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iPod Touch Second Generation Rocks Our Socks Off — The new iPod touch is out. It has a new design: chrome rim, with a tapered back similar to the iPhone, but thinner. It now includes external volume controls as well. It also has Nike+ integrated with no transmitter needed …
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Apple launches iTunes 8, NBC comes back, TV shows at $1.99, Genius in the house — Just in time for couch season, Apple has busted out iTunes 8 with a slew of new features, like the Genius sidebar. Also, NBC is back on board with its lineup of TV shows. According to Jobs …
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Apple rocks out, announces new iPods, iTunes 8 — At the latest in what is becoming an annual September event for Apple, the company today announced a number of new products in time for the holiday rush. We covered the Steve Jobs' “Let's Rock” keynote live in San Francisco …
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Fortune, Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Hardware 2.0, Crave and The Inquisitr
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Live from Apple's 'Let's Rock' event in San Francisco — 9:08AM PT - We're outside the center, journalists are milling about in preparation for the event! Everyone's roped in, kind of like a small pasture. — 9:22AM PT - Apple Store is down. Shocking!
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Official: iPod nano reaches 4G, looks tall for its age — Well well. Can't say we're surprised to be telling you about the new 4th generation iPod nano. As we heard, 9 colors, bigger $149 8GB and $199 16GB capacity, and wider display under the control of an accelerometer …
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Infinite Loop, Tech Trader Daily, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection and Silicon Alley Insider
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Live blog: Steve Jobs hosts Apple's music event — This is a record of our live coverage of Steve Jobs' speech at Apple's music-related event, which kicked off at 10 a.m. PDT Tuesday at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts. — 9:53 a.m. PDT: We're in place inside …
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App Store Downloads Top 100 Million, Games a Centerpiece
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Joanne K. Bradford Joins Yahoo! to Drive U.S. Revenue and Market Development — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News) today announced that Joanne K. Bradford, a recognized leader in the online content and advertising industry, has joined Yahoo! as senior vice president …
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Yahoo Brings In-Drum Roll, Please-a Former Microsoft Exec to Head U.S. Ad Sales
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Industry Moves: Former MSFT, Spot Runner Ad Exec Bradford Joins …
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Update on United Airlines story — Aggregators like Google News were today the subject of news - this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was indexed by Google News, here are the details:
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Google News Error Aids In United Airlines Stock Drop
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Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-052 - Critical — Vulnerabilities in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (954593) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+.
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Google Turns 20 (fiction) — This month, September 2018, marks the 20th anniversary of Google as a business - ever since in 1998, a Mr. Bechtolsheim signed a check for $100,000. We've come a long way since the happy days of the 10th anniversary, around a time when Google employees got together …
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TechCrunch50 Livestream: Day 2 — We'll be streaming TechCrunch50 here Monday through Wednesday so everyone can see the conference's demos for themselves as they happen. — You can also find our written coverage of the conference here and coverage from other news outlets below.
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Opera joins Symbian Foundation — Browser developer Opera Software has signed up with the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform. — The addition of Opera to the Symbian Foundation roster …
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Ashton Kutcher at TechCrunch50: Blah, Blah, Blah — TechCrunch50, the San Francisco conference showcasing Silicon Valley talent, kicked off with celebrity wattage Monday morning when Hollywood actor and digital media entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher took the stage.
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Live your life to the full with the new Sony Ericsson G705 — Get your own personal assistant with the new Sony Ericsson G705 mobile phone. The 2.4" screen enhances the premium web experience, whether you are searching Google™ direct from your idle screen, checking emails through …
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Gearlog, Engadget, Mobilewhack.com, Electronista, Boy Genius Report and PhoneDog.com Cell …
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At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating — In the summer of 2007, Diane Greene was lauded as a business hero for leading VMware, a maker of business software, to the hottest stock debut since Google. But in the ensuing year, despite her popularity with employees and on Wall Street …
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eWeek, Xconomy, Know It All, BetaNews, Data Center Knowledge, Virtualization.com and The Register
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Silverlight Shines at International Broadcasting Conference 2008 in Amsterdam — Q&A: Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, talks about how Microsoft Silverlight is helping the global broadcasting and media industry grow their presence - and viewership - on the Web.
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The rise of Facebook activism — Copyright reform must have seemed an unlikely hot-button issue in the winter of 2007 — that is, until 50 protesters arrived at Industry Minister Jim Prentice's constituency office in Calgary in December. — They were there to voice their complaints …
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TuneCore will put your indie film on iTunes — Getting your music on iTunes, Amazon, or eMusic used to be tough without signing on with a label, but services like TuneCore (which we profiled earlier this year) have made it possible for everyone from basement techno geeks to Nine Inch Nails to sell their compositions to the world.
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Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows — Webkit's strengths — In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine.
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Why Google may walk away from Yahoo deal — The planned advertising partnership between Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO), which was devised during Microsoft's (MSFT) unsolicited bid for Yahoo, is headed for a federal antitrust challenge. And that could mean, according to one analyst …