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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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Eric M. Zeman / Phone Scoop:
Palm Issues Statement Over Palm Pre Privacy Concerns — Today a report surfaced that accused webOS and the Palm Pre of sending end-user information — including location data and what sort of applications were running — back to Palm without end-user consent.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
OS X Snow Leopard May Beat Apple's Timetable. On The Prowl In Just Two Weeks? — There's been talk the past couple of days that the latest developer build of OS X Snow Leopard, 10A432, has been designated the “Golden Master” version, meaning it's ready for prime time. Multiple sources are now stating it is.
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Bboyer / Hacker Journalist:
Sex offenders: Your tweets (and LinkedIn and TimesPeople) are now a felony — Required qualifying statement: if you're a sex offender, you've likely done something very bad, and of which I do not, in any way, approve. That said, I'm pretty sure you still have a few rights...
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Chicago Tribune:
New law makes sex offenders' use of Internet social networking a felony — Quinn also signs law against online ‘grooming’ of victims — SPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn signed new laws Tuesday designed to limit sex offenders' use of technology as a way to find more victims.
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 …
Brian Shih / Official Google Reader Blog:
A flurry of features for feed readers — Since our last big launch, we've been thinking about ways to help our users better share, discover, and consume content in Reader. Today, I'm happy to announce several new features that we hope will further improve the way you use Reader. — Send to...
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books — Paper books may be low tech, but no one will tell you how and where you can read them. — For many people, the problem with electronic books is that they come loaded with just those kinds of restrictions. Digital books bought today from Amazon.com …
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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Mary Kathleen Flynn / Dealscape:
Twitter's Stone: ‘Millions of zombie computers’ — The denial-of-service attacks that resulted in outages of Twitter Inc.'s microblogging service last week and again briefly on Tuesday are “not going away any time soon,” says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to TV talk show host Tavis Smiley.
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Philip Lam / all things Pre:
Newer Palm Pres are better build, added improvements, fixes resetting issue — If you're an early Pre adapter like myself that nabbed one of the first batches of Palm Pres, then chances are you experienced it firsthand or have heard of some of the build quality issues surrounding the first shipments …
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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 …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Zune HD lands September 15th, up for pre-order today — Do you want a Zune HD real bad? Well you're in luck, because the wait is nearly over. Microsoft announced today that the heavily hyped media player will be making its way into retail channels come September 15th …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Places New Emphasis On Search With Homepage Tweaks — As the most popular video portal in the world, it comes as little surprise that YouTube is also effectively the second most popular search engine, coming after only Google in overall search queries.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million — Update: Mint.com has raised $14 million in financing, according to a SEC filing. — DAG Ventures led the round; Founder's Fund and existing investors Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and Sherpalo also participated.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple To Offer $899 Tablet With OLED Screen? — The rumors of the much-anticipated, yet-to-be-confirmed Apple (AAPL) tablet continued to pile up. — The latest version comes from that old rumormonger, Trip Chowdhry, proprietor of the boutique research firm Global Equities Research.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July — If it wasn't bad enough that Facebook bought FriendFeed on Monday and turned on real-time search to better compete against Twitter in the Stream Wars, and is playing around with a lite version that resembles Twitter even more, now Twitter really has something to worry about.
Louise Greenwood / BBC:
Africa's mobile banking revolution — Millions of Africans are using mobile phones to pay bills, move cash and buy basic everyday items. So why has a form of banking that has proved a dead duck in the West been such a hit across the continent? — It has been estimated …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
In Rumors and Dreams: This Kind of Looks Like the Apple Tablet OS To Me — Some overzealous but lovely tech writers don't believe the first video of this Apple Tablet OS UI vid is real but here's a clearer and with strange hardware. All I know is that this is a cool concept.
Robb Dunewood / RIMarkable:
RIM Says BlackBerry Browser To Be On Par With iPhone By Next Summer — After my little rant on how much I think the BlackBerry Browsers sucks, especially when compared to WebKit based browsers like Apple's Safari , how timely is it that TD Newcrest analyst, Chris Umiastowski, released a video …
Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:
Elite 360 Dropping In Price, RIP Pro Model — Looks like we have an execution date for the Xbox 360 Pro model, with this shot from a Meijer catalogue due on August 30 indicating the 360 Elite is in line for a Pro-sized price cut. — You'll remember, of course, that the origins of this rumour …
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Colin Barras / New Scientist:
‘Infectious’ people spread memes across the web — The way that certain images, videos or concepts can suddenly spread like wildfire across the web, using email and social websites to propagate, is one of online culture's most unique phenomena. — Now Spanish researchers claim to have found …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Marketers Are Never Gonna Dance Again, Thanks to Google — and Jessica E. Vascellaro — Some people go to conferences for the networking, others go for the keynote session and still others, apparently, go for the dancing. Not this year. — Larry Chiang
internetnews.com:
Google Looks Beyond Keywords — Are big changes coming to Google AdWords? At SES, the search giant drops some tantalizing hints. — SAN JOSE, Calif. — What's next after keywords? The director of Google's wildly successful AdWords program says the search giant is working on ways …
Amy Gahran / contentious.com:
Why blocking news aggregators is dumb and won't work … The apparent crack epidemic sweeping the executive suites of media organizations across the U.S. has claimed another victim. — Mark Cuban loves the news business. Over the years he's done and said some smart things in media.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Is the next iTunes challenger iLike? — Facebook most's popular music application comes from iLike and soon the service will try to turn that social-networking cache into song sales. — Seattle-based iLike, a social music service, is expected to launch a music download store in coming days …
