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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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Reuters, Engadget, Electronista, The iPhone Blog, Mashable!, TheNextWeb.com, Paul Colligan's … 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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All About Symbian, VentureBeat, SlashGear, PHONE Magazine, mocoNews, BloggingStocks, Engadget Mobile, The Nokia Blog, Mobile Roar and Pulse2
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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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Fast Company, Open IT Strategies, CNET News, Fone Arena, PSFK, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, The Register and BetaNews
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.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:First iPhone Augmented Reality App Appears Live in App Store
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Mobilizy, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Gadget Lab, Games Alfresco, IntoMobile, TheAppleBlog, Pulse2, Marshall Kirkpatrick …, Scobleizer, SlashGear and Edible Apple
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, Technologizer, Gizmodo, MacRumors, EverythingiCafe, Silicon Alley Insider, jkOnTheRun, iPhone Savior, Gearlog, iLounge and Engadget
The Sun:
Nessie on Google Earth — THIS amazing image on Google Earth could be the elusive proof that the Loch Ness Monster exists. Sun reader Jason Cooke spotted “Nessie” while browsing the website's satellite photos. Security guard Jason, 25, of Nottingham, said: “I couldn't believe it.
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Daily Mail, NEWS.com.au, CNET News, Search Engine Land, Google Maps Mania and TheNextWeb.com
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 still scrambling to make sure their applications will work with the new version.
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Macworld, CNET News, PC World, NEWSFACTOR, The Register, InformationWeek, Engadget, AppScout, AppleInsider, MacRumors, John Nack on Adobe, Hardware 2.0 and TUAW
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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 …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple Changes Leopard's Spots — For a company known for breakthrough products with cool features, Apple this week is doing something unusual: It is introducing a key product with very few new features that are visible to its users. This new release, the latest major version …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Is Google Entering the Mortgage Quote Business? — Google plans to begin offering loan quotes online as early as this month, a lawsuit filed in federal court this week claims. The suit was filed by LendingTree, which offers consumers mortgage quotes and conditional loan offers online …
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.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Says Vonage App Delayed By Technical Issues; Vonage Says Fix Made, App Resubmitted (Updated) — Approval of a request by Vonage (VG) to distribute a mobile VOIP application through the Apple (AAPL) App Store has been delayed by technical issues with the Vonage software …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google To Open The AdSense Gates To Other Ad Networks — That They Approve Of — In what looks to be an effort to be the one overall ad network that rules them all, Google sent out an email to AdSense publishers today letting them know that they would soon be opening up their accounts …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
The Top 5 Reasons RSS Readers Went Wrong — Sam Diaz over at ZDNet 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 …
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.
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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EveryJoe, CrunchGear, I4U News, Electronista, Pocket-lint.com, SlashGear, Pulse2, Gizmodo and Engadget, Thanks:jcole
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
ACLU files lawsuit on border laptop searches — The civil liberties group wants to see details about laptop searches at U.S. borders — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit demanding that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) release details of its policy …
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TiVo Inc. Investor Relations:
TiVo Files Complaints for Patent Infringement Against AT&T and Verizon Communications in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas; Seeking Damages and Injunction — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO) today filed complaints in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas …
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CNET News, paidContent, Tech Trader Daily, Digital Daily, NewTeeVee, Electronista and DSLreports
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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blogs.ft.com, BetaNews, All Things Distributed, GigaOM, RightScale Blog, Fast Company, VentureBeat, CloudAve, internetnews.com, THINK IT Services, eWeek, TechFlash and ReadWriteWeb
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, jkOnTheRun, GottaBeMobile.com, AndroidGuys, UMPCPortal, CrunchGear, Electronista, Electricpig, Gizmodo and Computerworld
Nick Wingfield / Digits:
Microsoft Loses a Zune Exec — and Ethan Smith — With less than three weeks before Microsoft launches another salvo in digital music players, the marketing executive overseeing the company's Zune device is headed for the exit. — Microsoft — Chris Stephenson, Zune's general manager of global marketing
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.
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.
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 …
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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DailyTech, Roughly Drafted, AppleInsider, GigaOM, Techgeist, Electronista, MediaFile, OStatic blogs, FierceWireless and Gizmodo
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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Silicon Alley Insider, eWeek, CloudAve, Mashable!, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, VentureBeat, Inc.com, Gawker, Twittercism, Mediaite, Contentinople, Open IT Strategies and cubicgarden.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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.
