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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Lite Goes Live to Capitalize on International Growth — and Simplicity — Facebook has just launched a new version of the site, called Lite, to give users a simplified, faster-loading experience than the traditional www.facebook.com. It's intended to help new users …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kickin' It Old School: Facebook Lite Launches In The U.S. And India — Well here it is. Just as we first discovered a few weeks ago, Facebook Lite has just been released for U.S. users to test out. Simply put, the site is SO much cleaner than Facebook regular, and much, much nicer to look at.
Tom Occhino / Facebook Blog:
Tag Friends in Your Status and Posts — One of the most popular features on Facebook is tagging, which gives you the ability to identify and reference people in photos, videos and notes. Today, we are adding a new way to tag people and other things you're connected to on Facebook …
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Motorola Media Center:
T-Mobile USA Unveils the Motorola CLIQ With MOTOBLUR — First Android™-Powered Device from Motorola Puts Social Networking Center Stage — T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Motorola CLIQ™ with MOTOBLUR™, the first Android-powered device from Motorola …
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James Kendrick / GigaOM:
Hands-on: Motorola's First Android Phone — Motorola has followed through on its promise to enter the Android smartphone market, unveiling the Cliq, a small phone with a sliding QWERTY keyboard. The company has added its own home screen magic, called MotoBlur, that graphically integrates all user messaging accounts.
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Apple:
About the Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update — Mac OS X v10.6.1 Update — This update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. — For detailed information about the security content …
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David Recordon / Facebook Developers:
Tornado: Facebook's Real-Time Web Framework for Python — Real-time updates have become an important aspect of the social Web that make it easier to share with friends. In March, we introduced a real-time News Feed to make the stream as relevant and engaging as possible for users.
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Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor's blog:
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server — Today, we are open sourcing the non-blocking web server and the tools that power FriendFeed under the name Tornado Web Server. We are really excited to open source this project as a part of Facebook's open source initiative …
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Amazon Scoffs at Google's Offer to Share Book Search Sales — Google offered to let its rivals become resellers of the millions of books it is digitizing as part of its controversial Google Book Search project, but an Amazon executive immediately rejected the idea of becoming Google's affiliate.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:Top U.S. copyright cop, Microsoft speak out against Google Books settlement
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPod touch with camera remains in Apple's pipeline — A rare misstep on Apple's part saw the world's tech darling surprise in an unusual way Wednesday, leaving onlookers scratching their heads at changes — or lack thereof — to certain members of the iPod family.
Aron Trimble / TUAW:
iPhone OS 3.1 now enforces Exchange encryption policy, may block pre-3GS iPhones — The Apple Support forums are a'buzz with reports of several users upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1 and discovering a new “feature” which was not available previously. As mentioned in our comments, after upgrading to 3.1 …
CodePlex Foundation:
Enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities — The CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit foundation formed with the mission of enabling the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities, launched today, September 10, 2009.
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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 vendors as sources, the stats tool parses through online data …
iFixit:
iPod nano 5th Generation Teardown — We've got our hands on the new iPod nano 5G, now with a video camera! Thanks to FedEx, we got our nano early on the morning of September 10, 2009. — Step 1 — Teardown — Apple's got a routine going with the nano. Never fail, come September, we get a new one.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Accuses Playdom of Stealing Trade Secrets; Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order — There's no love lost between competing social gaming platforms Zynga and Playdom. Earlier this year Zynga sued Playdom over what they called misleading ads. That litigation appears to remain outstanding …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Bing 2.0: Coming this fall (maybe even next week) — If the Tweets coming out of Microsoft's annual company meeting are on point, the 2.0 release of Microsoft's Bing search engine is coming this fall, and possibly as soon as next week. — Today, September 10 …
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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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.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Nike plans iPod nano-compatible heart rate monitor — In addition to a built-in pedometer, the new fifth-generation iPod nano will be compatible with an upcoming Nike-branded heart rate monitor for fitness-minded users, AppleInsider has learned. — Evidence of the device exists …
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 …
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 …
Owen Thomas / NBC Bay Area:
Time Inc.: Time for a New E-Reader — Magazine giant considering own gadget, e-reader startup — “And with your subscription to Sports Illustrated, you'll get ...” a gadget with which to read the magazine? — An internal document from Time Inc. obtained by NBC Bay Area shows the magazine giant …
Alastair Jamieson / Telegraph:
Amir Khan and Frank Warren launch legal bid to force Facebook to remove ‘racist’ content — British boxing champion Amir Khan and his promoter, Frank Warren, have launched a legal campaign to force Facebook to tackle “highly defamatory” or abusive postings.
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BBC:
PM apology after Turing petition — Gordon Brown has released a statement on World War II code breaker Alan Turing, recognising the “appalling” way he was treated for being gay. — It follows a petition on the Downing Street website calling for a posthumous apology to the computer pioneer.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
After Lengthy Delays, Ning Launches Ning Apps Platform To The Public — Ning, the social network platform that lets users build their own social networks, has launched its application platform Ning Apps to the public. The platform allows Network Creators to customize the features …
Rory Maher / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Planned Payment Service Will Flop — Google's proposal to the Newspaper Association of America yesterday for an online subscription and micropayments solution for premium content sounds promising on the surface. — However, conversations we've had on the past with publishers …
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Adult Films Push For Presence on Gaming Consoles — The head of the largest adult video production company in the world plans to start pushing for the inclusion of porn on the Playstation Network. — If Vivid Entertainment head Steve Hirsch succeeds, he will look into getting adult videos …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
South Carolina's Joe Wilson Faces The Wrath Of The Web — It seems just about everyone on the web is talking about Joe Wilson, the Republican Congressman from South Carolina (yes, our favorite state) who accosted President Obama during his speech to Congress yesterday.
