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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yelp Brings First US Augmented Reality App to iPhone Store — Social review service Yelp has snuck the first Augmented Reality (AR) iPhone app specifically for the US into the iTunes App Store. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their phones three times to turn on a view called “the Monocle.”
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Wall Has Fallen: 3 Augmented Reality Apps Now Live in iPhone App Store — First Paris Metro, then Yelp, now London Buses. The newest is even selling database layers through in-app purchases. — It has been widely reported that the API required to display Augmented Reality (AR) …
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
GScreen's Dual-Screen Spacebook Coming Soon(ish) — This is one of the first photos of an actual gScreen's dual 15.4-inch screen Spacebook—two full screens (not just an extra 10-inch one like Lenovo's W700. Really. There were renders before, but here are the photos.
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Dan Moren / Macworld:
Inside Snow Leopard's hidden malware protection — File Quarantine is Mac users' first line of defense against malicious software — While malicious software has long been a near-daily annoyance for Windows PCs, Mac users have become accustomed to not worrying about malware.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Snow Leopard Application Incompatibilities Compiled — Many users have been wondering whether their current applications will be compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and both Apple and users with access to the final version of Snow Leopard have been working to compile this information for reference purposes.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Now Available On The App Store — Nearly two weeks after submitting the app to Apple, Facebook's totally revamped 3.0 application is finally live on the App Store, according to the app's developer Joe Hewitt. You can download it now here.
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Facebook Press Room:
Facebook Announces Privacy Improvements in Response to Recommendations by Canadian Privacy Commissioner — Facebook to provide users with even greater control over information shared with third-party applications, and revisions to privacy policy PALO ALTO, Calif. — August 27, 2009 …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:New Facebook Privacy Policies Will Have A Significant Impact …
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Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary Napolitano Announces New Directives on Border Searches of Electronic Media — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced new directives to enhance and clarify oversight for searches of computers and other electronic media at U.S. ports of entry …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Apple to iPhone developers: Please make your apps less useful — Apple strikes again. Normally, when an iPhone/iPod touch app gets updated it's good news. Woo hoo — new features, new fun! iStat users who updated their app to the latest version that became available this afternoon however …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Apple Says It Has Approved App From Music Service Spotify — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) says it has approved an iPhone app from Spotify, a music service that some people believe represents a growing threat to iTunes. — The decision has been closely watched in part because Apple has previously disallowed apps …
Google LatLong:
Street View gets down to business — Finding a business with Street View just became easier. For example, if you search for “thai restaurants near mountain view” on Google Maps, and click on a search result, a bubble pops up with various links, including a link to “Street View”.
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
Dell's numbers show PC industry staggering back — SAN FRANCISCO — Dell Inc.'s second-quarter results reinforce what other tech heavyweights have shown recently about the health of the personal-computer industry: it's still wounded by the recession, but is staggering back to its feet …
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Mark Lee / Bloomberg:
Apple IPhone to Be in China in Fourth Quarter, Unicom Says — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s iPhone will go on sale in China from the fourth quarter, entering a market that has more subscribers than the combined populations of the U.S. and the 16 nations that share the euro.
Business Week:
Nokia Takes Aim at Apple — Its product-launch offensive includes a new Nokia netbook, handset, and tablet PC that seem squarely aimed at Nokia's top rival — Nokia (NOK) has seemed determined recently to remind the world that it, not a certain Cupertino (Calif.) rival, is the world's dominant handset maker.
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Microsoft Delivers Open-Source Bing SDK for iPhone, Mac — Microsoft delivers a Bing iPhone and Mac software development kit and makes the SDK available for download on the Microsoft CodePlex community development site. — Microsoft has delivered a Bing iPhone and Mac software development kit …
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Daily Mail:
Weather supercomputer used to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters — The Met Office has caused a storm of controversy after it was revealed their £30million supercomputer designed to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Sprint Should Be Giving Away The Palm Pre For Free — There was plenty of hype around the launch of the Palm Pre, which by all accounts is a pretty damn good phone (I've played around with it, and like it). However, Palm and Sprint made two huge mistakes in marketing it.
Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
isocket Raises $2 Million Series A With Some Big Names — isocket, an open ad platform, is announcing a Series A round of financing led by Tim Draper at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Also joining the round was David Blumberg of Blumberg Capital, Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC, and Dave McClure of Founders Fund Angel.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Investor Group Makes Play For Skype — A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay-owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal. — Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreesen Horowitz …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
WiFi on steroids? First “WhiteFi” prototypes hit testing stage — Now that the FCC has opened empty TV channels to wireless networking, Microsoft Research wants to replicate the success of WiFi—but with 1km connection distances and much greater bandwidth. Welcome to WhiteFi.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Ends Bing Promotion Early After Hitting Cashback Limit — There is no denying that Bing's Double Cashback promotion served up some great deals. But apparently they were so good that Microsoft had to end the deal a full four days early — and even earlier for some.
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 …
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
JWT, WPP Sued Over TV Advertising for Microsoft's Bing — Denizen Claims Agency Stole Patented Method of Integrating a Show's Content Into Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A Delaware firm has filed a lawsuit against JWT and parent WPP, claiming the ad agency stole its patented product-placement concept …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Apple gets higher profile in HTML standardization — An Apple manager has become a co-chairman of the group standardizing HTML, giving the company a higher-profile role in a crucial time for development of the language used to build Web pages. — The World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Working Group …
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
FBI investigating mystery laptops sent to governors — There may be a new type of Trojan Horse attack to worry about — IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who sent five Hewlett-Packard laptop computers to West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin a few weeks ago …
Dennis Fisher / threatpost:
Malware-Infected CD Mailing was Part of Pen Test — The malware-infected CDs that were mailed to some credit unions may have been part of a penetration test designed to gauge whether an employee would run the software. The SANS Internet Storm Center says it was notified by a representative …
