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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.
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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Engadget, Tech.co.uk, Digital Trends, last100, mocoNews.net, I4U News, Gizmodo, Mobility Site, Just Another Mobile Phone Blog, jkOnTheRun and The Mobile Gadgeteer
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Rafe Blandford / All About Symbian:
S60 Touch Interface Launched — Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia showed S60 running with a touch interface. The touch interface will support both finger and stylus input, has full multi lingual support, has support for tactile feedback (haptics) and is backwardly compatible with the existing S60 platform.
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Symbian-Guru.com, Darla Mack, CrunchGear, Boing Boing Gadgets, GottaBeMobile.com, IntoMobile and PalmAddicts
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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Macworld, Download Squad, Crave, TECH.BLORGE.com, Compiler, The Praized Blog and Peer Pressure
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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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.
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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 …
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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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Business Technology
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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Profy.Com, mediabistro.com, paidContent.org, FierceIPTV, The Sam Whitmore Sampler, MarketingVOX, ClickZ News Blog, Romenesko and Media Biz
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:Stop the Presses: News Corp. Protects Its Interests... The Horror!
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Silicon Alley Insider
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace, Sony-BMG Join Up. It's About Time. — News Corp.'s MySpace and Sony-BMG have signed a licensing deal where the music label and the social network will share sponsorship and ad revenue. Not much else in the way of detail: We don't know what the split is, how many artists, songs, etc. are involved.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:MySpace Signs First Licensing Deal With Major Label; Will Share …
Alexis Morgenstern / Gaming Bits:
US Playstation 3 40GB Shows Up In Target Store Scan — Here's another source listing the upcoming stock of the US Playstation 3 40GB model, packed with Spider-Man. We're assuming it is Spider-Man 3, since it's showing an in-stock date of 10/28/07, very close to the 10/30 release …
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 …
ClickZ:
Yahoo Heats Up in Search Ad Race As Google Levels Off — Yahoo found "a secure footing" for search ad impressions and media spend during the third quarter of this year, according to a study by SearchIgnite and RBC Capital Markets. The firms also indicated spending on Google search ads dwindled …
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.
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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CenterNetworks, Read/WriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Webware.com, MediaBytes with Shelly …, Mashable! and Reel Pop
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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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
On tap: Another Microsoft Communications launch — In San Francisco this morning, Microsoft is launching its latest foray into the market for "unified communications" — back-end server and desktop PC programs that let businesses combine phone, instant messaging, and e-mail functions with …
