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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple Geniuses are reportedly unbricking iPhones — Apple continues posting warning signs around their stores, cautioning customers that unlocked and modded iPhones fall outside their warranty. And at the same time, Apple Geniuses around the country quietly are reportedly accepting bricked iphones …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple's growth, an unwinnable iPhone war and a reputation at risk — Apple is clearly in a war with hackers over the iPhone and its most loyal fans could take a few hits. How Apple performs through these battles will determine the company's overall reputation going forward.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Apple has a PR nightmare brewing... Tons of people on Twitter are reporting problems with their iPhones. Including my son. Including Jeff Clavier. Anyone else having this problem? These are people who have not unlocked their iPhones. I'm about to update mine and will report what happens.
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Hardware 2.0, Guardian Unlimited, Drew B's take on tech PR, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, MacRumors iPhone Blog and Infinite Loop
Susan Lundgren / Apple:
Daniel Cooperman to Join Apple as General Counsel — Apple® today announced that Daniel Cooperman, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at Oracle Corporation, will join Apple as the company's senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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Tech Trader Daily, MacUser, Valleywag, Byte of the Apple and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Steve Jobs Girds for the Long iPhone War — This afternoon, Apple did release the update. And the gadget blogs confirm that it does indeed wreak havoc on modified iPhones. Some phones have indeed been "bricked." In others, unofficial applications have been disabled.
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:Apple update disables unlocked iPhones
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Gizmodo, Techdirt, Mashable!, MacRumors, CNET News.com, TechSpot News, Engadget, Compiler and Computerworld
Microsoft:
Microsoft Extends Sales Availability of Windows XP — Responding to feedback from its customers, the company decides to give small businesses and customers in emerging markets more time and flexibility to test and prepare for the operating system upgrade. — In an effort to respond …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Day 73: The (Sleepy) Attack of the Yahoo Vice Presidents — Despite a lot of noisy speculation all around the Internet yesterday about big changes afoot, let me give you the skinny on exactly what is going to happen today at Yahoo when all its top brass gather at its Sunnyvale headquarters for an all-day confab.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Yahoo Leadership Meeting Tomorrow; Premium Music Services to be "De-emphasized"
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GigaOM, WebProNews, Associated Press, Valleywag, BetaNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Epicenter, paidContent.org, CNET News.com and Yodel Anecdotal
Business Wire:
3Com Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Bain Capital Partners for $5.30 Per Share in Cash — Transaction valued at $2.2 billion — MARLBOROUGH, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS - News) today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired …
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Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:Update: Huawei, investment fund to buy 3Com for $2B
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Dana Cimilluca / Wall Street Journal:3Com Reaches Buyout Deal With Bain Capital, Huawei
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Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, BloggingStocks, CNET News.com, Greg Galitzine's VoIP … and PE HUB
Rebecca Dana / Wall Street Journal:
CBS Creates 'EyeLab' To Woo Web Surfers — CBS Corp. thinks Web surfers would rather watch a blooper reel from the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" than an actual episode of the show. — To cater to what it believes is the short attention span of online audiences, the network today is launching CBS EyeLab …
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Silicon Alley Insider, PDA, MediaBytes with Shelly …, paidContent.org, 24/7 Wall St., Mashable!, BloggingStocks and Lost Remote
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
MPAA continues war on illicit online video, sues Cinematube, Ssupload — The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has filed suit against two web sites that it says facilitate copyright infringement. Cinematube and Ssupload were both named in the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Google Defends the DoubleClick Deal — In Senate hearings on the proposed acquisition, critics say the deal would give Google too much control of the online advertising market — Google (GOOG) is watching you. But you already knew that. Every time you conduct a search using its search engine …
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Joost Announces Partnership with Major League Baseball — Joost has announced a deal with Major League Baseball to make the upcoming MLB playoffs available on the video service. Joost will feature all games from the Division Series, League Championship Series, and World Series within 24 hours of their initial airing.
Cristina Jimenez / BBC:
British Library books go digital — More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. — The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after first editions.
Sandra Hanchard / Hitwise Intelligence:
Slide.com Grows 228% May - Sep, Overtakes Flickr in NZ — Photo-sharing website, Slide.com grew by 228% between 5 May 2007 and 22 September 2007, overtaking Flickr during the week ending 8 September 2007 in the New Zealand market. Slide.com ranked at second position in the Hitwise Entertainment …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Internet Recession Watch: Awful Housing Gets Worse — New Item: A merciful lull in the recession signs this week—until yesterday, when house prices plummeted again, discount real-estate agency Foxtons announced it may file for bankruptcy, KB Homes missed estimates again …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Buys Zingku, Mobile Social Network — Google's plans to extend in the mobile space could include the launch of a mobile phone. For now, Google bought another mobile social network: Zingku. "We've entered into an agreement to have Google acquire our Zingku service," informs us Zingku.com.
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Search Engine Land, Download Squad, eWEEK.com, The Social Web, InfoWorld, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, localmobilesearch.net, WebProNews, blognation USA, Search Engine Journal, Google Blogoscoped, Profy.Com, TechCrunch, Googlified, Rev2.org, VentureBeat, Epicenter, Read/WriteWeb, ReveNews Online Revenue … and Mashable!
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die! — I've been telling the PR industry for some time now that things cannot go along as they are . . . business as usual while mainstream media goes to hell in a hand basket. I've been saying this privately and publicly and having some very useful discussions on this topic.
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Skrentablog:
Kosmix releases Google GFS workalike 'KFS' as open source — Search startup Kosmix has released a C++ implementation of the Google File System as open source. This parallels the existing Hadoop/HDFS project which is written in Java. The Kosmix team has deep engineering talent …
