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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Evidence of Apple's tablet-like input interface reappears — In a new patent application revealed this week, Apple has again disclosed plans for a multi-touch surface that could accommodate two full hands and distinguish between palms and individual fingers for typing, gestures and more.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype — I just got my Google Wave invite. No, I'm already out, so I can't send one to you, sorry. — But this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity.
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Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a confession in her blog on the college Web site. — “There've been several times when I felt like I didn't really fit in at M.I.T.,” she wrote. “I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The $25 Million Demo. Yext Scores A Big Round From IVP After TechCrunch50 Debut. — Howard Lerman can be a little intense. After the CEO of Yext finished his demo at this year's Techcrunch50 (embedded below) he left one judge “speechless,” and during rehearsals Michael took him aside and asked him, “Are you on drugs?”
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Russian investor buys more Facebook shares - sources — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies has begun buying more shares in Facebook, seeking to expand its stake in the world's No. 1 social networking company, two sources told Reuters.
Economist:
Cleverly simple — As internet-capable handsets become more popular, they are also changing — IF THE recession is the cloud hanging over the mobile-phone business, “smart” phones are the silver lining. Sales of mobile phones were 10% lower in the second quarter of this year …
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Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pixi launching on October 20th? — We just got word that Palm's second webOS device, the Pixi, is set to launch on October 20th. This includes Sprint corporate stores as well as Best Buy locations presumably. — This intel is from new source but it sounds right.
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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Has A Plan To Stop The Mass Exodus From Orkut: No Friend Exports For You! — Just yesterday, we wrote about how Facebook was quickly gaining on Google's social network, Orkut, in places like India where Orkut is still the big dog. One reason for Facebook's gains is that they've …
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Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Friendster bets its future on Southeast Asia — (10-01) 19:25 PDT — Before Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, Friendster was the social media king. Now, Friendster is barely an afterthought in its home country, although it hasn't disappeared. — The Mountain View firm is betting its future …
Dan Moren / Macworld:
C4 notes: Developers cool towards iPhone projects — If you looked around the room at the C4 conference this past weekend, you'd certainly see no lack of iPhones—it seemed like every attendee had at least one. But just because the indie developer crew were all packing Apple's handset …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service — SAN FRANCISCO — IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market. — IBM is now selling a bare-bones e-mail service to companies for $36 annually per worker, undercutting a more comprehensive package …
Electronista:
18% of Macs using Snow Leopard in one month — More than a sixth of all Macs are already running Mac OS X Snow Leopard in just over a month of use, new findings from NetApplications show. On September 29th, the one month anniversary of the release, about 18 percent of all Macs tracked …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Technorati to change how it measures bloggers' influence — Technorati is about to make some big changes to the way it measures how important bloggers are. That means its top-100 list of the most influential bloggers is going to change. Some bloggers may be delighted by the changes …
Federal Bureau of Investigation:
No, Your Social Networking “Friend” Isn't Really in Trouble Overseas — According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), there has been an increase in the number of hijacked social networking accounts reported to www.ic3.gov. — One of the more popular scams involves online criminals …
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Christian Stefansen / The Official Google Blog:
Now in Google Toolbar for Firefox: advanced in-page translation — Last week was a big one for Google Toolbar: we released the new Google Toolbar with Sidewiki for Internet Explorer and Firefox allowing you to contribute helpful information next to any webpage.
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.
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost:
ComScore: Forget About Clicks — It's time for online marketers to forgo click-through rates for a better measure of success, according to new data from comScore in conjunction with media agency Starcom USA and behavioral targeting firm Tacoda. — TOP STORY — P&G Extends Sponsorship With Olympic Games
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Robert Lemos / Technology Review:
Researchers Hijack a Drive-By Botnet — The team gathered data on compromised pages and the would-be victims. — By infiltrating a criminal computer network aimed at infecting visitors to legitimate websites, university researchers have gained firsthand insight into the scale and scope of so-called “drive-by downloading.”
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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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 …
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The Windows Blog, Technologizer, Softpedia News, Microsoft News Tracker, geeksmack.net and Gizmodo
Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
Smule Sells 300k Copies Of I Am T-Pain, Celebrates With A New Song And A Huge Contest — The second we laid eyes on Smule's autotuning, pitch-changing iPhone app, I Am T-Pain, we knew it was going to be a huge hit - and it has been. We just got some details from Smule's CEO, Jeff Smith, on how things are going so far.
iSuppli:
Reports of Windows Mobile's Death are Greatly Exaggerated — Despite intensifying competition and the loss of some high-profile licensees, the usage of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile operating system in smart phones will nearly triple from 2009 to 2013, allowing it to reclaim the No.-2 position …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Twitter Has Begun Geolocation Rollout — As we first reported last night, Twitter appeared to have turned on at least part of its new Geolocation API. Today, the company has confirmed the roll out on its API Announcement Google Group page. — As Twitter API team member Raffi …
Economist:
Laptops for all — A pioneering project's chequered start — FOR the past year the pupils of Escuela 95, in a poor neighbourhood of Montevideo, have had a new learning tool. Each has been issued with a laptop computer. This has been of particular help to the 30 or so children …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Cyclopedia mixes Wikipedia and augmented reality on the iPhone — Cyclopedia ($2 App store) is a new iPhone application that allows to to view geo-tagged Wikipedia articles in a augmented reality browser. The browser uses the iPhone's camera to create a backdrop while the Wikipedia articles …
Andy Chalk / The Escapist:
Jack Thompson Sues Facebook — Former lawyer Jack Thompson has sued Facebook for allowing anti-Thompson groups to post messages that have caused him “great harm and distress.” — Thompson was permanently disbarred in September 2008 but that didn't stop his vocal criticism of the videogame industry …
