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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Event Scheduled for Wednesday Sept. 9-Music, NO Tablet — It has happened every September since 2005, and in a few short weeks it will happen once again. Apple (AAPL) is indeed planning a keynote event for the week of Sept. 7, as reported by my colleague, Peter Kafka.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
And Google Said, Let There Be Chrome Bookmark Sync — As promised, Google has just launched bookmark syncing for users on the dev channel of its Chrome web browser. This allows you to keep your browser bookmarks in sync no matter which of your computers you are using.
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Chromium Blog, Google Operating System, CNET News, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint.com, ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad and Googling Google, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iLike Deal Puts Facebook In Lose/Lose Situation — As more details emerge about the MySpace-iLike acquisition, all sorts of interesting observations and questions pop up. A few thoughts: — The Facebook Angle — This is by far the most interesting angle to the deal. iLike …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Sale of iLike to MySpace-$13.5 Million in Cash, $6 Million for Talent Retention-Delayed Over Tax Issues (Really!)... Plus, the List of Other Suitors! — The board of iLike planned a meeting earlier tonight to go over a buyout offer by MySpace, several sources close to the situation said.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Breaking: MySpace Close To Acquiring iLike For $20 Million
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
No Further Android Updates for G1; No “Sense” for MyTouch 3G? — We early adopters know that we risk not being able to update our first-generation mobile gadgets, but that doesn't make it any easier to stomach. Android engineers have tweeted that T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream) phones may not be able to handle any OS updates going forward.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The G1 Burned Out Long Before The Android Ever Did — Let's not beat around the bush: The G1 was not a very good phone. That's not to say Android isn't a good mobile OS — it is, it's just that the initial hardware built to run the OS didn't do it justice. It was poorly designed and had a fairly cheap feel.
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Uh Oh: iPhone OS 3.0 Never Fully Deletes Your Emails (UPDATED) — The iPhone is no stranger to gaping security flaws, but this one's a doozy: You know how when you delete emails, you expect them to be, well, deleted? On iPhone 3.0, that's just not how things work. This is bad.
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tr.im to be Community-Owned — First Off ... Everyone involved at Nambu would like to apologize again for the hastiness in which we acted last Sunday, announcing the shutdown of tr.im by the end of the year. As a commercial URL shortener, however, we still believe that tr.im would not be able …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
TJX Hacker Charged With Heartland, Hannaford Breaches — The constellation of hacks connected to the TJX hacker is growing. — Albert “Segvec” Gonzalez has been indicted by a federal grand jury in New Jersey — along with two unnamed Russian conspirators — on charges of hacking …
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:Three Indicted in Identity-Theft Case
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
GPush: iPhone Push Notifications for Your Gmail Account — After a bit of a delay, the GPush app (iTunes link) has finally arrived in the App Store. GPush will send you a push notification whenever a new email arrives in your inbox. The app, which costs $0.99, does one thing and one thing only …
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I am Zef, Mashable!, Pulse2, MobileCrunch, MobileContentToday, TUAW, Lifehacker and AppScout
Google Research Blog:
On the predictability of Search Trends — Posted by Yossi Matias, Niv Efron, and Yair Shimshoni, Google Labs, Israel. — Since launching Google Trends and Google Insights for Search, we've been providing daily insight into what the world is searching for.
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Electronista:
iPhone 3GS bestselling phone in Japan — Apple's third iPhone generation has ousted Japan's own phone manufacturers for the top sales spot in the country, according to market data from Gfk Japan. The 32GB iPhone 3GS was the most popular phone in Japan during July and outsold …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bing Search Share Rises Modestly In July — Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing gained share i the search market for the second month in a row. A good trend, but nothing that is going to make Google (GOOG) nervous yet. And neutral to modestly negative for Yahoo (YHOO).
