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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50 — Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year's TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get stronger and stronger. There were so many strong contenders this year that we are awarding …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple details next-gen Nike+ system with GPS, wear sensors — A new filing from Apple describes a future generation Nike+ system that would be capable of more accurately monitoring athletic performance in real-time, providing feedback on wear of athletic gear, and even conveying advertisements …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
TiVo control coming to BlackBerry — TiVo and Research In Motion are teaming up to enable BlackBerry users to remotely schedule recordings of TV shows on their digital video recorder, the companies announced Thursday. — Under the partnership, BlackBerry users will be able to use …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Best of Shows: Top 10 from DemoFall, TechCrunch50 — Correction at 7:30 a.m. PDT: The current name for the GPS-based ride-sharing product is Mapflow's Avego. — Note: CNET's judges for this article were Dan Farber, Josh Lowensohn, Elinor Mills, Rafe Needleman, and Daniel Terdiman.
Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for BlackBerry: faster, stronger, better — Today we're pleased to launch Google Mobile App for BlackBerry. It's a free download and it looks like this: — To download the App, visit m.google.com on your BlackBerry device. — Once it's installed you'll have faster search …
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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.
Peter Glaskowsky / Speeds and feeds:
E-books: The flexible future — Interesting news from the DemoFall conference held this week in San Diego: — Plastic Logic—a company founded to commercialize electronics built on flexible plastic substrates—demonstrated a prototype e-book reader (not yet named) and announced that it plans …
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
ScanScout Taps New CEO — About founder Bill Day to helm video ad network — NEW YORK Video ad network ScanScout has tapped About founder Bill Day as its new chief executive. — Day takes over from Waikit Lau, ScanScout's cofounder, who has served as interim CEO of the company following …
Will Smith / Maximum PC all:
Exclusive Interview: Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It — We sat down with Microsoft to hear the company's side of the Vista story. What lessons have been learned following the worst Windows launch in the company's history? Is Microsoft doing enough to regain PC users' faith?
Peter Judge / ZDNet:
Red Hat: Virtualization will be free — Red Hat has predicted that virtualization will be included in all operating systems for free, while setting out the roles of the two hypervisors it is working on for its own product range. — Red Hat is making a kernel-based hypervisor using KVM, developed by its new acquisition, Qumranet.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
What's happening in Mobile: a peek at new products, services — Last night, I had the chance to meet with some companies who are exhibiting at this week's CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco at a press-only event called Mobile Focus. It was a good show - food and drink alongside …
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Stuart Houghton / Kotaku:
Xbox 360s Flying Off The Shelves After Price Cut — Well, that seems to have done the trick. Following last week's Xbox 360 price cut in the US, the console has seen a big spike in sales. — Some retailers are reportedly showing 100% increases in sales of all Xbox models with up to six times …
IDC:
PC Market Continues To Resist Economic Pressures With A Boost From Low Cost Portable PCs, According to IDC — Despite continuing economic concerns in both mature and emerging regions, recent shipment volume and increasing competition in the rapidly growing low end of the Portables market …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Zune exec on phone future, new iPods — There are a number of businesses where Microsoft is playing catch-up these days. But arguably one where the company starts furthest behind is in the music business, where it decided two years ago to scrap its partner approach and go it alone with the Zune in its effort to catch the iPod.
Jen Mazzon / Official Google Docs Blog:
Back to school with a bunch of new features — Fight on, Trojans! Yesterday, we spent the day at the University of Southern California, the first stop on the App to School bus tour of U.S. college campuses. We hung out with a lot of students (and some professors, too) who dropped by our demo stations …
VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
Court bans VoIP app on iPhone — A ruling was just issued by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht) of Hamburg, Germany banning VoIP on the Apple iPhone. Specifically, the sipgate VoIP app (image right) has been banned - all part of T-Mobile's ongoing fight to block VoIP on the iPhone.
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
A Stock-Killer Fueled by Algorithm After Algorithm — What made a six-year-old article about a bankruptcy filing by United Airlines reappear on Wall Street traders' screens on Monday as if it were fresh news, prompting a sell-off that erased $1 billion in the company's market value in a matter of minutes?
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