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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories — In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier) - with the hottest topics …
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Portfolio, A VC, Search Engine Roundtable, Podcasting News, Global Nerdy, Mark Evans, Profy, Google Operating System, Epicenter, mathewingram.com/work, blogs.chron.com, Digital Inspiration …, ProBlogger Blog Tips, Best Engaging Communities, The Noisy Channel, Sean Percival's Blog and SitePoint Blogs
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Michael Cohen / The Official Google Blog:
Browse what the world is saying on Blog Search — Did you know that millions of bloggers around the world write new posts each week? If you're like me, you probably read only a tiny fraction of these in Google Reader. What's everybody else writing about?
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:Google Blog Search Now Clusters Hot Topics
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The Social Times
Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
One Way to Turn a Mac Into a PC Just Got Better — There are two common methods for running Microsoft Windows and Windows programs on an Apple Macintosh, and one of those methods just got better and easier. — The first approach uses a feature called Boot Camp that comes free on every new Mac.
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TG Daily
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Nintendo announces DSi with dual cameras, “DSi Shop” content store [update] — As expected, Nintendo has announced the new DSi at its Fall presentation in Japan. The device features a dual touchscreen layout almost identical to the DS Lite, though the company is calling it a “third platform …
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mcvuk.com, Joystiq, BetaNews, Gadgetreview, Boy Genius Report, Destructoid, Electronista, SlipperyBrick.com, Newlaunches.com, VentureBeat, I4U News, GoNintendo, Technology Live, techeblog.com and Digg
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China — SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
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PC World, The Next Web, ZDNet Government, AppScout, The Register, The Blog known …, Connecting the Dots, Memex 1.1 and CNET News
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The cost of doing business in China: Privacy — There's a good amount of scuttlebutt today on a report that highlights how the Chinese government is monitoring Skype traffic for keywords that may offend the Communist party. — The report in question (Techmeme), Breaching Trust …
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The Blog known …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Rolls Out Post-Roll Video Ads — YouTube, which has never had trouble growing an audience but hasn't yet figured out the trick for monetizing them thar eyeballs, is adding a trick from the old playbook: post-roll advertisements. As we understand it (and this has been confirmed with the company) …
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paidContent.org, WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, TECH.BLORGE.com and Valleywag
Andy Stadler / Google Mobile Blog:
Google on Android: Search — On September 23, T-Mobile announced the world's first Android-powered phone, the G1. The phone comes preloaded with Search, Maps, Gmail with Contacts, Calendar, Google Talk, and YouTube. The applications are easy to use, fully synchronized with the web …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T's Samsung i907 is called Epix — Well, there goes BlackJack III... We just got a hot tip from one of our readers and it clearly shows what we all knew as the Samsung i780 dressed up in AT&T branding as the AT&T Epix. There's also been some physical tweaks to make the device more polished.
LG:
LG Launches Artistically Inspired Handset, Renoir — Seoul, Korea, October 3, 2008- LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced the official launch of its LG-KC910, a slim yet feature-packed full touchscreen 8 megapixel multimedia phone.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SlingMedia Prepares To Launch Their Video Portal At Sling.com — Sling Media, the creators of a hardware device that lets users stream their home television signal to an Internet connected device anywhere (with a software download), is preparing to launch their new video portal, Sling.com.
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Music Downloads: Is the Price Right? — A federal panel will decide if Apple, Amazon and the like should pay higher royalties to music publishers. But 99¢ songs likely aren't going anywhere — A contentious battle between Apple and part of the music industry is set be decided today …
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Idolator
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
What effect will the financial crisis have on the tech sector? — Expect to see a slowdown in smartphone sales and a concomitant growth in the use of open source, cloud computing and virtualisation technology as consumers cut back on their “discretionary” purchases while businesses …
Wade Roush / Xconomy:
Locale App for Android Phones “Wouldn't Even Be Possible on the iPhone,” Says Winner of $275K Developer Challenge — Wade Roush wrote: — Last week's unveiling of the first phone running the Android operating system—the T-Mobile G1, which will be available to consumers on October 22 …
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All Points Blog
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Obama releases iPhone recruiting, campaign tool — Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign launched an iPhone application on Thursday that turns the vaunted device into a political recruiting tool. — The most notable feature “organizes and prioritizes your contacts by key battleground states …
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Nokia boss has high praise for iPhone — Nokia boss (President and CEO) Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is full of praise for Apple, though he's digging in his heels to compete with the iPhone company. — He described Apple's impact on the industry across the last year and said the company had done the industry “a big favour”.
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Latest MacBook Pro (fake) images ship!!! — We're happy to reveal the all-new latest fake MacBook/MacBook Pro images. Get on!! — With the almost completely unlikely tag-line of, “A blend of beauty meets beastly power,” (which sounds like a Dell marketing plug - on a bad day) and the notion.
