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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, Boy Genius Report, MacRumors, Valleywag, CrunchGear, Engadget, iPhone Savior, Electronista, Cult of Mac and Macintosh, Mac Apps …
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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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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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, Boy Genius Report, Wall Street Journal, ClickZ, Listening Post, BBC NEWS and paidContent.org
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, CloudAve, Joe Duck, DSLreports, dailywireless.org, jkOnTheRun, Gadget Lab and Gizmodo
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Asus adds 3G connection to Eee PC; Will carriers subsidize it?
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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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All about Microsoft, Between the Lines, Industry Standard, SitePoint Blogs, Technology Review and Scobleizer
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Layoffs at ad network Glam Media — A tipster says Glam Media, the women-focused online-ad network, is going through “material layoffs” — 14 out of 200 employees, mostly in sales, Silicon Alley Insider now confirms. The cutbacks, coming just seven months after Glam raised $85 million, mark the popping of the ad-network bubble.
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Announcing The Virtual Earth Web Service and Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2 — If you follow Microsoft Virtual Earth I'm sure you've picked up some blog posts that posted some of the features for this release, but those posts mysteriously disappeared. Information leaked out and you wondered, “Was that real?”
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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.
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 …
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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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 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” …
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.
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.
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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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Sling Community, Gadget Lab, The Toybox, The Mobile Gadgeteer, jkOnTheRun, Boy Genius Report, eHomeUpgrade, TG Daily and Obsessable
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
RWW Interviews David Tosh of Elgg, The Open Source Social Networking Platform — When we first introduced you to Elgg two years ago, it was a new social networking platform whose focus was on e-learning. Since that time, the software has been rewritten and it has moved away from being strictly for educational use only.
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 …
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.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Clickjacking: Researchers raise alert for scary new cross-browser exploit — Researchers are beginning to raise an alarm for what looks like a scary new browser exploit/threat affecting all the major desktop platforms — Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Adobe Flash.
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Associated Press:
China space mission article hits Web before launch — BEIJING - A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.
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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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 …
Alicia Wells / tns-mi.com:
TNS Media Intelligence Reports U.S. Advertising Expenditures Declined 1.6 Percent in First Half 2008 — Total measured advertising expenditures in the first six months of 2008 declined by 1.6 percent as compared to the same period in 2007, according to data released today by TNS Media Intelligence …
