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8:45 AM ET, September 10, 2007

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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Google in corporate desktop push  —  Google has linked up with IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini to target corporate customers with its range of desktop applications, in the search engine's most direct move against the dominance of Microsoft.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Capgemini to pitch Google Apps  —  In the clearest sign yet that Google Apps may be about to make the leap from small businesses to large ones, a major systems consulting firm, Capgemini, is announcing today a partnership with Google to push Apps into the enterprise market.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Apps Goes After Enterprise Market - "Team Productivity" The Catchphrase  —  UK newspaper The Guardian is reporting that Google has partnered with major IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini, to sell Google Apps to enterprises.  CapGemini, which is also a partner of Microsoft and IBM …
Ed Christman / Reuters:
Music industry betting on 'ringle' format  —  NEW YORK (Billboard) - As the recording industry wakes up from its summer slumber and starts thinking about what will motivate the consumer for the holiday selling season, the major labels are getting ready to launch the "ringle," …
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Brawl Over Islam on Facebook  —  The social networking site Facebook from afar can look a lot like college, with cliques and the familiar range of personalities.  In another imitation of college life, the Facebook campus is wrestling with the contentious issue of speech codes.
Discussion: All Facebook and Mashable!
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Battle of the Quad Cores  —  They are fast becoming the Grumpy Old Men of Silicon Valley: Intel Corp. (INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), long-time rivals who bicker in public and spar over everything from clock speeds to BUS technologies, are at it again — this time over quad core processors.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
TechCrunch40 Updates - Scoble Out?, Almost Sold Out, Big Announcement  —  A few quick updates on the TechCrunch40 Conference next week.  For those not aware, they moved to 40 demos on September 1.  Interestingly enough, they all come via Twitter!  — Via Dave Winer …
Discussion: Scobleizer
Sandisk:
SanDisk Announces the New Sansa View: a Sleek Video MP3 Player with Remarkable Features and Capacity at an Unbeatable Price  —  MILPITAS, Calif., September 10, 2007-SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), the second largest seller of MP3 players in the United States, today announced the new Sansa® View …
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
Peter Thiel Explains How to Invest in the Singularity  —  "...The singularity will either be really successful, in which we're going to have the biggest boom ever, or it is probably going to blow up the whole world."  —  Such were the words of Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Three-way: Blu-ray and HD DVD, Meet $150 HD VMD ML622S  —  We first told you about HD VMD over two years ago, then we told you again about one year ago.  But the "next gen" HD optical disc aiming to take down...giants...Blu-ray and HD DVD is finally coming to fruition.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Forever Geek
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
MusicStation arrives, but will we pay for digital music?  —  The Great White Hope of the music business - and many network operators - has arrived in the UK.  The music business hopes it will persuade people to start paying for licensed digital music, while operators hope it will persuade people …
Discussion: p2pnet
Milt Freudenheim / New York Times:
A Medical Publisher's Unusual Prescription: Online Ads  —  By some measures, the medical publishing world has met the advent of the Internet with a shrug, sticking to its time-honored revenue model of charging high subscription fees for specialized journals that often attract few, if any, advertisements.
Discussion: Really Simple Sidi
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Apple Eyes the Wireless Auction  —  Steve Jobs & Co. consider joining the FCC's auction of wireless spectrum, and a win would give Apple many intriguing options—for the iPhone and more  —  Talk of the government's pending auction of valuable wireless spectrum has focused largely …
Discussion: The Mac Observer
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Microsoft Launches Translation Service  —  Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator.  The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
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oqo:
OQO Updates Award-Winning model 02 Product Line  —  New Products Deliver Increased Storage Capacity and Solid State Drive Option, Faster CPU Speeds and Wireless Connectivity, and Reduced Prices  —  OQO Inc., creator of the model 02, the world's smallest PC running Windows Vista® …
 
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
danah continues the "precious," er, Facebook conversation...
Jamais Cascio / Open the Future:
Singularity Summit Talk: Openness and the Metaverse Singularity
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Rainbow Hash Cracking
Discussion: Digg
Shira Boss / New York Times:
Even in a Virtual World, 'Stuff' Matters
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Weekend Feature: The How of Habbo Hotel