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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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MacRumors, TechCrunch, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, PC World, AppleInsider, GMSV, p2pnet, iLounge, DailyFinance, Contentinople, MacNN and 9 to 5 Mac
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: MySpace Close To Acquiring iLike For $20 Million — MySpace is close to acquiring popular social music service iLike, we've confirmed with multiple sources. The deal, which should close this week, will be MySpace's first acquisition since new CEO Owen Van Natta took control of the company in April 2009.
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Inside Facebook, Digits, paidContent, Pulse2, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Between the Lines, Switched, Dealscape, The Seattle Times, Electronista, TechFlash, TECH.BLORGE.com, Softpedia News, I4U News, TG Daily, Xconomy, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, HipMojo.com, ChannelWeb, WebProNews, AppScout and Seeking Alpha
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
More Local Heat: MSNBC.com Buys EveryBlock for Several Million Dollars — It looks like the local market is heating up even more, with MSNBC.com announcing the acquisition of Chicago-based EveryBlock. — MSNBC.com-a joint venture of Microsoft (MSFT) and GE (GE) unit NBC Universal-paid …
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msnbc.com:
Msnbc.com acquires local news Web site — Chicago-based EveryBlock will continue as independent brand — Msnbc.com has acquired EveryBlock, a Chicago-based Web site that offers news and information down to the neighborhood level in 15 cities, the two companies announced Monday.
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TechCrunch, O'Reilly Radar, The EveryBlock Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Download Squad, TechFlash, The Seattle Times, AltSearchEngines, ReadWriteWeb, Bits, Pulse2, Guardian and Screenwerk
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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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.
tr.im URLs:
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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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.
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paidContent, CNET News, Guardian, All Facebook, Screenwerk, Fast Company, WebNewser and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
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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?
Elizabeth Judge / Times of London:
Big noises join chorus behind Twitter TweetDeck — Two of the biggest names in the British technology sector have thrown their weight behind a start-up operation aimed at providing easier access to Twitter, the social networking and microblogging site. — Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute.com …
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 …
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PC World, Mashable!, GPS Obsessed, eWeek, CNET News, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Brainstorm Tech, Digits, Electronista and MobileTechWorld
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Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Mozilla pushes out .Net incompatible Firefox 3.5 — Firefox users got a surprise when they booted up this morning, a software update box for Firefox 3.5, “the most advanced Firefox yet.” — A warning sticker at the bottom of the box notes that it will cause “some of your extensions …
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 …
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 …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Zendesk Raises $6 Million In B Round, Benchmark's Peter Fenton Joins Board — Benchmark Capital is investing in Danish startup Zendesk, and led a $6 million B round of funding. Benchmark's rock star partner Peter Fenton is joining the board. — Zendesk just raised money in May in an A round …
Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:
Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter — One the most important — and most difficult — things to do when you first start using Twitter is to develop a good list of people to follow. You can check your friends' lists of followers, watch for interesting people that come up in @replies …
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 …
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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eWeek, PC World, Computerworld, US Department of Justice, BBC, NPR Blogs, Agence France Presse and Associated Press
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Make Your Own URL Shortening Service — URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won't all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own a domain, though, you can host your own service.
Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
More photos of unknown Android MID surface — It's been a few days since that original batch of mystery Android MID photos were first sent to me and though no one has come forward with a positive ID or more information, the device hasn't disappeared from my tipster's radar.
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Boing Boing Gadgets, CrunchGear, I4U News, Electricpig.co.uk, Gizmodo, SlashGear and Engadget
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
In the New Data Center, It's Roofs Off and Taxes Down — Data centers can be such touchy things. — Google and Microsoft continue to spar over both their data center designs and how much information they reveal about the inner workings of their vast computing centers.
David Carr / New York Times:
AOL Blossoms as Print Retreats — The office at Ninth Street and Broadway in Manhattan in the former Wanamaker's department store has all of the trademarks of a well-financed digital start-up. Young people eat pizza and chat about applications while others are jammed into conference rooms discussing search optimization.
Galen Ward / TechFlash:
New Google is the old Microsoft — Galen Ward: Google is supposed to be an unbiased search engine, but they are hurting consumers by using their dominance to become a king maker for their own, increasingly inferior products. — Google's search results are the ultimate world flattener …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Twitter going after buy-more-followers services? — Twitter may be working to stop companies that partake in the controversial practice of selling higher follower counts, according to one Australian company that claims Twitter is trying to shut it down over allegations of spamming.
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GigaOM, Fast Company, SmartCompany, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Gadgetell, Fresh Business Thinking and WebNewser
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Pixie Launch Delayed Until 2010? — Palm's next webOS handset, the so-called Eos (codename: Pixie), is still in the pipeline, but it may not arrive at market for some time. Though some observers have speculated that the device would debut in the late fall in time for a holiday launch …
