flat, and generally the whole thing feels far more angular than the iPhone — but it's all familiar territory.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:Apple's iPod touch gets official
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's Media Center to support four CableCARDs — Hot on the heels of finding out who Microsoft chose to buddy up with for its Extenders for Windows Media Center comes word that the software itself will support up to four CableCARDs in a single configuration.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
10 Future Web Trends — We're well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more.
Xavier / notebooks.com:
HP iPAQ 600 Business Navigator Series (video) — HP officially announced the iPAQ 600 Business Navigator Series tonight. The new iPAQ 600 is a Quad-band, 3G smartphone with GPS navigation. This phone is all business and certified to work with popular enterprise applications.
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple screwed you: So now what? — The $200 price drop isn't going over well with readers. So here are a few TUAW tips for how to handle this situation: — Returns. If you're within the first 14 days of purchase, you're golden. Go back to the store and raise hell.
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Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Quick look at InkWell and Vista handwriting recognition — I just uploaded a screencast that shows handwriting recognition being performed by Mac's InkWell technology as well as that provided on Tablet PCs and in Vista. In this video, the demo is all done on an iMac within Firefox.
Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's LucidTouch: a multi-touch display with pseudo-transparency — From Apple's iPhone to Microsoft's Surface, multi-touch user interfaces are becoming all the rage. The only trouble is that our fingers are both a tool and a hindrance; whatever we're interacting with on the display …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
How to have a happy CTO & CEO marriage — In a web-based startup company the most important relationship is often between the CEO and CTO. — VC Brad Feld touches on this issue in a pair of posts today (The Constipation of Scale and Lighten Up / Tighten Up).
