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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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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.
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.
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
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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The Universal Desktop, DailyTech, eWEEK.com, Ars Technica, Ed Brill, InfoWorld, Open Source, Profy.Com, Computerworld, Yahoo! News, ParisLemon, Geek Speaker, CNET News.com, Microsoft News Tracker, Guardian Unlimited, Download Squad, Between the Lines, InsideGoogle, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Technology Live, mathewingram.com/work, John Battelle's Searchblog, Techdirt, Todd Watson, TechBlog, The Globe and Mail, Insider Chatter, Tom Raftery's Social Media, Neowin.net and Search Engine Land
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:O.J. volunteers to search for the real Office killers
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Business Week
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.
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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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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch40 Session 6: Revenue Models & Analytics — Session six as follows, including our live notes. — Spottt (Adbrite) — Spottt 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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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.'
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, ParisLemon, zedgeHeadz, Gizmodo, dslreports.com, MacDailyNews, Engadget and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
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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Randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog:
Big Changes Afoot at SEOmoz — This is a tough post to write. Not because I'm not excited and not because the news I want to share isn't positive, but simply because I feel like I've been keeping something from you for the past few weeks, and I hate doing that.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, John Cook's Venture Blog, alarm:clock, Mashable! and Shoemoney
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 …
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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WinBeta
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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Digital Trends, Darla Mack, Engadget Mobile, IntoMobile, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Mobility Site, Tech.co.uk, Phone Scoop and All About Symbian
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 …
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.
