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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
October Surprise: TiVo to Stream Netflix — In the beginning, there was Netflix streaming movies and TV content to the PC, and it was “meh.” Then there was the Roku Netflix player and it was actually pretty good. And lo, then there was Netflix streaming to the Xbox …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Netflix and TiVo to Partner on Movies — Two of the scrappiest bantamweights in Silicon Valley, Netflix and TiVo, are expected to announce a long-awaited partnership on Thursday. — Netflix will place its Watch Instantly streaming-movie service on TiVo's HD-compatible set-top boxes …
Apple:
MobileMe: About the Late-September 2008 MobileMe update — This article provides more detailed information about some recent improvements and the resolution of known issues that Apple delivered in the Late-September 2008 update to MobileMe services. — Apple is always working to improve MobileMe.
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TechCrunch, The iPhone Blog, Infinite Loop, Insanely Great Mac, MacBlogz, MacUser, MacRumors and Apple Gazette
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Motorola: No Google Android ‘GPhones’ Til Next Christmas — Motorola's (MOT) cellphone business restructuring includes a big bet on Google's (GOOG) Android platform, which Motorola hopes to use for several high-end smartphones and mid-level phones. So when will we see their first ‘GPhone’?
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
A tough decision: Grab an iPhone or wait for the Storm? — Verizon Wireless and Research in Motion should be thanking one particular customer service rep for stopping at least one customer - me - from defecting to AT&T and the iPhone this week. I had called in to find out about altering …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse — Here's a video of star VC John Doerr reciting his 10 tips for start-ups to follow in the economic downturn. — Doerr gave out the advice at VentureBeat's “How to manage your start-up in the downturn” …
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PR Newswire:
CBS Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results — Revenues of $3.4 Billion Up 3% — Television Segment Revenues of $2.1 Billion Up 2% — Adjusted Net Earnings of $290.3 Million and Adjusted Diluted EPS of $.43 — Free Cash Flow of $1.4 Billion for the First Nine Months of 2008
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NeoSmart Technologies / The NeoSmart Files:
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google's made the switch to OpenID, joining Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks OpenID providers. — But it looks like someone may have been a bit to hasty to pull that switch …
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PC World, Profy, p2pnet, Zoho Blogs, webmonkey, TheNextWeb.org, SitePoint Blogs, David Recordon's Blog, Webware.com, TechCrunch, BetaNews, WebProNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Slashdot and CostPerNews
Ben Charny / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Mulls Service Bundles for Netbooks — Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to employ a new tactic to market “netbook” computers in the U.S., offering them at a steep discount to customers who sign-up for wireless service contracts. — This bundling of cellular service with PCs isn't done in the U.S. …
BBC:
Pirate swoop ‘catches’ non-gamers — Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed. — The magazine was contacted by Gill and Ken Murdoch, from Scotland, who had been accused of sharing the game Race07 by makers Atari.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
RADUS Debuts Slick Application For Consuming And Discovering Online Content — RADUS (pronounced “radius") is a new media hub that serves as an aggregator for content that includes RSS feeds, videos, photos, and music. And while the site certainly isn't the first to bring all of these together …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff — Social networks are front and center in the latest redesign of AOL's AOL.com homepage, which the company announced Thursday and says it will start to gradually roll out to users over the next few weeks (unless they choose to opt in earlier).
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Scott Gilbertson / webmonkey:
Cruz: New Mac Browser Off to an Impressive Start — Cruz is a very slick new entry in the Mac OS X browser world. Built on WebKit, the same engine that powers Apple's Safari, Cruz looks and renders just like Safari, but layers on power-user features that raise it far above Apple's default offering.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Walls Come Down On AOL.com — Last month AOL began releasing parts of its new tear-down-the-walls home page strategy, allowing users to view email from Yahoo and Gmail. — Today they launch the rest of the new features (we had a leaked screen shot here).
ICANN:
EstDomains Update: Notice of Termination Stayed — On 28 October 2008, ICANN sent a notice of termination to EstDomains http://www.icann.org/correspondence/ burnette-to-tsastsin-28oct08-en.pdf [PDF, 76K]. Based on an Estonian Court record, ICANN has reason to believe that the president of EstDomains …
Meghan Keane / Epicenter:
Study: iPhone Users Not All High Earning Tech Geeks — Only one percent of cellphone users have an iPhone, and while it may seem like most iPhone owners are just dropping disposable income on the latest tech gadget (present company excluded, of course), that is changing rapidly.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Psystar releases Mac-compatible Blu-ray before Apple, but does anyone want it? — Psystar, possibly Apple's least favourite PC manufacturer, has put out a press release to say it is “shipping Blue-ray and 9800GT equipped computers before Apple's release of these peripheral products on their own computers.”
PC World:
Flexible 125-inch Plasma Display Coming in 2009 — A Japanese display start-up is well on the way to commercializing a 3-meter wide flexible plasma display and expects the first models to appear next year. — The 125-inch display is made using a proprietary plasma array technology developed …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Brocade reduces Foundry Networks buyout bid — Shares of Foundry Networks soared more than 17 percent in premarket trading Thursday, after the company announced last evening that its merger with Brocade was still alive but at a lower purchase price. — Under the revised agreement …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Azure manages to avoid a Hailstorm of criticism — LOS ANGELES—Microsoft's Hailstorm prompted an avalanche of criticism when it was proposed seven years ago, but developers seem to have few qualms with Windows Azure, which embraces many of the same notions.
Samuel Axon / Engadget:
Asus, Intel launch WePC website, ask community to design PCs for them — True power is derived from the people, yes? Asus and Intel know this well, so they've launched a website called WePC, where users can draw up concepts and specs for new netbook and notebook models then argue about how fantastic or utterly impractical they are.
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Ben Fritz / Variety:
Atari gets ‘Riddick,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ — Videogame sequels planned for both franchises — ‘The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena’ — Atari has bought the rights to publish a new game based on ‘Ghostbusters,’ among other games.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Orange rules out using Phorm's ad technology — Orange, the mobile and broadband operator, has decided not to use Phorm's targeted advertising technology because of concerns about protecting its customers' data. — Paul-François Fournier, senior vice-president of Orange's online …
Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
Review: Aigo P8860 MID — Launched in China in early August, the Aigo P8860 recently became the first (and currently only) Intel MID to be available worldwide. With the help of the Atom-powered device's first official reseller, Direct from Japan, the P8860 is now shipping to destinations all over the world.
