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Reid Hoffman / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing Applications on LinkedIn — Hi Everyone. I'm writing today to announce the launch of LinkedIn's applications platform that will enable over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform — LinkedIn has launched its new OpenSocial-based application platform called InApps - an answer to the platforms found on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, but without the clutter and “junk” apps that plague those sites.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions — Thanks to a special blessing from the folks in Redmond, we've had an opportunity to thoroughly give the rejiggered Xbox 360 Dash (AKA, the New Xbox Experience) a serious run through, and we've got the lowdown on the future of your gaming life.
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to launch Android handset in 1H09 — Asustek Computer plans to launch its first Android-based Google phone in the first half of 2009, according to company sources. Asustek may initially sell the Android-powered handsets under its own brand in the Taiwan market before also launching customized models …
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Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Speed Dials Cell Overhaul — New Mobile Chief Plans to Slash More Jobs, Focus on Google Software to Simplify Design and Cut Costs — Motorola Inc.'s new cellphone chief is moving quickly to scale back the struggling division, simplifying the way it makes devices and cutting additional jobs.
Vivek Shankar / Bloomberg:
Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses — Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. handled a larger chunk of U.S. Internet searches last month while Microsoft Corp. lost market share, according to researcher ComScore Inc. — Yahoo had about 20.2 percent of queries in September …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Wall Street Gives Up On Yahoo-Google Search, Wants Microsoft Deal
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Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
HP gets serious about Netbooks — The Mini 1000 MIE has a custom HP interface meant to hide its Linux OS from users. — After a brief experiment in the education market, Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday is set to introduce a whole line of Netbooks for mainstream consumers.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Garmin: Nuvifone on track for 2009 launch, but economy hurts outlook — Garmin said Wednesday that it nuvifone, a GPS enabled phone, is on track to launch in the first half of 2009 and should hit carrier labs in the earlier part of the year. — Garmin added in a statement that it has signed letters …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed — Switzerland-based Logitech, maker of personal computer peripherals, is entering the software market by acquiring internet video communications services provider SightSpeed for $30 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in early November.
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google SearchWiki — Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the experimental feature: “Things are a bit smoother this time.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Designing the New MacBook: Why It Couldn't Have FireWire — Rainer Brockerhoff's studied dissection of the new MacBook's design—how certain design choices intersect with the realities of components to produce real notebooks—perfectly explains how they are not simply a wishlist of parts and features that magically come together.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Former AOL Exec Raises Funding For Sports Blogs Network — Former AOL executive vice president of consumer and publisher services Jim Bankoff has secured a “mid-seven-figure sum” of venture capital for SB Nation, a startup network of sports blogs. We already mentioned this briefly …
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Robin Harris / Storage Bits:
Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! — Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. — With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope.
Jim Courtney / GigaOM:
Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer — Having followed activity in the BlackBerry ecosystem over the past few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that BlackBerry Storm should be called BlackBerry Stealth. Why? With little media coverage, its forthcoming launch is the sleeper play …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Short Term Profits Over Long Term Principles; Google's Caving On Book Scanning Is Bad News — Today the tech/business press was filled with stories about how Google has settled the lawsuits from authors and publishers over its book scanning project. Google is paying $125 million …
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Samsung NC10 — This 10-inch netbook trumps the field with its spacious keyboard and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Current Price: $550.00 (1 seller) — Review Contents: … The Samsung NC10 has joined the ranks of 10-inch netbooks—including the Eee PC 1000H, MSI Wind, and Lenovo IdeaPad S10—and it beats them all.
Financial Times:
Out with a Bang — People flush with cash and with an eye for design have spent voraciously on loudspeakers, televisions and mobile phones from Danish audio and video company Bang & Olufsen in recent years. — But in a sign that €800 ($1,022) mobile phones and €1,250 DVD recorders …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Online Office: Microsoft keeps promising while Google delivers — No one really expected Microsoft to completely abandon the idea of desktop software, did they? Today, at the Professional Developers Conference, the company announced that it will be rolling out “Office Web applications,” …
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Eric Caoili / Gamasutra:
Survey: 11 Percent Of Gamers Own Unopened Games — A new packaging-related study conducted by analyst firm The NPD Group reveals that the average video game collection has 48 titles, and also confronts the demons of unplayed games, revealing that 11% percent of all households have bought games that are still shrinkwrapped.
