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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Snow Leopard review — Snow Leopard. Even the name seems to underpromise — it's the first “big cat” OS X codename to reference the previous version of the OS, and the list of big-ticket new features is seemingly pretty short for a version-number jump. Maybe that's why Apple's priced …
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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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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Nokia N900 and Maemo 5 get official [Video] — In the face of an early review and leaked press shots, Nokia have decided to officially announce the N900 together with its Maemo 5 OS. Set to get their official unveil at Nokia World next week, the N900 packs HSPA, WiFi and 32GB of storage …
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Maemo 5 injects speed and power into mobile computing — The new Nokia N900: Computer-grade performance in a handset — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today marked the next phase in the evolution of Maemo software with the new Nokia N900. Taking its cues from the world of desktop computing …
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Engadget, Nokia Conversations, jkOnTheRun, Boy Genius Report, UMPCPortal, IntoMobile and Pocketables
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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Softpedia News, The Official Google Blog, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Mashable!, SlashGear, 901am, ReadWriteWeb, Pocket-lint.com and Engadget, Thanks:atul
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Unchain the Office Computers! — Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want. — During a town hall meeting for State Department workers last month, an employee named Jim Finkle asked Hillary Clinton a very important question: “Can you please let the staff use an alternative Web browser called Firefox?”
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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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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.
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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Tameka Kee / paidContent:
Console Price Wars: Microsoft Drops Xbox Elite Down To $299 — Hoping to boost console sales this holiday season, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has dropped the price of its Elite Xbox 360 to $299. The $100 price cut comes just about a week after Sony (finally) slashed the price of the PS3, also to $299.
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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 …
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Digits, Softpedia News, Communications …, paidContent, VentureBeat and Googling Google, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jnack / John Nack on Adobe:
Information about Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard — I've done some more research into the history of Adobe's work with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). I can't speak for product teams besides Photoshop, and in the interests of time, I'm sharing what I've found out so far.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Snow Leopard warning: Your apps may crash
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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, Search Engine Land, NEWS.com.au, The Social, Pocket-lint.com, Google Maps Mania, TheNextWeb.com and Gizmodo
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Boxcar 2.0 Is A Must-Have For the iPhone. It's The Best Push Notification App Yet. — A few days ago, I wrote about the frustration over the delay in approving the new Facebook app for the iPhone. That should launch any day now, and it's a good thing because as soon as it does …
Serkan Toto / MobileCrunch:
Apple finally enters the world's biggest mobile market: China to get the iPhone in October — Major Chinese news portal 163.com is reporting [Google machine translation] that Apple has finally signed a deal with China Unicom to bring the iPhone 3G to mainland China in October.
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Judge orders cybersquatter to pay Verizon $33m — Massive default damages ruled acceptable — A federal court in California has upheld a massive $33.15m penalty against a cybersquatting domain aggregator that registered hundreds of websites mimicking Verizon's name and trademarks.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Defying Experts, Rogue Computer Code Still Lurks — It is still out there. — Like a ghost ship, a rogue software program that glided onto the Internet last November has confounded the efforts of top security experts to eradicate the program and trace its origins and purpose …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to launch e-book reader under Eee family — Asustek Computer plans to launch an e-book reader under its Eee brand by the end of 2009 at the earliest, according to company president Jerry Shen. — Meanwhile, Micro-Star International (MSI) is also evaluating the e-book reader market, according to industry sources.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google Book Search? Try Google Library — Is Google ready—or willing—to become a library? — Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the implications of Google's proposed settlement with publishers that …
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