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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
VideoSurf: New, Genuinely Radical Video Search — I'm generally not given to hyperbole or breathless enthusiasm when writing about a new search service. Quite the opposite, in fact—over the decade I've covered search I've seen so many so-called “radically new” approaches that are simply updates …
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Research in Motion:
RIM Introduces the First BlackBerry Flip Phone — New BlackBerry Pearl Flip Brings The Industry's Leading Mobile Messaging Solution To Consumers Who Prefer Flip Phones — Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM, TSX: RIM) today unveiled the BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone …
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Techland, Tech Beat, PC World, eWeek, IntoMobile, PhoneReport v2.0, Tech Trader Daily, CrunchGear, BerryReview.com, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Engadget
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GamesIndustry.biz:
Phil Spencer: Ensemble closure is “right thing for our business” — Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, has told staff that the closure of Ensemble Studios - the team behind the Age of Empires titles and the forthcoming Halo Wars - was a difficult decision, but “the right thing for our business at this time”.
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Nokia:
Nokia brings Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync corporate mobile email solution to 80 million mobile devices — 43 Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices - the largest range from any device manufacturer to enable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync - now feature the latest version of Mail for Exchange with fast and easy email set-up
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All about Microsoft, Silicon Alley Insider, jkOnTheRun, wmpoweruser.com, Nokia S60, Alec Saunders SquawkBox and Engadget
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Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson announces launch dates for Xperia™ X1 — Sony Ericsson today announces 30 September 2008 as the official launch date for the highly anticipated Xperia™ X1 - initially available to consumers in the UK, Germany and Sweden. The handset will be available …
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Apple Event Fails to Dazzle — The new iPods feature cosmetic changes and lower prices, but Steve Jobs didn't announce any game-changing innovations many have come to expect — Apple watchers have high expectations for the company's signature events. There's always a palpable buzz …
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Bonnie Cha / CNET News:
Sprint first to offer HTC Touch Pro — Unlike last week's slip up, Sprint managed to keep this bit of news under wraps and announced on the opening day of CTIA Fall 2008 that it will offer the HTC Touch Pro starting in October (exact date is TBA). The ultimate replacement for the Sprint HTC Mogul …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mark Cuban: “When I die, I want to come back as me” — To round out the day's schedule at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban, the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare …
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels — Since launching our first batch of 13 Gmail Labs features, we've received a lot of suggestions for more experimental features you'd like to see — plus, we've had some of our own ideas. Today, there's a new batch of labs features to play with.
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Google Blogoscoped, Google Operating System, Mashable!, webmonkey, WebProNews and Lifehacker
Elaine Chow / Gizmodo:
iTunes 8 Causing Huge Problems, BSOD for Vista Users — Looks like iTunes 8 is really not playing so well with Windows. Users of both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista are reporting getting the blue screen of death whenever they plug in an iPod or iPhone. Downgrading back down to 7.7 appears to solve the problem …
Fawn Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Text-Messaging Rates Come Under Scrutiny — The top four wireless providers in the U.S. are being asked by a senior senator to account for their text-messaging prices. — Sen. Herb Kohl (D., Wis.), who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, sent letters Tuesday to Verizon Wireless …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Blogger's Arrest Resulted In Much More Downloading Of GNR Music — Last month, of course, there was a big story around the FBI arresting a blogger who was accused of posting the music files from Guns N' Roses latest album. He now faces many years in jail, despite simply being a fan helping to promote GNR.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
StackOverlow: A Teeming Beehive of Programming Q&A — Digg for programming questions? Joel on Software and Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror start letting users into their well built site. — The highly anticipated general release of StackOverflow, the social site for programming questions developed …
Mohsin / Newlaunches.com:
T9 inventor now brings us Swype - simply slide to type — You may not know who Cliff Kushler is, he is the inventor of the T9 Keyboard technology, and he has now come with another revolutionary technology to make our texting even easier. The new technology called Swype is as simple as tapping …
Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
State looks at antitrust in Google-Yahoo deal — California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office is reviewing documents related to an advertising partnership announced in June by Google and Yahoo, the No. 1 and No. 2 search engines on the Web, in preparation for a possible investigation of the deal.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:We hate success — The Justice Department has hired a litigator …
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HipMojo.com, Beyond Search, New York Times, Guardian, Ars Technica, DSLreports, CNET News and Tech Tracks
AMD:
AMD Introduces the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series Graphics Cards for the Masses, Delivering Up To Double the Game Performance of the Competition at the Same Price1 — − HD gaming gets easier with the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 series, setting a new standard for mainstream graphics …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone 2.1 software update announced (update: $10 for some iPod touch owners) — Ah, bug fixes galore. Apple just announced firmware 2.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. “No crashes,” says Steve. He's calling it a big update with the promise of fewer dropped calls, big battery improvement, and faster backups.
