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Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
The Android fine print: kill switch and other tidbits — An uproar erupted when iPhone users discovered a so-called remote kill switch on their phones — will it spur the same reaction in users of the G1, the first Android phone? — In the Android Market terms of service …
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Gadget Lab, The Open Road, MacRumors, AndroidGuys, Gadgetell, The iPhone Blog, WebProNews, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Mashable!, eWeek, AppScout, InformationWeek, Android Authority, Boing Boing Gadgets, Engadget Mobile, Slashdot and GigaOM
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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 …
Matthew Miller / Smartphones and Cell Phones:
Review: Over 260 images and 5 videos of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device — The biggest mobile news of 2007 was definitely the Apple iPhone and I think the biggest news of this year is the Google Android. I enjoyed my trip out to see the T-Mobile G1 launch last month …
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.
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Computerworld Blogs, Lifehacker, SlashPhone, jkOnTheRun, Brier Dudley's blog, VentureBeat, PalmAddicts and Electronista
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:T-Mobile G1 review
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Tech Beat, Guardian, The Register, Switched, Big in Japan, Engadget Mobile, Unwired View, Crave, Electronista, Profy, MobileCrunch, Boy Genius Report and digg.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:The Google Phone Review: What I Love & Hate About T-Mobile G-1
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Android Community, AndroidGuys, mocoNews.net, The Apple Blog, WebWorkerDaily, TechCrunch UK and Big in Japan
Michelle Maltais / L.A. Times Tech Blog:How iView the G1: An iPhone owner's take on the Google phone
Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:
Build your own display ads in minutes — Today we released the AdWords display ad builder, which lets you create professional-looking display ads in AdWords without needing to hire a designer or start from scratch. If you've wanted to expand beyond your text ad campaigns …
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Search Engine Land, Epicenter, MarketingVOX, Search Engine Watch, WebProNews and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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AppleInsider:
iTunes sells 200 million TV shows, adds new HD TV lineup — Apple announced Thursday that all four of the major US television networks are offering primetime programs in high definition on the iTunes Store, which has become the world's most popular online TV service with over 200 million episodes sold …
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Harris Corporation:
Harris Corporation and Google TV Ads Work Together to Expand Television Advertising Opportunities — Service Enables Traffic Customers Access to New Sales Channels Through Google TV Ads™ — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Details Released On The Radiohead Experiment Results: A Tremendous Success — While Trent Reznor has been very open in discussing the results of his various business model experiments, Radiohead has been notoriously quiet about it — leading some to falsely assume that the experiment was a failure.
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Aude Lagorce / MarketWatch:
Nokia's profit falls 30% but margins hold — Industry leader loses market share but confirms outlook — LONDON (MarketWatch) — Nokia Corp. on Thursday posted a 30% drop in third-quarter profit and a 5% decline in sales, but the world's largest maker of mobile phones managed …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube Founder Compares Online Video To Nascent TV Market — YouTube Cofounder Chad Hurley spoke at the MIPCOM Conference in Cannes, France yesterday. — In the talk, which is transcribed below, Hurley compares the current state of online video to the nascent years of television.
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
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Opera study: only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant — Browser maker Opera has published the early results of an ongoing study that aims to provide insight into the structure of Internet content. To conduct this research project, Opera created the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application …
Justin Scheck / WSJ.com:
H-P Making Touch Screen Laptop — PC Giant Aims to Spur Demand With Line of Products Using Touch Technology — Hewlett-Packard Co., aiming to boost its personal computer sales amid a deteriorating economy and soft holiday season, is increasingly turning to touch-screen technology.
Arn / MacRumors:
MacBook Pro Does Not Support Both GPUs Simultaneously — When Apple introduced new MacBook Pro notebooks with two types of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) from NVIDIA, many wondered if both GPUs could be used simultaneously. NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI/GeForce Boost technology allows …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Removes Fake Trackers from Torrents — In an attempt to make BitTorrent more secure, and to reduce some of the load on their own tracker, The Pirate Bay has started to remove all duplicate, dead and anti-pirate trackers from the torrents they host.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Can You Really Own The Idea Of Making Your iPhone Look Like Beer? — from the drink-up! dept — It's time to raise your glasses in a toast to ridiculous intellectual property lawsuits. Or, if you don't have a tasty beverage on hand, perhaps a virtual one, say, on your iPhone?
