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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple “Notebook” event is on, October 14th! — The rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in San Francisco next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops... and you know we'll be there live!
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9 to 5 Mac, Reuters, Ryan Block, Gizmodo, Gearlog, TUAW, The iPhone Blog and Boy Genius Report
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple announces October 14 notebook event in Cupertino — Apple has just sent out invites to a special media event on Apple's campus for October 14. The invite reads, “The spotlight turns to notebooks,” and has a ray of light shining over the back of an unidentified Apple notebook.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: latest MacBook Pro photo is the real deal — A photo of a mysterious notebook leaked on the Internet Wednesday is indeed one taken of Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro casing, AppleInsider can confirm. Meanwhile, some additional photos of a similar, but still unauthenticated 13-inch notebook have since surfaced.
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Apple Watch, Infinite Loop, Geek.com, Macintosh, Mac Apps …, The Apple Blog and The UberReview
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
EXCLUSIVE: Apple to launch $800 laptop — Some Apple retailers in the United States have been given price lists for a new Apple laptop line, and there's a big surprise: an $800 laptop. The information comes from a source we would categorize as reliable, would have access to such information, and who has been accurate in the past.
Arn / MacRumors:
More ‘Brick’ MacBook Case Images? — An Apple.Pro blog has posted three small images of what appear to be a new MacBook case. The casing resembles the MacBook Pro case image leaked earlier today, but clearly represents a smaller screened laptop. Absent are the speaker grills of the earlier image.
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Electronista, I4U News, SlashGear, Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, AppleInsider, AppleCorner and Boing Boing Gadgets
Amazon Web Services Blog:
Amazon S3 - Busier Than Ever — Amazon S3 usage has grown very nicely in the last quarter and now stands at 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion just a quarter ago. As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 objects for every person now on Earth! — Our customers are keeping S3 pretty busy too.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble — Updated: Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives.
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eWeek, Bits, mathewingram.com/work, Contentinople, Epicenter, TechCrunch, WebWorkerDaily, Business Week, JasonKolb.com, Patricia Handschiegel, Xconomy, Technosailor.com, The Inquisitr, BeyondVC, Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, WebProNews, Lockergnome Blog Network, Blogspotting, Zoli's Blog, PR 2.0, Loic Le Meur Blog, Beyond Search, Virtual Worlds News and BoomTown
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Digg's Kevin Rose: We've got to be more than a fanboy hub — LONDON—Digg founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up. — “We have to do better,” he said in his talk, called “The Future of News,” …
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Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
40 laid off at software company as execs arrested — SEATTLE (AP) — Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found …
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Slobodan Simic / Fudzilla:
MSI's new Wind U120 pixellized — Exclusive: In all its glory — We've managed to get our hands on some pictures of MSI's upcoming Wind U120 netbook, or as some like to call it, the Wind 2. Still featuring a 10-inch screen, the new U120 will also be less “cute” than the previous generation as it is oriented at business users.
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Crave, Liliputing, Electronista, Boing Boing Gadgets, jkOnTheRun, CrunchGear and Engadget
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sling Takes On Apple TV With SlingCatcher Set-Top Box — Yet another digital set-top box trying to bridge the gap between your TV and the Internet: Sling Media's new SlingCatcher started selling today for $300, and will compete with similar gadgets from Apple, LG, Roku, and others, and media features on Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PS3.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek planing touch panel Eee PCs — Asustek Computer is planning to launch touch panel Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009, which the company expects will help drive sales further, according to Samson Hu, general manager of Eee PC business at Asustek. — The company has not yet decided details …
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Liliputing, Gizmodo, TechSpot, SlashGear, Electronista, The Tech Report, Mobility Site, Boing Boing Gadgets, I4U News, jkOnTheRun, Electricpig.co.uk and GottaBeMobile
LG:
LG Launches LG-KC780 Slim 8 Megapixel Portrait Phone — LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced today the launch of its LG-KC780, a slim 8 megapixel camera phone with special features that make it ideal for shooting portraits.
Crave at CNET UK:
12-year-old finds iPhone flaw while texting girlfriend — A 12-year-old boy who uses his iPhone mostly for texting with his girlfriend has discovered what looks like a new vulnerability with the device. — The unnamed boy, son of blogger Karl Kraft, turns on the passcode lock …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why Netflix May Be an Online Video Leader — I've been thinking a lot about how Netflix — that odd combination of Internet ordering, the post office and DVDs — may actually be one of the companies best positioned to take advantage of online video. — Follow me on this …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Our focus is growth, not revenue — FAZ: “The web 2.0 architecture is not necessarily a revenue opportunity. This is not where the money is”, said Eric Schmidt from Google. Do you agree with him? — Mark Zuckerberg: I disagree. He has a clear incentive for saying what he is saying...
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Wakoopa Begins Tracking Web Apps Alongside Their Desktop Counterparts — The team behind Wakoopa, a social network that tracks and shares information about the desktop applications used by its members, noticed that Firefox and Safari were consistently ranked as the network's top two applications by usage.
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Brian X. Chen / Wired Science:
Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image — This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
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Search Engine Land, GeoEye MediaRoom, The Register, SlashGear, Gearlog, Mashable!, Quick Online Tips, WebProNews, VentureBeat and Gizmodo
Yi-Wyn Yen / Fortune:
Losing faith in Yahoo (again) — An expected slowdown in online display advertising next year spells trouble for the struggling Internet company. — SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — No tech company that relies on web-based advertising is immune to the global credit crisis, but few are as exposed to the economic meltdown as Yahoo.
