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Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Apple's Joswiak: We Don't Hate iPhone Coders — iPhone native application developers, take heart: Apple doesn't hate you. And now you have a whole new device to play with. — Updated 3:15 PM: Apple says "software updates will most likely break" native apps as they go forwards.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Temporarily unlock your iPhone for $99 — Free yourself from AT&T! The iPhone revolution is at hand! You'll no longer suffer the tyranny of forced cell phone use for at least another, uh, couple of weeks! — Through the magic of technology, it's now possible to unlock an iPhone …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts — A video disclaimed to be "Google - Confidential" with the title "Nooglers And The PDB: Reactor (Ben Darnell, September 6, 2007)" made its way onto a public Google Video page. A "noogler" is what people at Google call new employees …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
How High Can You Count: New Facebook Fundraising? — Here's an interesting idea if you don't want to get bought and you can't quite IPO yet and you need to have a tidy war chest for expansion or perhaps a choice acquisition or two: Bring in more investors and raise more money at a huge valuation.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Health's Adam Bosworth Leaves Google — I got a tip that Google vice president Adam Bosworth, who headed up the Google Health project, had left Google. Now Google has confirmed this is so — Bosworth is leaving the company. Says Google: … Bosworth joined Google in July 2004, having left BEA Systems.
Rodney Gedda / Computerworld:
Black screen of darkness to haunt Vista pirates — Buy the software or suffer the consequences — Microsoft Windows' infamous "Blue Screen of Death" has become synonymous with an operating system crash or freeze, but that's nothing compared with what users of pirated copies of Vista worldwide …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
AjaxWindows: Most interesting Web OS experiment yet — I still don't fully get the whole Web operating system concept. Why run an OS inside a browser, when your browser is running in an OS to begin with? But AjaxWindows, a Web OS and application suite that launched today, makes a very good case for the Web OS.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Running the numbers on Vista — Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report. — Standalone unit sales of Vista at U.S. retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with Windows XP …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Report: Price Cut Bumped iPhone Sales Three-Fold — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, whose 50-hour survey of Apple (AAPL) stores produced the most definitive estimate of iPhone sales to date, has combined his data with yesterday's report that Apple sold its 1 millionth iPhone on Sunday to calculate the effect of last week's 33% price cut.
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile's new data plans — Just when you thought they couldn't get any cheaper....T-Mobile is set to completely revamp their data plan lineup with a new pricing scheme that is sure to make subscribers swoon. Beginning tomorrow, September 12th, the big Pink will be dropping updates …
BBC:
Facebook 'costs businesses dear' — Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day, a study has calculated. — According to employment law firm Peninsula, 233 million hours are lost every month as a result of employees "wasting time" on social networking.
Susannah Moran / NEWS.com.au:
Watchdog bitten in Google case — THE consumer watchdog suffered a blow in its mammoth court case against Google, when a judge said yesterday its court documents were almost "incomprehensible", "opaque" and "somewhat repetitious". — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission …
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Cade Metz / The Register:Google-hating Aussie watchdog smacked by confused judge
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Max Freiert / Compete Blog:
Facebook now ranked 3rd in Page Views; MySpace down nearly 20% — MySpace has enjoyed a relatively long and successful run as in a red hot sector of the internet, but it may not be long before the site has to defend this title. Facebook, having gone through big changes about every three months …
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Katherine Hannaford / Tech Digest:
Barack Obama signs up to LinkedIn, expect Twitter account next — Bless Barack Obama. He really is trying to get on down with the kids, putting out all the stops to ensure he's the President-In-Waiting with the most Web 2.0 skillzorz. Not only had he got a flash personal website …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-051 - Critical — Vulnerability in Microsoft Agent Could Allow Remote Code Execution (938827) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This critical security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
When it comes to music fans, iLike faces Myspace — ILike, by far the most popular music application on Facebook, has started overtaking MySpace in sheer number of fans registered for some top music artists. — The young Seattle company is being coy on specifics, but consider this …
