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AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) — Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) lets you create your own logically isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances and connect it to your existing network using an IPsec VPN connection. This new offering lets you take advantage of the low cost …
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Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:Seamlessly Extending the Data Center - Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
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internetnews.com, RightScale Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Rational Survivability, THINK IT Services and eWeek, Thanks:atul
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:Will Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough?
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: Apple to unveil new iPod lineup on September 9 — Apple currently plans to host a media event on Wednesday, Sept. 9 to introduce its 2009 iPod offerings and make a host of other music-related announcements, AppleInsider can independently confirm. — People familiar with the matter …
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Engadget, Electronista, The iPhone Blog, TheNextWeb.com and geeksmack.net, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Nokia:
Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service enables financial management and payments from a mobile phone — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today introduced Nokia Money, a new mobile financial service offering consumers with mobile device access to basic financial services.
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VentureBeat, All About Symbian, mocoNews, SlashGear, Engadget Mobile, Pulse2, The Nokia Blog, PHONE Magazine, Mobile Roar and BloggingStocks
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Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Nokia just became PayPal with the launch of Nokia Money; built on top of Obopay — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) just announced “Nokia Money” which will be shown off next week at Nokia World. We told you about the Nokia Money trademark a little over a month ago, and it looks like the service is going to launch some time early next year.
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PC World, CNET News, Fone Arena, BetaNews, Boy Genius Report, PSFK, Fast Company, The Register and Electronista
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Snow Leopard warning: Your apps may crash — Two days before the scheduled launch of Mac OS X Snow Leopard — the latest update of Apple's (AAPL) flagship operating system — developers are scrambling to make sure their applications will still work with the new version.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Who's Driving Twitter's Popularity? Not Teenagers — Kristen Nagy, an 18-year-old from Sparta, N.J., sends and receives 500 text messages a day. But she never uses Twitter, even though it publishes similar snippets of conversations and observations. — “I just think it's weird …
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eWeek, Bits, Mashable!, CloudAve, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, VentureBeat, Twittercism, Inc.com, Gawker, Contentinople, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mediaite, Silicon Alley Insider, Open IT Strategies and cubicgarden.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Stern Fans Rejoice: Sirius XM SkyDock for iPhone — The rumors were true. At an invitation-only media event in New York City this morning, Sirius XM (SIRI) debuted the first-ever radio dock for the iPhone and iPod touch. — Dubbed SkyDock, the $119.99 peripheral uses iPhone OS 3's support …
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Orbitcast, Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, iLounge, Gearlog and Engadget
FBHive:
Facebook Screenshots Reveal Upcoming Features? — Screenshots posted in a note on the Facebook Design Page today may have revealed a little more than just the differences between rounded and square corners. — FBHive have noticed two mysterious new features on Facebook Product Designer Alexandre Roche's profile.
GamesIndustry.biz:
Microsoft “destroyed development culture” at FASA - Weisman — FASA Interactive founder Jordan Weisman has spoken out about Microsoft's acquisition of his highly-regarded studio, saying that the corporation “destroyed” its development culture and came close to doing the same with Halo developer Bungie.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Golden Ratio (That No One Likes To Talk About) — If you're new to Twitter, life is easy. A notification comes in that someone is following you, and you probably follow them back. After all, you're going to want some tweets in your stream. After a couple dozen of those …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
First iPhone Augmented Reality App Appears Live in App Store — French app development shop PresseLite appears to have the first Augmented Reality (AR) supporting iPhone app live in the iTunes store, though we don't know how they did it. It's called Metro Paris Subway, and while the app isn't new …
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Pulse2, Mobilizy, Games Alfresco, Scobleizer, Edible Apple, IntoMobile, Josh Bancroft's …, TheAppleBlog, Fast Company, SlashGear and Marshall Kirkpatrick …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Archos' Android-based A5S and A5H Internet Tablets outed by FCC? — You know those confidentiality agreements companies sign with the FCC to keep our prying eyes away? Well, Archos didn't sign one. The result is a treasure trove of information about its new A5S (model 7501) …
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SlashGear, Computerworld, jkOnTheRun, GottaBeMobile.com, AndroidGuys, UMPCPortal, CrunchGear, Electronista, Electricpig, Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac
Barry Collins / PC Pro:
Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3 — Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to the latest version of Firefox because they were afraid the browser would expose their, ahem, private collection of websites.
