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Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
Exclusive Pics of the Palm Treo 850 — Ahh Wednesdays. Is the first half of the week over or is the second half of the week beginning? Optimist or pessimist, here at BGR we're doing our part to make today as painless as possible. How about we start out with an exclusive dose of some live shots of the Palm Treo 850!
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Crave, Engadget, CrunchGear, IntoMobile, the::unwired, WMExperts, Electronista, Gizmodo, PalmAddicts, Cellpassion and Tech Blog
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Playing With Live Search Cashback — Microsoft launched Live Search Cashback and Greg will have a more detailed post on his pre-briefing. But I wanted to take you through the experience of using Cashback as a searcher. — It has been a rainy week here in New York, and I figured I would start …
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The Register, LiveSide, Salon, InformationWeek, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, GMSV, ReveNews and TechBlog
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Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:Microsoft's new tack: Bribery as a business model
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Search Engine Land, Hardware 2.0, Techdirt, Screenwerk, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Live: Facebook Discusses New Profile Design — Facebook has invited a group of bloggers and journalists to its offices on Hamilton Street in Palo Alto today to discuss the details of its upcoming profile redesign, which we're told will launch in a few weeks. — Keep checking in here as I share my notes from the event.
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Tech Beat, Bits, VentureBeat, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Inside Facebook, Furrier.org, All Facebook, Valleywag and bub.blicio.us
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SmallWorlds Brings a Third Dimension to Web 2.0 — Meet SmallWorlds, a free browser-based 3D virtual world that integrates YouTube, Flickr, and a number of other Web 2.0 services. The site is aimed at the teen and adult markets, and is designed to be more casual than Second Life.
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Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
Microsoft boosts support for rival formats in Office — Microsoft is opening up Office to other file formats, slowly but steadily. — On Wednesday, the company said it plans to add new formats to Office 2007, including the Open Document Format (ODF), Portable Document Format (PDF), and XML Paper Specification (XPS).
BBC:
Design revamp for ‘$100 laptop’ — The wraps have been taken off the new version of the XO laptop designed for schoolchildren in developing countries. — The revamped machine created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project looks like an e-book and has had its price slashed to $75 per device.
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:OLPC 2.0: A Striking eBook and a Step In the Right Direction
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GottaBeMobile
Associated Press:
Proposal may ease cancellation fees for cell phone users — WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is quietly negotiating to help cell phone customers avoid expensive fees when they cancel contracts with wireless companies, The Associated Press has learned. — Cell phone companies routinely …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media — Social media. Web 2.0. You know what these things are and you take advantage of them every day on the net. Whether you're socializing on Facebook, updating Twitter, or just adding a new bookmark to Ma.gnolia, social media has become an integral part of our daily lives.
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eMarketer:
eMarketer Lowers Social Networking Ad Spending Estimate — Growth still high, but from a very small base — In spite of media hype around social networking, worldwide advertising spending on social networks has not met expectations. eMarketer has revised its worldwide social network ad spending estimates …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
PHP Sucks, But It Doesn't Matter — Here's a list of every function beginning with the letter “A” in the PHP function index: — abs() — acos() — acosh() — addcslashes() — addslashes() — aggregate() — aggregate_info() — aggregate_methods() — aggregate_methods_by_list()
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Gadgetopia
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
A Video Game Star and His Less-Than-Stellar Pay — Michael Hollick never thought his big break would come in a video game. — All those years when he was struggling to get by as an aspiring actor — tending bar, working in a bagel shop in Morningside Heights, spraying perfume at Bloomingdale's …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Kotaku, Opposable Thumbs, Joystiq, Gawker, Destructoid, GamePro.com and Game|Life
All About N-Gage:
Nokia: “If you want your N-Gage games on your new phone, you'll have to buy them all over again.” — Nokia's next gen N-Gage platform potentially ushers in a new age of high quality connected phone gaming. However, it now seems that there's a rather large flaw at the heart of the platform …
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MobHappy, The Mobile Gadgeteer, SMS Text News, Symbian-Guru.com, mocoNews.net and All About Symbian
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple missing golden .Mac opportunity — If you're buying a computer to get onto the Internet, don't you think you'd be interested in a service that makes that computer much easier to use with the Internet? — Over the last five years, people have grown more accustomed to storing personal photos …
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The Mac Observer
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Time Warner: What Will It Do With $9.25 Billion In Cash? More Acquisitions On The Way; AOL Talks — With the complete separation of the cable unit, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) will get a nice $9.25 billion dividend. So what's the plan for all that cash? According to CEO Jeff Bewkes …
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The Inquisitr, Valleywag, Deal Journal, IP Democracy, Tech Trader Daily, The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Daily and TG Daily
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple, CBS sued over ‘Mighty Mouse’ — Apple and CBS are being sued for trademark infringement by a competing interface manufacturer. — The case against Apple and CBS was filed by a firm called Man and Machine. It alleges Apple began selling its Mighty Mouse over one year after Man …
DigiTimes:
Kenmos to benefit from use of BLUs in all MacBooks in 2009, says paper — Apple plans to use LED backlight units (BLUs) in all of its MacBooks in 2009, which will benefit Taiwan-based BLU maker Kenmos Technology, according to the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN).
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Infinite Loop, Tech Trader Daily, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, NotebookReview.com, Electronista, The Mac Observer and 9 to 5 Mac
