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AppleInsider:
Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs — Assuming last minute snags are avoided, the coming weeks should bring new iMacs, rounding out Apple's 2008 hardware introductions as the company enters the holiday shopping season with one of its strongest product portfolios ever.
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CNET News, Infinite Loop, Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, I4U News, Edible Apple, MacRumors and digg.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Destruction Of Bloglines Now Complete; Founder Prepares To Switch To Google Reader — Users who hadn't already left Bloglines for Google Reader and other functional RSS readers are doing so now, largely because Bloglines has stopped working and the company has done absolutely nothing …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter: We'll Announce Our Secret Business Model Early Next Year — “It's like the stupidest question in the world,” Fred Wilson said of the robotic query chirped at Twitter people in every interview ("But how are you going to make money?") — Given the rate at which Twitter has seized …
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda Web Forums Abruptly Taken Offline — Separately, Sunnis and Shiites Wage Online War — Four of the five main online forums that al-Qaeda's media wing uses to distribute statements by Osama bin Laden and other extremists have been disabled since mid-September, monitors of the Web sites say.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pressflip Founder Quits: “I'm Tired Of The Fight” — One thing investors don't really like to see is founders abandoning the startups they funded. But that is exactly what Ted Dziuba is doing with his startup PressFlip. — In a blog post Dziuba wrote that he was leaving the company …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Some Of These Layoffs Aren't Really Layoffs — I've spoken to a lot of CEOs this week who are going through layoffs or who are thinking of going through going through layoffs. The list of those who've pulled the trigger gets longer every day, and the unparty seems to just be getting started based on the email flow that we're seeing.
Cameron Baker / TheTechLounge:
Mitsubishi LaserVue 65" HDTV - We Meet Again … Specifications — Images — Introduction — Kurtis and I got another chance to check out Mitsubishi's LaserVue DLP set in the early morning hours this Tuesday, and this time we were armed with some juicy, hand-picked HD goodness.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Surprise! Venture investments falling — No one should be surprised to hear that venture investment dropped during the last three months, with notable decreases in first-time financings and Internet investment. And the worst is probably still to come, since Q3 numbers don't reflect the recent meltdown of the finance industry.
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
And we have lift off: AT&T Bold launches on the 27th — This is for real, kids. Information has been pouring in left, right, and center from AT&T and RIM ninjas and we can now say for sure that AT&T is planning to launch the Bold on October 27. We repeat, October 27!
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Gizmodo, I4U News, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, Engadget, Gadgetell and CrackBerry.com blogs
David A. Sampayo / Technologizer:
Why the Kill Switch Make Sense for Android, and Not for iPhone — “Gasp!” went the collective Internet on Wednesday when the IDG News Service spotted a clause in the terms of service for Google's Android Market stating that: … In other words, Google has a built-in “kill switch” …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
‘Anonymous’ Member Unmasked, Charged With Web Attack on Scientology — An 18-year-old New Jersey man agreed to plead guilty to federal computer hacking charges Friday for participating in a denial-of-service attack against Church of Scientology websites, as part of collective of online troublemakers known as “Anonymous.”
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Is Web 2.0 About Exploitation Or Empowerment? — Earlier this year, at the Mesh Conference in Toronto, I had the pleasure of meeting Nancy Baym, a professor of communications at the University of Kansas. She's been doing tremendous research into questions concerning online “fan” communities around musicians.
