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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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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.
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Leopard release: October 26th — If you're one of the many speculating the release date for Apple's next version of OS X, Leopard, you can tick the other 10 of the remaining 11 business days left on the October calendar because it's finally official: Mac OS 10.5 launches Friday …
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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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Google Blogoscoped, Mashable!, Web Analytics World, TechCrunch, Vacuum and Tech~Surf~Blog
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Google Analytics Adds New Features; Finally Updates Software Version
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Google updates Analytics service, unveils Urchin beta
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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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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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CrunchGear, Symbian-Guru.com, Darla Mack, Boing Boing Gadgets, GottaBeMobile.com, IntoMobile and PalmAddicts
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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
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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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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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Vimeo Adds HD Video Offering - Is this a Monetization Angle?
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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, FierceIPTV, mediabistro.com, paidContent.org, The Sam Whitmore Sampler, MarketingVOX, ClickZ News Blog and Media Biz
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Stop the Presses: News Corp. Protects Its Interests... The Horror!
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The Techmeme pile-on — good or bad? — Tim O'Reilly has a great post up on O'Reilly Radar, in which he talks about what might be called (although he doesn't use the term) the "stupidity of crowds." Using the meltdown in quantitative hedge funds, Facebook apps and Techmeme.com as examples …
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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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Infinite Loop, Engadget, Digital Trends, Valleywag, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple Gazette and MacRumors
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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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Superpages.com Moves Full Throttle with National Video Product Launch — Following a successful beta trial in select markets, Superpages.com(R), a service of Idearc Media Corp., today launched its Superpages Video advertising product nationally. Superpages Video advertising allows local small …
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Yahoo: Bringing Geeky Back — Under CEO Jerry Yang's direction, the Web portal is trying to return to its tech roots and shift away from being a media catch-all — From the outside, it might not look like much has changed at Yahoo! (YHOO) since Jerry Yang took the reins as chief executive in June.
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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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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 …