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Amazon.com:
Introducing Amazon Kindle — Revolutionary Portable Reader Lets Customers Wirelessly Download Books in Less Than a Minute and Automatically Receive Newspapers, Magazines and Blogs — No PC Required, No Hunting for Wi-Fi Hot Spots — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today introduced Amazon Kindle …
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Joel Johnson / Boing Boing Gadgets:
15 Things I Just Learned About the Amazon Kindle — • Its eBooks have DRM (filetype: .AZW), but it supports unprotected Mobipocket books (.MOBI, .PRC), .TXT files, HTML, and Word. Some files can be transferred over USB, while others have to be emailed to the special per-device Kindle email.
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Engadget, Salon, Laughing Squid, kottke.org, rc3.org, ParisLemon, Gadget Lab, Mickeleh's Take and TechCrunch
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Liveblogging the Amazon Kindle E-Reader Show with Jeff Bezos — Amazon has summoned the NY press and blogger corp to the W Hotel on Union Square to watch Jeff Bezos unveil it electronic book reader, the Kindle. We'll see if there is anything left to learn.
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Christopher Null, mathewingram.com/work, Bits, Engadget, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Guardian Unlimited, Electronista, Portfolio.com, Ryan Stewart, Gear Diary and Business Week
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Kindle Versus The iPhone — Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has created a reason to switch from bound paper books to bits — a device with a wireless connection able to download digital books on the go. The problem: Low-cost laptops and smart phones, such as Apple's iPhone …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:Amazon debuts Kindle e-book reader
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Webware.com, Bits, Digital Daily, paidContent.org, Epicenter, dailywireless.org and TECH.BLORGE.com
Denise Dubie / Computerworld UK:
Microsoft struggling to convince about Vista — Another survey highlights business concern about migration — The majority of IT professionals worry that migrating to Windows Vista will make their networks less stable and more complex, according to a new survey.
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exo.blog:
Vista SP1 a Performance Dud — With the initial performance characteristics of Windows Vista leaving much to be desired (see our previous post on the subject), many IT organizations have put off deploying the new OS until the first service pack (SP1) is released by Microsoft early next year.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:Microsoft will install Vista SP1 on your PC - if you live in Silicon Valley
Dan / UNEASYsilence:
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof) — As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IEMI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide.
Seth LaForge / Google LatLong:
Think globally, mark locally — The last time I threw a party, I used the My Maps feature of Google Maps to tell my friends exactly how to find my house. But if they'd just searched Maps on their own for my address and had gone to the marker location, they would have been partying in the middle of the street!
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:Google Maps Goes Wikimapia, Lets The People Move The Map Points
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Fred / A VC:
Techmeme: A Cautionary Tale — I've been thinking about writing this post for the past several weeks as I watched this blog drop from high 40s on the techmeme leaderboard to the 50s, to the 60s, to the 70s, and now as of this weekend, off of it completely. Yes, my ego hurts when this blog …
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Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Rumoursville: Google sniffing round Skype — It's been a while since the last juicy web business rumour, so this will do nicely. — Currently in favour around London's webbist community is the rumour that Google has been in negotiations to buy Skype, the web telephony firm, from eBay.
PR Newswire:
AT&T Agrees to Acquire Ingenio, a Pioneer and Leading Provider of Pay Per Call Search and Directory Solutions — New Capabilities Will Provide Advertisers With Additional Innovative Directory Advertising Services — AT&T Inc. announced today that an AT&T subsidiary has agreed …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:AT&T Acquires Ingenio And Their Pay-Per-Call Network
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VentureBeat, alarm:clock, CNET News.com, paidContent.org, WebProNews and Search Engine Watch Blog
Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Survey: Google search share climbs even higher — Google's stock price wasn't the only thing climbing last month. The search giant's share of the U.S. Internet search market grew to more than 64 percent in October, from 61 percent a year earlier, according to results released by Hitwise today.
Guardian:
Ministry bans Wikipedia editing — The Dutch justice ministry is to temporarily block its 30,000 employees from using Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, at work after a magazine reported that ministry computers had been used to edit more than 800 entries.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Now let us praise the humble, jetless Google founders — Eh? — Comment Casting around for an example of the simple life to use in an Arab-bashing column, veteran columnist and editor Alexander Chancellor alighted on what he must have thought was the perfect foil to the free-spending Saudis.
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Bill Ray / The Register:
iPhone to get 3G in May 2008 — Apple is asking for 30 per cent of subscriber revenue and can't provide enough iPhones for a Christmas 2007 launch in Spain, according to Spanish technology company SevenClick, which reports that it got the information from a senior manager at Telefonica.
