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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 …
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 …
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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Clint Boulton / eWeek:Google Reluctantly Halves Search Data Retention to 9 Months
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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 …
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Jordan Golson / Industry Standard:AT&T U-verse launches “whole home DVR”
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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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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 …
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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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 …
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.
New York Times:
Google Strikes Partnership With NBC to Expand in TV Advertising — SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin selling ads on some cable networks owned by NBC Universal in a new partnership that will expand Google's efforts to become a force in television advertising, the companies said late Monday.
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Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
HP Extends Laptop Battery Life to 24 Hours — Hewlett-Packard (HP) will release a laptop next month that can run for to 24 hours using a high-capacity battery — but only if it's running Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. — The long-lasting notebook will be a special configuration of the 6930p …
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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.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
A big day for Apple - and Steve Jobs — Once again, Apple has summoned the press to an event - dubbed “Let's Rock” - to be held this morning in San Francisco. I've got my invitation, so I'll be on site to deliver the news. — Of course, we run the risk that the news will be anti-climatic …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Analyst: Steve Jobs must be feeling better
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The U.S. Closes the Mobile Innovation Gap — After lagging in wireless for years, the U.S. has caught up with Western Europe and is now trying to take the innovation lead — It was a familiar refrain: The U.S., the birthplace of the Internet, was a wireless backwater.
Elsa Wenzel / CNET News:
Wikipedia's Wales launches Wikia Green — q&a Jimmy Wales is best known for evangelizing Wikipedia, the open-source, nonprofit encyclopedia he co-founded in 2001. On Tuesday his for-profit venture, Wikia, in its fourth year, unveiled a community for all things “green.”
