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10:40 AM ET, October 5, 2009

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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.
Adobe:
RIM joins Open Screen Project  —  For immediate release  —  Companies collaborate to bring full Flash Player to BlackBerry Smartphones  —  At Adobe MAX, Adobe's worldwide developer conference, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq:RIMM; TSX:RIM) …
Softpedia News:   Google Half-Heartedly Joins Adobe's Open Screen Project
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Next Web
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.
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.
Discussion: the Econsultancy blog and broadstuff, Thanks:atul
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 …
Danielle VanDyke / The Official Google Blog:
AdSense for Mobile optimized for high-end phones  —  High-end mobile phones, like iPhone, Android-powered devices and the Palm Pre , continue to grow — Gartner estimates that global sales of smartphones will soar by 27% in 2009, to 177 million units.  Naturally, as a result more and more people are browsing the web on the go.
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.
Discussion: broadstuff and Software as Services, Thanks:atul
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) …
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.
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
New API Proves Trends Are Trending  —  What is everyone talking about or searching for right now?  Knowing the terms that are trending at this moment is like knowing the news.  With a new API your apps can be just as aware.  Lets Be Trends provides programmatic access to the most popular keywords …
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 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Speed Of Share  —  Facebook has a problem.  One of its main goals now is to be the center for sharing everything on the web, but the key to that is to make the process as quick and easy as possible.  And in that regard, its rival Twitter destroys it.  That's a problem.
Thanks:atul
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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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
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Private Company Valuations: Twitter, Inc.
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Brian Solis:
In the World of Social Media, Women Rule
Discussion: broadstuff and CNET News
James Niccolai / PC World:
Adobe Puts LiveCycle in the Cloud
Discussion: Adobe and eWeek
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Federal Register Makes Itself More Web-Friendly
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Rick Callahan / Associated Press:
States pushing own e-waste recycling laws
Edwin Chan / Reuters:
T-Mobile USA kicks off corporate Wi-Fi push
Discussion: MobileCrunch and Crave
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Bug by Bug, Google Fixes a New Idea
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Gordon Gekko 2.0: Flipping is GOOD. …
Boy Genius Report:
Best Buy Mobile's Holiday Playbook: Upcoming Android launches …
Andrew Alexander / Washington Post:
Print-Era Shackles for a Twitter World?
Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Thanks:atul
 

 
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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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