Top Items:
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android and T-Mobile G1's Five Most Obnoxious Flaws — While I was more impressed by the T-Mobile G1 than I thought I'd be, the list of catches for Android and the phone are quickly piling up—some that might very well be dealbreakers. Topping the list, it's tightly integrated with your Google account …
RELATED:
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:G1 Android Phone at Least $380 Cheaper Than iPhone
Discussion:
PC World, Today @ PC World, webmonkey, Epicenter, Crave, the tweney review, GigaOM and VentureBeat
Jay Adelson / Digg the Blog:
Big News: Expanding & Growing Digg — Today is a big day for Digg. We're announcing a major expansion effort - the largest we've undergone in our history. With a new round of funding, we're accelerating many of the programs that we've been working on over the past several months …
RELATED:
Brad Stone / Bits:
Digg.com Digs up Some More Cash — Digg, the news site with the nerve to substitute the votes of the unwashed, unpaid masses for the refined talent of professional editors, has raised a new round of venture financing, the company said Wednesday. — Four-year old Digg, based in San Francisco …
Discussion:
GigaOM
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Yahoo Trying To Sell Yahoo Answers? — Part of Yahoo's survival strategy beyond merging with AOL may be to sell of what they consider to be non-core assets for cash. We heard from a source that Yahoo may be quietly reaching out to a couple of potential buyers to see if they'd be interested in their Yahoo Answers property.
RELATED:
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T to potential BlackBerry Storm customers: Storm sucks, iPhone rulez! — You definitely have to take this one at face value, but there's an internal document floating around inside AT&T pitting the iPhone 3G against the upcoming BlackBerry Storm. We had our doubts about this document at first …
Discussion:
BlackBerryNews.com, Electronista, CrackBerry.com blogs, BlackBerry Cool, IntoMobile and FierceWireless
Royal Pingdom:
Why is almost half of Google in beta? — According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a beta is “a nearly complete prototype of a product.” In other words, a not-yet-finished product. — Google is known for keeping their products in beta (much) longer than most other companies.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox — Google browser's share slips, IE and Firefox reverse the erosion, Safari still immune — Computerworld) Chrome's share of the browser market is fading as users who abandoned Internet Explorer and Firefox start to return, an Internet measurement company said today.
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:
Skyfire mobile browser bulks up for open beta — Skyfire, a Mountain View, Calif., start-up that competes directly with Opera Mobile browser, announced Wednesday the opening of its public beta for Windows Mobile phones. This is good news if you've been waiting months to join Skyfire's impacted private beta program.
RELATED:
Nick O'Neill / The Social Times:
Breaking: MySpace Launches Self-Serve Ad Targeting Service — On the heels of the MySpace Music launch, MySpace has launched a self-service advertising site which appears to be targeted specifically toward musicians. You can access the service by visiting advertise.myspace.com.
RELATED:
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Two Ways to Get Comcast to Increase the Data Cap — A quick chat yesterday with Charlie Douglas, a spokesman for Comcast, elicited some heartening information about the ISP's stated 250GB-per-month cap on bandwidth. Om's not a huge fan of caps because he believes they stifle innovation in the long run …
Discussion:
DSLreports
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Layoff Alert: Not If ... When — With the economic situation obviously worsening-don't say you weren't warned-BoomTown has no doubt now that Internet companies are in the midst of reevaluating their troop numbers to streamline themselves for the coming few months of financial winter.
NTT DOCOMO Global Site:
Nissan, NTT DOCOMO and Sharp Jointly Develop World's First Mobile Phone with Built-in Intelligent Key — TOKYO (Sept. 24, 2008) — Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., NTT DOCOMO, INC. and Sharp Corporation announced today that they have jointly developed a mobile phone capable of functioning …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Iffy claims mar new class-action lawsuit over Spore DRM — The DRM that is installed on your computer along with your copy of Spore has come to completely dominate the conversation about the game, and while thousands of one-star reviews on Amazon is bad for PR, a class-action lawsuit could be bad for actual business.
Discussion:
TeleRead
RELATED:
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
LG Xenon hitting AT&T before Christmas? — We just got our perfectly manicured hands on a photo of what we're told is the LG Xenon. It was described to us as being in AT&T's labs right now undergoing testing, and it should be available before Christmas. As you can see, it's a slider device with a full QWERTY keyboard.
Discussion:
MobileCrunch, Unwired View, Phone Arena, Gizmodo, Boing Boing Gadgets and Engadget Mobile
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Cisco unveils collaboration lineup; Enterprise 2.0 on the move? — Cisco on Wednesday rolled out its collaboration portfolio as it targets the enterprise market-and notably the Microsoft SharePoint juggernaut. — At least Cisco isn't alone-Oracle earlier this week unveiled Beehive, which is another collaboration effort.
Discussion:
Market Wire
RELATED:
Chris Mellor / The Register:Cisco eyeballs IBM and Microsoft with SaaS conferencing
Discussion:
CNET News
Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow™ plus - unlimited music download service — 24 September 2008 PlayNow™ plus to launch with Telenor in Sweden in fourth quarter this year — Sony Ericsson today announced the launch of PlayNow™ plus, which will offer users …
Discussion:
Just Another Mobile Phone Blog, Macworld, Unwired View, TOYS and GADGETs, MacUser and Phone Scoop
RELATED:
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Netbooks Vs. Notebooks: ThinkPanmure Sees New Smaller Devices Eating Into Revs, Profits At Apple, Intel — Is the notebook market slowing down? ThinkPanmure analyst Vijay Rakesh thinks so. This morning, in fact, he trimmed estimates on both Apple (AAPL) and Intel (INTC) on concerns about a slowdown in the notebook market.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Yotify Launches Its “Google Alerts On Steroids” — Today sees the launch of Yotify, an online alert system that aims to make the web “work for you”. At a high level, Yotify can best be described as a very sophisticated version of Google Alerts, which allows users to get notifications whenever …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Microsoft Tinker - Best Ultimate Extra so far (although the bar is set pretty low) — Microsoft has released three new Ultimate Extras exclusively for Windows Ultimate users. One of the extras, Microsoft Tinker (a game in which you control a little robot around an obstacle course), is surprisingly a lot of fun.
