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Ryan Block / gdgt live:
Live Apple “It's only rock and roll” event coverage — This is the place to be for live coverage of Apple's “It's only rock and roll, but we like it” event. We know Apple will, as always, trot out this year's line of iPods, but we'll have to wait to find out if they've got anything else up their sleeves.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Steve Jobs Is Back In The Game, Reappears In iPod Event — And on the third keynote, he speaketh again. And the people rejoiced, and feasted upon the the lambs and iPods, and carp and anchovies, and iPhones and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats and tempura tofu plates. Steve Jobs is on stage:
Damian Koh / CNET News:
Apple iPod touch G3 and nano G5 leaked? — Looks like third-party accessories maker Cygnett has stolen the thunder from Apple by unveiling new casings for the iPod touch G3 and iPod nano G5. What? You haven't heard of these two iPods before? Well, that's because they haven't been announced, not officially anyway.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple slashes iPod prices up to $120 — In an early-morning teaser, Apple (AAPL) has chopped $20 to $120 off the prices of most of its iPod line. — The new prices were posted only hours before a special music event at which Apple is expected to replace most if not all of its existing iPods …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
The New iPod Nano Shoots Video, Plays Radio — As well-documented by the “word on the street,” the fifth generation iPod nano is also a camera...and a bunch of other stuff too...and it's available today. Details: — Starting today, the 8GB nano will cost $150 while the 16GB comes in at $180.
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.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
iTunes 9 bringing iTunes LP functionality, ‘beautiful new look’ — Ready to pay more for the same music? Good! We've just spotted some new “Deluxe Version” albums in iTunes, which apparently are part of the “iTunes LP” experience in the upcoming iTunes 9, if the album blurbs are to be believed.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
iTunes Connects With Facebook And Twitter — Apple's Rock and Roll event is full swing, and they've just announced that you'll be able to share albums you're interested in over Facebook and Twitter. This isn't exactly a unique feature — we've seen music sites like Lala and plenty of others tap …
AT&T:
AT&T to Make Faster 3G Technology Available in Six Major Cities This Year — Rollout of New Technology - HSPA 7.2 - Matched by Backhaul Deployment to Cell Sites to Support Surging Mobile Broadband Demand Throughout Evolution to 4G
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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 …
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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AT&T:
AT&T Customers Enjoy Unlimited Calling to Their A-List — New Feature for Qualifying Plans Offers Unlimited Calling to Domestic Phone Numbers, Combined with Rollover Lets Users Keep the Minutes They Save
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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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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
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AppleInsider:
Apple unveils 64GB iPod touch with faster processor for $399 — With a library huge library of titles, Apple pushed the iPod touch and iPhone as the definitive mobile gaming platform Wednesday as it announced a new 64GB iPod touch priced at $399. — In addition, a 32GB offering will be available for $299, and an 8GB option for $199.
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Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
The Simple, Secret iPhone Tethering Fix — As Apple's music event draws closer, there's plenty of speculation that a new version of iTunes might be nigh—and with it, a pwn-resistant version of iPhone OS 3.1. So with a healthy fear of Apple's anti-hacker scheming, it bears mentioning …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
One More Googler Gone: DoubleClick Ad Exchange 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 …
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 …
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Avid launches consumer versions of Pro Tools audio editing suite — Pro Tools is something of an industry standard when it comes to digital audio editing. Sure, there are other applications for Windows, Mac, or Linux that are cheaper, or which can do many of the same things.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Riot Games launches hardcore fighting game in China, gets $8M boost — 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.
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.
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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Jerry A. Dicolo / Wall Street Journal:
Numbers Don't Add Up for TI Calculator — New Graphing Device Is More Than Some Students Need as Old Models Hold Their Own — Facing competition from iPhones and other devices that have caught on with the high school set, Texas Instruments Inc. is trying to inject some new life into its popular line of graphing calculators.
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.
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Webware.com, eWeek, SmoothSpan Blog, Softpedia News, CRM FYI, VentureBeat, Between the Lines and Mashable!
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 …
Julia Boorstin / Media Money with Julia Boorstin:
Fall TV's Biggest Hit: HULU — The fall TV season starts this week and this year it'll be easier than ever to find all that content online-on Hulu. — I sat down with Jason Kilar, the CEO of the two-year-old startup to hear where he thinks the company-and the industry-is headed next.
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.
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ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, eWeek, Mashable!, internetnews.com, Socialtext blog and Ross Mayfield's Weblog
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.
PE Hub Blog:
DoCoMo Backs Evernote — EverNote Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of information capturing technologies, has raised $2 million in additional second-round funding from DoCoMo Capital. The round now stands at $6.5 million, including a previously-announced investment from Troika Dialog of Russia.
