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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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Ina Fried / CNET News:
I4i says not out to destroy Microsoft Word — The chairman of the company that has won a landmark injunction against Microsoft says his goal is not to see Microsoft Word pulled from store shelves. — In fact, I4i Chairman Loudon Owen said he is one of the hundreds of millions of people …
The Official Google Blog:
I scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social! — We launched iGoogle in 2005 as a way for people to quickly and easily personalize their Google experience with all the information on the web that was most useful to them. Now tens of millions of people choose to use their iGoogle homepage …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iGoogle Releases Social Gadgets — iGoogle, a personalized homepage that competes with My Yahoo, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and others, will release 19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets today that add new social and sharing features to users of the service.
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 …
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Nokia Form Global Alliance to Design, Develop and Market Mobile Productivity Solutions — Companies will collaborate to bring Microsoft Office Mobile and related communications and collaboration software and services to Nokia smartphones. — The worldwide leader in software …
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Steve Lohr / Bits:Microsoft-Nokia Alliance: An Assault on the BlackBerry
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Unreleased Apple product sighted in California - no images (yet) — There's definitely an unreleased Apple product looming - and while that bald statement is pretty much an eternal truism, product marketing plans for this one are advanced, a report this morning explains.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Dvorak Raises Doubts About U.S. CIO Kundra. White House Calls the Report “Highly Inaccurate” & “a Lie.” Kundra Speaks up — Updated: Earlier this morning, veteran technology journalist John Dvorak posted an article on his blog with the headline: Is U.S. Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?
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Avner Ronen / boxee blog:
Boxee gets a $6M catalyst — We are happy to announce that Boxee closed a $6M round of financing led by Boston-based General Catalyst with participation by prior investors Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. Neil Sequeira from General Catalyst will join our board.
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
FYI: The Pre Reports Your Location to Palm — Joey Hess has taken a closer look at the code inside webOS that reports information back to Palm and found some details on what the Pre is sending back to headquarters. Specifically, it appears that the Pre uploads (at least) the following information to Palm on a daily basis:
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Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 6 Per Cent and Smartphones Grew 27 Per Cent in Second Quarter of 2009 — Inventory Destocking Continues with 13.9 Million Units Shed by the Channel — Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009 …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Helped Twitter Deal With Attacks — Google and Twitter might be cozier than we thought. — With Facebook and FriendFeed getting together, people are starting to wonder if Twitter will need a sugar-daddy with deep pockets to thrive. We've nominated Google and suggested it spend $1 billion to do the job.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Docstoc opens up a shop for publishers — Online document host Docstoc on Wednesday is opening up an online store for publishers to sell their wares. The company is acting both as the host and the payment platform, along with the viewing technology for the documents.
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why The Associated Press plans to hold some web content off the wire — In a break with tradition, The Associated Press plans to prevent members and customers from publishing some AP content on their websites. Instead, those news organizations would link to the content on a central AP website …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much? — T-Mobile's take on the HTC Touch Pro2, a 3.6-inch-screened, slide-out-QWERTYed refresh to the company's flagship Windows Mobile phone. — The price: $349 with a 2-year contract, after instant rebate, making it T-Mobile's most expensive phone
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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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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Kaleidescape loses, DVD copying falls again — For the second time in two days, Hollywood has racked up another major legal victory over DVD-copying devices the studios say are illegal. — Kaleidescape, which had won a rare court victory over the film industry two years ago …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Are You a Digital Sharecropper? — Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy describes how many of today's websites are built by the users themselves: … This raises some disturbing parallels. Are users being turned into digital sharecroppers?
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Why Apple Is More Valuable Than Google — A look at what's behind the Mac and iPhone maker's now firm market-cap edge on the Web-search leader, and how it could one day challenge Microsoft — Now that Apple (AAPL) has once again passed Google (GOOG) in market value, can the consumer-electronics maker maintain its lead?
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
8GB iPhone 3GS Rumor Refuses to Die (Because It Might Actually Be True) — When we asked Rogers about the 8GB iPhone 3GS semi-featured on their website, they said this: “There is no 8GB 3GS iPhone.” Case closed! Except this rumor is back, with evidence. Someone at Rogers is either confused, lying, or both.
Efficient Frontier Insights:
Is Bing on a Roll? — As the industry comes together this week at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, we thought it was appropriate to take another look at Bing trends to see if they were holding, folding or on the uptick. — We last reported a 13% increase in paid click share for Microsoft.
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Ars Technica, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Alley Insider and Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul
Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
ICANN: Domain Tasting Down 99.7% — ICANN policy change leads to drastic drop in domain tasting. — ICANN released a report (pdf) today that shows a 99.7% drop in domain tasting since adding new penalties to the practice. “Domain tasting” refers to registering a domain name and then returning …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Wikipedia approaches its limits — The online encyclopedia is about to hit 3m articles in English - but growth is stalling as ‘inclusionists’ and ‘deletionists’ fight for control — Yet again, Wikipedia is about to break new ground. The website that has become one of the biggest open repositories …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
How Do iPhone Users Find New Apps? — AdMob just released some data about how iPhone users discover new apps in the App Store and how they use them once they have downloaded them. According to AdMob, most users download apps from the App Store directly from their phones. Only 7% go through iTunes to download apps.
PC Magazine:
Hands On with the Zune HD, Plus Video — Earlier today, José Piñero, Zune's new senior director of marketing, swung by the PCMag.com Labs to preview the brand-new Zune HD for us. — While there are still lots of unanswered questions (Piñero wouldn't confirm pricing or capacities …
