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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
New iPhone Chip Will Cost an ARM and a Missile — Given Apple's super-secretive ways, it's quite a shock to find a company engineer disclosing something about the iPhone's future innards on a public social networking site. — Wei-han Lien, the senior manager of Apple's chip team …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Everyone but Apple joins new “buy once, play anywhere” group — Buying a movie online is simple; it's watching it on the device you want that's hard. The movie studios have been reluctant to allow DVD burning from online stores (and when they do, it doesn't always work) …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Isn't A Social Network. And Stop Trying to Make New Friends There — A controversy is brewing over a popular Facebook application called PackRat, where users collect sets of illustrated cards for points and levels. The company behind the application, Alamofire …
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Google Mac Blog:
Gears for Safari — We're really excited to announce the official release of Gears for Safari on OS X (minimum requirements are Leopard 10.5.3 or Tiger 10.4.11). — You can download it today from http://gears.google.com. — This means that you can now access all the Gears-enabled sites …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:The future of online is offline: Gears for Safari gets official
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
More Verizon BlackBerry Storm Images... The news keeps coming in fast and furious on the Verizon Storm. If you haven't read the BlackBerry Storm Minute with Mike details, go ahead and check that out here. We've just received some new internal photos of the device... Check them out after the jump >
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:Verizon Blackberry Storm talking points slip out
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Reuters:
EU competition officials probing Google-Yahoo deal — European Union competition watchdogs are looking into a planned deal between Internet giants Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to share some advertising revenue.
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Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog:
Giga Omni Media Acquires The Apple Blog — In November of 2004, a few months after I got my first Mac (a PowerMac G5), I registered theappleblog.com not really having any big plans of what I'd do with the site. I was a senior design student in college and just wanted a new site to design and something to write about.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
HTC's Touch HD unveiled in very much official glory — We're still sans a press release, but a friendly tipster found this quite official page at HTC's very own site, depicting the sexy Touch HD from every angle, with every spec exposed. The rumors were naturally spot on …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Wall Street's meltdown and the potential technology hit — Folks are waking up Monday to a Wall Street meltdown as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch and companies ranging from Washington Mutual to AIG are on the ropes.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Citi Says Sept. Qtr Tracking Ahead Of Street Ests; Contends Shipments Have Begun On New MacBooks — Citigroup's Richard Gardner asserted in a research note this morning that Apple's September quarter is tracking in line with his above-consensus revenue estimate of $8.3 billion …
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louisgray.com:
As Twitter Regains Footing, Competitors' Growth Stalls — Over the last few months, Twitter's challenges have been well documented, here and elsewhere. Between issues with uptime, occasional data loss, a reduced feature set, and a difficult relationship with its developer community …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Chrome Q&A — Via email, I've asked Google group product manager Brian Rakowski a couple of questions in regards to Google's web browser. Chrome has been in development for 2 years... did the initial designs resemble what has been released now, or were there a lot of interface …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
The Next Chapter: Best Buy To Acquire Napster For $121 Million — Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has fallen into the arms of a surprise buyer: Best Buy. The big-box electronics giant will pay $121 million or $2.65 per share. Shares of Napster closed at $1.36 on Friday, so this is nearly double …
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Tim Prickett Morgan / The Register:
Chipzilla unveils six-core ‘Dunnington’ Xeons — Edges AMD on big X64 iron — With virtualization and server consolidation bolstering sales of larger - and more profitable - servers, Intel wants to keep the competitive pressure on its rival in the X64 arena, Advanced Micro Devices …
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The Official Google Blog:
Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows: increased performance — We love getting your feedback, and one of the themes that has cropped up in the Google Desktop Help group is that you want a lighter, faster product. We heard the message loud and clear and decided that the Google Desktop 5.8 …
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Ubuntu lovers slap Canonical over Firefox EULA — Ubuntu users are up in arms at Canonical after it added a Firefox 3.0.2 end user license agreement (EULA) to its upcoming release, Intrepid Ibex, without first seeking consent from openistas. — Canonical, Ubuntu's commercial sponsor …
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Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:
Quality Score improvements to go live in coming days — Last month, we posted about upcoming Quality Score improvements — and today, we're following up to notify you that these changes will take effect in all advertisers' accounts over the next few days. In addition, we'd like to answer …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Mac sales see slowdown in August, but still up 23 percent — Apple saw its Mac sales growth decelerate last month, according to preliminary figures from market research firm NPD — a sign that a tepid consumer environment is impacting the company's business.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Stack Overflow Launches — You know what drives me crazy? Programmer Q&A websites. You know what I'm talking about. You type a very specific programming question into Google and you get back: — A bunch of links to discussion forums where very unknowledgeable people are struggling with the same problem and getting nowhere,
