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Android Developers Blog:
Android Market: Now available for users — Last month I outlined some details around Android Market. Today, Android Market launched for users to download applications along with the first Android-powered phone—the T-Mobile G1. — With Android Market, users can easily download apps to their Android-powered phone.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Top Ten Android Launch Apps — The first Android phone. the G1, goes on sale today at T-Mobile stores. And, although I have some issues with the software/hardware interface, those are more than overcome by all the great software on the phone. I've been testing out a phone for about a week …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Tough times, hard decisions. — Given the challenging economic environment, we've decided to cut costs at Mahalo. — Although we've got a significant amount of cash on hand, and the business is ahead of schedule in terms of traffic (4m uniques a month, double where we thought we would be at this point) …
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TechFlash:
Bill Gates' mysterious new company — Just months after his Microsoft farewell, Bill Gates is quietly creating a new company — complete with high-tech office space, a cryptic name and even its own trademark. — Public documents describe the new Gates entity — bgC3 LLC — as a “think tank.”
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TechCrunch, Beyond Binary, ReadWriteWeb, Epicenter, Internetnews Blog, All about Microsoft and Gizmodo
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Analytics Upgrade: AdSense Reporting, Visualization Tools, & More — A day after announcing a slight touch up, Google Analytics is rolling out what it calls a “significant upgrade” to its feature set. The new tools include AdSense integration, Motion Charts, advanced segmentation …
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Vineesha Malkani / Inside AdSense:Make a date with data in Google Analytics
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InformationWeek
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Rackspace Buys Two Startups to Beat Amazon's Cloud — Rackspace Hosting said today that it has agreed to buy startups Slicehost and Jungle Disk, a move aimed at boosting its Mosso cloud offerings in order to step up competition with Amazon's Web Services. But whether or not Rackspace …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:Rackspace Acquires Slicehost and JungleDisk: Challenges Amazon's …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Music Social Network Imeem In Play; Hires Bank; Laying Off 25 Percent — Online music-focused social network Imeem is on the block, according to our sources, and has hired investment banker Montgomery and Co. to lead the sale. Coincidentally, we have also learned that the company is announcing …
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Portfolio, ReadWriteWeb, Webware.com, Silicon Alley Insider, HipMojo.com, WebProNews and The Social Times
AT&T:
AT&T Customers to Enter a ‘Bold’ New Wireless World — Breakthrough BlackBerry Smartphone Is Coming to Nation's Fastest 3G Network; Arrives in Stores Nov. 4 — Waterloo, Ontario — AT&T customers will be entering a bold new wireless world with the launch of the BlackBerry® Bold&trade …
Andrew Keen / Internet Evolution:
Economy to Give Open-Source a Good Thumping — When we think of the Great Depression, we imagine long lines of gaunt men, caps in hand, waiting for soup handouts. The equivalent photos of today's economic hard times — displayed for free, of course, on Flickr — may be represented by images …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Steve Jobs: We Still Haven't Figured Out The Living Room (AAPL) — Not Steve Jobs' most important comment during last night's earnings call, but still interesting: Apple's (AAPL) chief admits no one has succeeded yet at bridging your living room TV with the Internet — including Apple …
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Zatz Not Funny!
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Suzanne Tindal / ZDNet.com.au:
Intel slams ‘slow’ iPhone ARM CPU — Any speed shortcomings in Apple's iPhone were the fault of its rival chipset manufacturer ARM, a senior Intel executive said in Taiwan yesterday. — “The shortcomings of the iPhone are not because of Apple,” Intel's director of ecosystems …
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast Launches DOCSIS 3.0 In New England - Though Comcast has yet to officially actually tell anybody... On Monday we were the first to report that Comcast was getting very close to launching new 22Mbps/5Mbps and 50Mbps/10Mbps DOCSIS 3.0 speeds in a handful of new markets.
Tony Smith / The Register:
Apricot drops ‘too complicated’ Linux from netbook line — Apricot has pulled the plug on its Linux-based netbook, choosing instead to offer the pint-sized Picobook Pro only with Windows XP. — The Pro, which launched last week, was to be offered with a choice of XP and SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
New signs point to Windows 7 debuting earlier than expected — As I've mentioned a couple of times on this blog, Microsoft privately is telling some of its customers that Windows 7 will be out in the latter half of 2009. — It's true, as Microsoft's spokespeople contend, that the …
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
iPhones are a must-have for Congress — House members in the next Congress could get Apple's iPhone as their newest communication gadget. — The Chief Administrative Office (CAO), which oversees the communications systems for the House, has begun testing a small number of iPhones within …
Yukari Iwatani Kane / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Hires Yale's Business School Dean — Apple Inc. is hiring the dean of Yale University's business school to start a new project that it calls Apple University. — The Cupertino, Calif., company said Joel Podolny, the dean of the Yale School of Management will join Apple as vice president …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Amazon meets expectations, but offers dim holiday forecast — Amazon's third-quarter revenue was in line with analyst expectations, but e-commerce doesn't appear to be immune to the economic slump pounding offline and online retailers alike. — For the quarter ended September 30 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ignoring Downturns Is Unhealthy And Dangerous — Ok, here we go again. As soon as people get tired of blaming the venture capitalists for the downturn and layoffs, they start to point the finger at bloggers and journalists who write about them. In a blog post, SocialMedian founder Jason …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why I like netbooks — John Markoff quotes Steve Jobs. “We don't know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk.” — As with all Jobsisms, it's beautifully elegant, true — and misleading. You have to read it very carefully. — He isn't saying no one knows how to build one, just that “we” don't know how to.
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AppleInsider, Brier Dudley's blog, Technologizer, 9 to 5 Mac, Bits, Valleywag and Gearlog
Stephen Brook / Guardian:
Financial Times to axe up to 60 jobs — The Financial Times is to make up to 60 staff redundant, with the majority of job cuts in commercial departments. — FT management has begun consultation with employees about the redundancies, with staff in the editorial library and the managing editor's office at risk of losing their jobs.
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
It's becoming hard to distinguish open source from SaaS — I had a fascinating conversation with a Silicon Valley VC this morning. He has successfully invested in a range of open-source and SaaS companies, and made a somewhat startling comment: … He is absolutely right, at least about the blending of SaaS and open source.
Sameer Desai / GamingIndians.com:
Fallout 3 controversy: India release cancelled — Microsoft India has announced that it has cancelled its plans to release Fallout 3 for the Xbox 360 in India, which was earlier set to release in the country on October 28. A press statement issued by Microsoft states that the game included certain content …
