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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Google Answers the iPhone — In the exciting new category of modern hand-held computers — devices that fit in your pocket but are used more like a laptop than a traditional phone — there has so far been only one serious option. But that will all change on Oct. 22, when T-Mobile …
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Michelle Maltais / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
How iView the G1: An iPhone owner's take on the Google phone — I've very intentionally kept myself in the dark about Google's entry into the smartphone market — until today. — It was mostly out of fear that I might find my iPhone in some way deficient by comparison and, as a result, develop a raging case of tech envy.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Google Phone Review: What I Love & Hate About T-Mobile G-1 — It's here: the Google Phone. After years of speculation and months of waiting, the first Google Android OS-based smart phone has finally been released by T-Mobile USA. The device formally called as G-1 is made by HTC …
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile G1 Google Android Phone Review — There is a lot riding on the shoulders of T-Mobile's G1 Android phone. In some ways, it carries the collective hopes of Linux, open source and Google fans everywhere. It's open, collaborative and community-based, in other words, everything the iPhone and Windows Mobile aren't.
Matt Mullenweg:
PollDaddy Goes Automattic — It's another exciting day here at Automattic. Today we finally get to announce that we've acquired the market-leading poll and survey service PollDaddy. — For a year or two now, I've been minorly obsessed with polls and surveys as a method of lightweight interaction …
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Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today reported financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2008. The ecommerce company posted third quarter revenue of $2.12 billion, up $228 million from the same period last year.
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Casey / FriendFeed Blog:
View your FriendFeed in real-time — Recently we asked some users what they liked about FriendFeed, and one said because “procrastination is only a refresh away.” It sounded nice, but then we started wondering why anyone should have to refresh at all. Well now you don't:
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Work be damned. FriendFeed now has an area that updates in real-time
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Windows Mobile Is In Trouble — Recently it was revealed that the newest version of Microsoft's mobile operating system, Windows Mobile 7.0, would be delayed until as late as 2010. The updated version, which the company's partners had reportedly been hoping to have by early 2009 …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Cracks $12, Valuation Now Officially Ridiculous — We've been peeing on Yahoo all the way down, so we hope you won't take this as us talking our book (unfortunately, we've owned the stock forever) or blowing smoke up our employer's rear (we co-anchor TechTicker). But... YAHOO'S VALUATION IS NOW RIDICULOUS
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
YouTube rejects McCain request for DMCA takedown fix — YouTube has rejected a request from John McCain's presidential campaign for a legal review of political videos that are the subject of deletion requests. — The Google-owned company said Tuesday evening in a response to McCain's organization …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Finally, a VC Firm With The Balls To Tell It Like It Is — We apologize to the poor pr person who just pitched us yet another memo from either an investor or an entrepreneur about how to survive the meltdown. We told them we were burnt out on this stuff, but here we are publishing another one.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Listen to Tim Cook — One thing Apple knows is what it does. Apple designs and produces very nice things. All this hubbub over low-cost laptops is outside the realm of what makes Apple Apple. — There has long been, especially in the business press, a strong bias towards encouraging Apple to act like a “normal” computer company.
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Another Google content play — Internet titan hopes to make a splash with ‘Poptub’ — Google is mounting another experiment in content distribution that might be even more ambitious than its recent launch of original animation from “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Vint Cerf, internet's “father”, says Obama best for net — “My Name is Vint Cerf, I'm a Scientist and I am Voting for Barack Obama”. Why? Principally because of net neutrality. — Vint Cerf, who can fairly be described as one of the godfathers (but not in a Tony Soprano way) …
Joab Jackson / Linux.com:
Python 3.0 makes a big break — Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions. But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new version of Python …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Google Doubles Number Of Book Scan Publisher Partners — The company caused an uproar when it launched the project four years ago, with many fearing Google planned to gain control of all the world's books and give them away for free online. — Google has doubled the number of publishers signed …
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
Newzbin Prepares for Litigation — The newsgroups have remained largely outside the focus of the entertainment industry's campaign to thwart illegal file-sharing, thanks to dual-use role as discussion/bulletin board system. This role has diminished significantly in recent months …
Google Watch:
Will Google's Q3 Earnings Offer a Window View to the Recession? — Tomorrow could be a telling day for Internet stocks, with Google slated to report third-quarter earnings. It could also tell us nothing, if, as some reports suggest, Google's search advertising sales may not be severely impacted by the recession.
John Olin / xboxevolved.e-mpire.com:
RUMOR: Next Xbox to be “Forward-Compatible” — Xbox Evolved has uncovered some interesting information that could change the way videogames are made on the Xbox 360 as early as next year. — Xbox Evolved has been known for posting some outlandish rumors in the past.
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Help Twitter Find a Revenue Model — Twitter is the poster child for the 'scale first, don't even think about revenue at launch, monetize much, much later' model of startup. In the current climate, ventures like that probably won't get funded. Which is a shame. Twitter is addictive and fun and even occasionally useful.
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Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Tech sector predicted to slow but not collapse — (10-15) 17:22 PDT — Raise the caution flag over Silicon Valley but don't push the panic button, say the market research firms that forecast the fortunes of the global technology industry. — In recent days, the firms that track corporate …
Robert Lemos / Technology Review:
Probe Sees Unused Internet — A survey shows that addresses are not running out as quickly as we'd thought. — In a little more than two years, the last Internet addresses will be assigned by the international group tasked with managing the 4.3 billion numbers.
