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Apple:
Apple to Ship Mac OS X Leopard on October 26 — Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Leopard will go on sale Friday, October 26 at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Leopard: final features and further upgrade details — We got a chance this morning to pose a few queries to Brian Croll, Senior Director of Mac OS X Product Marketing, about today's Leopard release announcement. Here's some of what he had to say, as well as some of the new features we're looking forward to in the next release.
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results — Revenues - $1,768 Million — Operating Income - $150 Million — Operating Income Before Depreciation, Amortization and Stock-Based Compensation Expense - $466 Million — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO …
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IBM Reports 2007 Third-Quarter Results — ARMONK, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) today announced third-quarter 2007 diluted earnings of $1.68 per share from continuing operations compared with diluted earnings of $1.45 per share in the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 16 percent as reported.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Intel third quarter results solid; ups fourth quarter revenue target
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Business Week:
Will Apple Open the iPhone? — An official software-development kit may finally be announced at January's Macworld. Why the wait? It may have something to do with Leopard — William Hurley loves his iPhone. But he'd love it even more if he could write software for it. — He's not alone.
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Nokia:
S60 smartphone software evolves to enrich the user experience — Expanding the platform with intuitive touch user interface, sensor technologies and complete web video experience — Symbian Smartphone Show, London, UK - As Internet is entering into the core of mobile experiences …
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Rafe Blandford / All About Symbian:S60 Touch Interface Launched
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Alden DeSoto / Google Analytics Blog:
Exciting Announcements at eMetrics Today — Today at the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C. Brett Crosby announced several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Here's a rundown. — First, you'll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity.
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Market Wire:
Napster Debuts Web-Based Subscription Service, Delivering Digital Music Anytime, Anywhere — New Version 4.0 Features Intuitive Design, New Music Discovery Tools and One-Click Playlist Features — Napster, LLC (NasdaqGM:NAPS - News) today unveiled a major redesign of the industry's leading …
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Apple drops price of DRM-free iTunes — Apple has dropped the price of its iTunes Plus songs that have no digital rights management (DRM) software protection and allow owners to move song files freely from one device to another. — The 256kbps DRM-free song files were originally priced …
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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Dow Jones Drops CNBC Ads From Web Sites in Favor of Fox Links — On the day they had contracted to run advertisements placed by CNBC, two Web sites owned by Dow Jones & Company instead ran ads for that cable business channel's new competitor, the Fox Business Network.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:Stop the Presses: News Corp. Protects Its Interests... The Horror!
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Josh Quittner / Fortune:
Facebook's got Google running scared — Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would dearly love to squash it, says Fortune's Josh Quittner. — (Fortune Magazine) — Google is the elephant in nearly every corner of the Internet, from search and advertising to web-based e-mail, online mapping, and home-brewed video.
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Natalie Kerris / Apple:
Apple Chooses Orange as Exclusive Carrier for iPhone in France — Apple® and Orange today announced that Orange, the leading wireless carrier in France, will be the exclusive French carrier partner for the revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in France on Thursday …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Ubuntu Plans Eye Candy for Desktop Computers and Beyond — What would it take to get the hundreds of millions of desktop computer users to switch from Windows to Linux? — Low cost and armies of devoted techies have not been enough. So the people behind Ubuntu—a dialect of Linux— have a new idea: eye candy.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft gets the open-source licensing nod from the OSI — Microsoft was awarded an official Open Source Initiative (OSI) approval for the two Shared Source licenses it submitted for consideration in August — but not without agreeing to some OSI-requested changes first.
Reuters:
Facebook settles New York child safety probe — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc., the fast-growing social network Web site, has agreed to settle a child safety probe in New York, the state attorney general said on Tuesday. — The agreement calls for Facebook to respond …
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
VIDEO-SHARING WEB SITE GOES HIGH-DEF — User-generated videos are going high-def. — Vimeo, a nascent video-sharing Web site owned by Barry Diller's IAC, is expected to announce this week that it will begin distributing videos with a resolution of 1280 pixels by 720 pixels, the standard for high-definition.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Does Your Building Need A Social Network? Why Not. — New York-based LifeAt wants to create a social network around your residential building. Do you need one? Nope. But maybe you'll use it anyway. And perhaps you'll even get to know some of your neighbors.
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