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Rumor Mill: Google Acquiring Sprint — Recent news that Sprint is not going to work with Clearwire to build out a WiMAX network only added to the rumors I have been hearing about Google acquiring Sprint Nextel. On the surface it seems like this would be a bad move for Google but in reality …
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Rands In Repose:
The Nerd Handbook — A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That's the nerd working on his project in his head. — It's unlikely that this project is a nerd's day job because his opinion regarding his job is, "Been there, done that".
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
AOL Acquires Israeli Social Search Start-Up Yedda; Second Buy In A Week — AOL (NYSE: TWX) has acquired Israeli start-up Yedda, a social search questions-and-answers service launched in 2006 with proprietary semantic matching technology. No financial terms disclosed.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Tumbleweeds outnumber punters, as iPhone's First Night flops — Journalists and PR minders outnumbered buyers on Friday night as interest in Apple's iPhone miserably failed to live up to the pre-launch hype in the UK. — The iPhone went on sale at stores operated by retail titan Carphone Warehouse …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox? — Only a couple of years ago, Firefox was the little browser that could — an open-source program created by thousands of contributors around the world without the benefit of a giant company like Microsoft to finance it.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Intel jabs bruised AMD with 12 new Xeons and desktop dynamo — Months of torturous fanfare come to a close on Monday as Intel will officially start shipping its family of "Penryn" processors built with a whiz-bang new manufacturing process. — Normally, Intel tries to keep the launch date …
Doug Sherrets / VentureBeat:
Facebook search expands — will it take on Google? — Facebook has added a new option for its search bar, allowing users to search for advertising pages. — This continues a steady creep in search options, which already includes tabs to search for people, groups, events and applications.
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Path Finder 4.8.2 does Quick Look, can finally replace the Finder — Cocoatech's Path Finder has long been the choice of power users and frustrated Finder users alike, as it offers a veritable landslide of options and customizability for fitting into just about any workflow.
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
NBC Direct: Don't Bother — NBC launched its NBC Direct beta over the weekend. The service allows you to download NBC shows to your computer and view them for 48 hours, but compared with the rather elegant (though still limited) Hulu — which is part-owned by NBC — NBC Direct is an overly complicated mess.
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
1.1.2 Jailbreak Software Released — Conceited Software/TouchFree has just released its GUI jailbreak. This is the "final bit" that performs the jailbreak after you run OktoPrep in 1.1.1 and then upgrade to 1.1.2. The Software runs under OS X and Windows, grabs the data off your iPod touch or iPhone …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Startup Weekend's Most Recent Startup: Skribit — Andrew Hyde's Startup Weekend, born out of the TechStarts event this last summer, has been busy. The company goes from city to city, organizes developers to spend a long weekend deciding on a new business idea and then building it.
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Web 2.0 T-Shirt Tells Us All Whether You Facebook Your Life Away [Apparel] — The latest addition to the chic geek's wardrobe has got to be this web 2.0 T-shirt. The classy bit of kit contains a list of 79 social networking sites, all followed by tick boxes. Tick the ones you belong to and wear.
IDC:
Handheld Device Shipments Decline 43.5% Year Over Year As Vendors Exit or Transition Product Lines, According to IDC — The worldwide handheld device market posted its fifteenth consecutive quarter of decline in shipments, signaling either vendor intent to scale back production or exit from market entirely, or both.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
v2 extenders available for ordering — Thanks to a tip from Chris Lanier, I've found the first of the v2 Media Center extenders to show up at online stores. — Linksys still lists the status of its DMA2100 and DMA2200 extenders as "coming in November." But searching for those model …
