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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Google Gphone still on the way, say sources — Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset makers. — Although market rumors previously stated …
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John Spooner / ChipLand:
Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket — San Francisco—The next big thing for Intel is little. The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to connect to the Internet.
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InfoWorld:
Laptop vendors to offer Centrino with WiMax next year — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel's Centrino platform that uses WiMax wide-area networking technology — but Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple are not expected to be among them.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking — With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends — When Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose launched Digg three years ago, the Web site attracted a community of like-minded people.
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Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch's Choice: Paid or Free for WSJ.com? — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch hasn't completed his purchase of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, but already Mr. Murdoch and Dow Jones executives are debating a key strategic question: Should the Journal fall in line …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:CNBC (GE) Gets Break: Fox (NWS) Aims At Wrong Audience
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Uses Outdoor Billboards To Promote Goog411 — Photo by Mike Blumenthal. Used with permission. — Mike Blumenthal took a picture of a billboard ad in upstate New York for Google's free directory assistance alternative, Goog411. This is interesting and amusing for a number of reasons.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Who's Afraid of Online Advertising? — A new McKinsey & Co. report called " How Companies Are Marketing Online" draws the astonishing conclusion that many advertisers are reluctant to shift dollars online — despite the massive shift of consumer attention online — because of the …
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Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
SAP Business ByDesign: first analysis — SAP's new A1S offering, formally called Business ByDesign, is intended for companies between 100-500 employees, which do not have deep vertical market software requirements. SAP believes this $15 billion market will help SAP dramatically expand its business over the coming years.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone GPS Hack Works! — Whoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, assisted GPS, but still. It actually works. This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email NOT required), the free app started up …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients — Names, addresses and phone numbers also at risk — Layered Technologies has been targeted by malicious hackers who may have stolen passwords and other personal details on as many as 6,000 of its clients, the Texas-based web host provider warned.
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Apple:
Apple and T-Mobile Announce Exclusive Partnership for iPhone in Germany — Apple® and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile, the leading network operator in Germany, will be the exclusive German carrier of Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in Germany …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu? — NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called "NBC Direct" that will launch this fall, the network is announcing today. It seems we're not the only ones scratching …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Zune 2 "source" leaks launch date and specs — Heads up, Zune fans — some new product is heading your way sooner rather than later, and we suspect there's more than a couple of things to get jazzed about. According to reports from a "source" inside Microsoft, a new batch of Zunes …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's! — Now that the first TechCrunch40 conference is complete, this post will serve as my final conference review and recap. Some of the startups asked me about full, in-depth reviews. I am going to do my best to review each …
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Yahoo's Kay Skeptical about Local Verticals — Verticals are important to Yahoo! and others on a national basis, but they really aren't the way to go at the local level because of the limited resources for local sales, says Warren Kay, managing director, strategic alliances, Yahoo Search Marketing.
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — When the dot-com boom fizzled, the business magazines that covered that huge story similarly flamed out. The Industry Standard closed, Red Herring went south, and Business 2.0 was on death's door.
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