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Ars Technica:
Comcast loses P2P religion, goes agnostic on throttling — Comcast has finally provided the FCC with details of its new congestion management system, and there's a lot to like. Deep packet inspection it out. P2P protocol targeting is out. Management systems that affect entire regions are out.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:Comcast: No complaints on new Internet management
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Apple:
Apple Announces Ultracompact USB Adapter Exchange Program — Apple® today announced that under certain conditions the new ultracompact Apple USB power adapter's metal prongs can break off and remain in a power outlet, creating the risk of electric shock.
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Gadget Lab, iPhone Buzz, BetaNews, SlashPhone, Apple 2.0, Apple Watch, IntoMobile, Macsimum News, The Apple Blog, jkOnTheRun, Tech Trader Daily, Between the Lines and MacRumors
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:Apple recalls Ultracompact USB Power Adapter, but calls it an exchange program
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ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, TG Daily, VentureBeat, Infinite Loop, AppleInsider, TUAW, InformationWeek, TechSpot, Gizmodo and Engadget
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly's website hacked — 200 loyal followers Wikileaked — Two days after someone broke into the email account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, unknown intruders have hacked the website of conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly and posted personal details …
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Wikileaks:
Bill O'Reilly hacked 2008 — File — bill-oreilly-hacked-2008.jpg (click to view full file) … The file provides proof that the Fox News demagogue, Bill O'Reilly, has been hacked. — Wikileaks has been informed the hack was a response to the pundit's recent scurrilous attacks …
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
The Week in iPhone Apps: Tired Internet Meme Edition — Do you think a store full of geek developers could let September 19th go by without a surge of pirate-related applications? Personally, I'm waiting for the app that pushes live updates of real pirate advisories so my raw shipments …
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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
App Store is a Goldmine: Indie Developer Makes $250,000 in Two Months — First, watch this: — The game is called Trism, and it's an example of why - despite Apple throwing its toys out of the pram every time it sees an iPhone App it doesn't like - developers will continue to make quality software for the App Store.
rizzn's personal blog:
gPhone Spotted in the Wild! — Yesterday, I teased some photos of the gPhone spotted out in the wild, and today I deliver. The official release date of the Android-powered T-Mobile Dream is the 23 of this month (a day quickly approaching - http://mashable.com/...ember-23/ ).
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I4U News, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, TmoNews, Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, InformationWeek, PalmAddicts, IntoMobile, PhoneDog.com Cell … and Google Android News …
Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
Microsoft's 'I'm a PC' Ads Created On Macs — After dumping its $10 million contract with Jerry Seinfeld after just three ads (only two of which even aired) Microsoft has created new ad copy where regular people and a few celebrities say, “I'm a PC!” One problem with the campaign's credibility: the ad work was created using Macs.
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Boing Boing, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Digital Daily, VentureBeat, Microsoft Pri0 and Digg
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
EA to Spore players: We're sorry for DRM — The consumer is always right. Electronic Arts, stung by a siege of criticism from gamers who took issue with the copyright restrictions the company placed on its Spore game, this morning issued an apology and said it would loosen the electronic locks on the game.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
The looming crisis: Personal syndication overload — Today, for kicks, I tried to draw a map of all the places I write content, all the places it is displayed, and all the intermediate services that re-post my content in places other than where I originally write it.
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Between the Lines
J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek:
Web 2.0: Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons — Google said it will work hard to make sure its add-on paradigm keeps Chrome stable, unlike add-ons for Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. — Google's new Web browser eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox Add-ons …
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's New Board to Meet — Yahoo Inc.'s revamped board will meet for the first time next week, giving investor Carl Icahn his first chance to push his agenda for the Internet company from the inside. — The new board, which includes Mr. Icahn and two new directors Yahoo chose and Mr. Icahn supported …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ballmer sets a new (and potentially much later) retirement date — Last time CEO Steve Ballmer offered a tentative timeframe as to when he might retire from Microsoft, he put the date at ten years or so from now (around the time his youngest goes to college). — But now there's a new date.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Report: Tenn. legislator confirms son is at center of Palin hack chatter — Blogs, message boards link college student to e-mail address reportedly used by hacker — Computerworld) A Tennessee state legislator has confirmed that his son, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville …
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Macworld, Threat Level, Hack a Day, Between the Lines, Web Scout and ChannelWeb Complete Feed
Nilay Patel / Engadget Mobile:
G1 appears on T-Mobile's site — Snap — looks like the Android-powered T-Mobile G1 is peeking out a little early in the form of a non-working pre-registration link on the my.t-mobile.com customer portal. No specs or info, but if you had any doubt this thing was coming on Tuesday we'd say it just got cleared up.
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CrunchGear, Unwired View, PhoneReport v2.0, IntoMobile, Google Android News …, TmoNews, Electronista, Boy Genius Report and Engadget
Paul Keegan / Fortune:
Testing your iPhone coolness — Your iPhone applications say a lot about you. — (Fortune Magazine) — If you're still racking your brain trying to think of pre-meeting small talk - about the weather, say, or “The Game” - help has arrived. — Want to break the ice while demonstrating your coolness?
Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog:
The future of mobile — The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.
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I4U News
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Seesmic Launches Mobile Cell Phone Video - Exclusive CEO Demo — During my trip to the west coast, I sat down with Seesmic CEO Loic LeMeur for a demo of the new Seesmic mobile application. I was able to grab an exclusive video demo with Loic and I've embedded the demo below.
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Loic Le Meur Blog
George Colony / George F. Colony:
Forrester: mild tech slowdown ahead — Quickly: Forrester predicts a technology slowdown lasting three to four quarters, driven by an expected mild recession. — Forrester uses its extensive primary research with consumers, large companies, and vendors to continually forecast tech spending and the health of the overall economy.
The Official Google Blog:
Changes in Phoenix — At Google, engineering is everything - no great engineers, no life enhancing products, no happy users. So we've spent a lot of time structuring our engineering operations to make the most of the exceptional talent that's available across America …
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek:
Analyst Predicts 400,000 Android Handsets Sold By End Of 2008 — Strategy Analytics has been doing some number crunching. According to its computations, Android will grab 4% of the market for smartphones in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 2008. That amounts to some 400,000 units sold.
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Pulse 2.0
Mashable!:
Forget Hodgman. Forget Eva Longoria. Microsoft Wants YOU to Play PC. — Most everyone knows that the Microsoft ads with Seinfeld didn't go over very well with the blog world, so they've started an “I'm a PC” campaign. And they've also launched an interesting online viral marketing site to go along with this new ad campaign.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, BoomTown, Between the Lines, Digital Inspiration …, Web Strategy, Redmond Pie and Pulse 2.0
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Google now one of the top 10 most valuable brands — Interbrand has concluded its study of this year's top brands and released its annual Best Global Brands survey, a valuation based on several factors of international reach and financial growth. A number of tech companies, including Google …
