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Pretty Boy / Gizmodo:
The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See Yet — Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure. — These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who'll get to share branding with Microsoft.
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Microsoft giving free tools — lots of them — to woo Web designers — Web designers haven't exactly rushed out to buy Microsoft's Expression design tools, which are aimed at a market dominated by Adobe. — But small design shops may have trouble resisting a new offer that Microsoft's unveiling today …
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Palm Pre coming to the UK and Ireland October 16, Germany October 13, all O2 exclusives — It might be about four months late, but the UK is finally getting its slice of the tasty new Palm pie. There'll be no shortage of outlets to buy this from, with the Carphone Warehouse …
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Andrey / Inside BlackBerry:
BlackBerry Desktop Software: a Closer Look at the Mac OS Version — BlackBerry® Desktop Software is now compatible with the Mac OS platform, and the upcoming release is just around the corner. We'd like to take this opportunity to share some details about the key features included in v1.0.
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9 to 5 Mac, PhoneDog.com, MobileContentToday, BlackBerry Cool, Macsimum News, CrackBerry.com blogs, AppScout and The Mac Observer
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
A Teaching Moment For Lily Allen [Update: And *Poof* Goes Her Blog] — In my last post about Lily Allen's hypocrisy in uploading tons of songs without authorization, while saying it's good to cut off internet access for regular uploaders, one of the commenters made a good point …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Last Has Fallen. The Embargo Is Dead. — Late last year I announced a new policy at TechCrunch - we don't do embargoes. Well, it was a little more complicated than that, and designed to stir up chaos in the PR ranks. We said we'd break every embargo, and we also said we'd honor embargoes …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One — With the explosion of Twitter mobile apps, web-based clients, and desktop applications, it was only a matter of time before someone launched an actual Twitter-focused app store. Oneforty has built a marketplace to for basically all things Twitter …
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Computerworld, WebWorkerDaily, Social Business, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, AppScout and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Nintendo Cuts Price of Wii Console for First Time; Sony Makes PSP Cheaper — Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co. cut the top-selling Wii's price for the first time and Sony Corp. lowered the cost of buying its PlayStation Portable player in Japan to help revive industry sales.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki — By 2001 web startup Third Voice, which let people annotate websites via a browser plugin, was done. Website owners just didn't like the idea of people “defacing” their websites with comments they couldn't control.
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DigiTimes:
Nvidia showcases Tegra-based smartbook made by Foxconn — Nvidia has showcased a Tegra-based 8.9-inch smartbook designed by Mobinnova and manufactured by Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry). The smartbook has already received orders from telecom service providers in Europe …
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Andrew Lim / Recombu:
TomTom iPhone car kit in UK Apple store for £100 — There's no need to Sellotape your iPhone to a dashboard anymore. Thanks to a tweet from Mark Owen this morning, we've found out that the TomTom car kit for the iPhone 3GS is now available to pre-order from the UK Apple store …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Congrats to Dopplr? Maybe. But before the champagne, some context — So before we get into this, let's build the case for the defence. Nokia has been acquiring lots of small startups lately (Plum, Cellity and Bit-Side this year) and TechCrunch.com now has a source that says they've bought boutique travel social network Dopplr.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Nokia To Acquire UK Startup Dopplr
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gowalla And Going: A Couple More iPhone Apps To Prove You Own This Town — Foursquare is the location-based iPhone app getting a lot of love in the press (and from VCs) these days. And while there is no shortage of location social networking apps in the App Store, Foursquare works …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Antifeatures: big mistake that location app developers make
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Craig Wilkinson / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for Windows Mobile gets My Location and more — It's easier and faster than ever to search Google using your Windows Mobile phone. Just visit m.google.com to download the latest version of Google Mobile App, which includes these new features: — My Location.
BBC:
‘Tweeting’ medics expose patients — Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals. — Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found examples of web gossip by trainee doctors sharing private patient stories and details.
Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
Vodafone Unveils ‘360’ Social Phonebook Layer For Samsung, Other Handsets — Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) has unveiled Vodafone 360, and it's not an app store. The service is first a piece of software, layered on top of handsets' own OS, that aggregates users' friends and messaging.
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TechCrunch Europe, Vodafone, SlashGear, The Register, eWeek, The Equity Kicker, Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Unwired View, The Forrester Blog … and Pocket-lint.com
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A Wi-Fi Alternative When the Network Gets Clogged — Talk about falling short of expectations. — In the last year, millions of people have snapped up new smartphones, filled them with apps and promptly found out that they couldn't actually use them. — The problem?
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Clive Akass / Inquirer:
Golden-i microdisplay on show at ESC Boston — A WEARABLE COMPUTER will let you view documents on the equivalent of a 15in SVGA screen and navigate them by moving your head as if you are looking 'round a room. — The device, called Golden-i, was demonstrated yesterday at the ESC embedded systems event in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
NetSuite Launches iPhone App To Access Business Software On The Go — NetSuite, a company that provides cloud-based business management software suites, is furthering its mobile strategy by launching a free iPhone app to compliment its web-based products. The iPhone app gives NetSuite users …
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Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
Details on Twitter's Imminent Geolocation Launch — Twitter's new geolocation support was supposed to launch for developers at today's Twitter Conference in LA (which I'm attending), but it wasn't quite ready yet. Still, Twitter's platform lead Ryan Sarver announced several details about how it will work …
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eWeek, Fast Company, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Switched, All Points Blog, ProgrammableWeb, GeekSugar and Beyond Search, Thanks:atul
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple's 2009 earnings up nearly 44% under new accounting rules - analyst — How much will Apple's (AAPL) reported earnings be affected by the new accounting rules approved Wednesday? — A lot, says Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster. — In a note to clients issued early Thursday …
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Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don't build a paywall around a public good — NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook wastes no time putting FriendFeed to work — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Facebook has unleashed a Tornado, and it's hoping that some eager engineers will go catch it. — Earlier this month, Facebook released the open-source Web server framework called Tornado, which powers the real …
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