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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
UPDATED: RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry System Dies, Millions Without Email — Research In Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry mobile email system is down nationwide, according to our Sprint rep and confirmed by Boy Genius Report, which says the outage started around 10 a.m. for some T-Mobile and AT&T subscribers.
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Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Widespread BlackBerry outage? — And we thought these things were a thing of the past....it seems that BlackBerry users on all networks are experiencing a complete data outage. First reported around 10:00 AM this morning EDT, the outage is apparently blocking all email and web access to 'Berrys on all mobile networks.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhoneSIMfree shows us demo of iPhone unlock app, back end — now due Monday — So the iPhoneSIMfree guys have some news today. First up, they called to let us know they did in fact delay the launch of their iPhone SIM unlock software (which was clear by the fact that no one has it yet) — but it's now due Monday.
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone Software Unlock Confirmed on Video — Despite confirmation from reputable sources like CNN and Engadget, there were still people unsure of whether iPhoneSIMFree actually worked. The reason? The lack of video proof of the unlock process. Well, here it is, the first, exclusive video proof of the unlock process.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
News: Apple locks TV Out in new iPods, breaks video add-ons — Apple locks TV Out in new iPods, breaks video add-ons — Did you buy an add-on display, dock, speaker system, car accessory or cable with video-out for your color 4G or 5G iPod? Were you expecting it to work with the iPod classic or new iPod nano?
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Spread Firefox:
Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads — On November 9th, 2004, you all started a movement. Spread Firefox, supported by tens of thousands of contributors, took just 99 days to deliver 25 million downloads of Firefox to a world of people desperate for a better Web …
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Arn / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4 (Updated) — Cleverboy posted instructions on our forums on how to "convert" AAC music files to ringtones in iTunes 7.4. He states that ringtones and song files are only distinguished by file extension. The file extension for Ringtones is "M4R". — Windows and Mac
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google's Search Pages Could Include Richer Ads — When Google launched Universal Search, Marissa Mayer was asked if Google intends to include image or video ads. She didn't rule out this idea and said it's natural to see ads evolving in the same direction as the organic search results.
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Tameka Kee / MediaPost Publications:Google Considers Video for Search Listings
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BBC:
Mobile phone technology turns 20 — The technology behind the mobile phone is celebrating its 20th anniversary. — On 7 September 1987, 15 phone firms signed an agreement to build mobile networks based on the Global System for Mobile (GSM) Communications.
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Engadget
Ben Long / iPhone Central:
iPhone Hacking Kit, the next generation — In mid-August, I posted a detailed guide to hacking your iPhone here at iPhone Central. In those free-wheeling bygone days of iPhone hacking you customized and manipulated your phone using a combination of a simple "jailbreak" application and a lot of command-line work in the Mac terminal.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
The Industry Standard is Coming Back, Maybe — As Business 2.0 closes, another of the old names is being dusted off and will possibly make a comeback: The Industry Standard, at TheStandard.com. The now-placeholder site was discovered by chance by Eric Savitz at Barron's …
kb.cert.org:
Vulnerability Note VU#466433 — Web sites may transmit authentication tokens unencrypted — Overview — Web services that rely on cookies for authentication may be vulnerable to an authentication bypass vulnerability. — Some web sites transmit authentication material (often cookies) …
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The Register
Alex Woodson / Hollywood Reporter:
MTV Nets encircle the Web with slate of sites — Set to launch two dozen sites by Q1 — NEW YORK — A new hub for Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" headlines a slate of two dozen targeted Web sites that Viacom's MTV Networks will launch by the first quarter as it continues its "vertical" digital strategy.
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Profy.Com, paidContent.org, Contentinople, Future Now's GrokDotCom, HipMojo.com and Lost Remote
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Is The Justice Department Commenting On Net Neutrality? — from the not-really-their-area-of-interest dept — There's been a fair amount of chatter over the Justice Department's decision to comment to the FCC about network neutrality, but there's been almost no discussion …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:Ten things that finally killed Net neutrality
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TechEffect, Reuters Blogs, Open Source, Speeds and feeds, WebProNews, Good Morning Silicon Valley and BBC
Business Wire:
ESPN Founder Launches CollegeFanz.com — Web 2.0 Site Provides the Ultimate Interactive Experience for College Sports Fans — WAYNE, Pa.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Twenty-eight years to the day after launching ESPN, the Founder of ESPN, Bill Rasmussen, today launched CollegeFanz.com, a compelling interactive online experience.
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Fred / A VC:
Bumming On Apple — Apple right now is like the girl I really tried to fall in love with but woke up one morning and called it off. That thing yesterday was such a turn off. Cutting the price on the iPhone by $200 a couple months after launch and pissing off everyone who was an early adopter.
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Business Communities …, dailytechrag.com/news …, Venture Chronicles, Insider Chatter, GigaOM and Apple 2.0
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Saul Hansell / Bits:Steve Jobs Speaks the Truth About the iPhone Price Drop
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CenterNetworks, Tech Confidential Blog, Silicon Alley Insider and Good Morning Silicon Valley
