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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
1.1.2 iPod touch Jailbroken—before its official release! — They say a picture is worth a thousand words. And here is the first picture from a jailbroken 1.1.2 iPod touch, courtesy of hacker planetbeing. Congratulations to all the iPhone/iPod team, including Pumpkin, Edgan, Dinopio, Drudge, Kroo, and all the rest.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:Latest iPhone update jailbroken before it hits the ground
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Evan DiBiase / The Evan Series:
Video Rentals Coming Soon to iTunes? — Before installing any iTunes upgrade, I dump the strings from the old iTunes binary. Once the new version has installed, I diff the new version's strings against the old's, to see what shows up. — When I did this for the recent 7.5 upgrade, I found the following interesting (new) strings:
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Movie Rentals Are Baked Into the Latest Version of iTunes. — Look inside the code of the latest version of iTunes (version 7.5), and you will find eight lines that speak volumes about Apple's next move in video. Movie rentals and video-on-demand, it appears, are now baked into iTunes, just waiting to be turned on.
Tris Hussey / blognation Canada:
Om Malik & Arrington Blow Off BlogWorld-iJustine Fills In — The buzz around the show was that Om Mailk and Michael Arrington were skipping BlogWorld Expo even though both are confirmed speakers. Right now Leo Laporte, after giving what I've heard was a kick-ass keynote, pulled iJustine in as a last minute panel member.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:BlogWorldExpo - Update - Arrington/Malik No Shows
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Kelly Olsen / Associated Press:
Samsung Stops Selling in Japan — SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it had stopped selling flat panel televisions and other consumer products in Japan, citing poor profitability. — Samsung has emerged in the past decade and a half as a global giant in consumer electronics …
Catherine McLean / Globe and Mail:
RIM sues LG over phone names — Black Label, Black Cherry and Strawberry are too similar to BlackBerry, company argues — In its latest showdown over trademarks, Research In Motion Ltd. sued LG Electronics Inc. this week as it tries to stop that company from using names that are a bit too BlackBerryesque …
Nick / Rough Type:
Tapping at the window — Spying is best done surreptitiously. The Peeping Tom that you don't see is of infinitely less concern to you than the one who taps on your window and waves. With its new Beacon ad program, Facebook taps on the window. — Nate Weiner reports on his first experience coming face …
Seeking Alpha:
DivX and Xbox 360: A Potential Win-Win For Everyone — DivX (DIVX) followed up Tuesday night's earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference. After having just undergone their quarterly confessional, I didn't expect to hear any new information, but wanted to tune in anyway.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook to let users vote on news feed [Scoop] — Snooping on user profiles isn't the only special privilege Facebook employees have. They also get to test the site's latest features. Like news feed voting. Above is a mockup of my news feed as a Facebooker would see it, based on real screenshots from an inside source.
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Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Nigeria favors Linux vendor Mandriva over Microsoft once more — San Francisco - Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all. — Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August …
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Can WiMAX be saved? — It costs money to build a nationwide network, even a citywide one. Without some assurance of a return, few people want to go up against the current shared monopoly and drive down prices. — That's the clear message of the Clearwire-Sprint split on WiMAX …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Botmaster cops to four felonies — Security consultant controlled botnet from work — An American computer security consultant has agreed to plead guilty to four felony counts related to a series of schemes that used botnets to steal PayPal and online banking identities of Windows users …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp (NWS): Launching An Ad Network, Too — News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media unit is one of the few big Web players that has yet to roll out its own ad network (selling space on third-party sites). That's about to change, sources tell us: FIM is building out it own ad network …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Attack of the Splogs—One Of Our Posts Copied 152 Times Without Attribution — Here at TechCrunch, there is nothing we love more than when one of our posts gets linked to and talked about. And like the majority of other blogs out there, we try to be good citizens by linking back to any source from which we excerpt.
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Sony brass thinks Blu-ray vs HD DVD is a 'stalemate' — Howard Stringer (Sony Corp. CEO) says that Blu-ray and HD DVD are in a stalemate. He has to say that, though. — I've stayed out of the debate since it started because, as a consumer, I don't care who wins.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Reaching for Apple, Falling Short — The iPhone's biggest achievement isn't any particular feature; it's the way Apple took veto power away from the cellphone carriers. — Ordinarily, Verizon, Sprint and their rivals are the gatekeepers for phone features.
