Top Items:
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 …
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
mathewingram.com/work, The Social Web, Insider Chatter, Online Media Cultist, ParisLemon, Mashable! and Digg
RELATED:
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Reuters, MediaPost Publications, rexblog.com, BloggingStocks, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable! and Snipperoo
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 …
Discussion:
TechBlog, Gizmodo, WinBeta, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Global Nerdy, Gadgetell, TECH.BLORGE.com and Forever Geek
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
AT&T Brings Out The BlackBerry 8820 — Look at what the cat dragged in. It's the BlackBerry I've been waiting for, the 8820. GPS and Wi-Fi. Can it get any better? Once it moves over to T-Mobile, then yes. Specs here, but I'm sure you know them already.
Discussion:
Computerworld
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
GigaOM, Ars Technica, bub.blicio.us, Insider Chatter, Anne Truitt Zelenka, GottaBeMobile.com, A VC, Scobleizer, Mark Evans, How To Split An Atom, Scripting News, down the avenue, The Technology Chronicles, Squash, Lifehacker, VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Blog, Redeye VC, Joe Duck, Webomatica, The Startup Game and Digg
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 …
Discussion:
Engadget, Digital Trends, Between the Lines, DailyTech, TechBlog, Switched, jkOnTheRun, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo and Inquirer
Lewis Page / The Register:
Brussels deploys Galileo rescue plan — Farmers won't miss €2.2bn, say officials — The European Union (EU) central bureaucracy has today announced its plan to save Galileo, the troubled European sat nav project. Brussels officials believe that no additional taxpayer cash …
Discussion:
InfoWorld
RELATED:
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
DigiTimes: Google will definitely launch its own branded handset — Citing sources at "Taiwan handset makers," DigiTimes is reporting that "Google will definitely launch its own branded handset." However, the Googlephone's OS, hardware specs, production contractor and operating partners have still not been finalized.
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
HP plans solid-state drives in future business laptops — (InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard plans to offer solid-state drives (SSDs) as an option in all professional series laptop PCs starting from next month because the drives operate faster, conserve battery life, and are more durable than hard disk drives.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Silicon Valley throwing in towel on pan-WiFi project? — Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, the project that once proposed an ambitious region-wide WiFi network, now says it may not happen. — "Now, I just don't know," says Russell Hancock, chief executive of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, to Dow Jones.
Vox:
iPhone v1.1.1 Feature Breakdown — Apple recently held their "Mum is longer the word" event in London. Nothing too crazy, basically just announcing that O2 will be their UK carrier for the iPhone. Of interest to me was the fact that every unit on display was running the upcoming firmware version 1.1.1.
Discussion:
Infinite Loop, Wi-Fi Networking News, Gadget Lab, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, IntoMobile and Digg
Michael Hoffman / DailyTech Main News Feed:
WorldView-1 Satellite Launches Into Orbit — New satellite from DigitalGlobe will provide images for Google Earth — The WorldView-1 space satellite successfully lifted into orbit on top of a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base yesterday morning.
Discussion:
Search Engine Journal
