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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September — iPhone owners suddenly locked out of their third-party apps by a crash bug on startup will have a solution next month, Apple chief Steve Jobs has revealed. — An AppleInsider reader has received one of Steve Jobs' characteristically brief …
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model — SAN FRANCISCO — Acknowledging that most online shoppers cannot be bothered with auctions, eBay plans Wednesday to announce changes to its fee structure that emphasize fixed prices over bidding.
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GMAIL ACCOUNT HACKING TOOL — A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. — Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
HP makes things personal again in Q3 — In a world of financial doom and gloom, sales of PCs are offering a glimmer of light. Don't believe us? Just look at Hewlett-Packard, which on Tuesday reported a third-quarter profit that beat Wall Street expectations and forecast healthy sales in the current period.
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Cali / GeekBrief.TV:
Copy and Paste for iPhone — Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo. — Direct Download Links — Small | Medium | Extra Large — Windows Media — Nokia N95 (Upload in progress) | Nokia N800/N810 (Upload in progress) — Show Notes
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Hulu Reaches 100 Million Streams, 3.2 Million Uniques; Now, Time To Advertise — After only five months since going live, Hulu has reached 105 million streams in July, according to numbers released by Nielsen's VideoCensus. The NBC Universal-News Corp (NYSE: NWS). joint venture's streaming numbers were fairly strong early on.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If anyone knows how best to survive a corporate near-death experience, it is Jon Rubinstein. — In 1997 the former Hewlett-Packard engineer was asked by Apple's founder, Steven P. Jobs, to lead …
Libby Purves / Times of London:
Computer games industry threat to downloaders: 'pay up or we'll sue' — The computer games industry has launched an unprecedented assault on illegal downloads, demanding payment from thousands of families who obtained the latest releases over the internet without paying.
Peter Ha / TechCrunch:
Aircell's Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi Service Going Live Today and CrunchGear's Got a Seat — Today, Aircell announced that their fleet of Boeing 767-200s will have the Gogo service enabled on flights originating from NYC's JFK to LA, San Francisco and Miami. CrunchGear will have a seat on a flight to LAX today that leaves JFK at 12 PM EDT.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
AOL revs Web-based AIM to version 7 — AOL has upgraded its AIM Express software, an online Flash-based application that replicates many of the features of the regular downloadable software. — Among the new AIM Express 7.0 features are tabbed conversations, status messages …
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Tony Smith / The Register:
Intel lets slip first dual-core Atom — IDF Intel has quietly introduced its first dual-core Atom processor, the 330, and a new motherboard to go with it. — The 45nm 330's a low-power part and - as the lack of an ‘N’ prefix shows - it's a desktop chip. Intel didn't say what clock speed …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft hints at “private browsing” feature in IE — One of the most interesting feature that didn't quite make it into the final release of Firefox 3 is “Private Browsing”, a.k.a. porn mode. The only other browser with this feature built-in today is Safari (another reason to try it in case you haven't) …
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Merlin Mann / 43 Folders:
What Makes for a Good Blog? — My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they're planning to use it for their new Blogs.com project. Unfortunately, I'm late getting it to them (typical), but if it's still useful, I'll post it here in a day or four.
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Microsoft plans to use Powerset to tailor search — Microsoft plans to use the tools it acquired in Powerset to “gain an edge against Google” according to a report coming out of the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose on Tuesday. Senior Vice President Satya Nadella believe that gaining …
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Salesforce.com Tries to Buy Its Way into Call Centers — Salesforce.com acquired InStranet, which makes software used in call centers, for $31.5 million, according to the company. It's a sign that Salesforce.com is ramping up its efforts to establish itself as a rival to customer-management systems from Oracle and SAP.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Takes 60% Of Search Market, While MSN Loses Share — Tough to be anyone but Google (GOOG) in search. Google gained a share point from June to July, moving from 59% to 60% of all search queries, according to Nielsen Online. — It came at the expense of MSN, which lost …
Marshal:
Sex, Drugs and Software Lead Spam Purchase Growth — 29% of Internet Users have Purchased from Spam, According to New Research from Marshal — 29 percent of internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to new research by Internet security company Marshal.
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Up Close With Lenovo's IdeaPad S10; One Sweet 10-Incher — Just after recovering from seeing the Lenovo IdeaPad S9 on display, I was able to spend some quality time with Lenovo's 10-inch mini-notebook, the IdeaPad S10. — Given that this is the system that will be released in the U.S …
Sierra Modro / GottaBeMobile:
Intel Unveils UrbanMax Concept — Intel just announced and released a new concept / innovation platform codenamed the UrbanMax. A slate styled convertible laptop, this is a very unique concept. It reminds me in some ways of the HP TC1100 (of blessed memory...) with its sliding keyboard …
