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Android Developers Blog:
Android Market: a user-driven content distribution system — When we talk to developers, a common topic is the challenge of getting applications in the hands of users. That's why today I'm happy to share early details of Android Market—an open content distribution system that will help end users find …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Android Market, Google's response to Apple's App Store for third party developers — Mobile software operating system Android is coming soon, at least on one device — and that device will have a way for third-party applications to get access to users. The Google-led software initiative …
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast 250GB Cap Goes Live October 1 - Updated: Comcast confirms our story... Back in May I broke the news that in addition to throttling back high-consumption users to “DSL like speeds,” Comcast was considering implementing a 250GB monthly cap as part of their shift toward “protocol agnostic” network management.
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast 250GB Monthly Cap Goes Live October 1 - Official word should drop sometime today.... Back in May I broke the news that in addition to throttling back high-consumption users to “DSL like speeds,” Comcast was considering implementing a 250GB monthly cap as part of their shift toward “protocol agnostic” network management.
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PC World, IP Democracy, Christopher Null, Digital Daily, BetaNews, Electronista and Silicon Alley Insider
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow
Om Malik / GigaOM:Comcast Metered Broadband Official — Beware What You Download
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:It's official: Comcast starts 250GB bandwidth caps October 1
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Bloomberg Runs Steve Jobs' Obituary — For whatever reason, the Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today. It's true that the secretive Apple CEO's battle with pancreatic cancer, and speculation over his health, rattled some investors earlier …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
How Steve Jobs' obit got published — The first rule of publishing is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. (A corollary favored at Time Magazine, where I labored for nearly three decades, is that all copy is guilty until proved otherwise.) — None of this excuses …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple details next-gen multi-touch techniques for tablet Macs — In a revised company filing discovered by AppleInsider, iPhone maker Apple Inc. illustrates a number of techniques that would pave the way for tablet Macs that display a near full-sized multi-touch keyboard and run an undiluted version of the Mac OS X operating system.
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
The Inside Deets on iPhone 2.0.2 and Dropped Calls — Daniel Eran Dilger — The mysteriously terse synopsis of the improvements made in iPhone 2.0.2, listed only as “bug fixes,” didn't shed much light on why Apple's Jennifer Bowcock could tell USAToday that “the software update improves communication with 3G networks.”
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Extinguish the Rumors: No New Amazon Kindle This Year — Talk of a new version of the Kindle e-book reader, aimed at college students, has been echoing around the blogosphere and has even reached your dutifully vacationing Bits correspondent. I asked Craig Berman, Amazon's chief spokesman …
Wall Street Journal:
McCain Seems To Have Obama Beat in One Arena — Campaign Buys Rights To Top Search Results On Key Election Terms — So-called ambush ads are typically reserved for Web-savvy marketers such as General Motors and AT&T. The newest believer: a 71-year-old presidential candidate.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins — Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition heats up.
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Business Technology, Big Tech, PC World, The Register, New York Times, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider and Electronista
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CBC News:
Rogers extends iPhone prices, revamps data plans — Rogers Communications Inc. is revamping its data rate plans and extending a limited-time offer on the iPhone in order to spur sales of smartphones. — The Toronto-based company, Canada's largest cellphone provider, on Thursday …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
YouTube Finally Figures Out How To Make Money: Big Ads On Its Homepage — Take a good, long look at YouTube's (GOOG) homepage. You may not recognize it soon: The video site is trying out new ad format that will turn over a good chunk of the page to sponsors.
GamesIndustry.biz:
EA: Second-hand sales are a “critical situation” — Publishing giant Electronic Arts has said that it's currently trying multiple new business models to help battle the critical problem of second-hand videogame sales. — While retailers reap the benefits of selling the same product multiple times …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Extends Lucrative Deal With Google For 3 Years — Mozilla, the organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has extended its search deal with Google for another three years. In return for setting Google as the default search engine on Firefox, Google pays Mozilla a substantial sum …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft's Live Search Cashback Scheme Fails To Move The Market Share Needle — When it comes to search, Microsoft is trying everything it can to become a serious player. It tried to acquire Yahoo, its latest version of Internet Explorer attempts to steer Web surfers away from Google …
Engineering Windows 7:
Windows 7 — Approach to System Performance — Many folks have commented and written email about the topic of performance of Windows. The dialog has been wide ranging—folks consistently want performance to improve (of course). As with many topics we will discuss, performance …
