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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Google Phone Plan Draws Interest — Google Inc. is in advanced talks with two top U.S. cellphone operators, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp., about selling handsets tailored to its new mobile-phone operating system, people familiar with the matter said.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Google Phone: The Story So Far, Some Launch Details & What's Next — The Wall Street Journal has been reporting on Google's mobile phone efforts and how it is beginning to draw some interest from carriers, especially in the United States. Sprint (S) and Verizon (VZ) are in talks with Google …
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:Google Seeks Bigger Role In Social Networking
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Adam C. Engst / TidBITS:
Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard — In a notable about-face, Apple has changed its stance with regard to allowing Mac OS X Server to be run inside a virtual machine (VM), much as Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion make it possible to run Windows and other PC-based operating systems on a Mac.
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web — My company, Ning, is participating in this week's launch of a new open web API called Open Social, which is being spearheaded by Google and joined by a wide range of partners including Google's own Orkut, LinkedIn, Hi5 …
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Intego:
INTEGO SECURITY ALERT - October 31, 2007 — OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan Horse Changes Local DNS Settings to — Redirect to Malicious DNS Servers — Description: A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs.
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
$200 Everex Green PC Now Available — Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores. — "It's $200, with no gimmicks or subsidies," Everex spokesman David Liu said.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Everex's $199 green PC: attention ignorant Wal-Mart shoppers
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New York Magazine:
Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK — Spoken-word and hip-hop artist Saul Williams toured with Nine Inch Nails last year, and Trent Reznor liked him so much that he decided to produce his new album. The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust! …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, Look Who's Now The 5th Biggest Company in the US — That's right: Google (GOOG). And trading at a not-preposterous 55-times trailing 12-month earnings, too. — Rank Company Market Cap (Bil) Ticker — 1 Exxon Mobil $505 XOM
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Online Marketers Joining Internet Privacy Efforts — Most consumers are familiar with do-not-call lists, which are meant to keep telemarketers from phoning them. Soon people will be able to sign up for do-not-track lists, which will help shield their Web surfing habits from the prying eyes of marketers.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Sony's Folding@home project gets Guinness record — It's a small thing, but Sony got some good news today related to its troubled PlayStation 3 video game console. In fact, the system helped set a new Guinness World Record. — The record was set by Stanford University's Folding@home project …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Messenger 9, GTalk integration, Messenger API, new client for Mac OS X - news unveiled at Georgia Tech presentation (whew) — In a presentation to the Georgia Institute of Technology's IEEE Student Branch yesterday, Microsoft employee and Georgia Tech graduate Andrew Jenks had some surprises in store.
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David Goetzl / MediaPost Publications:
ESPN To Air NBA Games On TV, Web — IN THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF what could lead to so-called "cable bypass," ESPN's NBA games this season will be simulcast live on the Web. — And it's not just a few less appealing ones, but every game carried on ESPN and ESPN2, including the playoffs.
InfoWorld:
Acer files counterclaims against HP — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Acer filed patent counterclaims against Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday as both companies continue to tussle for a larger share of the global PC market. — Acer, the world's third-largest PC vendor, filed counterclaims …
Steven Schwankert / PC World:
New York Leads in HD Uptake — The east is the best: New York residents are leading the nation in adopting high-definition television (HDTV), with 17.5 percent of households receiving the new broadcast standard, The Nielsen Co. said Tuesday. — New York has almost 1.3 million households …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans — One of the most disruptive startups in the financial industry is Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Since its launch in February, 2006, Prosper has attracted more than 450,000 members who have loaned $96.4 million to each other.
