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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Dell Mini 3i smartphone gets official outing in China — At last, the much rumored Dell cellphone has made its first official appearance. The 3.5-inch 360 x 640 pixel device with capacitive touchscreen was on display in China running the Android-based Open Mobile System (OMS).
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Cloned In China, SlashGear, Electronista, Android Central, Dow Jones Newswires, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint.com, MobileTechWorld and Ubergizmo
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Serkan Toto / MobileCrunch:
Dell just unveiled its China-only smartphone “Mini 3i” (updated with better pictures) — TechCrunch first broke the news about Dell releasing a smartphone exclusively for the Chinese market eight days ago. Some pieces of information on the so-called Mini 3i leaked a few days after …
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Mr. Besilly / iPhone Savior:
TomTom iPhone Navigation Makes U.S. App Store Debut for $100 — TomTom has officially launched their turn-by-turn GPS navigation system for both U.S. and Canada in the App Store for $99.99. On Sunday, four regional versions of TomTom's app popped up in the New Zealand App Store via iTunes …
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Nathan Eddy / eWeek:
TomTom Debuts Navigation App on iPhone App Store — TomTom joins a growing list of navigation apps available through Apple's App Store for the iPhone. The app lists for $99.99, placing it at the high-end of navigation applications. — TomTom, the Dutch maker of automotive navigation systems …
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Andrew Lim / Recombu:
TomTom for iPhone 3G and 3GS: Satisfied-nav — Do you look at your iPhone so much that you often get lost? There's an app for that. Today TomTom released its iPhone 3G and 3GS app that offers sat-nav goodness without the clunky looking sat-nav. It costs £60, which isn't that expensive …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:TomTom navigation for iPhone 3G and 3GS arrives (update: Video!)
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istartedsomething, Electricpig.co.uk, MobileTechWorld, GPS Obsessed, Edible Apple, O'Grady's PowerPage and MacRumors
Bryan Appleyard / Times of London:
Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple — Chief executive of Apple Inc and owner of Jackling House changed the world and cheated death. So why the paranoia? — For five years the owner of the Jackling House in Woodside, California, has been trying to knock it down.
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Apple Tries to Block Newspaper Story on Steve Jobs — The life of Steve Jobs, and the life at Apple — Apple reportedly tried to block a lengthy, 4,000-word piece in yesterday's Sunday Times newspaper. In the story (eventually published), Apple and its iconic CEO are described as imperfect entities.
Paul Graham / Hacker News:
A New Experiment: The RFS — Every funding cycle we try to do something new. For the upcoming winter 2010 cycle we're introducing the RFS (Request for Startups). — There are a lot of startup ideas we've been waiting for people to apply with, sometimes for years.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator Starts Seeding Ideas To Startups — Y Combinator sees no shortage of startups that apply to be a part of their funding cycles. But they don't always see all the ideas they'd like to see come out of the classes. So starting with the upcoming Winter 2010 cycle, they have a new idea called RFS, Requests For Startups.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay Before It's Gone — In common with music and movies, it's not that hard to copy a website. It might take some serious server power to serve torrents to millions of people every day, but all the torrent files and site code don't take up that much space.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Huffington Post and Facebook Go “Social News,” With Connect on Steroids — In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington Post itself.
BBC:
Twitter tweets are 40% ‘babble’ — A short-term study of Twitter has found that 40% of the messages sent via it are “pointless babble.” — Carried out by US market research firm Pear Analytics, the study aimed to produce a snapshot of what people do with the service.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Preview of Jolicloud: The social Netbook OS — One of the things that has been most-surprising about the advent of Netbooks is that it has become less about the hardware as much as how mainstream operating systems and applications have had to adapt to fit within their confines.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Gmail Nudges Past AOL Email In The U.S. To Take No. 3 Spot. — Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Sites Ask Users to Spend to Save — Some people will stop at nothing to snap up a bargain — even if it means paying too much. — That is the paradoxical principle behind Swoopo, a Web site that offers a seductive and controversial proposition to online shoppers.
Samsung Mobile Innovator:
Samsung Mobile Innovator Introduces New Widget Site — On August 17th widgets and mobile developers were able for the first time to gain access to the newest Samsung Mobile Innovator (SMI) portal dedicated to TouchWiz widget technology. — Rapid development and a consistent experience across …
Brooke Crothers / Crave: The gadget blog:
The rise of the $299 Wal-Mart laptop — Updated at 4:30 p.m. PDT: adding Windows 7 and Celeron processor information. — There's a new $299 laptop in vogue at stores—and it's not a Netbook. — These laptops sport big screens, optical drives, plenty of memory, and reasonable graphics horsepower.
DigiTimes:
HTC shipments to grow 19% in 4Q09 on launch of HTC Mega and Click, says paper — HTC (High Tech Computer) is expected to see its revenues and shipments grow 11% and 19%, respectively, in the fourth quarter of 2009, buoyed by the launch of Windows Mobile-based HTC Mega and Android-powered HTC Click smartphones …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
If Twitter Consisted of 100 People [Gorgeous Graphics] — What if Twitter only had 100 users? How many would be chatty, how many lazy? — Based on the data from previous surveys - InsideTwitter and the PearAnalytics study - the InformationIsBeautiful blog has constructed …
