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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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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.
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
T-Mobile to Launch Samsung's Google Phone — Samsung Behold II, the first Android phone made 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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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.
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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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 …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
HTC Pure and Tilt 2 bring Windows Mobile 6.5 to AT&T — Long-rumored versions of HTC's ubiquitous Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 have finally been made official for AT&T — but perhaps more notably, they mark AT&T's very first forays into the WinMo 6.5 arena as Microsoft officially unleashes …
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.
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 …
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:
