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Sam Sethi / blognation UK:
Facebook IM Client Coming Soon — I have just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday. What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly.
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique — I feel a bit dirty now. First of all, I would like to say that I am a huge Google fan, so don't take this post personally. Here I am going to show you how someone can install a persistent backdoor within your GMail account and snoop onto all your conversations.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kara Swisher Deconstructs Facebook — Kara Swisher of AllThingsD takes a contrarian point of view on Facebook and does a pretty good job of deconstructing the social-networking company, its potential and all the hype around it. What set her off: Facebook has apparently indicated …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vonage: How Low Can You Go? — Vonage (VG), the Holmdel, NJ-based VoIP service provider has been on the ropes for so long that you think it can't get any worse. But it does! Earlier this year the company lost a patent infringement case to Verizon, and was asked by the courts to pay Verizon …
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Kim Hart / Washington Post:Sprint Wins Patent Case Against Vonage
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in patent case
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Game On: A Real Alternative To iTunes — It may have taken Amazon a few years, but they got it right: their new music store is DRM free and songs, starting at $0.89/track, are cheaper than at Apple's iTunes. The top 100 best-selling albums are priced no higher than $8.99.
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google's Ad Supremacy — MICROSOFT has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just three — with varying degrees of success.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
RealNetworks To Buy Online Casual Games Site GameTrust; Price Less Than $50 Million — RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is making a smallish online gaming acquisition, paidContent.org has learned: NYC-based online casual gaming site Gametrust. While we don't know the exact price, we do know it is less than $50 million.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA? — As of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime. — TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile announces Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide — Capping off months of rumor and speculation, T-Mobile and Danger have announced two new Sidekicks today targeting decidedly different segments of the market. The Sidekick LX takes over as the new king of the Hiptop hill …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users — 'Trust and safety' board in emergency shutdown — Exclusive Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.
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Official Google Blog:
A new caffeine-free way to stay alert — Since new videos are constantly appearing all over the web, it's difficult to keep tabs on all of them. But now Google Alerts will make it easy for you to add video to your other Alerts: News, Web, Blog and Groups.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
No space for non-Optus Aussie mobile users — MySpace has blocked Australians from accessing the new mobile phone version of its site in order to protect its exclusive and probably lucrative partnership deal with Optus. — The social network yesterday launched a free …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman — HuffingtonPost, the uber-blog, has quietly raised another $5 million in a second institutional round of funding. The round included all previous investors: Softbank (TYO: 9984) Capital, Greycroft Partners …
Seth Porges / CrunchGear:
EchoStar To Buy Sling Media — I love me a SlingBox. And so will millions of Dish Network subscribers if this works out like I hope it will. The satellite TV provider is buying the privately-held place-shifting wonders to the tune of a cool $380 million.
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Barryg / windowsultimate.com:
Windows DreamScene released! — In early July, I wrote about The Ultimate Team's intention to ship the remaining promised Ultimate Extras (DreamScene and the remaining Language Packs) by the end of the summer. Unfortunately summer never really came to Seattle this year—so we missed our cue.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
WHAT THE KIDS ARE BUILDING: BRAIN RETRACTORS AND THROAT MICS — I'm sitting in the audience at DemoFall listening to organizer Chris Shipley interview three young entrepreneurs (Emile Petrone, 22; Michale Callahan, 24; Arash Sabet, 25) about their innovations.
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Techdirt:
iPhone Update May Damage Unlocked Phones — But Will It Also Damage Apple? — Apple has warned iPhone customers who have used third-party iPhone-unlocking software that installing an upcoming firmware update could render their phones "permanently inoperable."
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:"iPhone Dev Team" issues statement
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