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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.
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Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Ars Technica, Pulse2, MacRumors, CNET News, The iPhone Blog, Electronista and Engadget
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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Engadget Mobile, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, PC World, Phone Arena, IntoMobile, BetaNews, Cell Phone Signal, Boy Genius Report, SlashGear, Android Central, gdgt, I4U News and MobileCrunch
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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Business Wire, The Download Blog, MobileCrunch, TUAW, Mashable!, Smartphones and Cell Phones, Lifehacker and Ubergizmo
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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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VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, I am Zef, Mashable!, Internetnews Blog, Download Squad and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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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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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 …
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.
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).
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?
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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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.
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.
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.
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 …
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MobileCrunch, Brainstorm Tech, Mac|Life all, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget Mobile and MacRumors iPhone Blog
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, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Mashable!, Mac|Life all and Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:latimesnystrom
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 the holidays …
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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Top Ad Sales Exec on West Coast Departs Yahoo — One of Yahoo's highest-ranking premium advertising sales execs-David Dickman, VP of West Coast sales-is leaving the company, people familiar with the situation said. — Sources said Dickman, who will leave Yahoo at the end of the month …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Munster: Apple on track to sell 2.7 million Macs in Q4 — MacBook Pro. Source: Apple Inc. — Based on U.S. retail sales data released Monday afternoon by the NPD Group, Apple (AAPL) is on track to sell 2.7 to 2.8 million Macs and 9.5 to 10.5 million iPods in its fourth fiscal quarter …
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.
VentureBeat:
Ron Conway restructures fund to spray-and-pray at real-time companies — Ron Conway, arguably the most prolific investor in new Internet companies, has shifted his attention almost solely to “real-time data” companies, saying the market will experience astronomic growth and a value reaching …
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 …
