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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Facebook Rolls Out Microsoft Live Search — Facebook has just rolled out its implementation of Microsoft Live Search, which allows members of the social network to search the Web without leaving the site. — The implementation is fairly straightforward: in the search box on the top right of Facebook …
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Facebook “friends” Live Search — Today we're excited for our friends at Facebook. Now Facebook users in the U.S. have the option to “Search Facebook” or “Search the Web.” In addition, adCenter is delivering search ads alongside those results. For me that means getting great search results …
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Leah Pearlman / Facebook Blog:
What are you looking for today? — We're always working on innovative ways to make your experience on Facebook more useful. Toward that goal, today we've added Microsoft Live Search to your Facebook search experience (for people in the US). This is the first step in giving you the ability …
Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Steve Wozniak interview: iconic co-founder on the iPod, iPhone, and future for Apple — In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wonders how long the iPod can stay on top spot, laments the limitations of the iPhone 3G, agrees with the downgrade on Apple shares …
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Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:Steve Wozniak explains why the iPod will die
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Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Geode — Always know where you are. — You've arrived in a new city, a new continent, a new coffee shop. You don't really know where you are, and are looking for a good place to eat. You pull out your laptop, fire up Firefox, and go to your favorite review site.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Moment of Truth: Stock Hits $350 — Google's stock is now down more than 50% from its high, at a level that most Google fans (and analysts) would have considered unthinkable a year ago. In fact, the stock has now dropped to a level it hasn't seen consistently in more than three years.
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Ian Lamont / Industry Standard:Apple, Google, and eBay stock hovering near 52-week lows
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Online ad revenue strong first half of 2008: What about the second half? — Internet ad revenue surged in the first half of 2008, up 15.2 percent to $11.5 billion compared to a year ago, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations — Advanced Micro Devices plans to announce Tuesday that it will split into two companies — one focused on designing microprocessors and the other on the costly business of manufacturing them — in a drastic effort to maintain its position as the only real rival to Intel.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Drops Some Knowledge on the Financial Crisis — When Google launched its sanitized version of Wikipedia, called Knol, earlier this year - the topics highlighted were all pretty mundane. Medical conditions, backpacking, etc. Today the company put Knols to good use and used the site …
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple's Brick: A Radical New Laptop? — The latest whispers are that Apple will announce a notebook made from a solid brick of aluminum — When they're not hand-wringing over the recent drop in Apple's share price, Mac enthusiasts have been transfixed lately by the mystery product …
Anita Hamilton / Time:
BlackBerry's Storm Aims to Blow the iPhone Away — You just can't keep a secret in the tech industry these days. Early pictures of T-Mobile's Google phone leaked onto the Web the week before its Sep. 23 launch, and now images are surfacing online of another eagerly awaited device …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:RIM's iPhone-Rival BlackBerry Storm Unveiling Tomorrow In London? (RIMM)
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac — Feelin' left in the dust while all your Outlook-loving PC friends get all the cool BlackBerry stuff? Well, RIM has been hard at work on the Mac side of things, and we've got a first look at BlackBerry Media Sync for Mac. This isn't a final version …
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Negative Approach, Infinite Loop, CrackBerry.com blogs, BlackBerry Cool, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile and Gizmodo
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Government report: Data mining doesn't work well — The most extensive government report to date on whether terrorists can be identified through data mining has yielded an important conclusion: It doesn't really work. — A National Research Council report, years in the making and scheduled …
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The Register, nationalacademies.org, InformationWeek, The Noisy Channel and ReadWriteWeb
Fred / A VC:
What To Look For Next — The Treasury, the Fed, and Warren Buffet have been the only buyers in this meltdown and have been largely focused on financial companies. Meanwhile the rest of the market has gone down 30% year to date and very few, if any, stocks have been spared. — What do we look for next?
cellular-news:
Lightbulbs Could Replace Wi-Fi Hotpsots — Boston University's College of Engineering is launching a program, under a National Science Foundation grant, to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves.
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IntoMobile, CrunchGear, Gadget Lab, DailyTech, Unwired View, Electronista, michael parekh on IT, Computerworld Blogs, Engadget, Ubergizmo, The Raw Feed and GottaBeMobile
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Wholesale Internet Bandwidth Prices Keep Falling — Sure it's not like back in the early 2000s, when those crooks from Enron were driving the prices of bandwidth down into the ground, but even today prices on Internet bandwidth continue to fall. If you are a consumer, however …
Michael Rose / TUAW:
First Look: i. TV brings schedules, trailers to your iPhone — There are a lot of App Store submissions and works-in-progress that trigger anticipatory drooling here at TUAW (Sling Mobile! Sling Mobile!), among them the program guide and movie finder i.
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Android's bright future? T-Mobile reports heavy presales — The world's first mobile phone powered by Google's Android OS is making waves before it is even available in stores. T-Mobile, the US carrier that gets the G1 Android phone first, has announced that “heavy demand” has claimed all presale units.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Margin impact of Apple product transitions overestimated — With Apple's September quarter having come and gone with the only major product transition consisting of slightly cheaper iPods, investment bank Piper Jaffray believes the company is once again in a position to outperform its own margin guidance despite widespread concern.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
New EU directive pushes toward replaceable iPhone batteries — The European Union is preparing new directives that could have an impact on Apple's future products, including “the New Batteries Directive,” which proposes to mandate that batteries in electronic appliances be “readily removed” for replacement or disposal.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
How a Mac Mini can beat a quad-core Vista behemoth (or how Apple can't write good software for Windows) — Here's a tale of how a humble Mac Mini system outperformed my cutting-edge quad-core system. It's also a story of how Apple can't write good software for the Windows platform.
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George Ou
