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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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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Jobs makes it clear he's back in charge at Apple — SAN FRANCISCO—Though technically he returned to work two months ago, it was as the host of Wednesday's Apple music event that Steve Jobs publicly retook the reins of the company he founded. — Jobs was the first person to emerge on stage …
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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.
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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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Paul Miller / Engadget:iTunes 9 bringing iTunes LP functionality, ‘beautiful new look’
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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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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
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging — Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail. A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail. You can reply to messages from Gmail, too, which makes it a nice platform for carrying on a text message conversation.
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Gmail Blog:New in Labs: Play Google Voice messages in Gmail
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Verizon:
Customer Inquiries — 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.
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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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:Sprint Any Mobile: Unlimited Calls to All Mobile Numbers
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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.
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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 …
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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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 …
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.
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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 vendor as sources, the stats tool parses through online data …
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.
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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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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 …
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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