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4:40 PM ET, September 8, 2009

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Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade [u] — Just days before Apple is expected to unveil its new line of iPods, multiple reports are suggesting that some of the widely anticipated camera-equipped media players could be delayed due to technical difficulties. [Updated with info from Hardmac.]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:

Apple's Sept. 9 music event: What's Steve Jobs got up his sleeve? — New iPods? Check. With cameras? Very likely. iTunes 9? Why not. Steve Jobs on stage? Who knows. The Beatles on iTunes? Don't count on it — but don't count it out, either. — Apple's (AAPL) …

Discussion: Computerworld, blogs.ft.com, CIO.com, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, all things Palm Pre, PreCentral.net and MacDailyNews

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Inevitable Move Of iTunes To The Cloud

Discussion: Macworld, CrunchGear, eWeek, AppleInsider, SlashGear and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:mgcreed

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Don't expect Apple TV as cable set top box, Apple exec says — Though rumors have persisted for years that the Apple TV might transition from a media streaming solution into a cable box competitor, a new report said an Apple executive “killed that concept.”

Discussion: Between the Lines, Gadget Lab, NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider, The iPhone Blog, Edible Apple, Engadget HD and iLounge

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App — Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr has done things the hard way on the iPhone. That is to say, for browsing photos they've made you go through their optimized website, and for uploading you had to do it through email.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Let It Be: Beatles Still Not Coming to iTunes Tomorrow — iPods with cameras? Maybe. iTunes with new features? For sure. iTunes with Beatles? Nope. — I'm sure that Apple (AAPL) will indeed sell the Fab Four's music via its digital music store one day. But it's not happening at Apple's keynote presentation tomorrow.

Discussion: VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Gadget Lab, MacRumors and Edible Apple

NME:

Paul McCartney: 'We'd like Beatles songs to be downloads' — Macca speaks in special ‘13 covers’ Beatles edition of NME - get yours now — Paul McCartney has told NME.COM that he wants The Beatles songs to be available as downloads. — The Fab Four's work has long been absent …

Discussion: Technologizer, Dealscape, 9 to 5 Mac and The Mac Observer

BBC:

T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger — T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. — The deal between Orange-owner France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK will see a business with sales of 9.4bn euros (£8.2bn; $13.5bn).

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft's Xbox — Does today's speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened to it, I personally can't see many parents objecting. But I could see one tech company not happy: Microsoft.

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Microsoft Blog, eSarcasm, GamePolitics News, TheFeed, WhiteHouse.gov Blog, BloggingStocks and Mashable!

Matthew Aslett / 451 CAOS Theory:

WSJ reports OIN to acquire former SGI patents (via Microsoft) — An interesting story in today's Wall Street Journal states that the Open Invention Network is “nearing an agreement to acquire 22 patents that Microsoft sold to another organization earlier this year” that could be used to protect Linux from patent attacks.

Discussion: Technology News, TG Daily and InformationWeek

Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Rivals Near Patent Deal

Discussion: LinuxWorld.com, The Register, internetnews.com, CNET News, PC World, eWeek and All about Microsoft

Dan Nystedt / PC World:

Foxconn Developing Inexpensive, Arm-based Smartbooks — Foxconn Technology plans to launch its first smartbooks next year, which are mini-laptops that use microprocessors from Arm Holdings normally found in smartphones. — Smartbooks are similar to netbooks except that they don't use …

Discussion: Technologizer, TechSpot, Gadgetell, Liliputing and Fast Company

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:

Mayfield Fund Hires a Young V.C. for Her Fresh Eye — There are not many young faces in Silicon Valley's venture capital firms. That worries some people, who say that young entrepreneurs need young investors who are up-to-date on new technologies. — Mayfield Fund, a venture firm founded in 1969, is taking that notion to heart.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch and silicontap.com

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

AIM Now Goes Both Ways (With Twitter And Facebook) — In July, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) embraced the stream in a new beta (for both Windows and Mac) and started moving beyond simple IMs. You can now see your Facebook and Twitter feeds, along with AIM buddy updates and feeds from other services.

