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Taliver Heath / Google App Engine Blog:
Introducing Google Moderator on App Engine — At Google, we host a large number of “tech talks”. These talks cover a wide rage of Computer Science topics like research in machine learning and methods for ranking images based on text queries. I've enjoyed attending these tech talks …
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Google Moderator launches — Here's a fun link for you. Google just released a free service called Google Moderator. This is a port to Google App Engine of an existing tool we use all the time at Google. Internally it was called Dory (after the fish who asked questions all the time in Finding Nemo).
ASUSTeK Computer:
Eee PC™ to Feature 3.75G for Internet Access Anywhere — Coupled with All-day Battery Life, 3.75G Capability Puts Eee PC's™ Status as the Ultimate Travel Companion Beyond Question — ASUS today announced that it will be adding 3.75G connectivity* to its hugely-popular series …
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Between the Lines, jkOnTheRun, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, Eee PC, CrunchGear, Engadget, Lockergnome Master Site Feed, Boing Boing Gadgets and Obsessable
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Declares Mistrial in RIAA-Jammie Thomas Trial — Jammie Thomas, left, and her attorney, Brian Toder, leave the courthouse last year after a jury dinged her $222,000 for sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network. — Photo: Associated Press — A federal judge on Wednesday set aside …
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Corynne / Electronic Frontier Foundation:Capitol v. Thomas: Judge Orders New Trial, Implores Congress …
Chris Williams / The Register:RIAA filesharing target Jammie Thomas wins retrial
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Music To Launch Tonight. Here's What You'll See (And Hear) — The ambitious new MySpace Music joint venture will launch this evening at midnight PST at music.myspace.com. All four major labels - Universal, Warner, Sony and EMI - are on board (EMI was a last minute addition).
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
T-Mobile Lifts Bandwidth Cap for Google Phone — T-Mobile raised some eyebrows Tuesday when it disclosed that buyers of its highly touted new Internet phone, the HTC G1 that uses Google's Android software, would face restrictions if they exceeded 1 gigabyte of cellular data a month.
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MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, Techdirt, CrunchGear, GigaOM, VentureBeat, jkOnTheRun, Boing Boing Gadgets, GottaBeMobile and New York Times
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
T-Mobile kills the 1GB data cap, takes a more friendly approach — It looks like T-Mobile is listening folks — and they appear to be responding. In a statement we've just received from the company, they tell us that they're killing the hard-line approach to data capping …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Trademark Fight: Intel Is Worried You Might Think It Is A Chinese Travel Agency — Do these two logos look the same to you? Is there the remotest chance that you might confuse Intellife Travel, a small travel agency in Santa Clara, California that caters to Chinese Americans and expats, with Intel the company?
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Lockergnome Master Site Feed
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Adobe Talks Open Source, Innovation and the Future of Flash — Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe talks with eWEEK about open-sourcing Flash, the new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4), mobile technology and more. Lynch also talks of competing with Microsoft Silverlight and Expression and possibly with Google Chrome.
Jason Snell / Macworld:
Don't drive iPhone developers away, Apple — One of the presenters at the recent C4 Mac developers conference made a point about Apple that is incredibly relevant to how the company is viewed, especially by the media and rabid Apple fans. To paraphrase his statement, in dealing with Apple …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Google Guy's Words Get Quick Response — Google co-founder Larry Page turned up on Capitol Hill today to boost the company's “Free the Airwaves” campaign, and he had some strong words for those who oppose their bid to open more of the airwaves for high speed Internet access.
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Pragmatic Bookshelf:
Ubuntu Kung Fu shipping/podcast; iPhone news — Greetings! — Ubuntu Kung Fu: Tips, Tricks, Hints, and Hacks is now in print and shipping. Meet the author, Keir Thomas, in this week's podcast. Also, see below for the latest news on our iPhone SDK book. — Ubuntu Kung Fu In Print and Shipping
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9 to 5 Mac
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product-a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid.
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Bits, The Forrester Blog …, Coop's Corner, eWeek, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect and Business Technology
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David Hambling / Danger Room:
Chinese Say They're Building ‘Impossible’ Space Drive — Chinese researchers claim they've confirmed the theory behind an “impossible” space drive, and are proceeding to build a demonstration version. If they're right, this might transform the economics of satellites …
Arn / MacRumors:
Inexpensive Atom-Powered ‘Netbooks’ Popular at Launch — CultofMac reports on the relative popularity of recently introduced “Netbooks” from Asus, Acer and Dell. Amazon's top laptop sales list is now dominated by the $400-$600 devices, with Apple's $1299 MacBook being the notable exception in the top 10.
Jennifer Guevin / CNET News:
EA hit with class action suit over ‘Spore’ — Electronic Arts may have attempted to appease angry customers by amending its digital rights management policy on Spore, but the company's DRM troubles aren't over yet. — Earlier this week, a class action suit was filed in the Northern District …
BBC:
A sporting game — While most massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) are based on fantasy worlds, there is a growing trend for a new kind of game that merges the real world with the virtual. — Rather than taking on the persona of a mythical character who goes on quests …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel WiMax to go live, will devices follow? — Intel's WiMax wireless technology will finally be unleashed in two weeks. But it's not clear how big a following the technology has among device makers. — Intel and Sprint Nextel will team up to launch the first WiMax network in Baltimore on October 8 …
BBC:
Police close file on BT's trials — The City of London Police have said there will be no formal investigation of BT over its secret trials of an ad monitoring system. — BT trialled the Phorm system - which monitors web browsing habits in order to better target ads - without the consent of users last summer.
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The Official Google Blog:
Project 10^100 — If you could suggest a unique idea that would help as many people as possible, what would it be? — It's a question worth considering. Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas come to life.
David Ciccone / Mobility Today:
EXCLUSIVE: Motorola Q11 Photos — We were lucky enough to get our hands on some photos that have never been seen before of the Motorola Q11. This phone offers GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, 3MPx Cam and Windows Mobile 6.1.. No information as to when we will see this puppy but the photos don't look too shabby!
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
European Parliament Says No to Three-Strikes Law — The European Parliament has voted in favor of an amendment that will prevent member states from implementing three-stikes laws. Disconnecting alleged file-sharers based on evidence from anti-piracy lobby groups restricts the rights …
