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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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
How Big Is the Apple iPhone App Economy? The Answer Might Surprise You — If I were to tell you that Apple's app economy was worth more than $2.4 billion a year, you would laugh hysterically, shake your head and walk out of the room, yes? Surf on over to some other web site?
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Globe and Mail:
Facebook agrees to privacy changes — Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says Facebook has agreed to changes that will bring the social networking site into compliance with Canadian law. — In a press conference, Ms. Stoddart said Facebook, among other pledges, has agreed to new features …
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Italian Regulators Investigating Google — PARIS — Italian competition authorities said Thursday that they were investigating Google, following complaints from publishers that the company was abusing its dominant position on the Internet to deny them a fair share of online advertising revenue.
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Bloomberg:
Google News's ‘Dominant Position’ Probed by Italian Antitrust Regulators — Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, is being investigated by Italian antitrust regulators after national newspapers said the company's news service deprives them of advertising revenue.
Nokia:
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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Robert McMillan / PC World:
New Attack Cracks Common Wi-Fi Encryption in a Minute — Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. — The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types …
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.
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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.
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?”
Ryan Lawler / Contentinople:
Verizon, TW Cable Join ‘TV Everywhere’ Bandwagon — Add Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) to the list of service providers that will soon be testing out “TV Everywhere” services. — Both service providers announced today that they will soon begin trials …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Pictures: Fire On Google's Roof, UK HQ Evacuated, Barbecue Blamed — Google's a hot company to work for - literally. A fire atop its UK HQ on Victoria's Buckingham Palace Road in London forced its evacuation shortly after Thursday lunchtime. “Yes, there has been a fire at Google (NSDQ …
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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Brandon Badger / Google Book Search Blog:Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books …
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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 …
Hans Wu / DigiTimes:
OmniVision becomes sole CIS supplier of new Apple iPod — OmniVision has secured CMOS image sensor (CIS) orders for upcoming Apple iPods, according to market sources. — OmniVision will be the sole supplier of 3.2-megapixel CIS products for new iPod nano, iPod classic and iPod Touch models …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will kick off the Windows 7 launch at an event in New York City on October 22, according to an invitation Microsoft has sent to various media members and bloggers. — To date, Microsoft officials have declined …
The Official Google Blog:
Translate documents: sharing across languages and generations — My cousin is in first grade and sometimes she writes short stories for class. I try to share the stories with her grandparents, but because Japanese is their first language and they don't speak English very well, it's been tough.
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 …
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Simon St. Laurent / O'Reilly Radar:
Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? — Web developers couldn't stop talking about HTML and its evolution during the 1990s. New features were usually tempting, though not always workable, and the Browser Wars meant that vendors competed by providing and copying features.
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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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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Updated: Apple Approves Spotify's iPhone App — A month after submitting its proposed iPhone app to Apple's approval process, Spotify says it's heard no indication of its chances of success. — Three unrelated apps, mostly remote control apps, that were previously visible in the App Store via a …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
AT&T Opted Out of Motorola's Android Plan — SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (TheStreet) — Motorola's (MOT Quote) one last chance has one fewer partner to help make it happen. — AT&T (T Quote) cancelled plans to carry Google (GOOG Quote) Android-powered phones later this year, says MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen …
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