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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Zune Apps — In my brief comments yesterday on the new touchscreen Zune HD that is set to debut September 15, I noted: … I mean, why not? The software platform has quickly become a major driving force behind the sales growth of the iPhone and iPod Touch. Microsoft is a software platform company.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Netscape Founder Backs New Browser — SAN FRANCISCO — It has been 15 years since Marc Andreessen developed the Netscape Internet browser that introduced millions of people to the Internet. — After its early success, Netscape was roundly defeated by Microsoft in the so-called browser wars …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:RockMelt: Netscape's Andreessen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser
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Inside Facebook, Silicon Alley Insider, eWeek, @vanelsas, Dealscape, NPR Blogs, Digits, TECH.BLORGE.com, Download Squad, Softpedia News, Marshall Kirkpatrick …, technabob, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Technology Review, Thanks:atul
Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
Google Chrome 4.0: Fastest OS X browser by 34 per cent — Safari, eat Google's dust — its Chrome Web browser — under its developmental title Chromium — has hit version 4.0 on the Mac, and our tests confirm it's the fastest browser in the world on both PC and now on Mac OS X.
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Obsessable, Softpedia News, Web Browsers, The Toybox and Gizmodo
Jackie / Qik:
Qik for iPhone 3GS - now live and free from the App Store! — You've been asking for it, and now it's here: Qik for the iPhone 3GS can now be downloaded - for free! - directly from the App Store. — If you already have Qik on your iPhone, you should know that this version is a little different.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
A Sad Day. Goodbye, Riya — Facial recognition service Riya will shut down on August 21, 2009, says founder Munjal Shah in an email to users this morning. We are adding it to the TechCrunch DeadPool. — This was one of the original services that defined the early Web 2.0 movement.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google's Varian: Search scale is ‘bogus’ — Google's Hal Varian would likely have raised an eyebrow at a term paper submitted by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the search market. — Varian, currently on leave from the University of California at Berkeley to serve as Google's chief economist …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPhone 3GS has 99 percent satisfaction rate — Customers who flocked to Apple's latest iPhone upgrade were overwhelmingly satisfied with their purchase, but AT&T's network didn't fare nearly as well, a new survey shows. — A total of 99 percent of 200 respondents to a RBC/IQ ChangeWave survey …
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Major Carriers Shun Broadband Stimulus — The Obama administration made a national priority of spreading high-speed Internet access to every American home and offered stimulus money to help companies pay for it, but the biggest network operators are staying away from the program.
Msav / ai.rs blog:
HTC Leo picures surface — ai.rs Blog exclusive — As we announced in our previous post, HTC Leo will be a new high end model from HTC and it will feature Snapdragon 1GHz processor and capacitive 4.3" screen. We expect it in our hands in september and it may hit the stores (or mobile operators) as soon as october.
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
‘Take Back the Beep’ Campaign: An Update — It's been two weeks since I started “Take Back the Beep,” a campaign to flood the four big wireless companies with complaints. I want them to eliminate (or make optional) those time-wasting, redundant, airtime-eating, 15-second recorded instructions …
Jon Jordan / The Pocket Gamer iPhone gaming podcast:
PSPgo games will be as cheap as iPhone games — Between 1 - 5 Euros — With the rumour mill speeding up prior to Sony's press conference at the Gamescom show in Cologne, Germany, next week, news has been leaked concerning the price of PSP games for the soon-to-be revitalised PlayStation Network (PSN).
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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Is Journalism Online Picking Up Steam? — Journalism Online, an e-commerce engine designed to service newspapers, announced some big numbers on Thursday, although none of them are in plain sight. The venture, headed by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, said that they had made deal …
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David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
YouTube to show Sony's “Ghostbusters” this week for film's 25th anniversary — YouTube and Sony are crossing the streams. — Starting tonight at 9 p.m. PDT, YouTube will host a weeklong showing of Sony's comedy classic “Ghostbusters” in honor of the film's 25th anniversary.
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MediaMemo, Contentinople, Macworld, YouTube Blog, Softpedia News, AppScout, Quick Online Tips and bub.blicio.us
Don Clark / Digits:
Apple's Cash Hoard: It Just Keeps on Growing — Remember when Wall Street was obsessed with Microsoft's bulging bank account? Now it's Apple that is awash in cash, the latest symbol of the company's stunning ascendance over the past decade. — Apple — As of June 27, Apple …
The How-To Geek / Lifehacker:
Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money — The popular Digsby instant messenger client not only bundles half a dozen “optional” crapware applications, it's also using your computer to crawl the web, do stock market research, and more. It's time to uninstall.
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Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Who, really, is The Associated Press accusing of copyright infringement? — The Associated Press document we posted yesterday is in line with the consortium's most bellicose rhetoric on copyright. It begins, “The evidence is everywhere: original news content is being scraped …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Massive AOL Layoffs? Not Imminent-But Top-to-Bottom Cost Exam Definitely in Process. — After a while-in a BoomTown mangling of the old cliché-if you are a nail, everything begins to look like a hammer. — So, it is probably inevitable that the next thing for much-beleaguered AOL staffers …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Video game sales in free fall — In a stark reversal of the trend on display just a few short months ago—when general retail sales were plummeting even as the video games industry was still showing growth—cautious optimism in retail is now being offset by many losing months in video games.
Psystar:
A taste of their own medicine — We are pleased to announce that an agreement with Apple's counsel was reached earlier this month and we now have the final list of their deponents for our proposed topics with respect to this litigation. For the past week and for the following ten days …
James Rogers / TheStreet.com:
Apple Plans Two Tablets: Tech Rumor of the Day — CUPERTINO, Calif. (TheStreet) — Rumors continue to swirl around Apple's (AAPL Quote) mysterious Tablet, with a report suggesting that the gadget will come in two models, one of which is aimed at the educational market.
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
On-screen Virtual Keyboard a Possibility for Pre — It was just about two months ago that we pointed your eyes towards WebShell and its on-screen software keyboard. The browser-based SSH input served more as a tease for our desperate eyes than an actual usable keyboard.
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James Sherwood / The Register:
First Samsung Android phone out next week — Exclusive Samsung's first Android-based mobile phone - the Galaxy i7500 - will be launched next week, Register Hardware has discovered. — Samsung's Galaxy: out next week on O2 — Staff at a handful of O2 retail outlets consulted …
BBC:
Alarm sounded over game futures — A stark warning about the finances of the games industry has been aired at the Edinburgh Interactive conference. — The sector had suffered “significant disruption” to its business model, Edward Williams, from BMO Capital Markets told the industry gathering.
Mary Pilon / The Wallet:
PayPal Makes a Bid for Student Banking — Parents and students looking to manage their budgets might find help from an unlikely place: PayPal. — Long associated with online payments and transfers of funds on sites like parent company eBay, PayPal this week launched a student account …
Skirsner / Boston Globe:
France Telecom Shutting Down R&D Lab in Cambridge — Back in post-bubble 2002, France Telecom opened a swanky new research lab in Cambridge for its Orange wireless service. Orange Labs intended to look at how the mobile web, speech recognition, and data services would change the way we use mobile phones …
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WMPoweruser.com:
HTC patents magnetic stylus for capacitive screens — Capacitive screens have received a great reception for their sensitivity to touch, but has left many stylus affectionados who appreciate the precision and other advantages of a stand-off pointing device feeling left out. — As HTC explains:
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