Discussion: Inside Facebook, Download Squad, VentureBeat, Softpedia News and Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:

New from Sprint: The $99 Palm Pre — Sprint effectively lowered the price of the Palm Pre today to $99 for new customers only, offering a $100 service credit to those who port their numbers over from another carrier. To be eligible for the promotion, first noted by Pali Research …

Discussion: Reuters, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, Boy Genius Report, PC World, Tech Trader Daily, InformationWeek, Engadget Mobile, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear and Phone Scoop, Thanks:mrinaldesai

Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:

iPhone C64 Emulator Approved by Apple, Removed Again for Hiding Banned Feature — UPDATE: C64 Emulator has yet again been pulled from the App Store for sneaking in an easter egg that allows the execution of code in a BASIC interpreter. See the end of the post for details.

Discussion: manomio, The iPhone Blog, Engadget, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile.com, Technologizer and Softpedia News

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:

Microsoft to preview two Silverlight 4 features — Microsoft is slated to show off two features that it is incorporating into the next version of Silverlight, its Internet Explorer plug-in alternative to Adobe Flash at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam, which kicks off on September 11.

Discussion: Microsoft, CNET News and Beet.TV

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Former Yahoo Tech Star, Eric Boyd, to Microsoft (via Mochi Media) — Eric Boyd (pictured here), a high-profile techie from Yahoo, who left the company for a start-up last year, is now headed to Microsoft to work for its digital group, now headed by another ex-Yahoo, Qi Lu, sources said.

Discussion: TechCrunch

Lambert V. / technabob:

microsoft (mis)educates best buy employees about linux — A Best Buy employee recently posted screenshots of what he claims is part of a training program about Windows 7. The screenshots show some Windows vs. Linux comparisons. You probably know where this is going.

Discussion: Engadget, Between the Lines, Open Sources's blog, CrunchGear, Overclock.net and Neowin.net

foursquare:

A few thoughts on foursquare's seed financing... Hey all - — So, we wanted to say a few words about our round of seed financing that we didn't get to say last Friday. First of all, we can't be any happier. The financing - split between Union Square Ventures (USV), O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures …

Discussion: MediaMemo and Silicon Alley Insider

Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:

Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support — Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft's client software …

Discussion: Macworld, Softpedia News and TUAW, Thanks:mrinaldesai

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:

HTC Tattoo (aka, Click) brings Android, Sense UI to all — This one sure took awhile but the oft leaked HTC Click has been renamed and kicked out the door as the Tattoo. While HTC is light on specs with the press release, we know it has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5-mm headset jack, and microSD expansion.

Discussion: HTC Press Release, MobileTechWorld, Macworld, BetaNews, Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, Gadget Lab, MobilityMinded, Electronista, SlashPhone and Engadget Mobile

James Boyle / Financial Times:

A copyright black hole swallows our culture — Librarians call it the 20th-century black hole. The overwhelming force is not gravity but copyright law, sucking our collective culture into a vortex from which it can never escape. — That culture includes millions of books Google wants to make available online.

Bloomberg:

BusinessWeek Magazine Generates Interest From 93 Parties, CEO McGraw Says — Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — BusinessWeek magazine has generated interest from 93 potential buyers, McGraw-Hill Cos. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Terry McGraw said. — “Everybody's involved,” McGraw, 61, told Bloomberg Television today.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily

Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:

Twitterers prepare for Twestival — Party for a good cause with the get-together for fans of the microblogging site — Do something for your karma: the Live Aid of the technology world, Twestival, is about to happen again. On Thursday evening, 10 September, Twitterers will get together …

Mark Mulligan / The Forrester Blog …:

Music Release Windows: The Product Innovation That The Music Business Can't Do Without — Forrester has just published a report which lays out a radical vision of the future of music products. In the report we suggest that a comprehensive programme a product innovation is necessary to save …

Discussion: Music Ally

Rory Maher / Silicon Alley Insider:

YouTube Movie Rentals NOT A Billion-Dollar Business Any Time Soon — Movie rentals are a logical extension of Google's YouTube business, as it pushes the video site more toward professional content that it can profit from. But an estimate surfacing this morning that YouTube's supposedly …

Discussion: paidContent

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

In 8 Years, Online Video Consumption will be Measured in Exabytes — One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, “quintillion” is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, according to new reports from U.K.-based research firm Coda.

Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com

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