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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 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer Demos Google's New Online Newspaper Archive Search — Google announced today that it is expanding the historical newspaper articles that are searchable online. In partnership with newspaper publishers, it is scanning their print archives and making it available on Google's News Archive Search.
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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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 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Apple Predictions + Grain of Salt = Impossible — As usual before yet another big Apple event, the psychic friends network is in overdrive in anticipation of the iconic computer company's “Let's Rock” media gathering to be held in San Francisco tomorrow. — At this point, I think Apple …
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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Microsoft:
Zune Takes Music Discovery to the Next Level With New Ways to Find and Access Digital Music — Software update will enable Zune users to tag songs and buy music directly from FM radio and download and stream music on the go beginning Sept. 16. — Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end-to-end music …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zune Gets New Features That Won't Help Sell Zunes — Not a coincidence: The day before Apple is expected to update its iPods, Microsoft (MSFT) is reminding the world that the Zune still exists, via a handful of new features. — These include the ability to buy music over wi-fi …
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM — Spore, after more than 10 years of development time, is finally available for the PC and Mac. The game comes from the mind of the talented Will Wright, the man who gave us The Sims and the original SimCity titles.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
New CNN show pushes the limits of Twitter — literally — One anchor for the cable news channel CNN has become enamored with the micro-messaging service Twitter over the past several weeks. He used tweets (Twitter messages) to complement his coverage of the recent Hurrican Gustav …
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Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
DVD Ripping Software - Really? — For those who haven't figured out how to use iTunes, YouTube, BitTorrent, DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter, Real Networks has introduced what it calls the first “mainstream” DVD saving tool. Of course it can't claim to be the first ripping tool, or DVD copying tool …
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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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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.
Elinor Mills / Webware.com:
Demo: Tikitag connects offline devices to online data — SAN DIEGO—Tikitag, an Alcatel-Lucent venture, demonstrated a new product at DemoFall that enables people to use RFID wireless technology to link any type of offline device or paper with information online.
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Enomaly / ElasticVapor:
The Cloud Application Marketplace — I've been saying this for awhile and I'll say it again: Cloud computing isn't a management model so much as a software delivery paradigm. What Apple has done with its App Store is show the world that the key to monetizing the cloud is in the delivery …
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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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 LiveStream — We'll be streaming the TechCrunch50 conference here all week so everyone can see these demos for themselves as they happen. — Google Expands Online Newspaper Archive Search
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.
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 …
Telegraph:
Google's ‘Android’ Dream phone to hit UK — A new front in Silicon Valley's fierce battle for technology supremacy will be opened in Britain before Christmas with the launch of Google's first mobile phone venture. — Google's ‘Dream’ phone, which uses its much-hyped Android open-source operating system …
Tom Espiner / CNET News:
PGP, IBM help Bletchley Park raise funds — A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask U.S. tech companies to help save Bletchley Park, whose wartime work helped lay the foundations of modern computing and crytography. — The fund-raising campaign will be led by cryptography provider PGP …
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