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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Live blog: Steve Jobs hosts Apple's music event — The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in downtown San Francisco, site of today's Apple media event. — (Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET Networks) — This is the place for live coverage of Steve Jobs' speech at Apple's music-related event …
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Arn / MacRumors:
16GB iPod Nanos, 32GB iPod Touches, Lots of Colors? — Last minute tidbits reveal a few more details about Apple's plans for later today. According to our sources, Apple will indeed be refreshing their entire iPod line at the media event. — Specifically, iPod Nanos are expected …
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AppleInsider:
Last minute: iPod nano with sensor, iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod shuffle — Apple will announce later today an entire refresh to its iPod family of digital media players, including an iPod nano with some form of motion sensor, AppleInsider has been told. — Longstanding sources report …
Bits:
Watch the iPod Price Points — Expect a lot of socks at Apple's event Tuesday. IPod Socks are the sort of brand building fluff that Apple talks about when it isn't changing the fate of humanity. — A lot of people are guessing what Apple's “Let's Rock” presentation in San Francisco will be.
Business Wire:
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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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: Former MSFT, Spot Runner Ad Exec Bradford Joins Yahoo; Sales SVP Karnstedt Leaving — That didn't last long. Veteran online ad exec Joanne Bradford is on the move again, leaving Spot Runner for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to be SVP-U.S. revenue and market development reporting to Hilary Schneider …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Yahoo Brings In-Drum Roll, Please-a Former Microsoft Exec to Head U.S. Ad Sales
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The Official Google Blog:
Another step to protect user privacy — Today, we're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. We're significantly shortening our previous 18-month retention policy to address regulatory concerns and to take another step to improve privacy for our users.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:Google Promises Privacy Fixes in Its Chrome Browser
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Sony Ericsson:
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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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:Sony Ericsson apes Nokia's ‘Saw You Coming’
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
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 …
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Google backs project to connect 3bn to net — Google has thrown its weight behind ambitious plans to bring internet access to 3bn people in Africa and other emerging markets by launching at least 16 satellites to bring its services to the unconnected half of the globe.
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Josh Cohen / Google News Blog:
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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
DEMOfall 08: HeyCosmo launches a bizarre but interesting mobile concierge service — Mountain View, Calif.-based Arsenal Interactive has an interesting offering dubbed HeyCosmo, a suite of services that includes Concierge Blast. If you're traveling, it will find the nearest restaurants of a certain type such as vegetarian.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
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.
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.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
RIM vs. AT&T; Bold vs. Thunder/Storm — We thought we'd give y'all an update on what we've been hearing so far. It's been fairly well-documented that RIM isn't too happy with AT&T for delaying the release of the Bold. It began with June, then to July, to August, to September — you get the point.
PR Newswire:
AT&T U-verse Introduces Total Home DVR, Taking ‘When You Want, Where You Want’ TV Viewing to Whole New Level — Latest U-verse TV Enhancement - Made Possible by IP Technology - Enables DVR Playback on Any TV Throughout the Home — PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — DVRs have given customers …
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Copyright extension of 45 years to net just $40 for most performers — Just when I think the freedom brigade is on a roll, I read nonsense like this from the European Union, as reported in Ars Technica, suggesting that the EU is considering extending copyright terms by 45 years in order to guarantee income for aging artists.
