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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 reports. — In its attempt to provide the most accurate picture of Apple's future product plans …
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CNET News, VentureBeat, CrunchGear, MacRumors, Valleywag, iPhone Savior, Electronista, Cult of Mac and Macintosh, Mac Apps …
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 …
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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, dailywireless.org, jkOnTheRun, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Eee PC, Obsessable, Boing Boing Gadgets, Engadget and Lockergnome Master Site Feed
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Asus adds 3G connection to Eee PC; Will carriers subsidize it?
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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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Ars Technica, Download Squad, Digital Daily, Wall Street Journal, ClickZ, Boy Genius Report, Listening Post, BBC NEWS, paidContent.org and Inquirer
Neil McAllister / Fatal Exception:
SDK shoot-out: Android vs. iPhone — Apple and Google differ along familiar lines with their smartphone development kits — InfoWorld has been all over this week's official launch of Android, the new smartphone platform from Google. With its slick interface and open application platform …
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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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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.
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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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 …
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 …
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 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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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 …
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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 …
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Between the Lines, All about Microsoft, Industry Standard, SitePoint Blogs and Technology Review
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 1 — Apple has seeded some iPhone developers with a new beta iPhone firmware for testing. The new version is labeled iPhone OS 2.2 beta 1 and is accompanied by a new beta of the iPhone SDK (build 9M2611). Beyond “compatibility testing”, there are no other differences noted by Apple.
Fawn Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Google Urges FCC to Act on Vacant Channels Before Election — WASHINGTON — Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page urged the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday to give companies unlicensed access to vacant television channels before November's election.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google to supply Bloomberg TV with ads — Google has found another partner to use its system for supplying television advertising: Bloomberg TV. — The two companies announced the partnership Thursday, touting the ad success measurement abilities that Google has benefited …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's SocialBrowse Launches To The Public — SocialBrowse, the link-sharing service that includes elements of web annotation, has launched its service to the public. When I first wrote about SocialBrowse as it entered private beta last June, I described it as a “Twitter for links” …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple proposes improvements to Safari browsing experience — A pair of new patent filings from Apple include suggestions for improving the browsing experience offered through its Safari Web browser, such as a adaptive media support and a visual history tree that more accurately shows users where they've been and how they got there.
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Activity-Centered Design — Is the future of design activity-centered? — Quite some time back I argued that Information Architecture was the wrong frame in which to approach design. My post got a lot of push-back from the established IA crowd, who claimed that I was either wrong …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Yahoo Buys Site for Nebraska Data Center — Yahoo has purchased this building in La Vista, Nebraska for $14.8 million. — Yahoo continues to move forward with plans for a major data center project in Nebraska, even as the company appears to be preparing for cost-cutting that could include employee layoffs.
