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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Verizon's FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake? — Four years ago, Verizon Communications embarked on an ambitious and expensive plan to run fiber optic cables, which can deliver ultra-fast Internet service and dozens of high-definition video channels along with old-fashioned telephone service …
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DSLreports, GigaOM, Between the Lines, paidContent.org, Know It All, Telecompetitor and Beet.TV
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Saul Hansell / Bits:A Bear Speaks: Why Verizon's Pricey FiOS Bet Won't Pay Off
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Google's Satisfaction Soars Propelling E-Business to an All-Time High in Latest American Customer Satisfaction Index — Yahoo! and MSN fall farther behind, says report from ACSI partner ForeSee Results — Customer satisfaction with e-business websites reaches a new high …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple customer satisfaction scores gain at rivals' expense — Apple blew away its PC industry peers in this year's American Customer Satisfaction Index, perhaps because it was the only company that didn't release a Windows Vista PC. — The University of Michigan released its annual ACSI scores Tuesday …
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Electronista, MacRumors, Datamation, Hardware 2.0, Search Engine Land, InformationWeek, MacDailyNews, The Tech Report, WebProNews and TechSpot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges — My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel chips a couple of years ago.
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Mark Evans, PhoneDog.com Cell …, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, MacDailyNews and Griffin and Hoxie
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
Google Will Offer Services for Bloggers at the Conventions — WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention …
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Chris Snyder / Epicenter:Google Increases Convention Presence, Woos Bloggers
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Thomas Lee / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
YouTube co-founder looks for his next success — St. Paul Central grad Jawed Karim talks about launching start-ups, being an entrepreneur and Silicon Valley. — Many university students spend summer break painting houses, backpacking through Europe or spending some quality time with Madden 08.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:Missing YouTube Founder Flees Facebook Froth In Valley, Seeks …
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Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear:
Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone — Early this morning, Palm released two official press photos of the Treo Pro along with a short video of the handset in action. The company didn't reveal a whole lot of information other than the following: the Treo Pro smartphone features …
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Engadget, Electronista, The Register, PalmInfocenter, Gizmodo, The Mobile Gadgeteer, PalmAddicts, I4U News and WMExperts
Google:
Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology — Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) could supply thousands of times US energy needs — Mountain View, California (August 19, 2008) - In the continuing effort to develop electricity from renewable energy cheaper …
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:Google.org makes its geothermal play with investments in Altarock, Potter Drilling
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft relaxes virtual-machine rules — Microsoft on Tuesday announced a change in its licensing policy to make it easier for businesses that want the ability to shift server software that is running in a virtual machine from one physical machine to another.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The iPod Nano is Hot, Hot, Hot! — It's been months since I've seen a good story about the battery inside a gadget spontaneously bursting into flames. So today's news of Nanos overheating (again!) manages to make the top of the T-List. — Nanos Afire? — The Japanese government …
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Royal Pingdom:
New SSL policy in Firefox hurting tens of thousands of sites — With Firefox 3, Mozilla has changed the way Firefox handles SSL certificates. This change could scare away visitors from tens of thousands of websites that have expired or self-signed SSL certificates.
Muxtape:
No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned. — Beta users of Muxtape For Bands: you are unaffected by this outage.
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GigaOM, Techdirt, p2pnet, Portfolio.com, Webware.com, OhGizmo!, AppScout, BetaNews, TechBlog, TECH.BLORGE.com, The Outsidr, PDA, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, gHacks technology news, webmonkey, Technovia, Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Apple:
MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details — Learn about the 60-day extension to MobileMe subscriptions that Apple is providing to eligible members free of charge. — Note: This article will be updated when all 60-day extensions have been made available.
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ReadWriteWeb, Digital Daily, Data Center Knowledge, Computerworld, Epicenter, InformationWeek, One More Thing, Between the Lines, WebProNews, Marketing Nirvana, DygiScape, Computerworld Blogs, The Register, TUAW, PC World, GigaOM, Insanely Great Mac, WebWorkerDaily, TechSpot, GottaBeMobile, The Apple Core and AppScout
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Dell Inspiron 910 customers can choose between XP and Ubuntu — Interesting to see that Dell's answer to the ASUS Eee PC will ship with a choice of either Windows XP or Ubuntu 8.04. — The Dell Inspiron 910 sounds like an interesting machine, and I have to admit that it's the first Dell machine …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:ASUS unveil new XP Eee PCs: 1000HD XP, 904HD XP, 901 XP and 900 XP 16G
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Don Reisinger / Mashable!:
Lotame Grabs $13 Million in Funding for New Advertising Idea — Online advertising is the key to the future for companies that want to be successful, but a small firm called Lotame has just raised $13 million in Series B funding to take aim at advertisers and provide a unique way of getting in front of the target audience.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Webware.com, alarm:clock, VentureBeat, Epicenter, CenterNetworks and paidContent.org
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel Developer Forum: Chairman Craig Barrett takes us on a world tech tour — Craig Barrett, the chairman of Intel, travels to 30 countries a year. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco this morning, he took his audience of thousands on a tour of how tech is changing the places he visits.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source — NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story …
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BBC NEWS, CenterNetworks, ReadWriteWeb, mathewingram.com/work, Ars Technica, The Globe and Mail and SitePoint Blogs
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP — Vista's death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. — In a survey of more than 3,000 computers …
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, The Open Road, Microsoft Subnet's blog, Computerworld and TG Daily
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year — Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we've pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208.
