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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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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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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.
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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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.
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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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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Attila Bodis / Official Google Blog:
Our feature presentation — In April we announced that we were working to bring presentations to Google Docs. (Astute readers may recall learning about this even earlier, which caused a bit of excitement around here.) And today we're unveiling the new Google Docs presentations feature …
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The Universal Desktop, The Technology Chronicles, Geeking with Greg, TechCrunch, InsideGoogle, All about Microsoft, Official Google Docs …, Google Blogoscoped, Things That, The Register, Web Worker Daily, ReveNews Online Revenue …, The Next Net, Mickeleh's Take, Matt Cutts, Robin Good, RIApedia, Between the Lines, Incremental Blogger, How To Split An Atom, Search Engine Roundtable and Compiler
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:O.J. volunteers to search for the real Office killers
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch40 Session 6: Revenue Models & Analytics — Session six as follows, including our live notes. — Spottt (Adbrite) — Spottt (Adbrite) helps like-minded sites promote each other for free. Just put a Spottt on your site, blog, or MySpace profile. Every time you show someone else's ad, they'll show yours.
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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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Latest News, dslreports.com, ParisLemon, zedgeHeadz, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Engadget and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
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.'
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Email company Xobni launches, may steal Techcrunch prize — Xobni Insight, a new email service that sits on top of your Outlook, launches today at Techcrunch40. — It's extremely useful and we'll make a bet now it will win the show here, after the two-day competition between 40 companies finishes …
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Nokia:
Nokia delivers simplicity and productivity with stylish new Nokia E51 — Stylish smartphone performer comes equipped with essentials for business and private life — London, UK - Nokia today bolstered its Nokia Eseries portfolio of business devices with the introduction of the new Nokia E51 device.
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Tech.co.uk, Digital Trends, Darla Mack, Engadget Mobile, IntoMobile, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Mobility Site, All About Symbian and Phone Scoop
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 …
LetsGoDigital English Edition:
Hasselblad H3D II — Hasselblad H3D II Digital SLR : Hasselblad's H3D line of products achieve a new level of digital maturity and integration with the launch of the H3D-II, the fourth iteration of the camera system and one that can now justifiably lay claim to be the world's finest digital SLR camera.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch40: Jeff Clavier Launches $12 Million Venture Fund — Angel investor and startup advisor Jeff Clavier (pictured with Digg founder Kevin Rose) just announced a new $12 million early stage venture fund today at the TechCrunch40 conference. The new fund will be called SoftTech VC II.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Fix a cracked iPhone screen on the cheap — When Ars reviewed the iPhone, we found that it was surprisingly durable—not only was it very scratch-resistant, the glass screen didn't really crack until we started being very rough with it. But that doesn't mean everyone has the same luck …
