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Tricia Duryee / paidContent:
Adobe Extends Full Flash To Just About Every Phone But The iPhone — Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out full Flash capabilities to the various smartphone platforms.
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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 …
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Gadgetell, I4U News, Edible Apple, PreCentral.net, MacDailyNews, OSNews, The iPhone Blog and Digital Daily
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Bug by Bug, Google Fixes a New Idea — Even at Google, new ideas do not always go as planned. — Danielle VanDyke, a young Google engineer working on the company's latest mobile ad format, discovered that in August. The ad format was supposed to be ready for introduction in two weeks.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Popularity of Pirated TV-Shows Still Rising — In the US streaming sites such as Hulu offer ‘legal’ platforms to watch TV-shows online. However, in the rest of the world people have to wait for weeks or months until they can watch US TV-shows. — Most TV-show downloads come from overseas …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
AT&T Pure now on sale — with Windows Mobile 6.5 — Well hey, look at that — AT&T's riff on the HTC Touch Diamond2, the Pure, has quietly gone on sale, meaning Windows Mobile 6.5 just hit the world a couple days early. The glory won't last long, though: the nicer Imagio is hitting Verizon on the 6th, and the Leo's looming.
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Electronista, Mobility Digest, Engadget Mobile, Gizmodo, PhoneDog.com, Boy Genius Report and Mobilewhack.com
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Kevin Rose Accidentally Announces Digg's Upcoming iPhone App — In a bit of “gotcha” journalism, interviewers Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen got Digg founder Kevin Rose to confirm that his company is developing an application for the iPhone. — When Eriksen referred to having seen a sneak preview …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Ad Networks On Edge As Facebook Shuts Down Developers — A number of the large ad networks have been reaching out to developers to let them know that they essentially have no idea what's going on. Facebook has taken the latest actions without giving developers any form of early notification and many ad networks feel left in the dark.
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Roy Furchgott / New York Times:
What Do All These Phone Apps Do? Mostly Marketing — When Stanley Works, the hand tool maker, offered an iPhone App that turned the phone into a level, its goal was to create young loyalists to the Stanley brand. — The company does not know if the iPhone app drove a single sale or fostered any brand loyalty.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Matt Cutts: How Google Deals With Web Spam — It's up to Matt Cutts and his team at Google to keep search results as free as possible from Web spam, those pages full of Viagra ads or even malware. A 10-year veteran of the company, he got into this online underworld after working …
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Gordon Gekko 2.0: Flipping is GOOD. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're F**king Wrong.) — [disclosure: the views expressed below are my own, and do not in any way represent the official position or perspective of either Mint.com or Founders Fund... so please f**k off.] — Dear Jason Fried:
Mika Salmi / paidContent:
Time To Change The Lens: Media As A Service — Mika Salmi is the former president of Global Digital Media at Viacom/MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA). He has been involved in a number of startups and currently serves as Chairman of Sulake (Habbo Hotel), and on the board of Blinkbox, among others.
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Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Skype: People want total control over mobile phone apps — Angry at being barred from some mobile 3G networks by wireless operators, Skype is pushing hard for the FCC to mandate new openness rules for handsets—and it says that public opinion is on its side.
