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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch40 Session 5: Productivity & Web Apps — Session five as follows, including our live notes. Commentary by Mark Hendrickson and Duncan Riley. — Xobni — Xobni products aim to improve the way users organize, search and navigate their email.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances — Mint, a long-awaited online tool for managing your personal finances, has launched today. — For those who have used Quicken or other traditional personal accounting software to manage your checking, savings and credit card accounts, Mint will be a relief.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Email company Xobni launches, may steal Techcrunch prize — (Update: CEO Matt Brezino tell us the response has been so strong that he's closing open access and will make it invite-only this evening. Hurry!) — Xobni Insight, a new email service that sits on top of your Outlook, launches today at Techcrunch40.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Mint: Solid but incomplete online personal finance — Mint is an online financial management service, clearly designed to compete with Intuit's Quicken and Quicken Online. Unlike many of the existing online banking and budgeting products, you won't run out of gas with this product too fast …
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Download Squad
Intel:
Intel Demonstrates Industry's First 32nm Chip and Next-Generation Nehalem Microprocessor Architecture — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 - Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today outlined new products, chip designs and manufacturing technologies …
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PodTech.net, DailyTech, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, The Register, Gearlog, Channel 9 and Paul Mooney
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Agam Shah / InfoWorld:
Intel chips to shrink to 32-nanometer process — (InfoWorld) - Intel said Tuesday it will ramp up performance and energy efficiency in its microprocessors by using a 32-nanometer process technology starting in 2009. — During a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco …
Nick Baum / Official Google Reader Blog:
Breaking up isn't hard to do — We don't know how to tell you this, but it's time that we break up. It's just that we're different now. People can search. They can share what they read. They can even see trends about what they read, and how often they do it.
Brian Briggs / BBspot:
Vista SP1 Will Install XP — Redmond, WA - In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP. — "We're focused on giving the customer what they want …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlocking hacks — 'It's a cat-and-mouse game,' says CEO in London — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said today that it's his company's job to stymie hackers who try to unlock the iPhone — the first time the company has officially said it would fight attempts …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch40 Session 8: Entertainment for All Ages — We're live blogging each session, adding to the summary of each company direct from the floor of TechCrunch 40. Click Refresh to view. — FlowPlay — FlowPlay is a virtual world community built around browser-based casual games.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Session #7 - Rich Media & Mash Ups — 30 companies down, 10 to go. This session is all about rich media and mash-ups. — Company #31: xtr3D — 1 - The Elevator Pitch: Use a computer without a mouse, with your hands. — 2 - Reminds Me Of... what a mime would want to operate his PC.
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Fred / A VC:
Tough Times Ahead For The Web? — I was meeting with a web entrepreneur yesterday. It's something I do at least five to ten times a week. — This entrepeneur said 'but I worry that the coming downturn might have a negative impact on my business plan.' — Not 'a possible coming downturn', it was 'the coming downturn.'
Adam Howorth / Apple:
Apple Chooses O2 as Exclusive Carrier for iPhone in UK — Apple® and O2 announced today that O2, the leading wireless carrier in the UK, will be the exclusive UK carrier for Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in the UK on November 9. iPhone combines three devices into one …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Hot or Not Abandons Free Dating Experiment — After being overrun with spam and fake profiles, Hot Or Not has decided to reverse course and end their free dating experiment. According to an email from founders Jim and James: … The site will return to a model of free memberships …
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Apple to Introduce Faster iPhone Next Year — Apple (AAPL - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) will deliver the next version of the iPhone early next year, TheStreet.com has learned. — A faster third-generation, or 3G, iPhone will be available sometime in the first quarter, say people familiar with the production plans.
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Christopher Null, Latest News, zedgeHeadz, ParisLemon, Gizmodo, dslreports.com, MacDailyNews, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and Engadget
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. to Offer Office Software Free in Challenge to Microsoft's Line — I.B.M. plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft's dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
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Wall Street Journal, InformationWeek, Good Morning Silicon Valley, eWEEK.com, InfoWorld, DailyTech, Open Source, The Universal Desktop, Computerworld, Yahoo! News, Ars Technica, Ed Brill, CNET News.com, Geek Speaker, ParisLemon, Microsoft News Tracker, Profy.Com, Download Squad, Between the Lines, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Technology Live, John Battelle's Searchblog, mathewingram.com/work, Todd Watson, Guardian Unlimited, Techdirt, TechBlog, The Globe and Mail, Insider Chatter, Tom Raftery's Social Media, InsideGoogle, Neowin.net, Search Engine Land and Digg
Reuters:
Murdoch making the case for free WSJ online — NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that he was leaning toward making online Wall Street Journal free, but had made no decision yet. — Murdoch, whose company has sealed a deal to buy Journal publisher …
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WebProNews, TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, Industry Girl, Mashable!, TECH.BLORGE.com and New York Times
