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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, take two: Bill's mother ship over Seattle — Now we know what they're up to. — The second Bill Gates-Seinfeld ad that's debuting tonight during “Big Brother” on CBC is a million times better than the freaky churro spot that kicked off the $300 million Windows campaign last week.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Keep the faith: More Windows-specific consumer ads coming soon — If you liked the first Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld ad for Microsoft, you'll probably love the second. If you didn't, there's hope: A more Windows-centric one will air in a matter of days, according to Microsoft officials.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
IPhone Takes Screenshots of Everything You Do — Your iPhone is watching you. — If you've got an iPhone, pretty much everything you have done on your handset has been temporarily stored as a screenshot that hackers or forensics experts could eventually recover, according to a renowned iPhone hacker …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
RIM announces ‘lifestyle’ apps for BlackBerry — Research in Motion is loading BlackBerry devices with what its co-CEO Jim Balsillie calls ‘lifestyle’ applications. — SAN FRANCISCO—In what looks like an attempt to compete toe-to-toe with Apple's iPhone, Research in Motion announced …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
TC50: Twitter-for-business startup Yammer wins TechCrunch50, I may eat my hat — When Yammer presented at TechCrunch50, I wasn't so sure about it. The company offers a service that's the business version of micro-messaging company Twitter. You leave short messages about what you're doing …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50
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Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing Mobile Search with My Location — From time to time, we all need information about local businesses when we're away from our computers — like confirming the address of a bar while on the way to meet friends. Today we're introducing Search with My Location …
Nick / Rough Type:
Apple declares war on sneaker hackers — It was painful to watch, at Apple's big media event on Monday, Steve Jobs attempting to pawn off a retread music-recommendation system as some sort of great technological breakthrough. Yes, iTunes will now be able to suggest songs you might like based …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Liveblogging From Yahoo's “Open House”: Sexy Email and Barbara Mandrell! — Okay, BoomTown arrived late to Yahoo's media event this morning to show off its “open” strategies across its properties (I had a most excellent excuse in that it was my youngest son's very first day of school).
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Kara Scannell / Wall Street Journal:
SEC Opens Early Inquiry Into UAL Glitch — The Securities and Exchange Commission opened a preliminary inquiry into the circumstances around UAL Corp.'s stock drop, according to people familiar with the matter. — The inquiry is in early stages and may not result in a full investigation, one person familiar with the matter said.
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Shira Ovide / Wall Street Journal:Single Web Hit Led to UAL Glitch, Tribune Says
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Nontechies, This One's for You — There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't. — That old cliché is more true than ever. Red state/blue state. Pro-choice/pro-life. Mac/Windows.
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James Sherwood / The Register:
Net-talking toaster to burn news onto bread — Many things have appeared on toast before: Marmite, Vegemite, jam and even Cylons from Battlestar Galactica. Now a designer's invented a toaster that's able to burn pretty much anything onto your morning slice, including the news.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cuil's VP Product Bails Out A Month After Launch — Louis Monier, Cuil's VP Product, quietly resigned from the newly launched search engine last week, we've heard from a reliable source. — This is a big blow to the troubled search engine - Monier was recruited away from Google a year ago …
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WhatLaptop:
Samsung Netbook official photos... The Samsung Netbook isn't vapourware, as these official shots of the Netbook prove. — The still unnamed Netbook is set for launch at the end of October, and orders are already in place with resellers. Demand has been so positive that Samsung UK has rushed these first shots of the device to us.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Canonical to fund upstream Linux usability improvements — Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced Wednesday that his company, Canonical, will hire professional designers and interaction experts to improve the usability of the Linux desktop software ecosystem.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Video: Interview With Skype CEO — Where is Skype for the iPhone? — Do You Want Skype on Your iPhone? — Oh god yes... I can't wait. — Not Really. — In this era of flat rate plans from mobile companies, does anyone need Skype? — That's exactly the question …
Light Reading:
RS-DVR Debut: ‘Early Next Year’ — On the heels of a helpful court decision, Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC - message board) plans to go to market with its remote-storage digital video recorder (RS-DVR) “early next year,” according to Tom Rutledge, the MSO's chief operating officer.
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
F# to Join VB and C# in Microsoft Language Stable — Microsoft will deliver a new general-purpose language known as F# to developers next year. F# supports financial modeling and analysis, scientific data analysis, algorithms and academic computing. F# is a functional programming language for .NET.
