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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The Palm Pixi is official, headed to Sprint this holiday season — we've got hands-on and video! — The Palm Pixi has officially arrived, and if you're an avid reader of Engadget (you'd better be), this device should look a little bit familiar to you. We first broke specs and images of the phone …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:Palm Pixi Hands On: The Smaller Pre With A Better Keyboard and No Wi-Fi
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
It's Only Rock and Roll Event Prelude — The word is that Apple's “secrecy machine” has been kicked back into high gear ever since you-know-who returned from you-know-what. Anecdotal evidence backs that up: I've heard very little about tomorrow's “It's Only Rock and Roll” event.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Great Expectations Of An Apple Event — It's the night before an Apple event. You know, the time just before the Apple Store being down sends ripples of excitement through the blogosphere. Now's a time for one last reflection on the finalized rumors laid out in the past several hours.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Incredible Shrinking iPod Prices Undercut The Zune HD — We're still hours away from Apple's event today in San Francisco, but that apparently hasn't stopped the company from releasing some changes in its own store. The main thing to note is the prices of the various iPod lines, especially the iPod touch.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter And The Revenue Dilemma — One thing every venture capitalist knows but rarely talks about is the “revenue problem” with hot startups. When a startup is “growing like gangbusters” as Twitter cofounder Biz Stone told Bloomberg today, they tend to get a lot of attention from suitors.
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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Twitter to Generate Revenue as Site Grows Like ‘Gangbusters,’ Stone Says — Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc., the Web site that lets people post 140-character messages, plans to add services for businesses that will generate revenue in the fourth quarter, co-founder Biz Stone said.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft: Windows 7 not affected by latest flaw — Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. However, the software maker also said that the flaw does not affect the final version of Windows 7, contrary to earlier reports.
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Dennis Fisher / threatpost:Microsoft, Cisco Issue Patches for TCP DoS Flaw
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm Pre falls to $149.99 on Sprint — Nothing like the announcement of a new webOS device to spur a price drop on the first, is there? The Palm Pre — which has held steady at the $199.99 on-contract price it launched at back in June — has finally taken a rumored $50 dip down to $149.99.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Finally Marries SMS And Email — A long requested feature of Google Voice was a simple one: forward inbound text messages to email. Google Voice users get voicemails auto-transcribed and emailed to them, but text messages were not. Users can read and respond to them online …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
With Chinese game giant behind it, Riot Games raises $8 million for launch of hardcore online fighting game — Riot Games has raised $8 million in additional venture capital for its online fighting game. The investment was led by Chinese social media giant Tencent, which plans to publish the game in China.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Socialtext Launches Mobile Version Of Twitter-Like Collaboration Platform — Collaboration platform Socialtext is taking its package of enterprise 2.0 services to the smartphone. The startup has launched Socialtext Mobile, a web-based mobile version of the Socialtext collaboration platform.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Everything You Need To Know About Salesforce's Service Cloud 2 — In Salesforce.com's most recent earnings call, Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff strongly emphasized that the Service Cloud, which was launched in January, was one of the fastest growing segments of the company's business.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
TweetDeck adds MySpace support, directory of Twitter users — I just got off the phone with TweetDeck founder and former one-man team Iain Dodsworth. In 2007, Dodsworth got sick of single-column Twitter clients and wrote his own application that took the complete opposite approach.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Comcast to offer 100 Mbps service to businesses — Comcast announced Tuesday it will offer 100 Mbps broadband service to businesses in the Twin Cities as the company increases speeds on its network as a result of network upgrades. — The company is offering the service over its newly upgraded Docsis 3.0 network.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Hyperlocal Business Directory MerchantCircle Launches Consumer-Facing Features — Hyperlocal business directory MerchantCircle has been steadily growing as an online network and business directory for merchants in smaller towns to advertise to consumers. MerchantCircle has long targeted …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
US Government To Embrace OpenID, Courtesy Of Google, Yahoo, PayPal Et Al. — During the video interview with OpenID evangelist Chris Messina I recorded earlier this year at a German conference about the state of OpenID, he expressed his wish that the Obama administration would soon start …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
AT&T Snubs New York And San Francisco On 3G Upgrades — Don't count on getting the network speed boost your new iPhone 3GS is supposed to provide — until next year at the earliest — if you live in iPhone meccas New York or San Francisco. — AT&T announced new details on its network upgrade plans today …
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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.
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internetnews.com:
Dell Launches Easier-to-Manage SMB Servers — New servers, storage systems and UPS are all meant to cut management costs, which can be as much as 70 percent of IT budgets. — Dell today introduced new servers and storage aimed at the small and medium-sized business (SMB) …
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Microsoft:
Tesco and Microsoft Bring Next-Generation Movie Experience to U.K. Consumers — New virtual DVD provides ability to download entertainment including movies with rich video quality, interactivity and bonus content previously available only on a disk. — Tesco, one of the world's leading retailers …
The Official Google Blog:
Five million students going back to school are “going Google” — (Cross-posted on the Google Students Blog) — It's always tough to bid farewell to summer and hit the books again, but for a few million students this back-to-school season, things are looking up.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Packaging the News as Tweets — McLean Start-Up Expands to Try to Harness Twitter's Popularity — Chris McGill, founder of the McLean-based Web start-up Mixx, isn't much of a fan of Twitter, but his company's latest venture is banking on the microblogging site's widespread appeal.
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 …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
One More Googler Gone: DoubleClick AdExchange Boss Michael Rubenstein — Google employs about 20,000 people, and I don't expect to write a story every time one leaves. That said, here's another one: Michael Rubenstein, who ran DoubleClick's ad exchange unit and who was running the same project …
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Timothy B Lee / Bottom-up:
Nathan Myhrvold's Evil Genius — Last year I wrote that Intellectual Ventures is a kind of reductio ad absurdum of our flawed patent system. It's a firm that literally does nothing useful, its only business is the acquisition and licensing of patents. Not only does it have no intention …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
How To: See When Your Tweets Are Favorited, by RSS — Tweets on Twitter, you can favorite them - but do people take the time to? It turns out they do and someone's probably been favoriting Tweets from you, too. Favstar is a new service that tracks the most favorited tweets tweeted and finds some pretty funny stuff that way.
