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10:10 PM ET, October 3, 2009

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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis [u]  —  First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple's international online stores suggest it's only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes …
Discussion: MacRumors and Electronista, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blu-ray iMacs ‘In A Few Weeks’, Apple Ace Gruber Predicts  —  New iMacs with Blu-ray players could be announced this month, Apple's first set of products supporting the hi-def disc format.  —  At the very least, Apple is coming out with a new keyboard and mouse soon, and we know that ahead …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync  —  Oh, it's really on now.  This morning Palm announced webOS 1.2.1 another point release to its new webOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version, 9.0.1, of iTunes.  Moreover, the company has gone …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail Messages with Enhanced Content  —  Gmail added a feature that lets you interact with the messages sent by some companies without opening a new page.  It's called “sponsored mail with enhanced content” and here's the description: … One of these partners is Netflix.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Wave's unproductive email metaphors  —  OK, I took a few hours off from playing with Google Wave yesterday.  I read all my comments on the post I wrote Thursday about Google Wave, many of which were very ascerbic toward me.  —  I took the day off and said “what if they are right?” …
Discussion: Mashable! and TechCrunch, Thanks:sampad
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy  —  Table of Contents:  —  Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts.  The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Will Books Be Napsterized?  —  YOU can buy “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com.  —  Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from another online user at RapidShare, Megaupload, Hotfile and other file-storage sites.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism  —  Is Google a newspaper killer?  Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt.  Nor does he want it to be.  In a long interview about his company's relationship with newspapers and the print journalism industry, Schmidt made it clear he wants established players to survive.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The model of the new media model  —  Leo Laporte, creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT network of podcasts, spoke before the Online News Association this week and presented the very model of the new media company: small, highly targeted, serving a highly engaged public, and profitable.
Discussion: Mashable!
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World  —  What is that mountain you're driving past?  Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry.  Science fiction?  Not anymore.  Two new apps for viewing Wikipedia entries about physical locations …
Discussion: I4U News and Mashable!
Times of India:
Spooks want govt to block Skype  —  NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption code that prevents Indian investigators from intercepting conversations of suspected terrorists.
Discussion: Jai Bihar and TECH.BLORGE.com, Thanks:krishnan
Devin Coldewey / MobileCrunch:
iPhone 3GS with 3.1 added to pwnable items list  —  If you've been dealing with a non-jailbroken 3GS running 3.1, now's your chance to redeem it.  The Dev-Team has upgraded PwnageTool to allow the 3GS (and the newest iPod touch) to be busted wide open, provided it was previously pwned in 3.0 or 3.0.1.
 
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John Tomasic / Colorado Independent:
Rocky Mountain Independent, online magazine experiment, folds
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Knight Report: Broadband Openness Key To Information-Sharing
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A Partnership Between Old and New Media
Discussion: A VC
Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Apple flexes iPhone muscle with mobile networks
Discussion: Guardian and 9 to 5 Mac
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Psystar counsel resigns from defense team in Apple suit
Discussion: CrunchGear and Macsimum News
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
The ‘Twitter Feed, Netflix Faves’ Mating Game
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Matthew Rivera / Digits:
Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?
Discussion: The Awl
Associated Press:
Craigslist wins preliminary ruling in eBay lawsuit
Discussion: Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires and paidContent, Thanks:atul
 

 
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Andrew Trunsky / New York Times:
A profile of Natalie Winters, a Steve Bannon protégée, War Room reporter, and Piers Morgan Uncensored contributor, who now has a White House press pass

Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

Julian Clover / Broadband TV News:
A group of current and former BBC World Service journalists warn that cuts to the international service risk fracturing “the core identity of the World Service”

 
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