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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple expected to offer iPhone on new U.S. carriers within a year — Apple's worldwide single-carrier exclusivity model for each nation is seen as fleeting, as a new report suggests the iPhone could be available for carriers other than AT&T in the U.S. within a year.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Munster on $10 iPhones, $30 TV subscriptions, moving beyond AT&T
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology — Microsoft's No. 1 rival is a household name, Google. But a strong candidate for No. 2 is a company that is scarcely known outside the technology industry: VMware. — “VMware is definitely a threat,” said Gary Chen, an analyst at IDC, a research firm.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware to step up data center automation game — VMware on Monday will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements. — The announcements will kick off VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A Hired Gun for Microsoft, in Pursuit of Google — REDMOND, Wash. — Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. — For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu played a leading role in building Yahoo's Internet search and advertising technologies.
Hadley Leggett / Wired Science:
Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text — Starting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.
Dan Dorfman / The Huffington Post:
SEC Investigating Apple Trading — Hey, have some investors been screwing around illegally with the shares of high-flying Apple, Inc., a superstar of the investment scene? — Apparently, the Securities & Exchange Commission is suspicious this may be the case and has kicked off an investigation …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Spider-Man Meets Mickey Mouse: Disney Buying Marvel For $4 Billion In Stock, Cash — The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) is buying Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL) and its 5,000-character roster for a cool $4 billion in stock and cash. Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter will stay on to oversee …
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Ryan Faas / Computerworld:
What's the real deal with 64-bit computing in Snow Leopard? — Is Snow Leopard a 64-bit operating system? Well, yes and no. — Computerworld - One of the biggest points of confusion around Apple's newest version of Mac OS X is about whether it's really a 64-bit or a 32-bit operating system.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek set to launch ultra-thin notebooks using new Intel CPUs — Asustek Computer plans to launch two new ultra-thin notebooks using Intel's upcoming 45nm Celeron 743 and SU2300 CPUs on September 7, 2009, according to industry sources. — The new models will initially ship to areas including Taiwan, China and Europe.
Daniel Ionescu / PC World:
Fox Juices ‘Fringe’ Re-Runs with Twitter Twist — Fox is juicing its repeats of the TV series Fringe with a new Twitter twist. The network will introduce this week “tweet-peats” — an on-screen scroll of Twitter messages from cast and producers that will appear during the episodes.
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BBC:
Thousands call for Turing apology — Thousands of people have signed a Downing Street petition calling for a posthumous government apology to World War II code breaker Alan Turing. — Writer Ian McEwan has just backed the campaign, which already has the support of scientist Richard Dawkins.
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Ginny Mies / PC World:
Hands-On: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ — SanDisk's tiny, popular Sansa Clip flash-based MP3 player gets upgraded with a microSD slot and a slightly different name. The Sansa Clip+ retains the same high quality audio and great value as the original, but the added storage slot gives the player even greater potential.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Here come AMD's six-core, ultra-low-power Opteron EEs — There are three “rails” of wattage in AMD's architectural plan for its CPUs: its higher-performance SE line, its lowest-power EE line, and its hybrid HE line that trades some performance for power savings.
Laura Saunders / Wall Street Journal:
Is ‘Friending’ in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First — Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman. — State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites …
Andrew Lim / Recombu:
Tech21 iBand: Serious impact protection (proved on video) — Dragons' Den's Peter Jones must understand the anguish we all suffer when we drop our phones as his latest investment is in Tech21, a company that specialises in impact protection for mobile devices.
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ASUS Eee PC Netbook Roadmap Revealed — Someone by the name of JazzDoc, working in the “industry” has spilled the beans on the roadmap of the ASUS Eee PC netbooks. It reveals new Eee PC products including a 12-inch ION mini-notebook! and a few surprising EOLs:
Marc Flores / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon cuts BlackBerry Storm pricing to $50 — It seems like only yesterday that Verizon gave the general public a first taste of the BlackBerry Storm, RIM's first and currently only touchscreen phone. If you're a late adopter, we have awesome news for you: Verizon has reduced the price …
John Cook / TechFlash:
iPhone app wins top honors at Microsoft sponsored event — Learn That Name, a new iPhone app designed to help people remember the names of people they bump into at events, won the most votes at Startup Weekend even though the 54-hour coding marathon was held on Microsoft's campus.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists' IP Addresses — Google has reportedly sent a letter to a high-profile Caribbean investigative website called The TCI Journal saying it will supply the IP addresses used to access the Journal's primary GMail account unless the Journal supplies a legal counter-motion within the next two weeks.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Samsung Application Store announced, the mobile mall gets a little more crowded — Oh, look, it's another place to buy bite-sized mobile apps, this one courtesy of Samsung. The company isn't exactly new to the whole application store thing, launching a little outlet for Nokia users earlier this year …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Oyster Card: 10 Million + RFID Chips in London — The Oyster card is an RFID smart card used for electronic ticketing on London public transport services, notably the London Underground and buses. Other countries have similar smart cards. A couple that I've come across in real life recently …
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
New Palm phones in Sprint inventory: P120 and C40 — Following up on the word of Palm devices appearing in Verizon's database, we've been sent the above screenshot of a Sprint inventory management system, showing not one, not two, but three plot-thickening Palm devices.
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