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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Sprint Cancels Palm Pre $100 Offer — If there's a Guinness World Record for shortest-lived promotional offer by a wireless carrier, Sprint's (S) surely a front-runner for it. — Just six or so hours after offering a $100 service credit to new subscribers who purchase a Palm (PALM) …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:New from Sprint: The $99 Palm Pre [UPDATED]
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
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.]
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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) …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:The Inevitable Move Of iTunes To The Cloud
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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.
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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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Source: Palm To Unveil Pixie Phone This Week — Palm will unveil its second WebOS phone this week, internally named the “Pixie,” we've heard from a source close to the company. The debut will occur as part of Fashion Week in New York. — As we wrote back in April, the new phone …
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.”
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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.
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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.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Antitrust Lawyer Slams Google Book Pact — Silicon Valley antitrust lawyer Gary Reback made his case against the Google Books settlement Tuesday, arguing that the settlement is illegal but could be remedied if the Justice Department insists that Google license the books it scanned to competitors.
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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 …
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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).
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Chris Wilson / Slate:
Introducing News Dots — An interactive map of how every story in the news is related, updated daily. — Like Kevin Bacon's co-stars, topics in the news are all connected by degrees of separation. To examine how every story fits together, News Dots visualizes the most recent topics in the news as a giant social network.
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.
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Al Sacco / CIO.com:
First Official BlackBerry “Bold 9700/Onyx” (T-Mobile) Image; '09 Launch Expected — T-Mobile U.S.A.'s next major BlackBerry release is the BlackBerry “Bold 9700,” or Onyx, and it will be the U.S. carrier's very first 3G BlackBerry smartphone. Though not even officially announced yet …
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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.
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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 …
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.
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 run by another ex-Yahoo, Qi Lu.
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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.
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.
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 …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
What Exodus? Facebook Trumps Top 20 Sites in Time Spent — Length of User Experience Can Help Media Buyers Gauge Influence, and Soc-Net Is at the Top of the Pack — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — How many visitors a website gets matters, but so does the amount of time people spend on the website.
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Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
There's a Reason RSSCloud Failed to Catch On — WordPress and Dave Winer are working together to bring real-time, Twitter-style updates to RSS feeds using the cloud element and the accompanying RSSCloud Interface. Yesterday, WordPress added RSS cloud support to “all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com.”
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Finance and Fantasy Football: Two more iPhone Apps from Yahoo — Earlier this morning, Yahoo's own Flickr app finally appeared in the iTunes App Store, but this was only the first of three mobile apps Yahoo released today. In addition to Flickr, Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Fantasy Football have now arrived in the store as well.
