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AppleInsider:
Next-gen MacBook, MacBook Pro spotted in matching outfits — Production ready versions of Apple's next-generation MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks have surfaced stateside in matching attire, according to people who've been privy to early glimpses of some of the company's other hardware offerings.
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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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's iPhone Developer NDA Kills Book For iPhone Developers — Want to learn how to write apps for Apple's (AAPL) red-hot iPhone app platform? Good luck. Thanks to Apple's non-disclosure agreement — which you're required to agree to while installing iPhone developer tools …
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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Liliputing, DSLreports, jkOnTheRun, dailywireless.org, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Eee PC, Engadget, Boing Boing Gadgets, Obsessable and Lockergnome Master Site Feed
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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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PC World, Google Watch, The Social, Search Engine Land, Quick Online Tips, Google Operating System, webmonkey, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Mashable! and The Inquisitr
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Hands on with the Slingbox PRO-HD — Pre-orders for Sling Media's Slingbox PRO-HD ($300) began about two weeks ago and units are now shipping, with a brick & mortar presence expected shortly. — What makes this box unique among Sling's placeshifting lineup is the ability to broadcast …
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Yahoo Overhauls System for Selling Display Ads — Yahoo announced on Wednesday the details about its system to buy and sell display advertising online, with the hope that the company can dominate the display ad market in the same way Google steers the search market.
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Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:Yahoo Rebrands AMP as APT and Launches
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Fred / A VC:
Initial Thoughts On MySpace Music — I've been evangelizing a free streamed all you can eat music service supported by advertising for as long as this blog has been around. And last night MySpace launched just that in partnership with the four major music lables and the large indie distributor Orchard.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:The Fact & Fiction of MySpace Music
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Download Squad, Digital Daily, BBC NEWS, Boy Genius Report, Wall Street Journal, ClickZ, paidContent.org and Inquirer
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
New Feature Release of Live Search Maps! — We've just made updates to our consumer site, Live Search Maps which are tied back to some of the updates in the Virtual Earth platform - there's a slough of posts coming from me today! For the release we've included some AWESOME new features for users to enjoy, so please...enjoy!
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cellular-news:
China Mobile Seeking Cut-Down Version of Apple's iPhone — China Mobile is expected to officially launch the Apple iPhone on its network shortly - but with some of the functionality removed to comply with Chinese regulations. The South China Morning Post, citing a report from the Daiwa Institute …
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Is Chrome a security risk? — My lovely bride of 30 years worked from home yesterday, hoping to save our city some gas. — An e-mail came in from her administrator around mid-day which she decided to share with me. — It told all users to shut down Chrome. — The e-mail called Chrome a security risk.
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.
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Apple updates Java for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 — If you launch Software Update, you'll likely notice that Apple has some Java updates for both Tiger and Leopard. On the Tiger side, Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 7 updates Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (also known as Java 1.5 …
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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 …
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.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Microsoft's Mundie outlines the future of computing — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie on Thursday offered a long-term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing are heading over the next few decades. Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes Jerry Yang's Here-Comes-the-Weasel-Consultants Memo (So You Don't Have To!) — Oh, this is just too good to pass up, so it is once again time for BoomTown to let you know exactly what Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang actually meant in his internal memo to employees about the hiring …
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 …
Jason Nardari / Wellington Financial Blog:
Bell to Blackberry users: “Pay us or get lost!” (Literally!) — A number of mobile-related blogs and message boards are starting to pick up on a story that based on an internal memo, in the coming weeks, Bell will begin to interfere with the GPS signal that late-model Blackberry units …
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Techdirt, Mark Evans, p2pnet, Alec Saunders SquawkBox, mobilesyrup.com and Michael Geist Blog
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Oracle Embraces Hewlett-Packard in ‘Hardware’ Push — Oracle dealt a blow Wednesday to longtime ally Sun Microsystems by “entering the hardware business” in tandem with Hewlett-Packard. — Oracle, best known for its database software and related applications, showed off a pair …
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Datamation, Enterprise Anti-matter, deal architect, CrunchGear and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Hollywood Wants Internet Providers to Block Copyrighted Files — This year there has been a lot of discussion in Washington about whether Internet service providers should monitor customers' surfing to target advertising. — Now, there are signs that one topic next year will be whether …
