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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T? — Liked that blurry photo of a new Palm webOS phone we saw earlier? Well how about some specs, a name, and a better look at this thing? Enter the device above, apparently dubbed the Palm Eos (codenamed Castle... where have we seen that before? …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm's next webOS device? Pre Centro? — One of our ninjas just hit us up with the above photo... they said it would be Palm's next webOS device, the rumored Centro-esque handset. No specs or anything, just a “Fall” release date. Sorry for the blurry and small photo, but it's legit!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:More Info On The Palm “Mini-Pre”: Code Name Pixie
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I4U News, Tech Trader Daily, blogs.ft.com, ITworld.com, Gadgetell, PreCentral.net, Boy Genius Report and Gizmodo
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to introduce more affordable Macs, sources say — Determined to grow its share of the personal computer market during the worst economic climate in its corporate history, Apple is tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings that will help drive down prices of some of the most popular Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
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CNET News, Tech Trader Daily, MacRumors, MobileContentToday, The Toybox, Pulse2 and Neowin.net
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impressions, insights, and expectations — As you may or may not know, Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 has been officially handed out to MSDN and TechNet subscribers today, and there are plans to unleash the heavily-hyped OS to the waiting public at large come May 5th.
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Windows 7 Release Candidate Is Available From Microsoft — Industry experts advise partners, companies and developers to preview Microsoft's next operating system. — Today Microsoft Corp. has reached a significant milestone with the Release Candidate (RC) of the highly anticipated Windows …
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
Acer confirms Windows 7 available 23 October … Acer has confirmed that Windows 7 will be available pre-loaded on their new all-in-one Z5600 PC, from the 23 October 2009, not by the end of January 2010 as Microsoft has been previously suggesting. — Although some rumours have put …
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Between the Lines, TechFlash, Download Squad, CNET News, Windows 7 Center, Electronista, TechSpot, Digital Inspiration, Gizmodo and dailywireless.org, Thanks:radioedit
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:Microsoft fires another shot at Linux netbooks by extending XP availability
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Finally: Disney, Hulu Deal Announced — Took 'em long enough. — Just as MediaMemo predicted, Walt Disney Co. has finally taken a stake in Hulu, the video-streaming site operated by General Electric's (GE) NBC Universal, News Corp. (NWS) and Providence Equity Partners.
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Washington Post, CNET News, The Technology Chronicles, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, paidContent.org, Business Wire, Silicon Alley Insider and Gizmodo, Thanks:atul
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Hulu Blog:
Like minds — Big day! I'm happy to announce that The Walt Disney Company is going to join us in our admittedly ambitious mission. The specifics are in the official release below. — As a Hulu team, we are over the moon for a number of reasons. Yes, we are excited to help audiences …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Time's 100 Most Influential People Includes 4chan And Twitter Creators — This list is in. Time has released its annual Time 100 list, honoring the most influential people in the world. There are a lot of interesting names including Sarah Palin and President Obama, but let's focus on the names from the tech sphere.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Apple Is Serious About Gaming: Steals Xbox Senior Director of Strategy — Anybody who said Apple wasn't serious about gaming can swallow their pundit nuggets right now: They just hired Richard Teversham, Xbox Europe's (now former) senior director of business, insights and strategy.
PRWeb:
Nielsen Mobile Highlights Twitter and Predicto as Industry Leaders; Report Details the Diversity Among Free Versus Paid Mobile Communities — A study released today utilizing data from Nielsen Mobile, illustrated a comparative analysis of the user demographics and market penetration of Twitter …
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Wayne Schulz / Gear Diary:
Amazon starts charging by the megabyte for delivering personal documents to your Kindle - adds support for DOCX and RTF file formats — Amazon just revealed a few changes to their Kindle supported documents as well as modifications to their whispernet fee structure.
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Gizmodo, The Register, Between the Lines, CrunchGear, Maximum PC all, SlashGear and Gearlog
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone Sweeps JD Power Consumer Smartphone Ratings — Except In Battery Life — The latest 2009 JD Power Consumer Smartphone Satisfaction Study numbers are in. And the winner is ... the iPhone. Apple's device nearly swept every category, with top marks in operating system, features …
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Between the Lines, CNET News, Electronista, Ars Technica, TWICE, The iPhone Blog, Macsimum News and TUAW
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield and Chief Architect Henderson Working on Stealth Start-Up — Yesterday, several Flickr engineers posted news of their layoffs from the Yahoo photo-sharing unit on Twitter, which caused GigaOm's Om Malik to notice that Flickr architect Cal Henderson (pictured here) was also no longer on its About page.
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BBC:
Web tool ‘as important as Google’ — A web tool that “could be as important as Google”, according to some experts, has been shown off to the public. — Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram. — The free program aims to answer questions directly …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Filing confirms Apple exploring carbon fiber Mac enclosures — A new patent filing discovered by AppleInsider provides some of the first public evidence that Apple is indeed exploring carbon fiber-like enclosures for future product designs, corroborating an earlier report on the matter.
Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
Who's on deck in tech? — Apple's Steve Jobs isn't the only chief executive apparently without a concrete plan for passing the torch. Surprisingly few technology CEOs have anointed heirs. — (Fortune Magazine) — Last year when Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed visible signs of illness …
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
FACE(BOOK) VALUE — SOCIAL NETWORK CAN'T GET FRIENDLY FUNDING NUMBERS — Facebook has been holding exploratory meetings with private-equity firms about raising another round of funding, but the two sides are $3 billion apart on what the popular social-networking Web site is worth, The Post has learned.
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Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, tinyComb and Venture Capital Dispatch
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel — According to French blog Nowhere Else, someone has been able to access Twitter's administration area, and they've got a bunch of screenshots to prove it. — The URL which leads to Twitter's admin page is simple enough (and open to everyone): “https …
Matt Holliday / Inside Facebook:
Ruba Banking on Facebook Connect to Accelerate User Generated Content Library — Travel site Ruba has just launched, and it's taking advantage of Facebook Connect to build its user-generated content library. — Ruba features user-generated reviews and articles on travel centering …
