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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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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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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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James Lewin / Podcasting News:
Microsoft Tries To Upstage Apple....With The Help Of Clear Channel — Microsoft today announced Zune updates, timed to upstage iPod/iTunes announcements anticipated from Apple on Tuesday. — Unfortunately for everybody who owns a portable media player, Microsoft's announcements are woefully misguided and mistimed.
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Digital Noise
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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The Technology Chronicles, Technologizer, Search Engine Journal, Silicon Alley Insider, The Register, Portfolio, Mashable!, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, Digital Inspiration, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Journalistopia, WebProNews, TECH.BLORGE.com, Webware.com, Download Squad, Ars Technica, CNET News, Google Blogoscoped, Valleywag, ReadWriteWeb and paidContent.org
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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, Webomatica, The Apple Core, CrunchGear, The iPhone Blog, Homotron.net and Ars Technica
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Steve Jobs must be feeling better — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Steve Jobs' physical appearance at Let's Rock — a widely-anticipated Apple special event scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT in San Francisco — will reassure investors and boost the company's share price.
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.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Yammer: A ‘Twitter for the enterprise’ — I recently covered Socialcast, a “Friendfeed for business,” and liked it a lot. It takes emerging social interaction models that people are just now getting accustomed to and adapts them for business. — Here at TechCrunch50 …
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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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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
TC50 startups - News and Memes — This group of TechCrunch50 companies is focused on news and meme tracking. The companies include; Dotspots, Angstro, LiveHit, and StockMood. The TechCrunch expert panel is once again Marisa Mayer, Dan Farber, Ron Conway, and Chad Hurley.
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Clive Thompson / Wired News:
How Videogames Blind Us With Science — A few years ago, Constance Steinkuehler — a game academic at the University of Wisconsin — was spending 12 hours a day playing Lineage, the online world game. She was, as she puts it, a “siege princess,” running 150-person raids on hellishly difficult bosses.
John R. Wilke / Wall Street Journal:
Top Lawyer Is Selected As U.S. Mulls Google Suit — Washington — The Justice Department has quietly hired one of the nation's best-known litigators, former Walt Disney Co. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.'s growing power in advertising.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
TC50: Live-blogging the Peter Thiel interview — Peter Thiel is the legendary cofounder of PayPal, investor in Facebook and other numerous companies, and founder of top venture firm The Founders Fund. Michael Arrington of Techcrunch is interviewing him now. I'll be constantly updating.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Battlestar Galactica Meet Google TV Ads: Deal With NBC Universal Cut — Just in — and brief because it's the end of the day — Google and NBC Universal have reached an agreement that will see the TV ads that Google sells coming to NBCU cable channels including SciFi, Oxygen, MSNBC, CNBC and others.
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.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
OtherInbox saves your e-mail from bacn, spam at same time — OtherInbox is a service that helps with one of the growing problems of using Web services: e-mail overload. More specifically, services that take your information and sell it to third parties—thus filling up your in-box with decentralized junk.
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AppScout
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 …
