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TSA:
New ‘Checkpoint Friendly’ Laptop Bag Procedures — News & Happenings — Starting Aug. 16, TSA will allow laptops to remain in bags meeting new ‘checkpoint friendly’ guidelines. Not all laptop bags are ‘checkpoint friendly’ — (see images below). — To help streamline the security process …
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The Iconoclast, PC World, Technologizer, GMSV, webmonkey, Gadget Lab, michael parekh on IT, Electronista and Howard Lindzon
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
TSA makes laptop travel easier - or not? — Just when you think the federal government has come up with a plan to make the security process at airports more efficient, it turns out that the fine line in security is now blurrier than ever and I suspect the wait times at security checkpoints will actually grow longer.
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BetaNews
Steve / Netflix Community Blog:
Friday Morning Shipping Update — Let's get right to it. This morning, we're happy to report that all of our shipping centers are resuming normal operations after experiencing three days of significant issues. Throughout the night and as we post this update, our distribution centers …
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Between the Lines, Webware.com, Digital Daily, Macworld, Computerworld, AppScout and Engadget HD
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
An Early GPhone Review: Android Is Powerful, But No iPhone (GOOG, AAPL) — So now we know that the first GPhone is indeed coming this fall. — Will it be a hit? It's hard to tell much from the supposed spy photos we've seen floating around on the Web, like the one to the right.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:T-Mobile Is Dreaming Of Android Riches. And It Might Have To Keep Dreaming.
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VentureBeat, MacRumors, TheFeed, BroadDev, InformationWeek, Ars Technica, Techland, LinuxInsider and Know It All
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Are Macs More Expensive? Let's Do the Math Once and For All — It's of those eternal questions of the computing world that never seems to get answered definitively: Does the “Mac Tax” really exist? Some folks are positive that Macs are overpriced compared to Windows computers; others deny it steadfastly.
Jeremy Herron / Associated Press:
New magazine-sharing site may violate copyrights — NEW YORK - The magazine industry, already facing a decline in newsstand sales and falling ad revenue, is being besieged by a new foe: digital piracy. — A fledgling Web site called Mygazines.com encourages people to copy and upload popular magazines …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Internet captivated by Bigfoot hunters' press conference — It's the ultimate summer Friday news story: CNN Webcasting a press conference hosted by the men who claim they nabbed a dead body of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot. — Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi held the press conference in Palo Alto …
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Data Center Knowledge, The Real McCrea, TechCrunch, Associated Press and Technically Incorrect
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Friday Rant: Hey Microsoft! How about some more dialog about Vista before moving on to Windows 7? — It's a Friday (again!) so that means time for another Friday Rant! — Yesterday Microsoft indicated that it might be getting ready to peel back the almost Apple-like secrecy surrounding Windows 7 …
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AppScout, TG Daily, Electronista, Zero Day, Teching It Easy, Guardian Unlimited and TechBlog
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comScore:
comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for July 2008 — Travel Sites Continue to See Strong Gains During Summer Months — Retail, Movie and Entertainment News Sites Keep Americans Entertained During July — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world …
InfoWorld:
Gmail leaves Google Apps admins nervous — When Gmail crashed on Monday, affecting many organizations that depend on it for work e-mail via the Google Apps suite, widespread gnashing of teeth ensued. — At Alaska's APTI public TV and radio station, reporters working on deadline scrambled …
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CIO.com
Royal Pingdom:
The best job interview questions from Microsoft, Google... and IKEA — Tricky, funny and interesting, these are some questions people claim to have been asked at job interviews with Microsoft and Google. And IKEA, sort of... We came across these because we are currently looking for a developer …
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Startup Meme
Financial Times:
Warner chief slammed in ‘Guitar Hero’ row — The chief executive of the company behind the Guitar Hero video game franchise has hit out at Warner Music after the label said higher royalties should be paid for use of its songs. — In a sign of increasing tensions between the two companies …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Launches AdSense for Feeds — I noticed a new option in my AdSense account: AdSense for feeds, a program that displays contextual and placement-targeted ads in FeedBurner feeds. FeedBurner announced in May that AdSense for Feeds will be available to a small number of publishers and now it seems that everyone can use it.
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The Register, Mark Evans, TechCrunch, chrisbrogan.com, Download Squad, Webware.com, CyberNet, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Roundtable, UMBC ebiquity, Search Engine Watch Blog, Search Engine Land, Media Bullseye, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Journal, Enterprise Irregulars and Shoemoney
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Study: Fastest Growing US Companies Rapidly Adopting Social Media — A one year follow up on a study of social media adoption at 500 of the fastest growing companies in the US has found that familiarity with and use of blogs, podcasting, wikis, online video and social networking has skyrocketed …
Jesse Stay / louisgray.com:
Twitter Implements Threaded Comments, Sort Of — By Jesse Stay of Stay N' Alive (Identi.ca/FriendFeed) — Today Twitter made a quiet announcement on their developer mailing list that could have profound implications. On the mailing list, Alex Payne, a leading developer at Twitter gave the following announcement:
Dieter Bohn / WMExperts:
More Treo Pro Pictures (UPDATED with new Details!) — When it rains, it POURS. This time we find them from nomad2000, again in our forums, who found them at treo8. What we know: — 400Mhz CPU , but snappy response — 256MB ROM, 128MB RAM! (Other reports show “In use: 43.96mb, Free 57.72mb")
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wmpoweruser.com, PalmAddicts, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, Electronista, Engadget Mobile, Technologizer, Treonauts, SlashPhone, CrunchGear, Gadgetell, Silicon Alley Insider and I4U News
