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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mint Wins TechCrunch40 $50,000 Award — 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. — Mint presented its application …
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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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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.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay — This just in: The winner of the Techcrunch40 event is Mint, the personal finance company (see our coverage here). — Meanwhile, below is the last batch of Techcrunch companies, from Tuesday's afternoon session.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:TechCrunch40 Session 6: Revenue Models & Analytics
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Mint: Solid but incomplete online personal finance
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:New launches: Mint, Spottt, Kerpoof, ZocDoc & more
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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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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" …
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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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Uninformed Journal:
OS X Kernel-mode Exploitation in a Weekend — Abstract: — Apple's Mac OS X (OS X) operating system is attracting more attention from users and security researchers alike. Despite this increased interest, there is still an apparent lack of detailed vulnerability development information …
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:Hacker publishes notorious Apple Wi-Fi attack (finally)
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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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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 …
Stephen Shankland / Crave:
USB 3.0 brings optical connection in 2008 — Update: I added some details about USB 3.0 device availability and performance. — SAN FRANCISCO—Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker …
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:Gelsinger demos USB 3.0, PICe 3.0 and other new toys
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Mozilla.org:
Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2007-28 — Code execution via QuickTime Media-link files — Impact: — Critical — Announced: — Reporter: — Petko D. Petkov — Products: — Firefox, SeaMonkey — Fixed in: — Firefox 2.0.0.7 — On his blog Petko D. Petkov reported …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Privacy Problems Introduced Through Presentations — Google's Presentation tool is just freshly released but already introduced a first privacy vulnerability for Google Accounts... independent of whether or not you look at a presentation. Using a straightforward hack discovered by TomHTML …
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.
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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.
Valleywag:
Hotornot: Dating site not so hot with advertisers? — HotorNot.com, the online dating and rating site run by Jim Young and James Hong, is abandoning its experiment in free, ad-supported user profiles and is reverting back to paid memberships. Is this a sign of failure?
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