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Macenstein:
And then there was porn — Today the iTunes app store became a man, having finally seen its first adult app. Meaning nudity. Meaning boobies. — The app responsible for taking iTunes' virginity is called “Hottest Girls” ($1.99), an app that until today was merely a bunch of Asian chicks in lingerie.
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ITworld.com, MobileCrunch, iPhone Savior, MacRumors, The iPhone Blog, I4U News, Mashable!, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, the Econsultancy blog and Engadget
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, iPorn Is Here For The iPhone — Just as we were speculating a couple nights ago, Apple has apparently decided that with the new parental controls now built into the iPhone 3.0 SDK, nudity is now okay in iPhone apps. The first such app, Hottest Girls, has actually been around for a little while.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
The iPhone Software Revolution — The original iPhone was for suckers hard-core gadget enthusiasts only. But as I predicted, 12 months later, the iPhone 3G rectified all the shortcomings of the first version. And now, with the iPhone 3GS, we've reached the mythical third version:
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program & Windows 7 Pricing - Bring on GA! — Today we have some news to share around Windows 7 including answering what may be some of the “hottest” questions people have as we head toward General Availability (GA) on October 22nd.
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, Engadget, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, SlashGear and GottaBeMobile.com
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Brandon LeBlanc / windowsteamblog.com:Windows 7 Pricing and Offers Q&A Transcript
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Bryan Barletta / Medialets:
Palm Pre App Catalog Reaches 1 Million Downloads — Just 18 days after the launch of the Palm Pre, their App Catalog has hit its first major milestone, 1 million downloads. On launch day, Palm sold 50k devices and their App Catalog experienced 100k downloads - that's an average …
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Bits, mocoNews, Joe Wilcox, Gadgetell, SlashGear, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint.com, Engadget Mobile, TechCrunch, jkOnTheRun, AppScout, PreCentral.net, Digital Daily, textually.org, New York Times and digg.com
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Theo Skye / Medialets:
Speed Test: iPhone 3GS Even Faster than Apple Claims — Apple has made claims that the iPhone OS 3.0 yields significant performance gains on the 3G model, and that the new 3GS can accomplish the same tasks up to twice as fast as its predecessors. Anecdotally, the new 3GS definitely “feels” faster under certain conditions.
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Why We Need Steve Jobs — Love him or hate him, Apple needs its CEO back. Now. … I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It's the new top-of-the-line iPhone 3GS, and it costs $299, and I waited in line for it even though I already …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Working on Major Brand Overhaul (Pretty Please, No More Yodeling!) — In the past, Yahoo has used killer lasers and giant afros and has even tried a dog rising from the dead to brand itself. — Also, of course, there was the yodeler. — That was in 2003 …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
CBS Interactive's Smith On Authentication: ‘70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work’ — It didn't take long for CBS to issue a statement after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) announced the upcoming national trial of TV Everywhere, expressing interest in anything …
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment — City Tours is a new addition to Google Labs that puts Google squarely in the tourism business: Give it a city name, and Google not only suggests sites to see, but it also maps out a multi-day itinerary and proposes a minute-by-minute travel schedule for you to follow.
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TechCrunch, Google Operating System, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Softpedia News, Guardian, The Steve Rubel Lifestream and Google Maps Mania, Thanks:mattmcgee
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’ — The Internet search giant is “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper business, Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton complains, before hinting he's working on a cure. — The gloves are coming off in the intensifying battle between newspaper publishers and Google.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Takes Aim at Twitter: New Publisher Makes Public Status Updates Easy — Facebook has just announced that it's now testing a new version of the “publisher” that allows users to choose who can see their status updates and posts. The most interesting part? The first option is “everyone.”
