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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 …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:The Zune HD: September 15. Apple iPod Event: Likely September 8.
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Ars Technica, OSNews, The Toybox, The iPhone Blog, SlashGear, TechFlash, Electronista, NEWSFACTOR and Daring Fireball, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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 — 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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Microsoft: Firefox's billion claim is ‘interesting math’ — Internet Explorer chief ‘encourages people to be somewhat sceptical’ of claims by competitor — A senior Microsoft executive has called into question the claim by rival web browser Firefox that it has been downloaded a billion times.
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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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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.
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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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.
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Twitter's New Director Of Search Hails From Yahoo, Inktomi (Via A Wine Search Engine) — Twitter's search engine is arguably its most important asset, and the microblogging site has quietly brought in a Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Inktomi veteran to run it. Twitter hasn't formally announced the news …
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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.
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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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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Larry Magid / CNET News:
Social-networking ban for sex offenders: Bad call? — The just-signed Illinois law banning sex offenders from social-networking sites might seem like a good idea to protect children, but it will have virtually no impact on their safety and could wind up making things worse.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YC-Funded GraffitiGeo: Foursquare Meets Yelp, With A Dash Of Augmented Reality — One of the big problems with starting a new service that relies on user submitted data is getting people to actually use it — nobody is going to routinely boot up your app if they don't have an incentive to do so.
Paul Sweeting / GigaOM:
With Sony's ePub Move, Adobe Wins — Sony's announcement today that it's throwing open the doors of its e-book store and reading devices to the ePub standard is certainly good news for consumers. ePub — and open standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Form …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Microblogging has become too important for one company to rule the field. — Twitter went down last week, and the world got very quiet. People didn't know what do with themselves; they wanted to tweet the news that Twitter was down, but that was out of the question.
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.
Michael Horowitz / Computerworld:
Consumer Reports at it again — Back in May, I criticized a review Consumer Reports magazine did of netbook computers (What Consumer Reports didn't tell you about netbooks). It was a fairly long critique. — Many computer articles in the magazine strike me as amateurish.
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.”
