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6:00 AM ET, September 10, 2009

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David Pogue / Bits:
Steve Jobs on Amazon and Ice Cream  —  Steve Jobs at an Apple music event on Wednesday. … Wednesday in San Francisco, I attended Apple's annual iPod Show, its holiday-season kickoff of new iPods and iTunes Store developments.  —  I'll have a look at what's new in a post on Pogue's Posts on Thursday.
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google developing a micropayment platform and pitching newspapers: “'Open' need not mean free”  —  Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google properties within the next year,” according to a document the company submitted to the Newspaper Association of America.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Plans Tools to Help News Media Charge for Content
Discussion: Gawker
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Somebody Has To Say It: It's Time For iTunes Lite  —  Facebook integration.  Tweeting my music interests.  AppleTV.  Full-screen album extras.  App management.  An entire online store.  Smart playlists.  CD burning.  Ringtone creation.  Tips the scales at 88MB.
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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.
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
iTunes 9 Breaks iTunes Sync.  Again.  Get Going, Palm  —  Sister Site The iPhone Blog has everything you need to know about today's Apple Announcements - from the disappointing non-camera update to the iPod Touch to iPhone OS 3.1 getting released (Palm has some more catching up to do).
Discussion: Palm WebOS and The iPhone Blog
Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Now S-U-P-E-R-sized!  —  Search, that is.  For us, search has always been our focus.  And, starting today, you'll notice on our homepage and on our search results pages, our search box is growing in size.  Although this is a very simple idea and an even simpler change, we're excited about it …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   Google Rolls Out The Mother Of All Updates: A Larger Search Box
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 video camera...and radio and a pedometer and a voice recorder too...and it's available today.  Details:  —  • Video camera (640x480)  —  • NO STILL CAMERA
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod nano 5G with camera first hands-on!  —  We came and we saw... but there's not much to say.  It's exactly the same save for that new coating, bigger screen (which does help), and tiny little camera around back.  Video quality looked decent, but you really can't tell on the small screen.
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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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Steve Jobs says iPod touch didn't get a camera because “it's a great game machine”
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Why There Is No Camera In the iPod Touch and Why That Sucks
Discussion: SFGate and Edible Apple
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Apple Approves Real's Rhapsody iPhone App; First Look  —  Maybe it was the anti-trust patrol looking over Apple's shoulder or the memory of the RealNetwork settlement with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), but the Rhapsody iPhone/iTouch app—the first in the U.S. to offer on-demand streaming music …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bing Loves The Porn Hounds  —  Bing is an excellent search engine.  For one thing the surprising early reviews probably forced Yahoo's hand as they entered into one of the dumber corporate transactions I've ever seen.  So, kudos to Bing.  Golf clap.  Etc.
Discussion: WebProNews
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Voice, Skype Are on a VOIP Collision Course  —  News Analysis: Why would Google want to acquire Skype when it already has a VOIP application?  The fact is, Google Voice and Skype are not yet direct competitors, but Google is enriching its application and could put it on a collision course with Skype.
Discussion: Google Watch
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Arnold Kim / macrumors.com:
Apple's Focus on Games: Madden NFL 10, Nova, Assassin's Creed, Riddim Ribbon  —  At today's “It's Only Rock and Roll” media event, Apple focused on games for a significant portion of the event.  Apple's Phil Schiller even directly compared the iPod touch to the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS.
Discussion: VentureBeat and Pulse2
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:   CHART OF THE DAY: Apple Takes Over Gaming
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Dell Adamo XPS: Half As Thick As Air  —  What happens when Dell's Adamo and XPS laptops get set up on a date, have a few too many drinks and end up rocking the bed?  The 9.99mm-thin Dell Adamo XPS.  That's about half as thin as the MacBook Air.  —  Here's the math: 9.99 mm is about 0.39 inches.
Marcelo Calbucci / TweepML:
Announcing TweepML, the Open Standard format to share groups of Twitter users  —  This is a first post on this blog and as such, I want to keep it short.  TweepML is an Open Standard Extensible format to share groups of Twitter users.  That description makes it sound much more complicated than it is.
Ben Leach / Telegraph:
Blur and Radiohead join forces to battle Government over proposed piracy laws  —  Blur and Radiohead are among a host of bands calling on the Government to abandon proposals to cut off the internet connections of people who illegally download music.  —  They said plans announced by Lord Mandelson …
Discussion: BBC
Tom Conrad / Pandora:
Pandora for Android  —  When we set out building Pandora four years ago we knew that our work wouldn't be done until we'd found a great way to unlock the service from the PC.  Just over a year ago the iPhone let us take the first compelling step in that direction and the year since has been filled …
Discussion: Pocket-lint.com, Mashable! and AppScout
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Experimental Desktop Notifications App For Mac Is Very, Very Slick  —  If you're on a Mac and you use Facebook frequently, you're going to love this.  We've stumbled across a new experimental application being developed in-house at Facebook that's called “Desktop Notifications”.
Discussion: Pocket-lint.com, Thanks:thinkmantra
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to skip operator tailoring for Linux phones  —  HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj plans to skip tailoring software of its upcoming top-of-the-range model N900 to different operators, raising the risk some carriers, who focus on integrating their own software, could refuse to offer the model.
Arn / MacRumors:
'It's Only Rock and Roll' Event Video Now Available, Steve Jobs' Return  —  Apple has posted a podcast [iTunes Link] and QuickTime stream for today's media event which brought a number of new announcements:  — Apple Updates Entire iPod Family, Bringing Capacity and Performance Bumps to iPod Touch and Video Camera to iPod Nano
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Microsoft helps Best Buy employees troll Mac users, too  —  After our coverage from yesterday regarding Microsoft training material for Best Buy employees that not only makes Linux look bad, but is also full of inaccuracies, one of our faithful readers wrote in and said he could show us that Redmond was doing the same thing for Apple.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Pirate Bay buyer ‘misled’ investors, booted off exchange  —  A Swedish stock exchange has banned Global Gaming Factory X from offering its shares there after concluding the company “misled” investors about its ability to purchase The Pirate Bay.  —  AktieTorget, the Swedish stock market …
Discussion: Guardian, TorrentFreak and paidContent
James Callan / Bloomberg:
Hulu Needs Mix of ‘Pay And Free’ Web Video Content  —  Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) — Hulu should start charging for some of its content, said Chase Carey, chief operating officer of News Corp., one of the video Web site's owners.  —  “Ad-supported only is going to be a tough place in a fractured world …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Jacqueline Marino / Newspay:
Salon CEO Richard Gingras: ‘It Was a Mistake to Think of Ourselves As a Magazine’  —  When ValleyWag reported last month that Salon, a pioneer of online-magazine publishing, had laid off six editorial employees, CEO Richard Gingras explained that Salon had to become “more of a true Web publication.”
Discussion: paidContent
Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM:
Carriers to Facebook Mobile: Get on a Data Diet  —  Facebook Mobile users are twice as active on the social network than web-only users and account for about a quarter of its entire user base.  As a result, carriers have been asking Facebook to trim down the amount of data contained in its mobile web versions.
Discussion: Phone Arena and internetnews.com
 
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Discussion: GigaOM and The Register
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