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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look: Go, Go, Google Gadget Ads! — Google has just announced the limited launch of Google Gadget Ads, a new interactive ad format that will run on their content network. Unlike Google AdWords' existing array of text, video and graphical ads, Google Gadget Ads are designed to be interactive …
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Diana Adair / Google:
Google AdWords Introduces Google Gadget Ads, a New Interactive Ad Format — Engaging and flexible ad units give advertisers a new way to communicate with users online — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the introduction of Google Gadget Ads™, a new interactive ad format …
Louise Story / New York Times:
Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers — Google is seizing on the popularity of widgets — small online tools that function like mini-Web sites — for its latest push into advertising. — The online giant will announce today a Gadget Ads program that will provide tools …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize — Jason Calacanis just announced that Mint was chosen as the best presenting company at TechCrunch40. The provider of an impressive personal finance application will receive $50,000 as part of the award.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances — [Update: Mint has won the TechCrunch 40 conference's competition, which goes to the most impressive presenting company from among the 40 participants. Mint will receive a $50,000 cash award and other services and awards from corporate sponsors.]
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay
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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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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone to Germany Nov. 9, T-Mobile, $553 — AP: Confirmed: Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile will sell Apple's iPhone in Germany. The iPhone will be available starting Nov. 9 (as in UK) and cost 399 euros ($553). — Separately, Reuters says TheStreet.com says that Apple is increasing iPhone production …
Intel:
Industry Leaders Develop Superspeed USB Interconnect — Popular USB Computer Connection Technology Expands performance with Proposed USB 3.0 Specification — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 - Intel Corporation and other industry leaders have formed the USB 3. Promoter Group …
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:Gelsinger demos USB 3.0, PICe 3.0 and other new toys
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Stuart Miles / Latest News:
Apple promises 3G iPhone for 2008 — You can expect a 3G iPhone later next year... Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has confirmed that there is a 3G iPhone in the works, although fell short of saying when we could expect to buy one. — Making the comments at the "Mum is no longer the word" …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Strategy Letter VI — IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they're probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second Coming and which fell totally flat.
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.
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Ooma starts selling a land-line phone with unique features — Landline phones haven't changed much in decades. But Palo Alto-based ooma has created what it calls a true next-generation voice-over-Internet protocol phone. It has applied some clever technology to deliver a lot …
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Tablet PC 2:
The Best Tablet PC Your Questions and TabletPc2.com Answers.... Bottom Row: Fujitsu Lifebook T4220 , Samsung Q1 Ultra, Toshiba R400, Samsung Q1 Ultra, Lenovo X60 — The Tablet PC has come along way since its launch on November 7th, 2002 — Several years have past and I have gotten countless emails asking …
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Hacker publishes notorious Apple Wi-Fi attack (finally) — A year after Black Hat uproar, David Maynor's ready to tell all — More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.
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DefenseLINK:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE — DoD Permanently Discontinues Procurement Of Global Positioning System Selective Availability — The Department of Defense announced today that it intends to stop procuring Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals.
