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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Foreigners Attending US Grad Schools Way Down: Wake Up, Xenophobes — It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their US educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.
Boy Genius Report:
Upcoming Verizon handsets: Motorola Sholes, BlackBerry Curve 2, BlackBerry Storm 2, more — We just got hit with a nice outline of some of Verizon Wireless' upcoming handset release dates, and boy do they look appetizing. First up is the Motorola Sholes, a phone most of us assumed wouldn't be launching until very late in the year.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust — GOOGLE has an outsize image as the deft master of information. Its superior technology seems to pitilessly grind up its rivals. But Google's domination in search has proved hard for it to match in some information domains.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
ISP Friendly BitTorrent Tracker Doubles Download Speeds — Since it was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, very few changes have been made to the way BitTorrent works. It was a revolutionary invention and to date it is by far the most effective way to transfer large files online.
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Agence France Presse:
Smartphones drive language learning innovation — The boom in “smartphones”, led by Apple's iPhone, has inspired language learning tools that would have been inconceivable just months ago — and a Hong Kong firm is leading the charge. — Tens of thousands of “apps” …
Gagan Biyani / MobileCrunch:
Cheating the App Store: PR firm has interns post positive reviews for clients — When it comes to winning in the App Store, one PR firm has discovered a dynamite strategy: throw ethics out the window. Reverb Communications, a PR firm that represents dozens of game publishers and developers …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives — The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. — Demonoid
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The economy changes the course of chip design at Hot Chips conference — The Hot Chips conference that runs Sunday through Tuesday at Stanford University in Silicon Valley will capture the evolution of the chip industry. This conference offers the first chance to see how the global economic crisis …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Samsung's Instinct HD shows up on Best Buy site — S50, M850 and Dash be damned, it's pretty clear now that Samsung has latched onto the “HD” trend for its latest Instinct handset. Spotted by one of our eagle-eyed readers on Best Buy's website, some of the Instinct HD's most talked about specs …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Truth: What's Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC — Apple has responded to the FCC's request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone. — In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge tosses much of S.F. computer-hijack case — (08-21) 18:15 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco judge tossed out three hacking charges Friday against a jailed former San Francisco city computer engineer, but preserved a lone count that he deliberately locked authorities out of the city's main network last year.
Griffin McElroy / Joystiq:
Rumor: Walmart catalog lists $100 price cut for Xbox 360 Elite — Oh, man. This ish just got real, son. Last week, a supposedly leaked Meijer's catalog revealed a $100 price cut for the Xbox 360 Elite SKU — we weren't sure what to make of it, but a recent Walmart catalog …
