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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
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple holding ‘rock and roll’ themed event, September 9th — And just like that, Apple's yearly iPod event is happening. According to an email we've just received, it looks like all those rumors we heard turned out to be true. The big A will be holding the proceedings at the Yerba Buena Center …
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Deborah Gage / PE Hub Blog:
Jim Breyer Scores Big With Disney's Marvel Acquisition — As the third largest direct shareholder in Marvel Entertainment, Breyer stands to make nearly $5 million once Disney's acquisition of the superhero company closes. — Disney said this morning that it plans to pay $4 billion in cash and stock for Marvel.
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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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New York Times:
Stopping Start-Ups — VARIOUS pieces of legislation now making their way through Congress would require private pools of investment capital to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The goal is to curtail abuses and protect the public from questionable practices.
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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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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.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Apple's new OS geared for multicore future — Apple began shipping Snow Leopard on Friday, but the true importance of the Mac OS X update likely will emerge well afterward. — That's because Mac OS X 10.6 begins a longer-term Apple attempt to get ahead by cracking a problem facing …
Martin Peers / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Gets a Fuzzy Signal on Apple's iPhone — Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone? — Maybe. AT&T's exclusive right to offer Apple's smart phone over the past two years has attracted new customers, and at least initially enhanced the phone company's image.
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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.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More — A week ago I had a chance to sit down for a hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. There were no rules, and the whole interview was on the record. Part of the interview was on video as well.
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 …
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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 …
Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Leica's New Camera Unveiling on Collision Course With iPods — Leica's just announced via a YouTube video that it will introduce new Leica cameras on September 9. As if that PR maneuver wasn't confusing enough, get this: Leica's event is scheduled for the same day as Apple's iPod launch gig.
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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.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Report: Netbooks Now A Fifth Of All Portable Computer Shipments — Maybe it's because they are cheap. Maybe it's because they are small. Or maybe it's just because people don't need computers for much more than Net access these days. But the popularity of netbook computers keeps growing.
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Jeff Chin / The Official Google Blog:
Google Translate now speaks 51 languages — We spend a lot of time thinking about how information travels around the globe. After all, there are Googlers living and working in dozens of countries — and we're pretty sure our products are used in many more.
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.
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
HTC Touch Pro2 officially launching on September 8th, $349.99 — We're willing to forgive the horrible quality on these press mock ups of Sprint's HTC Touch Pro2 because, well, we're just way too happy to see this sucker get official to care. Are you a current or prospective Sprint subscriber?
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.
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.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars coming to iPhone — In another boost for games on the iPhone, console game king Rockstar Games is preparing to launch two major games on the iPhone and iPod Touch. — You could call this Take 57 of the “major game brands invade the iPhone” movie.
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comScore, Inc.:
Global Search Market Draws More than 100 Billion Searches per Month — Google Sites Leads Global Search Market with 67 Percent Market Share — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world today released a study of the global search market showing …
Ben Hall / Financial Times:
Hachette chief hits out at e-books — The pressure from Google's digital library project and Amazon's electronic books is forcing publishers to consider drastic price cuts, the head of the world's second largest publisher of books by sales has warned. — Arnaud Nourry, chief executive …
