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Apple Meets with DoCoMo, Softbank On Launching iPhone in Japan — After signing deals with U.S. and European operators to sell its iPhone earlier this year, Apple Inc. now is making plans to enter Japan, one of the biggest and most sophisticated mobile-phone markets in the world.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone coming to Japan's NTT DoCoMo? — According to the Wall Street Journal Asia, Jobs and Co are in Japan working out the details for a domestic iPhone launch. It's no surprise then that Jobs was rumored to have just met with NTT DoCoMo's president, Masao Nakamur, to discuss the deal …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
R.I.P.: The Web 2.0 Office Suite … In a recent survey, NPD asked nearly 600 PC users: "Have you heard about online, browser-based office productivity applications like Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, gOffice, etc.?" NPD also asked, "If so, how often do you use them?"
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Yes, There Can Be Life After Word — AS the clerk at Circuit City rang up my purchase of a new notebook computer last month, she started her up-selling. — Padded bag? No. Security lock? No. Windows Office? — For someone who processes words for a living, Microsoft's software would seem to be an indispensable tool.
Martin Roscheisen / Nanosolar Blog:
Nanosolar Ships First Panels — After five years of product development - including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction - we now have shipped …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google's co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique …
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Introducing Video Sitemaps — In our effort to help users search all the world's public videos, the Google Video team joined the Sitemaps folks to introduce Video Sitemaps—an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search.
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Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Names Wireless Veteran Dan Hesse as President and CEO — The Sprint Nextel Board of Directors has named wireless industry veteran Daniel R. Hesse, 54, as president and chief executive officer of the company, effective immediately. He previously was chairman, president and CEO of Embarq Corporation.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Google Android Prototype In the Wild — Here's the first gorgeous shot of an Google Android prototype in the wild. It looks HTC-ish in build, similar to the grainy versions we've seen in the official videos and the renderings in the SDK emulator. Our source, a Giz reader …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
The Depth of EBay's Problems 2: Angry Sellers — Here's another angle on what's wrong at eBay: Sellers increasingly find eBay too expensive and are becoming successful finding buyers on Amazon.com or on their own sites. I wrote Friday about why Amazon should buy eBay.
Yiwyn / Techland:
Google's Checkout perks paying off — By Yi-Wyn Yen — Since Google launched its Checkout online payment service 18 months ago, industry insiders have wondered if its aggressive marketing promotions were worth the money. — The company, which has been tight-lipped about the performance …
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Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous... ... dangerous for your profits, that is. If you focus on over-hyped technology developments, you risk diverting resources from the high-ROI design issues that really matter to your users — and to your profits. — Unlike some older technologies (notably …
BBC:
Tech giants form tiny chip group — Seven of the world's leading chip makers are collaborating on chips which contain transistors with features just 32 billionths of a metre wide. — IBM, Toshiba, AMD, Samsung, Chartered, Infineon and Freescale have formed the alliance to cut development costs.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
NFL, Ticketmaster Launching Stubhub Football Rival — The NFL and IAC-owned Ticketmaster are launching an online aftermarket site for football tickets next year. The deal is one of Ticketmaster's many attempts to try to catch up to other "ticket exchanges" — most notably eBay's Stubhub.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Bloglines Gets A Triple Dose Of New Features — Bloglines has added three new features to its RSS reading service. — First up is the ability to save posts including text and graphics from within Bloglines to a "Saved" folder. This allows users to have quick access to previously read posts at a later date.
