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Lars Rasmussen / The Official Google Blog:
Surf's up Wednesday: Google Wave update — Starting Wednesday, September 30 we'll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to: — Developers who have been active in the developer preview we started back in June — The first users who signed up and offered to give feedback on wave.google.com
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Courier tablet: A Franklin Covey planner on steroids? — Since the first video and photo leaks went public last week of Microsoft's alleged second-generation Tablet PC, tipsters have been working overtime. — Since Microsoft isn't commenting at all on Courier (the official statement is …
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The Paperboy / Gizmodo:
The Courier Files: How Microsoft Thinks We'll Use Their Secret Tablet — Microsoft's Courier booklet was surprising, mostly because it was so far outside of what everybody now expects from a tablet. This internal video shows how Microsoft thinks we'll use Courier.
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
First look: Microsoft Security Essentials impresses — After a short three-month beta program, Microsoft is officially releasing Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), its free, real-time consumer antimalware solution for fighting viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans.
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Steve Ballmer / Microsoft Corporation:
The New Efficiency — In all the talk about the economy, one term that comes up more and more frequently is something called “the new normal.” I like this phrase because it speaks to the fact that economic reality has undergone a fundamental shift over the course of the past 12 months.
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blog.seattlepi.com:
Judge overturns Uniloc's record $388M victory over Microsoft — A district judge has abolished a high-profile, $388 million award against Microsoft and ruled that the company did not infringe a patent held by software maker Uniloc. — The judgment, signed Tuesday by Judge William Smith …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Palm Pre's New Strategy: Forget iTunes, Hello Wireless Amazon Downloads — When the Palm Pre debuted, one of its most useful features was its ability to sync with Apple's iTunes software. Unfortunately, how it went about doing this was a little bit underhanded: it pretended to be an iPhone.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft's Top Executives Get A Paycut — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) just completed the worst fiscal year in its history, with revenue down three percent; the first decline in sales in its history. And its executives did not get off easy. All of Microsoft's top executives …
Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Meets The iPhone; Access Files On The Go — Dropbox, the easy to use file access manager which syncs your files across all your computers and the web, has introduced an iPhone application to make it even easier to access your files anywhere in the world.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user — A sensitive e-mail mistakenly sent by a bank to a Gmail address that prompted a court to order Google to deactivate the account was not viewed by the recipient and has been deleted, the bank said on Tuesday.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple warns of near-term iMac, Mac mini constraints [u] — Apple this week began informing its direct sales channels that several of its desktop-based Mac offerings have entered a period of constraint, further hinting that Mac hardware updates are on the horizon. [Updated with additional info on Mac mini.]
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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet — Want to know some more about Apple's upcoming tablet device? You're in luck. We've received the scoop from our reliable source—who correctly called the iPod nano 5G, iPhone 3GS and Chinese iPhone 3G months ago. — Apple has created …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
DoubleTwist Remakes Apple's Classic 1984 Ad With A New Dictator: Steve Jobs — On January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of the SuperBowl, Apple broadcast one of the most famous television commercials of all time. Based on a dystopian future George Orwell described in his novel 1984 …
Electronista:
Moto Cliq to ship Nov. 2, match iPhone's price — T-Mobile this afternoon set out official launch details for the Motorola Cliq, its newest Android phone and Motorola's first touchscreen smartphone. Pre-orders for existing users should start on October 19th while the phone should ultimately arrive …
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BBC:
End in site for Yugoslav domains — Websites using the .yu domain extension will cease to be available online from 30 September. — The extension - assigned to the former Republic of Yugoslavia - has been replaced by .rs (for Serbia) and .me (for Montenegro).
Mia / YouTube Blog:
Warner Music Comes Back to YouTube — Music Licensing: It's complicated. Let's face it. But today all of that is beside the point: we are happy to announce that Warner Music Group (WMG)'s artists are returning home to YouTube. Under this new, multi-year global agreement …
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Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic — Last week we reported on Intuit's acquisition of personal finance site Mint.com. Now Mint Founder Aaron Patzer is lifting the curtain on a few fantastic new features—for businesses. — The most significant: Mint is now aggregating data …
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Wall Street Journal:
GM, eBay End Online Sales Effort — General Motors Co. is ending a seven-week experiment to sell new cars in California with eBay Inc., as many dealers report the online marketplace didn't help sell more vehicles and led shoppers to offer low-ball prices. — The program, which ends Wednesday …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO — Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said today that in the coming years, wired broadband will likely be sold in packages based on the amount of data a person wants to consume, much like wireless broadband is sold today.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
‘Clear’ Security Service May Return at Airports — Verified Identity Pass, a company founded by the entrepreneur Steven Brill, offered travelers a tempting proposition: pay up to $199 a year, submit to a fingerprint and iris scan, and skip to the front of interminable airport security lines.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos Joins Benchmark As Entrepreneur In Residence — Mårten Gustaf Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, is Benchmark Capital's newest Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR). — Mickos served as chief executive officer for the open source database company from January 2001 …