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Softpedia News, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb, The Web Life, Silicon Alley Insider, All Facebook, Lifehacker and FBHive, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Olaoluwa ‘Ola’ Okelola / Facebook Blog:More Ways to Share in the Publisher
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Regular Geek, CNET News, MediaFile, Gadgetwise, TechCrunch, PC World, FBHive, AppScout, TheNextWeb.com, Inside Facebook, Mashable! and Pocket-lint.com
Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog:
The Power of Word in Outlook — This morning we became aware of a Twitter campaign run from the website http://fixoutlook.org. This campaign is intended to provide Microsoft with feedback about our decision to continue to use Microsoft Word for composing and displaying e-mail in the upcoming release of Microsoft Outlook 2010.
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Email Standards Project, The Register, Softpedia News, Technologizer, All about Microsoft, CNET News, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, TECH.BLORGE.com, ITworld.com, ZDNET.com.au, ChannelWeb, Mashable!, BetaNews, Social Media Today, Network World, The Bivings Report, Global Nerdy, SitePoint, PC World and TechCrunch
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Zune HD video hands-on quickie — Sure, we've been chummy with the Zune HD in the past, but we just took it for a quick spin on video so you can check out those smooth transitions for yourself. Unfortunately, the unit we were playing with had zero content loaded on it …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:Rumor: Zune HD Comes in 16/32GB Sizes, Launches September 8
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, Neowin.net, CrunchGear, Pocket-lint.com, Gearlog and WMPoweruser.com
Richard Tyler / Telegraph:
Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading — Hedge fund managers are turning to Twitter in an attempt to steal a march on their rivals. — Traders are using software developed by US-based technology StreamBase to monitor “tweets” for price sensitive information.
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
HTC Sense interface coming to HTC Magic? — CEO hints at existing devices getting new interface — HTC has confirmed to Pocket-lint that its new Sense interface found on the Android-touting HTC Hero, would be available on other devices the company has already released.
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Boy Genius Report, Android Central, Android Community, Gizmodo, Android Authority, SlashGear, Phone Arena, AndroidGuys, I4U News, TmoNews and Google Android News …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Shaq Just Find Out He Was Traded On Twitter? — Another day, another weird Twitter story. Tonight the news broke that NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal was being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Huge news, but what's humorous is that apparently Shaq found out he was traded on Twitter.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple TV 2.4 Update Now Available, Updated Remote App with Gestures [Updated] — Apple has quietly released a new software update to the Apple TV which brings the system software up to version 2.4. The exact changes have not yet been listed by Apple so we can't tell you everything that's been changed just yet.
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Podcasting News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, The iPhone Blog, Ars Technica, MacDailyNews, Gadgetwise, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint.com, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, iPodNN, iLounge and GeekBrief.TV
Bloomberg:
‘Simpsons’ Draws Higher Rates on Internet than TV as Ads Target Loyal Fans — Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV. — The premium rates …
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Microsoft Defends Its Empire — Microsoft is under siege from rivals offering cheap or free software on the Web. So it's revamping its Office suite and shifting into online services — When a Microsoft (MSFT) salesman dropped by IT consultant Westcon Group's Tarrytown (N.Y.) …
Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Story of Neda's Death Reveals 7 Elements of Next-Step Journalism — Just before ending his news conference Tuesday, President Obama called on CNN's Suzanne Malveaux for one last question. — MALVEAUX: Back to Iran, putting a human face on this. Over the weekend, we saw a shocking video of this woman …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Richard Marx (!) attacks RIAA after $1.92M Thomas verdict — There was a time in my life during which I left Richard Marx's “Paid Vacation” album in my stereo system for weeks at a time. This was not because I felt a spiritual craving for the music so strong that only repeated listenings would satisfy.
Rik Ferguson / Counter Measures:
Targeted Attack Designed to Infect Both Macs and PCs. — UPDATE (25th June): Guy Kawasaki has stated that his Twitter account was not compromised, the malicious tweet came from a feed that Guy's account is subscribed to automatically post. The feed comes from NowPublic, a user generated news feed.
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blogs.chron.com, Sophos, TrendLabs, Digits, Zero Day, Softpedia News, The Apple Core, CNET News, eWeek Security Watch, internetnews.com, GigaLaw.com Daily News and PC World
