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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Thumbing Windows 7 onto Netbooks — Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on Netbooks ever since it introduced the operating system last fall. However, helping consumers get it on their notebooks has proven more tricky. — Microsoft is considering offering Windows 7 on a thumb drive …
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:Windows 7 preorders begin in the US, Canada, and Japan (Updated x3)
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Seattle Times, Robert X. Cringely's blog, CloudAve, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Hardware 2.0, fiercecio.comwatch, Engadget and Gizmodo
Philip Lam / all things Pre:
Sprint throws a punch at the iPhone and AT&T — Here we have an ad from Sprint that's directed at early 1st gen iPhone adaptors. Bringing out the fact that the Pre can run “multiple applications” and save you $1200 in the long run, that's if you drop your 1st gen iPhone and come over to Sprint for the Pre.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google thought Michael Jackson traffic was attack — Google has confirmed that the surge of Michael Jackson-related searches on Google News Thursday was first interpreted as an attack on its service. — Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors …
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Los Angeles Times:TV misses out as gossip website TMZ reports Michael Jackson's death first
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ZDNet, Michael Jackson, CNET News, DailyFinance, Michael Calderone's Blog, NY Daily News, The Awl, Romenesko, Beet.TV, L.A. Now and Wikinomics
Latest Alerts From Websense Security Labs:Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code: Michael Jackson Death Prompts Malicious Spam
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Michael Jackson-related traffic doubled Twitter's update frequency …
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Ted Landau / Macworld:
Bugs & Fixes: iPhone 3GS signal strength oddities — I warn you at the outset. This is not going to be one of those Bugs & Fixes with a neatly defined set of symptoms and a iron-clad solution. This one's a bit messy. Here's the deal: — Almost immediately after getting my new iPhone 3GS …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Mole exclusive: PS3, 360 price drops coming this fall — Our favorite inside source has given us a heads-up on what to expect from both Sony and Microsoft this year in hardware packages and pricing. The path to the holidays is a rosy one, with more hard drive space inside the systems at a lower price.
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Gizmodo, VG247, Electronista, DigitalBattle.com, Joystiq, CrunchGear, Kotaku, TechSpot and Crave
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
Amazon Pulls the Plug on NC Associates while Google and Apple Enjoy Sweet State Tax Deals — This morning, Amazon Associates in North Carolina are awakening to some bitter news. As of today, their accounts are officially closed. This is anticipation - yes, anticipation, not the actual passage …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google chief: Iran can't control the net — Eric Schmidt hopes YouTube clips of Iranian election protests have helped lessen retribution meted out by the authorities — The Google chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said today that he hopes that clips of the Iranian election protests posted on YouTube …
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Eli Lake / Washington Times:Iranian protesters avoid censorship with Navy technology
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Danger Room
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Link from Yahoo breaks traffic records at New York Times — Behold the power of Yahoo: A link at the top of the site's front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper.
Strategy Analytics:
48% of Americans Would Drop Mobile Data Service Completely — Mobile Data, Voice Most Vulnerable in the Bundle — Faced with the need to reduce household expenditures, forty-eight percent of Americans would drop their mobile data plan completely, according to research about to be published …
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IntoMobile, Telecompetitor, Local Mobile Search, DSLreports, InformationWeek and CIO.com
Cyril Altmeyer / Reuters:
Google CEO says worst of crisis is over — * CEO says “reasonable to be optimistic for 2010” — * Sees U.S. recovery starting in autumn — A U.S. recovery is likely to begin this autumn, the worst of the crisis has passed and it is “reasonable to be optimistic for 2010” …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Briefly: more affordable iMacs from Apple expected by fall — Apple, which recently shaved down the cost of its popular Mac notebook lines, remains on track to pass on similar treatment to its all-in-one desktop line by this fall. — Back in April, AppleInsider reported that the Mac maker …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
So Much for Video Conversations: Seesmic Puts Its Video Service on Hold — When you hear the name Seesmic today, chances are that you are thinking about a Twitter client, but once upon a time, Seesmic was a much-hyped online “video conversation” service. Now, however, after a recent redesign …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Analyst: Nokia to Offer an Android Netbook in 2010 — Nokia plans to launch an ARM-based netbook that relies on the Google-pioneered Android mobile operating system in 2010, writes Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir in a research note issued this morning.
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Electronista, Gizmodo, GPS Obsessed, VentureBeat, mocoNews, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, Android Phone Fans and FierceWireless
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Is Free News Really Worth the Price? — PARIS — If you are reading this, I am doing my job. — Roughly speaking, that is the compact that has underpinned the ties that bind those who write the news to those who read it. — But as the world hurtles into a digital era, other questions intrude …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Big Software Plans for Amazon's Kindle? — Amazon.com's buying and hiring signal that many more Kindle apps may be on the way—plus software to put Amazon books on other mobile devices — Giant online retailer Amazon.com may be plotting a broader foray into software for smartphones.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adding Insult To Injury: MySpace Botches Layoffs — When you've just gotten laid off, the last thing you want to hear is that you can't cash your last check because of one final payroll screwup. But that's apparently exactly what's going on over at MySpace, which laid off over 30% of its staff …
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Gawker
Charles Eicher / The Register:
Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain — How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge — Special report The public domain is the greatest resource in human history: eventually all knowledge will become part of it. Its riches serve all mankind, but it faces a new threat.
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TeleRead
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Who Exactly Is In Charge Of The App Store? Anyone? — Okay, the situation surrounding the App Store and its approval process continues to get weirder and weirder. — As you may have heard, an application featuring nudity first appeared in the App Store yesterday.
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PC World, NEWSFACTOR, Contentinople, MacRumors, CrunchGear, The Register, p2pnet, I4U News and Gadget Lab
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Sense Networks gets $6M in hotly contested deal for “tribe” advertising — Sense Networks, a company that can track “tribes” of people — such as those who like the same bars and same movies — to better target them with instant advertising, has raised $6 million in new venture financing in a hotly contested deal.
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
HP releases iPhone versions of classic calculators — Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced iPhone-app versions of three classic HP calculators: the HP 12c, HP 12c Platinum, and HP 15C. — When run in landscape mode, each app uses the original ROM code and provides an exact visual replica …
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, CNET News, jkOnTheRun, VentureBeat, The iPhone Blog, Obsessable, The Raw Feed and MobileContentToday
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
imeem Wants to Simplify Its Service - Deletes All User-Generated Photos and Videos — imeem, which describes itself as the “world's largest social music service,” just told its community members that it plans to delete all photos and videos that users have uploaded to their profiles …
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Music is Social
Joseph Bonneau / Light Blue Touchpaper:
The Economics of Privacy in Social Networks — We often think of social networking to Facebook, MySpace, and the also-rans, but in reality there are there are tons of social networks out there, dozens which have membership in the millions. Around the world it's quite a competitive market.