Christopher Soghoian / slight paranoia:
Going Fed — This week will be my last at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. It has been a fantastic place to work, and for the first time in my academic life, I found a supportive environment where it is OK to be interested in both technology and law/policy.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Android Opportunity — In just the past few weeks Steven Frank, Alex Payne, and Andre Torrez all tried switching from the iPhone to Android. All three are smart, open-minded, and eloquent regarding their reasons for trying Android. All three are developers who care about the quality and design of software and hardware.
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Carl Hewitt / O'Reilly Radar:
Is intimate personal information a toxic asset in cloud datacenters? — Guest blogger Carl Hewitt, Emeritus at MIT in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, is known for his research on strongly paraconsistent logic, privacy-friendly client cloud computing …
Lars-Göran Nilsson / Pocket-lint.com:
Microsoft LifeCam Cinema goes 720p — The humble webcam hasn't changed much over the past couple of years with most models topping out at about 2 Megapixels, but it now seems like Microsoft is about to change this with the soon to launch LifeCam Cinema. — This is the first consumer webcam to support 720p video at 30fps.
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
Modu going touchscreen, confirmed for UK 2010 — EXCLUSIVE: CEO says new model on the cards — Modu has confirmed to Pocket-lint that it is working on a new touchscreen device which it plans to launch in the UK, US, Japan and Western Europe in 2010. — The device, currently called Modu 2 …
Guardian:
Behind the music: The real reason why the major labels love Spotify — No wonder the majors speak so highly of Spotify - they receive 18% of shares in the online streaming service. It's justy a pity that artists won't get to see any of this — The launch of Spotify in the UK must surely …
Mark Milian / Los Angeles Times:
IPhone passes Canon Rebel XTi as most popular camera on Flickr — Here's a tidbit that's sure to irk Flickr's elitist photographers: The iPhone has just topped Canon's high-performance Digital Rebel XTi as the most popular camera on Yahoo's popular image-sharing site.
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Electronista, Mashable!, TheNextWeb.com, Gizmodo, MobileContentToday, MacRumors iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, Mac|Life all, Pocket-lint.com and RyanSpoon.com, Thanks:latimesnystrom
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Dear iPhone Users: Your Apps are Spying on You — Recently, Palm came under fire when programmer Joey Hess discovered the Pre's smartphone OS was sending users' GPS locations back to Palm on a daily basis. Although this information was disclosed in the company's privacy policy, the majority of the phone's owners were unaware.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
i.TV 2.0 for iPhone coming soon to an App Store near you — i.TV, as we're sure most iPhone owners out there are well aware, is the premier app for all things TV and Movie-related. Think if it as your one-stop-shop for TV programming schedules, community-sourced reviews, local movie schedules …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Bing Lets You Find Other Domains On an IP — As WebSonic notes in the forum, Microsoft's search engine Bing has an interesting operator which can tell you different domains hosted on a given IP. First, get the IP of a domain, e.g. by entering example.com into a tool like host2ip.
Everything TypePad:
The Best of Both Worlds: Microblogging on TypePad — As a TypePad member, you can have the best of both worlds: a full blog and a microblog-style blog. A TypePad microblog allows you a quick and easy way to share your favorite videos, images and articles with your friends and followers.
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Interview: Apple's Gigantic New Data Center Hints at Cloud Computing … Google's Eric Schmidt “resigned” from Apple's board because Chrome and Android were encroaching on Apple's core business, or so Steve Jobs says. — But what if the opposite were true? What if Apple is encroaching on Google's core business?
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Gadget Lab, 9 to 5 Mac, Macsimum News, MacDailyNews, Fast Company, CloudAve and digg.com
Associated Press:
California users file civil suit against Facebook — SANTA ANA, Calif. — Five Facebook users filed a civil lawsuit Monday alleging that the social networking site is violating California's privacy laws and misleading members about how their personal information is used.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Judge Rules That Model Has The Right To Learn ‘Skank’ Blogger's Identity — Vogue cover model Liskula Cohen is entitled to learn the identity of the person who slammed her on the blog Skanks In NYC, a judge in New York ruled Monday. — Judge Joan Madden agreed with Cohen that the blog …
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