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8:55 PM ET, August 8, 2009

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Boy Genius Report:
Apple iTunes 9 details, Blu-ray, app organization  —  We've just received a tip from a pretty reliable source that detailed for us some of iTunes 9's upcoming features and they're pretty exciting.  —  One of the new additions to iTunes is said to include Blu-ray support which lines up nicely …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Case Against Apple-in Five Parts  —  About six years and $20,000 ago, I made the switch to Apple products after a 20-year love affair with Microsoft.  That love affair started with the humble PCjr and ended with an IBM ThinkPad.  From DOS to the first version of Windows …
Discussion: cubicgarden.com, Thanks:jasoncalacanis
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Nokia RX-51 tablet captured in the wild  —  Not long at all after that mysterious Nokia RX-51 passed through the FCC comes shots from Indonesian message board Kaskus of the tablet-like device in the wild.  The blurred box shot and the label behind the battery clearly say RX-51 prototype …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest  —  After leaving much of the matter of creating new version of HTML to Apple, Google, Opera, and Mozilla, Microsoft has begun sinking its teeth into the Web standard.  —  The move adds clout to the effort to renovate HyperText Markup Language …
Anil Dash:
What Works: The Web Way vs. The Wave Way  —  Google Wave is an impressive set of technologies, the kind of stunningly slick application that literally makes developers stand up and cheer.  I've played with the Google Wave test sandbox a bit, and while it's definitely too complex to live up to the …
Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:
Dell Retires the Mini 12  —  You may have seen some recent reports from places like Engadget, liliputing and Electronista that the Inspiron Mini 12 was going away.  It's true.  Dell recently decided that it's time for the Mini 12 to ride off into the sunset.
Discussion: Liliputing, Electronista and Gearlog
Mmanos / LooseBolts:
The Cloud Politic - How Regulation, Taxes, and National Borders are shaping the infrastructure of the cloud  —  Most people think of ‘the cloud’ as a technical place defined by technology, the innovation of software leveraged across a scale of immense proportions and ultimately a belief …
Discussion: The Register
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
3G ‘Ophone,’ Child of China Mobile, Due Next Month  —  China Mobile's holy grail of handsets is slated for sale next month, a phone that uses both the carrier's own mobile operating system and China's next-generation cellular standard.  —  Lenovo Mobile next month aims to release China's first 3G …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Hey, What Happened To Scribd?  Traffic Down Over 48% Since June  —  Scribd, the so-called ‘YouTube for documents’ that's recently also become an Ebook store, has been seeing a major drop in traffic over the last two months.  Since June, the site has lost over 48% of its global traffic …
Discussion: TeleRead
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC wants real answers from ISPs on broadband investment  —  Yes, we know—when the FCC puts out a press release (PDF) titled “Columbia Institute for Tele-Information to Conduct Independent Review of Telecom Capital Expenditures to Assist FCC,” the eyeballs begin to glaze and the limbs feel suddenly heavy.
Discussion: CNET News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Source: Apple And Google Agreed Not To Poach Workers  —  While Google CEO Eric Schmidt was on Apple's board of directors, the two companies had an agreement not to hire away each other's workers, a former Google employee with knowledge of such matters has told us.  We have since confirmed this with other ex-Googlers.
 
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Niluksi Koswanage / Reuters:
Malaysia examines Internet filter, tougher controls
Discussion: Slashdot
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Leaked Document Reveals Eircom Deal With Irish RIAA
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Storing text docs in XML may run afoul of Microsoft patent
Discussion: The Register
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Cybersecurity Official Resigns
Urmee Khan / Telegraph:
British troops encouraged to use Twitter
GamesIndustry.biz:
Gaming dominates iPhone sales while apps are most popular on Android
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
FT.com plans pay-per-article system for website
Discussion: Mark Evans, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Mia / YouTube Blog:
YouTube Gets Smarter on the Small Screen
Alexei Oreskovic / MediaFile:
Welcome to Hotel Yahoo: Check in anytime you want...
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Clueless Murdoch Move: Without Subscriber Names, Might Break With Kindle
Discussion: Chip Griffin, Techgeist and Techdirt
 

 
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The European Commission accepts requests from Austria and the Netherlands to assess UMG's proposed $775M Downtown Music acquisition announced in December 2024

 
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