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia bets on Linux in iPhone battle: sources — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will try again to tackle Apple Inc's iPhone in the top-end of the handset market with a bet on Linux software, several industry sources told Reuters. — Top handset maker Nokia will show its first high-end phone running …
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AppleInsider, Roughly Drafted, DailyTech, GigaOM, Techgeist, Electronista, MediaFile, OStatic blogs, FierceWireless and Gizmodo
James / Dave Naylor a UK SEO and Search Marketing:
Twitter Exploit Still Works — Yesterday I posted an article about a serious vulnerability I found in Twitter. As it was a bit on the geeky side, it may well have gone over a few people's heads, so I thought I'd try to explain it in a bit more detail. Incidentally I don't think Twitter …
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Computerworld, TechCrunch, SC Magazine US, Guardian, Tech Central, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable! and Softpedia News
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Ordered to Remove All ‘Infringing’ Torrents — Mininova were sued this spring by BREIN, an outfit which protects the rights of several large entertainment industry corporations. — Today, the judge ruled that the world's largest BitTorrent indexer has been ordered to clean …
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Techdirt, Download Squad, Mininova blog, Threat Level, The Register, Slyck, PlagiarismToday, Softpedia News, p2pnet, TechSpot and geeksmack.net
Peter / gdgt:
Qualcomm readying handheld FLO TV Personal Television device — You know I like to keep my ear close to the ground when it comes to new gadgets, and I just got the scoop via a very reliable source about a new portable digital TV that Qualcomm is going to be introducing soon.
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CrunchGear, Pocket-lint.com, EveryJoe, SlashGear, I4U News, Gizmodo and Engadget, Thanks:jcole
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
The Top 5 Reasons RSS Readers Went Wrong — Sam Diaz over at Ziff Davis wrote the following in a blog entry titled RSS: A good idea at the time but there are better ways now in response to an announcement of a new feature in Google Reader … I take issue with the title of Sam's post since …
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Intel Next-Gen Mobile Platforms Make Windows 7 Launch an Awesome Time to Buy a Laptop — Windows 7's launch is going to be a hell of a busy time for laptops. Expect a slew of higher-end Intel Core i7 mobile rigs and thin notebooks powered by new dual-core ULV processors when the OS ships.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft: Word patent ruling, injunction ‘miscarriage of justice’ — Lower court judge let trial ‘run amok,’ company argues in appeal of $290M award — Computerworld - Microsoft Corp.'s lawyers late yesterday said the verdict that awarded a Canadian developer nearly $300 million in damages …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Augmented Traffic Views for Android could be the coolest AR app we've seen yet — Augmented Reality is quickly becoming a hot ticket item in the mobile world and we've seen various nifty applications of the technology previewed recently. The key of course, is finding useful and valuable ways to apply AR concepts to mobile devices.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Bing Continues With Fake Referrers: What Part Of Stop Don't They Understand? — For over two years now, Microsoft's search engine has been generating fake information that can make site owners think they're getting strange search traffic (including porn traffic), when they are not.
Sean Harvey / Inside AdSense:
Getting the most revenue from every impression through AdSense — We've been hearing your requests for new ways to generate revenue in AdSense, and new ways to maintain control over the ads that appear on your sites. With that in mind, we're pleased to announce plans to give you the ability …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Free Software Foundation trashes Windows 7 — The Free Software Foundation is using the launch of Windows 7 to try to convince businesses to dump Windows in favor of an open-source operating system. — (Credit: Free Software Foundation) — Home - News - Beyond Binary — Beyond Binary
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SendStation:
SendStation releases tiny PocketDock Line Out Mini USB adapter for iPod — SendStation Systems today released the world's smallest Mini USB-to-iPod adapter with integrated Line Out jack: the brand-new PocketDock Line Out Mini USB. — Mini USB has become the connectivity standard …
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Nokia to offer ARM-based smartbook in addition to Booklet 3G, say Taiwan makers — Nokia, in addition to its recently unveiled netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, will offer an ARM-based smartbook and soon settle ODM orders, according to Taiwan-based handset makers.
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I4U News, jkOnTheRun, Electronista, Phone Arena, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, Fone Arena, Gizmodo and Pocket-lint.com
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Digits:
Alliance Formally Launches Attack on Google Books Pact — The Open Book Alliance has opened its first chapter. — AFP/Getty Images — We learned last week that Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, the Internet Archive and several library groups were forming a coalition to challenge Google's settlement with authors and publishers.
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
MSI Confirms Wind U150 Netbook with Touchscreen and Intel's Next Atom — We heard that MSI may release a touchscreen netbook with Intel's next generation Pine Trail Atom platform, and it will. According to MSI, the new Intel Atom chipset is planned to be officially launched at CES.
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jkOnTheRun, SlashGear, T3.com News, Engadget, Electronista, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, Electricpig.co.uk and The Tech Report
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Palm Wants To Embrace Google Voice, But It's Not Clear Google Wants To Embrace Palm — Suddenly Apple's competitors see a weakness in the iPhone, and it's Google Voice. We've heard from a source close to Palm that the company plans to roll out deep integration with Google Voice on the Pre phones for users who want it.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Brandon Badger / Google Book Search Blog:
Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format — Over the years, we've heard a lot from people who've unearthed hidden treasures in Google Books: a crafter who uncovered a forgotten knitting technique, a family historian who discovered her ancestor once traveled …
Jeffry Bartash / Dow Jones Newswires:
US telcos ready to spend, suppliers to benefit — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel to increase capex in second half of year. — Companies that supply big phone companies with network equipment suffered in the first half of 2009, but sales are almost certain to accelerate over the next few months.
