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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.
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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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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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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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Deutsche Telekom to Offer iPhone in Germany — Apple introduced its second European sales partner in two days Wednesday, revealing plans to sell the iPhone in Germany through T-Mobile, the wireless subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. — The Apple chief executive, Steven P. Jobs …
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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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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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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 …
Anoop Gantayat / IGN:
TGS 2007: Rumble Confirmed — Sony's controllers will shake again. — Big shocker at today's Electronic Arts pre Tokyo Game Show press event. While playing a demo of Burnout Paradise, we felt something that we never thought we'd feel from a PS3 controller — shake!
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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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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Death Of Moore's Law Is Greatly Exaggerated — Every so often, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore shows up for an interview, and it's only a matter of time before someone asks him about Moore's Law, and he says something along the lines of how shrinking chips is going to reach its physical limits at some point.
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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 …
