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Punit Soni / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time — For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint — from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions …
Kevin Rose:
Predictions for tomorrow's Apple event — It's been a couple weeks, so I thought I'd do a little roundup of my predictions/rumors: — New design for the iPod Nano (this one) — iPod price reductions — 2.1 software on iPod Touch — iTunes 8.0 — New audio visualization (this one)
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Gadget Lab, UFailPix.com, MacRumors, The iPhone Blog, Ars Technica, Computerworld Blogs blogs, CrunchGear, TG Daily and Distorted-Loop.com
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple looks to revive that special event magic — Other than football fans, there are probably few people in America happier to see the month of September than Apple executives. — Apple will look to put the last six weeks behind it with the expected launch of new iPods this week during …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft confirms Zune details — Updated 10:20 a.m., with pricing details. — With most of its news already leaked out there, Microsoft on Monday confirmed the details of its fall Zune lineup. — On the hardware side, Microsoft will beef up Zune's capacity, expanding the hard drive-based model …
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Gizmodo, Digital Noise, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, CrunchGear, Zunerama, Engadget and Crave
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Michelle Quinn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:New Zune feature: Download songs you hear on FM radio
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Zune Gets New Features That Won't Help Sell Zunes
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper — The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.
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The Dastardly Report, Tech Beat, VentureBeat, Technologizer, Electronista, Associated Press, Gadgetell, Boing Boing Gadgets, Newsweek, blogs.telegraph.co.uk …, BetaNews, DailyTech, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, p2pnet, TG Daily, Fitz & Jen, WebProNews, Screenwerk, dailywireless.org, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, RexBlog.com, paidContent.org and Innovation in College Media
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Does DRM guarantee Spore is destined for extinction? — Will Wright's long awaited sim game Spore seems to have become the focus of a anti-DRM Internet flash mob who seem determined to sink the game on Amazon.com by dishing out poor ratings. — As things stand right now …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists — We've gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Tuning in to Apple TV 3.0 — Does Steve Jobs have a surprise in store for the analysts and reporters gathering in San Francisco for Let's Rock — the dog-and-pony show Tuesday at which Apple (AAPL) is widely expected to unveil the next generation of iPods? — Peter S. Magnusson hopes he does …
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Peter S Magnusson:
Apple TV 3.0 with Blu-ray and HD tuner (I wish) — Rumors swirling around Apple's “Let's Rock” event this coming Tuesday generally focus on an expected fourth-generation iPod Nano (roundier and with a bigger screen), iTunes 8.0, iPhone 2.1 software, Mac OS X support for BluRay, and other tidbits.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum — Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Scientology fights critics with 4,000 DMCA takedown notices — A huge trove of critical videos of Scientology was targeted for takedown late last week by a group called American Rights Counsel. The group sent more than 4,000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube and claimed that every video infringed …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Zillow, newspaper consortium launch ad network — Zillow.com, which in November 2007 teamed up with a consortium of newspapers to carry their listings on its real-estate site, has now expanded that deal to include the sale of ads on each other's sites. — Under the Zillow Advertising Network agreement …
Justin Yu / Crave: The gadget blog:
Intel releases pricing, details on solid-state drives — Less than a month ago, Intel announced its line of solid-state hard drives. We didn't have much information at the time, other than a model number and a few benchmarks provided by Intel, but we're pleased to officially announce the X25-M …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Ashton Kutcher's Web Video Show: Blah Girls — I'm at the TechCrunch50 conference right now, where Ashton Kutcher is presenting his web startup. Not only is this one a celebrity-driven startup, but it's about celebrities. It's an animated web video show with interactive elements called Blah Girls.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
DEMO: Meet Alcatel-Lucent's Services Play — While DEMO is primarily a showcase platform for standalone startups, well-established companies launch products there too. This year Alcatel-Lucent has brought an internal startup pushing an RFID tag reading system called tikitag that aims to bridge the online and digital worlds.
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Craig Stoltz / Web 2.Oh. . .really?:
Rick Sanchez Debuts Twitter on TV — Today at 3 p.m. EST, CNN's promiscuous social media adopter Rick Sanchez debuts a TV show called Rick Sanchez Direct. — This may be of some cultural significance, in that that the program appears to be about/from/in/around [insert your favorite preposition] Twitter.
Tranquil PC / Tranquil PC's Weblog:
Atom2 systems — Tranquil PC have announced the availability of LIMITED quantities of Atom2 (Z330) powered products. — Atom2 is not a single wafer, with shared resources, as you can see from the photo above, it's TWO Atom wafers ! — Windows task manager will show you 4x CPU history graphs …
