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Nokia Booklet 3G brings all day mobility to the PC world — Espoo, Finland - After more than 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile industry, Nokia will bring its rich mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia Booklet 3G.
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Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook Packs GPS, 3G, HDMI and...Windows — So Nokia's got a 10-incher with built-in 3G and A-GPS (Ovi Maps) in the works. Interesting, but will it be just-another-netbook? I'd love to see a Nokia touch-screen interface on top of Windows. What about easy tethering with cell phones?
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Lacy Kemp / The Real Story:
Introducing Rhapsody on the iPhone — Every day I watch Twitter to see what people are talking about with regards to our brands. I see lots of suggestions and lots of feedback, but the one thing that keeps on coming is this question: When will Rhapsody be on the iPhone? Or, when will Rhapsody be on Android?
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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:Latest trend: Announcing iPhone apps before they're approved
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities (Updated) — Today, Stockholm's district court took action to completely remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet. — The court ordered the site's major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600).
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George Rush / NY Daily News:
Outed blogger Rosemary Port blames model Liskula Cohen for ‘skank’ stink — Sorry seems to be the hardest word for the blogger who anonymously scorned a model as a “ho” and a “skank,” igniting a legal and media maelstrom. — Speaking out for the first time since a court order forced Google …
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Todd Wilder / Apple:
Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28 — Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Plans to Increase Staff 50% Amid Engineer Surplus — Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. plans to expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year as it benefits from a surplus of engineers amid the recession, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Yahoo gets more social with Mail, search updates — SUNNYVALE, CALIF.—Yahoo increased the social graces of its core products Monday, with a nod to its new home page and a declaration that it's not done with search just yet. — Popular Yahoo products such as Mail and Messenger will soon grow more social …
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Boy Genius Report:
RIM acquires Torch Mobile; WebKit-based browser headed to BlackBerry handsets — Wow. That probably sums up everyone at BGR's initial reaction when we got a heads up that RIM acquired Torch Mobile. Why, might you ask? Well, it goes a lot deeper than this, but all we can see glistening right …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Apple blogger legally unlocks iPhone — Thanks be to ‘benevolent carrier’ — An iPhone blogger has revealed a way of legally unlocking the device after paying off his mobile contract. — TheAppleBlog.com's Olly Farshi claimed he legitimately unlocked his two-year-old iPhone 3G …
Bloomberg:
Apple Highest Grossing Retailer on Fifth Avenue as iPhone Defies Recession — Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — As vacancies increase and retail sales throughout the U.S. remain a shadow of the decade's boom, Apple Inc.'s stores are defying the recession. — At Fifth Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Update on Windows 7 in Europe — I want to provide a couple of updates for my friends in Europe today in regards to Windows 7. — I want to start off with an update to our plans for the Windows 7 Family Pack. As I mentioned last month, starting with the launch of Windows 7 on October 22nd …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Barnes & Noble Lands Irex, Another Would-Be Kindle Killer — Here's another company choosing a side in the coming e-book war: Irex Technologies, a Dutch company that plans on selling a Kindle-like reader in the U.S. this fall, has allied itself with Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Microsoft delivers OneApp app framework for featurephones — Who said Microsoft's mobile strategy has to be limited to Windows Mobile? Redmond has just announced OneApp, a comprehensive framework for delivering apps on a variety of featurephones — largely in emerging markets …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Why did Apple okay RingCentral? — Here's a question the FCC neglected to ask Apple (AAPL) in its inquiry into why the company rejected — or as Apple prefers, declined to approve — Google Voice: — Why has a free app that does essentially the same thing — and would seem to raise …
Dow Jones Newswires:
US Trade Officials To Probe Flash Memory Chips In BlackBerries iPods — WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. International Trade Commission said Monday it plans to launch an investigation into flash memory chips contained in popular products including the Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone …
Bill Ray / The Register:
Apple admits iPhone apps not suitable for business — Commercial programs are solely for non-commercial use — Apple is reminding customers that applications sold through the iTunes store are strictly for non-commercial use: business use is forbidden, which makes one wonder what that section of the store is for.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Zune HD's “Apps” menu item spotted in the Marketplace, still short on details — At Best Buy's Zune HD preview today a certain Matthew Arkin on Qik was able to shoot footage of the “Apps” item that resides within the “Marketplace” section on the device. It's still incredibly unclear …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Tall Tale: Did Twitter Really Save Tarantino's “Inglourious Basterds”? — Earlier this summer, Twitter was blamed for torpedoing movies like “Bruno” and “Funny Business.” Now the micromessaging service is being heralded for giving Quentin Tarantino's “Inglourious Basterds” a big boost.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Fanbase, a web directory of athletes and their teams — A new web directory of sports teams and athletes called Fanbase has launched today, aiming to mobilize fans around pages of any team, from football to golf at any level, from professional to college and high school.
