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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Begins Testing Facebook Lite, A Faster Simpler Version Of The Service — It looks like Facebook has tonight turned on a feature called “Facebook Lite” for some users to test out. We're getting bombarded by tips about it, and some of us are seeing it as well.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
What Facebook Lite Actually Is. Hint: It's Not Twitter Or FriendFeed. — So, the web pretty much exploded tonight over the appearance of something called “Facebook Lite,” a new service that's apparently being beta tested by Facebook. But users who received the message that they were invited …
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore — A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell one of its flagship products, Word, in the United States because of patent infringement. — You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled.
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Nancy Gohring / Computerworld:
Injunction on Microsoft Word unlikely to halt sales — IDG News Service - A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Microsoft Word products in their current form in the U.S., but legal appeals or technical work-arounds make an actual halt of sales unlikely.
stevenf.com:
On Saturday night, we drove up to Seattle to attend a memorial service for my wife's grandmother. Shortly after checking into the hotel, I checked the inbox on my Android phone and found myself staring at the words “Philip Schiller”. — Needless to say, I had a minor freakout.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Schiller Reaches Out Again To Acknowledge App Store Problems — A few weeks ago, we wrote about Steven Frank, a well-known Mac developer who was giving up his iPhone over his disgust with the ways Apple is managing the App Store. (This was right before Mike also gave up his iPhone).
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac, DailyFinance, VoIP Watch, Silicon Alley Insider and FierceDeveloper, Thanks:atul
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? — Maybe it's better to host your own. That's the thinking coming from a growing number of early technology adopters as service after service goes down, sells out or otherwise frustrates the users who have published their content online …
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Jorge Escobar / jungleG:After FriendFeed's Sale, Trust In Social Sites Has Been Shattered
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tr.im URLs:
tr.im Resurrected — We have restored tr.im, and re-opened its website. We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the popular response, and the countless public and private appeals I have received to keep tr.im alive. — We have answered those pleas. Nambu will keep tr.im operating going forward …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, Nokia plan mobile Office deal — Microsoft is expected on Wednesday to announce a partnership with European mobile giant Nokia to help get its Office software onto that company's mobile phones, CNET News has learned. — With the next version of Office, Microsoft is trying …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
RealNetworks Barred From Selling DVD Copy Maker — RealNetworks, the Seattle-based digital media company, portrays itself as fighting for people's right to legally make backup copies of the DVDs they own. It appears to have lost at least the first and perhaps most important round of the battle.
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Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
Zune HD Release Date and Packaging Leaked, Will Hit Stores September 15th — Some loyal Giz readers and Best Buy employees sent us a couple shots of the much-anticipated Zune HD's packaging, and they clearly state that the gorgeous PMP will be available on September 15th. Break out the wallets, people.
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Onion News Network:
Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village — Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products and natural light from the sun.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Nokia: We're Fully Commited To Symbian — The Financial Times (Germany) quoted a source close to Nokia saying that the company might dump the Symbian operating system and instead opt for its LinuxOS, Mameo. The rumor got picked up by various blogs and built up a life its own.
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Mobile Opportunity, TechCrunch Europe, Technologizer, Mobile Roar, GottaBeMobile.com, MobileContentToday and Seeking Alpha
Eric Auchard / Commentaries:
Twitter backlash foretold — Technology market research firm Gartner Inc has published the 2009 “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies,” its effort to chart out what's hot or not at the cutting edge of hi-tech jargon. It's just one of an annual phalanx of reports that handicap some 1,650 technologies …
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dot.life, Tech Central, Gartner, Pocket-lint.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, broadstuff, Silicon Alley Insider and MediaMemo
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Proposes To Ban Sponsored Status Updates — Today Facebook has posted a note to its blog indicating that it's proposing an update to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities — one of the site's documents that establishes user rights and Facebook's Terms of Service.
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
iTunes 9 screenshots surface. We call fake — COMMENT: Nothing but a bad photoshop job — Images of what are reportedly screenshots of iTunes 9 have turned up online on Tuesday, however talking to a number of imaging experts Pocket-lint believe they are fakes.
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:First reported screenshots of iTunes 9 emerge; Facebook …
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The Apple Core, IntoMobile, Silicon Alley Insider, BusinessWeek, Technologizer, SlashGear, Switched, TUAW, AppleInsider, The iPhone Blog and MacDailyNews
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Xbox gaming platform may soon span Web, console, mobile — A new job posting suggests that Microsoft is looking to create a gaming platform that goes beyond just the Xbox 360. Way beyond. — According to a job posting from August 10, 2009, Microsoft is looking for a LIVE Community Director in the Entertainment & Devices Division.
Lars Bastholm / Business Week:
The Content Crisis — As media ads dry up, phone outfits and Net providers could just slap content fees onto their bills. (Of course, this will upend the ad biz) — The signs are everywhere. The New York Times is close to bankruptcy. Magazines are dying in droves.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Sunny H / Liberal Conspiracy:
Exclusive: Guardian considering charging for “members' club” (updated) — Senior executives at the Guardian newspaper are considering launching a “members' club” for newspaper readers. — The move, as you can imagine, is being considered to boost revenue at the liberal-left newspaper.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
What If All Web Ads Were Blocked? Ten Speculative Scenarios — Last week, I blogged about a post over at Windows IT Pro that posited that all browsers would include ad-blocking as a standard feature within five years, and that it would be turned on by default.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Google File System II: Dawn of the Multiplying Master Nodes — A sequel two years in the making — Increase responsiveness and effectiveness in your organizations — As its custom-built file system strains under the weight of an online empire it was never designed to support, Google is brewing a replacement.
