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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
300 Million and On — As of today, Facebook now serves 300 million people across the world. It's a large number, but the way we think about this is that we're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone. Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect …
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
How exactly is Facebook making money? — Facebook proudly says it's bringing in enough cash to cover most of its day to day business costs. But how? The answer lies in self-serve advertising and virtual goods — The news that Facebook has tripled in size in the past year has grabbed headlines …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
RedBeacon Wins The Top Prize At TechCrunch50 2009 — The 50 startup presentations are over, the judges votes are in, Michael and Jason chewed over the top contenders, and the winner of this year's TechCrunch50 is RedBeacon. The startup aims to help consumers find local service providers such as plumbers, bakers, and contractors.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: New Macs Coming Soon? — Is Apple (AAPL) about to unveil updated Macs? — Research firm Wedge Partners thinks so. They assert in a note today that the company will release both new iMacs and new MacBooks “in the next several weeks.” — Wedge sees a redesigned iMac witjh a …
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Xavier Ducrohet / Android Developers Blog:
Android 1.6 SDK is here — I am happy to let you know that Android 1.6 SDK is available for download. Android 1.6, which is based on the donut branch from the Android Open Source Project, introduces a number of new features and technologies. With support for CDMA and additional screen sizes …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
iPhone OS 3.1 Jailbroken Almost Immediately (Just Not For Everyone) — Sometimes it pays to sit back from the bleeding edge a little. Like when the Dev Team releases their Pwnage Tool for iPhone 3.1, and it doesn't work on the 3GS or the new Touch. But it will, you see.
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm Pre App Sales Slated for September 24th, 1.2 Next week — Wondering when the new app catalog is coming? An anonymous tipster sends word: September 24th is definitely the date to watch, just as we suspected when we first published the images. — On that day, we should be able …
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Jack Schofield / Guardian:
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz Osprey chip built for speed — Intel is developing Atom processors intended to replace ARM chips, but now ARM is fighting back with a performance-optimised design it hopes will replace Intel chips — ARM has announced the first processor that it has optimised …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate launches a network drive that you can use to get your data, anytime, anywhere — Seagate is launching a novel portable backup device that will let you access your photos, videos, and other data from afar. — The product fits in with the consumer mantra of the digital age: access your data, anytime, anywhere.
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Microsoft Sets Up Zune HD for Failure — Again — The Zune HD's lack of a compelling software market will make it nothing more than a repeat failure, according to mobile developers and an analyst. — Microsoft on Tuesday released its newest media player.
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Lee Byron Today / Facebook Blog:
Testing 1-2-3: Announcing Facebook Prototypes — Facebook's engineers thrive on innovation and experimentation. We're encouraged to work on projects that inspire us and build on new ideas, but not all of these features and improvements wind up launching on the site.
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Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Opera Mini 5 Beta Out Now: Tabbed Browsing, Speed Dial Bookmarks — Unlike Opera Mobile, Opera Mini crunches pages a server for viewing on your Java phone or BlackBerry. The new beta has a snappier interface geared for touch or keypad control, and adds tabbed browsing, speed dial, and a password manager.
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Gordon Mah Ung / Maximum PC all:
Cheap Chip! Athlon II X4 Breaks the $100 Quad-Core Barrier — Even the Intel fanboys have to hand it to AMD once in a while. After Intel deftly dropped a Core i5 anvil on Phenom II's head, AMD did a quick drop to floor and now fires back slo-mo style with its own chip: a $99 quad core.
Seth H. Weintraub's blog:
Android-powered Archos tablet out-specs Zune, iPod Touch — Say what you will about the Android OS being behind Apple's OSX touch OS, there are some things you can measure definitively and those are hardware specs. — Archos released its new Android-based mini-tablet information today and wow is it impressive.
Steve / Kindle Nation Daily:
Kindle edition of The Lost Symbol outselling Amazon hardcovers! — Get ready for what could become the biggest story of 2009 in the book trades. — Yesterday I went out on a limb and predicted that “Amazon will sell more Kindle editions than hardcover editions of The Lost Symbol during …
Christopher MacManus / Sony Insider:
Sony's Gorgeous New A-Series Walkman Features OLED, Up To 64GB Capacity — Sony has unveiled the latest update to the A-Series Walkman line with some serious features. The new NW-A840 series, available in black and brown, simply is the most brilliant Walkman offering from Sony to date …
brad's life:
On PubSubHubbub and rssCloud ... Are you confused about the difference between PubSubHubbub and rssCloud? You're not alone. — Here's how the confusion came about: — Dave Winer invented rssCloud way back in the day. It only distributed lite pings, the callback endpoint was the IP address …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Another AOL Org Chart Shuffle: COO Partoll, Search Boss Kannapell Out — This isn't the long-rumored round of mass layoffs, but AOL boss Tim Armstrong did let go of two executives today: COO Kim Partoll is out, as is John Kannapell, SVP of search and local media.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
TV network taps game startups to launch social game portal — As entertainment spreads into new media, TV networks are expanding into new markets. USA Network, which operates a popular basic cable TV channel network, is expanding into social games with its Character Arcade game portal.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
SEC Watch: The Story Of Google's Offer For On2 — An SEC filing includes the backstory of Google's controversial offer to buy video compression firm On2 Technologies. Several groups of On2 shareholders have sued to block the deal, saying that On2's directors did not try to find other buyers …
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Modern Warfare 2 bundle has a 250GB HDD, $400 price tag — While the Forza 3 set is still an unconfirmed listing, there's no denying the Xbox 360 has just upped its storage capacity options with a 250GB HDD bundle clad in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 emblems.
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Subtraction.com:
Our Craigslist — The cover story for the September 2009 issue of Wired takes a look at the current state of Craigslist and the challenges it faces as it continues to evolve. In a sidebar, the magazine's amazing art director Scott Dadich invited several designers to re-imagine and redesign Craigslist itself.
Omniture:
Adobe to Acquire Omniture — Combined Company Will Deliver Comprehensive Solutions for Creation, Delivery and Optimization of Content and Applications — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Omniture, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMTR) today announced the two companies have entered …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TC50: Find The Perfect Scene, Every Time. AnyClip Is A Search Engine For Movie Clips — Darth Vader's fatherly coming out. Tinanic's King of the World moment. There Will Be Blood's sobering lecture on milkshakes. — Whether you want to poke fun at something, embellish a love note …
PC World:
Via Courts Chinese PC Makers With NetNote Platform — Via Technologies is gearing up to release a turnkey laptop platform called NetNote that's aimed at smaller Chinese computer makers. — The NetNote platform, which will ship during the fourth quarter, aims to exploit a gap …
Wikileaks:
UK government database of all 1,841,177 post codes together with precise geographic coordinates and other information, 8 Jul 2009 — UK government database of all 1,841,177 UK postcodes together with latitude and longitude, grid references, county, district, ward, NHS codes and regions …
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek aims to ship 1 million ultra-thin notebooks by end of 2009 — Asustek Computer expects to ship 600,000 ultra-thin notebooks by the end of 2009, and the volume has a chance to hit one million units according to president Jerry Shen. Ultra-thin models will account for 30% of the company's total notebook shipments in 2010.
