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Crave at CNET UK:
Apple Tablet PC is real, says Asus — Crave hangs with people in high places — that's how we get exclusives and free food. A few weeks ago we were having a civilised dinner with our friends at Asus and angling for cool stories when we were told in a very hushed manner: "Asus is helping Apple build a Tablet PC."
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Liveblogging Facebook Advertising Announcement (Social Ads + Beacon + Insights) — I am at Facebook's social advertising announcement in New York City, where Mark Zuckerberg is about to take the stage and tell us all what we already think we know: Facebook is getting into the advertising business in a big way.
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Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Facebook's Announcement — Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch is liveblogging Facebook's announcement as I type this. The first fifteen minutes were filled with soundbites from Zuckerberg about the social graph, how cool and popular Facebook is, the history of advertising and how revolutionary this announcement is.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Facebook launches its ad platform; Coca-Cola as friend? — Facebook on Tuesday announced its long awaited advertising system, dubbed Facebook Ads. — According to the company's statement, Facebook Ads will allow "businesses to connect with users and target advertising to the exact audiences they want."
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:MySpace and Facebook launch new Advertising products, why Hyper …
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Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
5 newspaper giants in talks about online ad network — Five of the nation's top newspaper companies are taking steps to create a national online advertising network they hope will help them recapture ad revenue leaking away from their print products. — Sources close to the situation said Gannett Co. …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
More Readers Trading Newspapers for Web Sites — THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Why Google chose the Apache Software License over GPLv2 for Android — Google finally entered the mobile software market by turning the 2005 acquisition of Android into the Open Handset Alliance. Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development foster a broad developer community …
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Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:Android — Google has now announced the Open Handset Alliance and the Android Platform.
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Red / The Red Ferret Journal:
Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge — It's taken them 10 years but Nokia boffins have finally perfected a 'touch feedback' touchscreen. Don't be fooled by simple vibrational imitations folks, this is the real McCoy - you press a key on the screen …
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Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson announces first USB Mobile Broadband Modem — Sony Ericsson's MD300 is a mobile broadband USB modem that connects your computer to HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, or GPRS networks. — Sony Ericsson today announced the MD300, a state-of-the-art business tool that allows busy professionals …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Yahoo executives grilled by Congress over China policies: Live-blogging — The U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing titled "Yahoo! Inc.'s Provision of False Information to Congress." With a title like that, you can be sure this particular event will be be fair, neutral, and objective.
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Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:Yahoo's Yang Apologizes to Dissidents Under Fire From Congressional Panel
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
I'm not happy with Leopard — I've given Leopard a chance, but it's pretty clear, this is not a good operating system release. — I've been out of the Mac loop for most of the last decade, just got back in a bit over 2 years ago. I don't know if early OS releases are generally as crappy as this one …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Leopard bug identified with moving data — If you're moving data from one Mac or PC to a Mac running Mac OS X Leopard, don't trip over the cord. — Tom Karpik, a computer science student at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, says he has identified a bug in Leopard that can cause …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Lenovo intros the ThinkStation S10 and D10 workstations — Lenovo, a company which appears to be inching out from under the thumb of parent IBM, today announced two new desktops christened with the ThinkStation moniker aimed at the enterprise market. On the more "conservative" side …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
@ Ad:Tech: Online Video Creates Its Own Opportunities; NBC Might Revisit YouTube — Major media companies involved with video are feeling some degree of pain in trying to figure out ways to draw audiences and get ad support for the nascent video efforts. Speaking on an afternoon panel …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Makeover Solutions Raises $7 Million First Round for Online Beauty Service — New York-based Makeover Solutions Inc., a provider of online beauty services, has raised a $7 million first round from Village Ventures Fund, Rho Partners and Borealis Ventures. The service allows users to engage …
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Andrew Lim / Crave at CNET UK:
The ten most addictive online flash games ever made — For some people online flash games are a passing distraction to fill the hours between lunch and home time. For others online flash games are a passionate hobby that keeps glued to their monitors while they try and beat their last score.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft readies free enterprise-search product — Microsoft is expanding its family of enterprise-search products with a new, free, entry-level product, Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, which is due to ship in early 2008. — Microsoft made available on November 6 for download via …
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