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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Here It Comes. But What Is It, Exactly? Apple Plans Keynote Event for September. — Time to get the rumor mill kicked into high gear: Multiple music industry sources say Apple executives have told them the company is planning one of its famed keynote events for the week of Sept. 7.
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Sources confirm no Apple tablet at Sept. event, coming in 2010 — Speculation of an Apple event in September broke earlier today, but The Loop has learned the event will not include the introduction of the rumored Apple tablet. — Very reliable sources familiar with the product …
Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
An Insider On the Apple Tablet — I never fully believed the Apple tablet was real beyond dreams, until I heard these words over my phone: “Hey, it's [redacted]. I may or may not have sat in some Apple meetings for the tablet.” — I was driving, and swerved a little bit, even though both hands were on the wheel.
Biz / Twitter Blog:
Project Retweet: Phase One — Some of Twitter's best features are emergent—people inventing simple but creative ways to share, discover, and communicate. One such convention is retweeting. When you want to call more attention to a particular tweet, you copy/paste it as your own …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Is Revamping Retweets, Launches A Retweet API — In its developer Google Group, Twitter has just made the announcement that it is releasing an early preview of a brand new API: The retweeting API. And that's not all, Twitter is in the process of completely revamping its retweet functionality.
Boy Genius Report:
Dell's smartphone pictured again, spec'd, other Android details — One of our trusty ninjas just blessed us with the following information: first up, real pictures of Dell's Chinese market smartphone code-named Benzine. Just as TechCrunch reported, we've been told the handset is “launch ready.”
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Microsoft: Next Mac Office due late 2010 with Outlook — Microsoft announced Thursday that the next edition of Microsoft Office for Mac will be released in late 2010. The new edition of the venerable office suite will include Outlook for Mac, a new application that will replace the Entourage.
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:Microsoft to replace Entourage with Outlook. Nice idea but kind of too late
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Zune HD packs a big processing punch — Microsoft's Zune HD will use one of the most powerful chips to go into a portable media player yet: Nvidia's multicore Tegra processor. — Tegra packs two processor cores based on intellectual property from U.K.-based chip designer ARM.
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:NVIDIA Tegra is ready for its close-up with Zune HD launch
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Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How The Associated Press will try to rival Wikipedia in search results — Yesterday we revealed plans by The Associated Press to hold back some content from member websites. (Great discussion going on there, by the way.) The primary motivation of that initiative is search …
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International Business Times:
China Unicom buys 5 million iPhones from Apple, ready for sale in September — Beijing - China Unicom, the potential exclusive distributor of iPhones in China, has poured 10 billion yuan ($1.46 billion) to buy 5 million units from Apple, ready to sell the first batch in September, local media reported on Wednesday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Apple's Board to Meet to Discuss Replacements for Google's Schmidt — Apple Inc.'s directors are planning to meet next Tuesday and plan to discuss possible replacements to the board seat recently vacated by Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, said a person familiar with the matter.
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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.
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Softpedia News, TechCrunch, TheAppleBlog, PC World, The iPhone Blog, Electronista, The Apple Core, SlashGear, GottaBeMobile.com and Crave
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
RockMelt: Netscape's Andreessen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser — Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is backing a new browser dedicated to browsing Facebook, called RockMelt, according to rumors we've heard from reputable sources. A semi-independent desktop client for Facebook?
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 …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows 7 review — Oh, Windows. You inform and entertain us. You are inescapable, and your Start menu is full of items relevant to our productivity. You move us. Sort of. To be honest, we're not sure what sort of state this fair planet of ours would be in without …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Palm Reportedly Cuts Pre Production Plans — The best days for the Palm (PALM) Pre may already have past. That was the implication of the Sell call on the stock this morning from Morgan Joseph - and the same theme can be found in a similarly bearish note this morning from Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar.
Mike Magee / TG Daily:
Apple, AT&T sued for lack of MMS capability — A class action started in a Louisana district court alleging that Apple and AT&T touted the iPhone as supporting MMS (multimedia messaging service) but have not as yet provided the service. — The plaintiffs allege that Apple …
Marisa Taylor / Digits:
Radiohead Says No More Albums — Radiohead said in a magazine interview that it wouldn't release any more full-length albums, instead focusing on downloadable singles like its recently released “Harry Patch (In Memory Of)” and shorter EPs. — AFP/Getty Images — Radiohead's Thom Yorke at a July 2008 concert in Amsterdam.
Opera Press Room:
Opera announces beta 3 release of Opera 10 browser - ready for heavy work on the Web — What is new in beta 3? — Tab tweaks … Eyes on the UI … Multilingual … Crash prevention … Even more Turbo … What about Opera Unite? — Opera recently released an alpha preview …
Emily Yoffe / Slate:
How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous. — Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
It Begins: Celebrities Start Whoring Themselves As Virtual Gifts On Facebook — It was only a matter of time. Over two years after its virtual goods marketplace opened, Facebook has cast away its innocence and started to sell virtual gifts emblazoned with celebrity faces and paraphernalia.
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Gabor / Gabor hits Send:
Introducing the New reMail — Today, we're launching the new reMail for the iPhone! It's a completely new product. — reMail downloads all your email to your phone and lets you search full-text at light speed. — All My Email On My Phone? Really? — Yes, reMail downloads all your email to your phone.
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Jose Nazario / Arbor Networks Security:
Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel — While digging around I found a botnet that uses Twitter as its command and control structure. Basically what it does is use the status messages to send out new links to contact, then these contain new commands or executables to download and run.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Social Mobile Games Are Hot. $3 Million Hot — Seattle-based Z2Live, a new mobile social gaming platform, is announcing a second round of financing tomorrow - $3 million from Madrona Venture Group (also Seattle based), topping off the $1 million they raised from Madrona last year.
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mocoNews, The Seattle Times, VentureBeat, TechFlash, paidContent and Virtual Worlds News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Barclay's talks to Apple execs, raises target to $208 — “We just met with Apple executives at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, CA, including Peter Oppenheimer, Greg Joswiak, and Eddy Cue.” — Thus begins a note to clients sent Thursday by Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes.
