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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Dream FCC approved, Android clear for launch? — The long rumored HTC Dream handset — once referred to as “The Googlephone” — just received FCC approval. The handset is listed as type, “Dream' with a model of “DREA100. ” The same model also appears with a WiFi Interoperability Certificate touting 802.11b/g WiFi.
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Gizmodo, Electronista, The Apple Core, MobileBurn.com, WebProNews, The Mobile Gadgeteer, GottaBeMobile, Boy Genius Report, Phone Arena and I4U News
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google's Android phone, the HTC Dream, is apparently approved by FCC — Nov. 10 is the latest release date — The Federal Communications Commission has approved the much anticipated Google Android phone, and documents suggest a release date of about Nov. 10 at the latest.
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to Decide in Battle for TV Spectrum — As Google, Others Push for Sharing, Broadcasters Fret — Landover, Md. — After eight months of testing, a plan to employ unused TV channels to provide cheap, high-speed wireless Internet networks still faces determined opposition and an uncertain future.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you — GraphOn is suing Google for patent infringement and the company appears to be doing a nice imitation of NTP, the company that made its name by suing Research in Motion. GraphOn is going for gold in the patent troll Olympics.
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CNET News.com:
GraphOn files patent suit against Google — The suit alleges that Google's Base, AdWords, Blogger, Sites, and YouTube services infringe on database-related patents. — (Posted in Digital Media by Margaret Kane) — Site aims to be Facebook for sports fans
Randall Kennedy / Windows Sentinel:
Bursting the Vista sales bubble — Our Windows Sentinel tracking data shows that 35 percent of mainly enterprise-class users “downgrade” their Vista systems to XP — For weeks now there've been rumors that major PC makers, like Hewlett-Packard, have been quietly selling PCs with a Vista license …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges?
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Electronista
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
cloud computing - lowercase, please. hold the (TM) — Feel free to approach a co-worker at the Red Bull station this morning and casually ask: “So, did you do any cloud computing over the weekend?” OK, maybe that ice-breaker won't get you invited to happy hour with the cool crew from HR …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Dell cloud computing™ denied — Dell has lost its bid to trademark the widely-used term “cloud computing”. — The computer giant had filed an application to trademark the phrase with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in March 2007. — However, according to blogger Sam Johnston …
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Open Source: An Open Question for Red Hat and Others — It's been tough lately for companies like Red Hat and Novell that bet their business on open source. Here's a look at the haves and the have-nots — Software supplier Red Hat is racking up growth figures that much of techdom might envy.
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 3G Connectivity Affecting 2% of Customers? Software Fix Soon? — One MacRumors reader claims to have received a response from Steve Jobs after emailing in a complaint about the current iPhone 3G connectivity issues that have been widely reported. — According to the email response …
Take 2 Games:
TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC. CONFIRMS THAT ELECTRONIC ARTS WILL JOIN TAKE-TWO'S FORMAL PROCESS REVIEWING STRATEGIC ALTERNATIVES AND THAT EA'S TENDER OFFER WILL EXPIRE — Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) today confirmed that it expects to sign a confidentiality agreement …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Report: Fees may sink Pandora soon — Tim Westergren, the founder of popular Web radio start-up Pandora, has said in an interview with The Washington Post that his company may be close to a shutdown. — “We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision,” Westergren said in the article, published Saturday.
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Aaron Brazell / Technosailor:
Findability is a Legitimate Concern for Bloggers — On Saturday, I posted a review of my session at WordCamp on Search and Findability. It was hard to gauge at that time how effective the session was at the time I wrote that. Beside my normal annual attendance at WordCamp as a subject matter expert …
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:Open source drives Wordpress to 6.5 billion page views
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Blogging Pro
Wall Street Journal:
AC/DC to Sell New Album Only Through Wal-Mart — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said rock band AC/DC will sell its new album exclusively at namesake and Sam's Club locations in the U.S. — The move — which makes the veteran rockers the latest artist to sell a new album only through Wal-Mart …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pouring Our Heart Into TechCrunch50 — TechCrunch50, where fifty new startups (give or take) will launch, is less than a month away. The conference team is fried after reviewing over 1,000 applications from companies preparing to launch. We've been interviewing these startups for weeks …
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Eric Lundquist, Loic Le Meur Blog, New York Times, Startup Chatter, The Blog Herald, TechCrunch50 and Webalytics Blog
Smashing Magazine:
10 Futuristic User Interfaces — Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn't matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don't manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough.
