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12:35 PM ET, October 4, 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 …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blu-ray iMacs ‘In A Few Weeks’, Apple Ace Gruber Predicts*  —  Update: Gruber has changed his call: No Blu-ray.  More here.  —  Earlier: New iMacs with Blu-ray players could be announced this month, Apple's first set of products supporting the hi-def disc format.
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 …
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Craig A. Hunter / hunter.pairsite.com:
On Palm, Competition, and iTunes Sync  —  Back when the Pre was announced, a frequent conversation topic among developers was “competition” — as in, it would be great to have some healthy competition against the iPhone.  At the time, the Pre looked promising, and seemed to be the first viable competitor …
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.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
It's Time To Hide The Noise  —  A few days ago, Seesmic CEO Loic Le Meur (@Loic) sent out a retweet with a link to a screenshot of his CTO's Seesmic Web client showing 1,200 Tweets across nearly 20 columns.  The joke was that his CTO was trying to achieve a “world record” …
Discussion: Shooting at Bubbles
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!, TechCrunch and DailyFinance, Thanks:sampad
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.
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 …
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 and Googling Google
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Why Tech Mergers May End Up Hurting the Web  —  Suddenly, it's mating season in the tech sector.  Xerox is paying $6.4 billion for a piece of the cloud, Adobe is hooking up with Omniture and Intuit with Mint, and that may just be the start.  As Om pointed out, this is good news for startups …
Discussion: Master of 500 Hats, Thanks:atul
Justin / TweetMiner Blog:
Dear Twitter.  I Want To Share My Revenue With You.  —  I'm building http://tweetminer.net and - although I'll always have a free plan - it won't be very long before I introduce premium subscription plans at around $5 - $10 per month.  —  I may get 1 paying subscriber - I may get 10,000 paying subscribers - who knows?
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.
Discussion: Mark Evans Tech and Beet.TV, Thanks:beet_tv
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John Tomasic / Colorado Independent:
Rocky Mountain Independent, online magazine experiment, folds
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World
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Times of India:
Spooks want govt to block Skype
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com and Jai Bihar, Thanks:krishnan
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A Partnership Between Old and New Media
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Kills Xoopit For Gmail
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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