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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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TechCrunch, Brier Dudley's blog, CrunchGear, New York Times, jkOnTheRun and Washington Post
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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 …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:HTC G1 already shipping, many to be delivered by Friday
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TechCrunch UK, Gizmodo, Crave, Switched, Unwired View, Electronista, Profy, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile and VentureBeat
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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CNET News, Docu-Drama, paidContent.org, Tech Trader Daily, eBay Strategies, Digital Daily, WebProNews, Silicon Alley Insider and Tech Ticker
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
As eBay's Core Business Hits Hard Times, Skype Begins To Shine — Although eBay beat its downwardly-revised earnings numbers today, its earnings call was filled with glum news for investors. (Full earnings slides embedded below). After three flat quarters, revenues declined 3.6 percent from the second quarter to $2.2 billion.
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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Scobleizer, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, RotorBlog.com, louisgray.com and SEO and Tech Daily
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Work be damned. FriendFeed now has an area that updates in real-time
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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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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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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 …
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
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.
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) …
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.
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 …
AppleInsider:
Apple's next-gen 17-inch MacBook Pro due in a few months — Apple on Tuesday introduced its next-generation 13-inch MacBooks and 15-inch MacBook Pros but was unable to ramp production of its new 17-inch model, which is now expected to make an appearance by early next year.
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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 …
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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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.
Adam Lovallo / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Announces 25 New fbFund Recipients — Today, Facebook named the 25 new recipients of the latest fbFund funding cycle. From a pool of over 600 applicants, fbFund awarded 25 $25,000 no-strings attached grants. Each first round submission was reviewed by an investment commitment comprised …
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Facebook Developers, VentureBeat, paidContent.org, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, WebProNews, All Facebook and Mashable!
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
FCC Chair Wants to Go Forward With Use of White Spaces — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he wants to allow portable devices to use the airwaves between TV channels for wireless broadband service. — After months of testing and over a year of lobbying by tech firms Google …
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Google Public Policy Blog, GigaOM, eWeek, Ars Technica, CNET News, dailywireless.org, Unwired View, FierceWireless and Wall Street Journal
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.
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 …
