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Marisa Taylor / Digits:
Google Wave Invites for Sale on eBay — With Google releasing 100,000 invites to test the beta version of the much-hyped Wave, one enterprising blogger decided to capitalize on all the buzz surrounding the new messaging and collaboration tool by selling his invite on eBay.
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
How Google Wave could transform journalism — Google Wave lets users collaborate live on documents. — The tech world is awash with excitement for today's scheduled release of 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave. — Seems like everyone is buzzing about how the collaborative Web tool …
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld:
Apple purchased Placebase in July to replace Google Maps? — On July 7th, Fred Lalonde, the founder of openplaces.org announced in a tweet that Apple had bought the company that produced the Maps API that his company used in their software. — Pushpin is the name of the software API …
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The Official Google Blog:
Refine your search results with new Search Options — In May, we launched Search Options, a side panel that lets you filter, refine and generate different views of your search results. We've received lots of positive feedback, and we're seeing more and more people using Search Options every day.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:New Google Search Options: Search Only in Visited Pages, or Blogs …
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Avg WebLab / AVG Blogs:
Automated Facebook Attack underway — Today our LinkScanner users started detecting rogue spyware attacks that seemed to be originating from Facebook. The first profile that we looked at looked like this ... (click image to enlarge) — And then the next one that we looked at looked like this ...
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David Faber / CNBC:
GE Is in Talks to Spin Off NBC, Give Comcast 51% of New Unit — General Electric [GE Loading... () ] and Comcast [CMCSA Loading... () ] are in talks about a deal in which GE would spin off its NBC Universal unit into a new company that would be merged with the content assets of Comcast …
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Cisco Buys Norwegian Firm for $3 Billion — SAN FRANCISCO — Cisco Systems continued to show just how serious it is about video conferencing, announcing late Wednesday night the $3 billion acquisition of Tandberg, a Norwegian video communications company. — Cisco has sold expensive …
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Microsoft Bing U.S. Search Share Falls, Sparking Google's Gain — Microsoft Bing's U.S. September search share fell to 8.5 percent from 9.6 percent in August, StatCounter claimed. Google's September share rose to 80 percent from 77.8 percent in July, reversing a trend of Bing gaining share at the expense of search engine rivals.
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Chris Alden / Six Apart News & Events:
Announcing the TypePad Platform and TypePad Motion — It was almost 8 years ago today that Ben and Mena Trott released Movable Type and helped spark the blogging explosion that followed. Before that time, personal web publishing was largely difficult and expensive, but with MT …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Six Apart Opens Up TypePad APIs, Relaunches Pownce As TypePad Motion
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Technology Review:
Wireless Network Modded to See Through Walls — The way signal strength varies in a wireless network can reveal what's going on behind closed doors. — It's every schoolboy's dream: an easy way of looking through walls to spy on neighbours, monitor siblings and keep tabs on the sweet jar.
Johanna Wright / The Official Google Blog:
Surfacing forum posts in search results — Today, we introduced a new search feature that makes it easier for you to find forum posts or discussions related to what you're searching for. This new addition to Google search results applies to sites that tend to have a large number of posts on a specific topic.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple predicted to surprise with Oct. 19 earnings report — New accounting rules are expected to push Apple's stock even higher, as Wall Street still underestimates the profitability of the iPhone, a new report has concluded. — Last week, the Financial Accounting Standards Board approved …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
BumpTop Goes Multi-Touch. Um, Awesome. — What if the desktop on your computer was just like your actual desktop? That's the core idea behind BumpTop, a really nice looking graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. But as cool as BumpTop looked, you still had to use your mouse and keyboard to manipulate it.
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Forbes:
Broadcom's Nicholas After The Fall — Forbes Magazine dated October 19, 2009 — Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicholas faces up to 360 years in jail on charges of backdating options and distributing illegal drugs. … Henry T. Nicholas III says he didn't do it.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple resellers advised of 2-3 week delay on Mac mini orders — As reports of a forthcoming hardware refreshes continue to mount, Apple has braced its certified resellers for unusually long shipping times of two to three weeks for both models of its minute Mac mini desktop systems.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Tech's biggest loser: Bill Gates — Photo: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — The collective net worth of the super rich on Forbes's annual list of the 400 wealthiest Americans fell by $300 billion over the past 12 months, and the tech sector spilled its share of the red ink.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
How Yahoo is betting its cloud will pay off — There was a day when information technology personnel toiled behind the scenes to make their corporate computing infrastructure work. — But in the Internet era, those experts increasingly are getting starring roles in corporate computing leadership rather …
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TmoNews:
Dunkin' Isn't the Only One Delivering Donuts Tonight — You've seen the Android 1.6 aka Donut preview vids, drooling as you watch them. And now its time to fill that G1 or MyTouch 3G up with Donut! According to our source, T-Mobile has plans to start rolling out stage 1 of their delicious-baked-goods plan.
Matt Peckham / Computerworld:
PSP Go Arrives, Sony Launches 100 Games — Sony's disc-free $250 PSP Go games handheld rolls out to retail today, and as expected, the company's nearly doubled the amount of PlayStation Store games content. Sony's digital shelves now include Polyphony Digital's fresh PSP-exclusive Gran Turismo racer …
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Matthew Jones / Reuters:
UK court orders writ to be served via Twitter — LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ordered its first injunction via Twitter on Thursday, saying the social website and micro-blogging service was the best way to reach an anonymous Tweeter who had been impersonating someone.
Adam Swidler / Google Enterprise Blog:
Q3'09 Spam & Virus Trends from Postini — Editor's note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which processes more than 3 billion email connections per day in the course of providing email security …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft releases XP Mode virtualization to manufacturing — Microsoft has released Windows XP Mode to manufacturing on October 1, company officials said, and it will be generally available on Microsoft.com on October 22, the launch day for Windows 7. — XP Mode is a Microsoft virtualization …
PR Newswire:
Borders Signs Agreement with Verizon to Offer Free Wi-Fi — Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) today announced that it has signed an agreement with Verizon to provide free Wi-Fi service in virtually all of its more than 500 Borders stores nationwide. Borders and Verizon are well underway in the process …
Kunur Patel / AdAge:
What to Measure? Only 16% of the Web Is Clicking Display Ads — But ComScore, Starcom Study Shows Banners Are Still Effective — Especially When Paired With Paid Search — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The number of people online who click display ads has dropped 50% in less than two years …
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
No Recovery in I.P.O.'s Yet — A small flurry of initial public offerings and acquisitions has had some in the technology industry talking about a more open door for cashing out of startups. Not so fast. — The number and value of acquisitions and public offerings of venture-backed start-ups …
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
‘State of the Internet’ assessed — Internet attacks came from 201 different countries in the second quarter, up from 68 countries in the first quarter, according to a report released Thursday. — Akamai Technologies' quarterly “State of the Internet” report compiles data about the online world …
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Facebook Users Download 1 Million Mobile Apps A Week—With The Help Of GetJar — GetJar, an independent mobile app store, is rolling out a new service today that is getting high-profile attention from brands like Facebook and Photobucket because it drives users to download their mobile applications to the phone.
David Jackson / Associated Press:
Secret Service IDs kid for Facebook ‘assassination poll’ — no charges — The Secret Service announced today that a juvenile was behind the Facebook posting that asked whether President Obama should be assassinated, calling it a prank that would not lead to prosecution.
