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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.
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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 …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Launches Internet Stat Center — Without any fanfare, Google has launched a new resource called “Google Internet Stats” which brings together industry facts and insights from across five different industries. Using a number of third party vendors as sources, the stats tool parses through online data …
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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Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Introduces The HTC Touch Pro2 — For customer inquiries, please call 800-922-0204 or go to — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and BELLEVUE, Wash. — Verizon Wireless and HTC Corporation introduce the HTC Touch Pro2™, a global-capable smartphone designed for the busiest professionals and world travelers.
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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.
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 …
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Matt Asay / CNET News:
Oracle overtures to Sun customers mum on MySQL — Oracle has much to say to Sun Microsystems customers in a front-page advertisement it placed in Thursday's European edition of The Wall Street Journal. — The advertisement commits to greater investments in Sun hardware and Solaris software …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Steve Jobs is going after the game market — In an interview with the New York Times columnist David Pogue, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs emphasized that Apple was going after the video game market, particularly with its iPod Touch gadget. — That explains why there is no camera in the iPod Touch …
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Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
AMD Presses Consumers to Rethink the Chip — Tired of losing speed comparisons with Intel processors, Advanced Micro Devices will stress how its chips can satisfy specific computer needs — Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) wants to change the way you think about its chips.
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Sean Michaels / Guardian:
Courtney Love to sue over Kurt Cobain Guitar Hero appearance — The widow of the late Nirvana frontman has described his depiction in the video game as a ‘travesty’ — Courtney Love plans to take legal action over the representation of her late husband in Guitar Hero 5.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
The future of Windows phones and Windows Mobile — Today at TechEd Australia I took the opportunity to chat with Loke Uei Tan - program manager on the Windows Mobile team - to talk about the future of Windows phones and the Windows Mobile OS. — As a Windows Mobile user who's doubted …
BBC:
Unhappy with your broadband speed? Try Winston the pigeon — Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. — A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick …
Randall Bennett / TechVi:
Sprint to launch unlimited cell-to-cell calling, regardless of network — UPDATE: It's official. — An anonymous tipster tells TechVi Sprint will be launching a calling plan which will allow customers to call any other cell phone from any other carrier for free.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
With iTunes 9, Apple again disables Palm Pre sync — The tug of war between Apple and Palm continues, as the latest update to iTunes has once again blocked the Palm Pre from syncing with a users' iTunes library. — When the Palm Pre was first released, it, by default …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's 09/09/09 09:09:09 Logo — For a brief period of time, the following logo doodle was showing on the Google US homepage yesterday, the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of this millenium: — It's not the first time that Google only briefly displays a special logo.
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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.
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 …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Western Digital introduces smarter, more intuitive backup drives — Try as they might, the hard drive companies just can't convince consumers to backup their precious computer data. Only about 14 percent of consumers use an external hard drive, according to hard disk maker Western Digital.
Matthew Murray / AppScout:
Adobe Announces Story Script-Development Software and Flash Access SDK — At the IBC trade show today, Adobe—best known for its industry-leading image-editing app Photoshop and its Creative Suite collection of products—announced two new software applications that will extend …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Collecta releases API to spur development of real-time search apps — The real-time search race is entering its next leg. After about a dozen start-ups rushed to launch basic search pages showing real-time results, a few are releasing application programming interfaces in hopes that developers …
Amy Schatz / Digits:
Copyright Office No Fan of Google Books Settlement — Marybeth Peters, head of the U.S. copyright office, said a proposed settlement between publishers and Google over its books service was very concerning and that her office didn't support it. … The settlement “inappropriately creates something similar …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Analyst: Slowing iPod Sales Should Worry Record Labels — In its spartan Wednesday event, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) boasted it's sold 225 million iPods to date. So when we saw Forrester VP and music analyst Mark Mulligan suggest, on Guardian.co.uk, that customers upgrading to a new model every …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Listening to Radio on the Web? That's So Last Year — The next generation of radio listeners might not remember the olden days of scrolling through stations by turning a knob on a car or home stereo. Instead, the radio they listen to could very well be on their mobile phones.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Motorola's big Android bet kicks off — Motorola on Thursday is expected to lay its Android chips on the table in the form of new devices that are designed to turn around the company. — As most folks know, Motorola has struggled in recent years. Its handset business has been a wreck and Sanjay Jha …
Jeff / The NewsCloud Blog:
How We Caught Missing Wired Magazine Writer Evan Ratliff — After twenty-five days on the run, the New Orleans' Naked Pizza team caught Evan Ratliff, the Wired magazine writer who voluntarily disappeared as part of its Vanish contest! This is how we tracked Evan to New Orleans in time to alert …
