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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Google's Android OS early look SDK now available — Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet. From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Android: we want developers but... So, I'm watching the Android video and talking with my friends who are developers. Man, I thought my videos were boring, this one takes the cake. — Steve Jobs does NOT have to worry about losing his job to the folks from Google.
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Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform — Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications for mobile devices, today announced that it designed and engineered a new set of system User Interface …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:The Web in Google's Mobile Browser
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Google Releases Android SDK, $10M for Developers
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Steve Horowitz / Official Google Blog:Calling all developers: $10M Android challenge
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Jason / Laughing Squid Web Hosting:
Massive Power Outage At Rackspace'S Dallas Data Center — Summary: The Rackspace data center in Dallas (DFW), where our servers are located, suffered a major power outage tonight lasting approximately two hours. A truck hit one of their transformers, causing damage, which compromised …
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Jordan Golson / Valleywag:
Truck driver in Texas kills all the websites you really use [Breakdowns] — Remember the power mishap in July that brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter? A similar incident took place today at the Dallas datacenter of Rackspace, a San Antonio, Texas-based firm which serves several local Web outfits.
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Interactive Advertising Bureau:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES IN Q3 '07 SURPASS $5.2 BILLION, SETTING NEW HIGH — Industry Maintains Record-breaking Trend; 2007 Q3 Revenues Up Over 25% from 2006 Q3 — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising …
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked to the public — With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it's not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo — Exclusive — Unlike last year, the annual Macworld Expo and Conference that rolls around in January will actually serve as a launch pad for some new Macs, including a chic and ultra-compact notebook design long under development by Apple Inc.
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Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM, Cognos, and the End of Best-of-Breed — The software giant's $5 billion acquisition of Cognos shows how difficult it is becoming for midsize software companies to survive on their own — One of the hottest segments of the tech industry, business intelligence software …
Theo Valich / Inquirer:
Dell's next-gen 30-incher sports Displayport and HDMI — More connectors than on world-class plasma or LCD TV — WHILE DELL'S ORIGINAL thiry-inch 3007 had some limitations in terms of limited resolutions and features, Dell is making sure that its next-gen part will meet every geek's needs..
Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
Face Off: Facial Recognition Search Engines — Mondays on AltSearchEngines we examine a particular Vertical, and this week the hottest Vertical category is Image Search, and especially the sub-category of facial recognition search engines. — Today was the partial launch of EyeAlike, which matches up faces with similar faces.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Buying the XO laptop: The shipping may sting — For folks used to getting free shipping the XO Laptop from the One Laptop Per Child program will deliver a bit of a surprise. — I purchased two laptops from the OLPC program for $399 and got hit with $24.95 in shipping.
Ben Steverman / Business Week:
E*Trade's Meltdown — The stock price gets slashed in half after the online brokerage says it can't predict new credit losses and an analyst mentions the possibility of bankruptcy — It went from bad to worse for E*Trade Financial (ETFC) on Nov. 12. First, the company said the fair value …
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Janet Meiners / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Martha Stewart Launches Ad Network — Launching your own ad network is the rage right now. I read that this year is the year for launching your own social network and next year is the year for launching your own ad network. I overheard a startup that is making it easier for you to do that …
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Adobe:
Adobe Names Shantanu Narayen Chief Executive Officer — For immediate release — Company Expects Q4 Fiscal 2007 Revenue Near High End of Targeted Range; Targets 13 Percent Revenue Growth in Fiscal 2008 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced its Board of Directors …
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Mobile phone company O2 sells 'tens of thousands' of iPhones over weekend — Mobile phone company O2 claims to have sold "tens of thousands" of iPhones over the weekend after its launch in Britain. — Its chief executive, Peter Erskine, predicted that the UK pre-pay mobile phone market …
