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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Microsoft launches 3D wonder Photosynth for consumers — On Wednesday night, Photosynth, a technology demo from Microsoft Live Labs, is graduating from its “ooh, that's pretty” status to being a viable Web service for consumers. — The technology, which takes a grouping of photographs …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple hit with class-action lawsuit over iPhone 3G flakiness — We all knew it was coming, it was just a matter of time. A lawsuit has been filed against Apple over what the plaintiff is referring to as the “Defective iPhone 3G,” which she hopes will become a class-action complaint.
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Edward C. Baig / USA Today:Apple tries to de-bug iPhone
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Comcast to Slow Some Web Traffic for Up to 20 Minutes — Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp. plans to slow Internet service to its heaviest users during periods of congestion, after regulators ordered the company to devise a new method for managing its Web traffic.
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Erica Sadun / TUAW:
The Rumor Room: iTunes Unlimited — By definition, nearly all tips we receive about Apple future product intros are wrong. After all, we're not Engadget. People aren't going to risk their jobs to deliver insider information. — That being said, a tip that shot into our mailbox …
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WildCowboy / MacRumors:September Apple Event Rumor: ‘iTunes Unlimited’, iPhone iDisk Access?
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook's forthcoming iPhone app to be more like its web site; that site redesign was no coincidence — Facebook is planning to launch a new version of its iPhone application in September that will make the app more like the newly-redesigned web site. So, the deeper rationale for the web site redesign …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing — Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a lot of progress since then as those partners started to go live with their OpenSocial Apps.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge: Copyright Owners Must Consider ‘Fair Use’ Before Sending Takedown Notice — In the nation's first such ruling, a federal judge on Wednesday said copyright owners must consider “fair use” of their works before sending takedown notices to online video-sharing sites.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Verisign's Personal Identity Portal Is Half Way To Password Bliss — Verisign's new Personal Identity Portal (PIP from now on) isn't the sexiest application out there to help you manage passwords. But it has Verisign's strong reputation for security behind it, and it is a surprisingly easy way to manage website credentials.
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
10 Promising Web Platforms — In this post we review 10 promising developer platforms for the Web. We're not talking about the obvious ones either, like Facebook, iPhone, OpenSocial or even Twitter. Those have been covered extensively already. The list below features some of our favorite ‘lesser known’ web developer platforms.
Amazon Web Services Blog:
Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data — A few months ago I talked about our plans to offer a persistent storage feature for Amazon EC2. At that time I indicated that the service was in a limited alpha release with a small number of customers.
Yahoo!:
Intel® And Yahoo!® To Bring The Internet To Television — TV Widgets Bring “Best of the Internet” Experience to Complement TV Viewing — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20, 2008 - Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
LG's PRADA II? — We don't have much to go off of besides this picture right now, but it looks as if LG is keeping the PRADA line of mobile handsets around for a little bit. The PRADA II, as it's pictured, adds a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easier text entry.
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Gizmodo, PhoneReport v2.0, Electronista, Electricpig.co.uk, Crave, MobileCrunch and Engadget
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
An Unexpected Look at an All-New Google News — Google has long liked to test new features by randomly surprising a subset of its visitors with them to gauge their response. Seems like I'm always reading blog posts from folks who have stumbled upon something unexpected and interesting …
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Arn / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
The #1 Paid App: Koi Pond — Who could have predicted that the persistent #1 paid application on the iPhone would be a $0.99 pond simulator. The Blimp Pilot's Koi Pond [$0.99. App Store] application that is just that. — The developers describe their creation:
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NEWS.com.au:
Australians switch on to Apple Macs — AUSTRALIANS are switching to Macs at a faster rate than almost anywhere else in the world. — Research firm Gartner's latest figures show Mac sales grew 52 per cent in the second quarter - nearly six times the rate of the PC industry overall.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget Mobile:
Palm Treo Pro unboxing and hands-on — Well we've gotten our hands all over Palm's new Treo - the Pro - and we've documented it all on film... er, disk. Here's what were liking so far - no more recessed screen (finally!), that HTC-licensed task manager, and the extremely slick packaging.
