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New York Times:
Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC — SAN FRANCISCO — The high-tech industry has been working itself into paroxysms of excitement lately over an idea that is not exactly new: tablet computers. — Quietly, several high-tech companies are lining up to deliver versions of these keyboard-free …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Working on Tablet Since At Least 2003 — The New York Times recaps many of the rumors and expectations about the upcoming Apple Tablet, but also introduces a few original sources of information about the tablet project within Apple. — According to former Apple engineer Joshua A. Strickland …
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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Bill Coughran / The Official Google Blog:
Teaming up with Adobe and the Open Screen Project — At Google, we've been working closely with the folks at Adobe for years. Some of our most exciting projects such as YouTube, Android, Google Site Search, Google Chrome and even Google web search require close integration with Adobe's technologies.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Breaking: Thousands of Hotmail passwords leaked online — Neowin has received information regarding a possible Windows Live Hotmail “hack” or phishing scheme where password details of thousands of Hotmail accounts have been posted online. — An anonymous user posted details of the accounts …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Marketplace is live on Windows Mobile 6.5 phones — Did you pick up an AT&T Pure over the weekend? Yeah, then you might want to spin up Windows Marketplace on your new Windows Mobile 6.5 handset. It's live and dancing right now a full day before any of this was supposed to launch — not that we're complaining.
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Vonage Releases Calling Apps for iPhone and BlackBerry — While the Google Voice application for the iPhone continues to be hung up in Apple's review process, a similar application from another company has passed with flying colors. — On Monday, Vonage, the Internet telephony company …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service — Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the “Amazon Mobile Payments Service,” the technology includes a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AVG launches free antivirus suite as Microsoft crashes its party — AVG Technologies has made itself into a familiar name on the Internet by giving users antivirus software at a pretty good price: free. That's how it got 85 million users. Today, the company is announcing that the ninth version …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
FTC to Fine Bloggers up to $11,000 for Not Disclosing Payments — Bloggers now have up to 11,000 reasons to disclose when they are being paid to review products. — The FTC has updated its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for the first time since 1980 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Googled: Schmidt Wants To Build A “$100 Billion Media Company” — If Google were a sitcom, it would open every week with co-founder Sergey Brin arriving late to a meeting “out of breath in a T-shirt, gym shorts, and on Rollerblades.” This familiar depiction of Brin finds …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
US Home Mac ownership hits 12 percent - NPD — The NPD Group's 2009 Household Penetration Study, reveals that approximately 12 per cent of all US computer owning households own a Mac, up from 9 per cent in 2008. — The researchers note to that while Apple ownership is growing, the mix favors mixed system environments.
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Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Toshiba's Cell-Powered REGZA 55X1 LCD TV Can Record and Display 8 Channels At Once — Toshiba's first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs. For starters: The 55-incher's LED backlighting divides the 240Hz display into 512 individually controlled areas …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buys Full Page Front Page Ad In Times Of India — India's largest English-language newspaper, the Times of India, has an interesting print edition front page today - a huge yellow advertisement for Yahoo's It's You campaign first announced last month. You can view the print version here.
Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless, Sam's Club, TARGET: gearing up to launch Motorola Droid, BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Curve 2, more — If you've been wondering whether the Motorola Droid (or Tao, or Sholes — whatever), BlackBerry Storm 2, BlackBerry Curve 2 or LG Chocolate Touch would be hitting Sam's Club stores or even TARGET, you're in luck.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Rumor: Windows Live Wave 4 beta this week — New rumors are saying we'll be seeing a beta of Windows Live Wave 4 this week, and the final release in Spring/Summer 2010. — Here's a tweet from user nikhil_j that is sure to get the Microsoft beta community excited: “MS set …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
T-Mobile to Launch Samsung's Google Phone — Samsung Behold II, the first an Android phone sold by the South Korean handset giant, is coming to the U.S. via T-Mobile USA, the two companies announced today. The new device will carry Samsung's TouchWiz user interface and will work with T-Mobile's high-speed 3G network.
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Ciara Byrne / TechCrunch Europe:
Ready for your close-up? Jinni goes into public beta — Finding a movie to watch on a rainy Friday night can be like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.Jinni is a content discovery system, or as the makers prefer to call it a “taste engine”, for movies and TV shows which addresses this problem.
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Tim Mullaney / Bloomberg:
Regulators Will Excuse Venture Firms From Rules, Patricof Says — Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) — The Treasury Department is likely to drop plans to regulate venture firms as part of new rules that rein in financial risk, venture capitalist Alan Patricof said. — In July, the department proposed rules …
MySpace:
MYSPACE APPOINTS MARK ROSENBAUM CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER — Rosenbaum Returns to News Corporation to Lead MySpace's Financial Operations LOS ANGELES - October 5, 2009 - MySpace today announced the appointment of Mark Rosenbaum to the role of Chief Financial Officer.
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Erik Qualman / Search Engine Watch:
Is Google a Social Media Company? — Perhaps Google's stiffest competition in the immediate future isn't Bing and Yahoo, but rather it's the likes of Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook. Just as we no longer search for the news (24 of the top 25 newspapers have shown record declines in circulation) …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Here Are the Condé Nast Cuts: Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet, Cookie Closing — Here are some of the long-awaited cuts that Condé Nast has been mulling: The publisher is shuttering Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet and Cookie. — It's not a huge shock …
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.
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.
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Microsoft's Ballmer says Web search buys unlikely — * Growth still seen returning slowly, at lower levels — Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) does not expect to make acquisitions to help the company challenge Google Inc's (GOOG.O) dominance in the Internet search market, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters on Monday.
