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3:00 PM ET, October 6, 2009

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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Google and Verizon Say Two Android Phones, With Google Voice, To Come This Year  —  Google and Verizon Wireless said that the first results of their just-announced Android partnership will debut in a few weeks and that the carrier's cellphones will allow Google Voice, unlike the iPhone.
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Verizon:
Groundbreaking Agreement Between Verizon Wireless And Google To Leverage High-Speed Network And Open Android Platform For Wireless Innovation  —  BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Verizon Wireless and Google™ today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There's No Excuse For This  —  I really didn't want to beat up on WinMo here, because at this point it just feels tired.  But man, come on Microsoft, you're giving me no choice.  Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't just a letdown—it barely seems done.
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Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Google targeted in e-mail scam  —  Google has confirmed to BBC News that it's e-mail system - Gmail - has been targeted as part of an “industry-wide phishing scheme”.  —  The search giant said that it had taken immediate action to safeguard the affected accounts.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Schmidt: We paid $1 billion premium for YouTube  —  Since 2006, many observers have scratched their head over what prompted Google to pay $1.65 billion for the video site YouTube.  We're now a little closer to the answer.  —  The blockbuster acquisition for the 18-month-old start-up played …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Verizon to iPhone Users: “Want Five Times More 3G Coverage?  There's a Map for That.”  —  Want five times more 3G coverage?  There's a map for that.  —  That's the cheeky slogan of a new Verizon ad reportedly set to debut during tonight's “Monday Night Football” game.
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John Cook / TechFlash:
New Verizon ad campaign takes a direct swipe at AT&T's network  —  A new advertising campaign from Verizon Wireless starting tonight during the big Monday Night Football game will take a direct swipe at AT&T's network, playing off the successful Apple iPhone commercials.
Chuq Von Rospach / Palm Developer Network Blog:
What You Need To Know About the Palm App Distribution Program  —  Following up on the release of the beta app catalog e-commerce program, we're excited to announce that we're opening our app distribution program to the entire Palm® webOS™ developer community by the end of the year.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Palm's Full Monty  —  Easily the quote of the night at Palm's Developer gathering in San Francisco came from Katie Mitic, Palm's senior vice president of product marketing.  “We want to leave it all out there.  You know, ‘The Full Monty’,” she emphatically said when noting that Palm's goal was to be more open.
Discussion: Edible Apple
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case?  —  Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google's YouTube may have uncovered evidence that employees of the video site were among those who uploaded unauthorized content to YouTube.
Cecilia Kang / Post I.T.:
All Eyes on AT&T at CTIA; Will Ma Bell Let Skype Onto Its Networks?  —  Is AT&T about to announce Skype and Google Voice will run on its mobile network via Apple's iPhone?  That's the buzz ahead of a wireless industry conference that begins Wednesday in San Diego.
Tom Sly / The Official Google Blog:
Google PowerMeter's first device partner  —  Today, we're very excited to announce we have secured our first official device partner.  (That means having a smart meter installed by your utility is no longer a prerequisite for using Google PowerMeter!)  For the last several months …
Matt Rosoff / CNET News:
Over-the-air downloads come to BlackBerry  —  Online music provider 7digital is bringing over-the-air music downloads to recent BlackBerry phones, such as the Storm, Bold, and Tour.  The rumors have been circulating for several months now.  On Tuesday the company is set to launch its application …
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Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
European import 7digital takes on iTunes in the U.S.
Discussion: Softpedia News, hypebot and Telegraph
Andrew Mager / The Web Life:
PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop  —  This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen a computer do.  —  What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage?  —  Well, it's possible.
Josephine Moulds / Telegraph:
Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow says Steve Ballmer  —  Microsoft's reputation has never recovered from the launch of Vista, Steve Ballmer, chief executive, said as the company gears up for the release of its latest incarnation of Windows.  —  Mr Ballmer said the economic climate …
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
Nielsen Wire:
Social Media: The Next Great Gateway for Content Discovery?  —  In the beginning there were ISPs, which then gave way to portals aggregators of content and links which then led to the rise of “search” as the dominant form of Internet navigation or, how we get to where we we're going on the web.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Yahoo, Apple, Adobe, others named in Eolas patent lawsuit blitz  —  It's the same technology that was at the heart of a news-making patent suit against Microsoft: the patent held by Eolas Technologies that defines how a Web browser plug-in can activate functionality.
Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM:
Windows 7 to Usher in Profitless Prosperity  —  Ultra-low prices on portable computers are nothing new, and in fact have increasingly become the norm since the debut of netbooks — small and light ultraportables that are virtually defined by their low cost.  However, there are some strong reasons …
Discussion: Techgeist, Thanks:enauzer
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google's Experimental Homepage Fades To A Single Word  —  We all know that Google is a big fan of minimalism, especially when it comes to its famous homepage, where it tries to keep its ‘word count’ down to 28 words (actually, it looks like it might be up to around 30).
John Cook / TechFlash:
Startup pinpoints the good, bad and ugly of wireless networks  —  Fretting about dropped calls in Ballard, missing text messages in Belltown or poor network coverage in Bellevue?  If so, a new application from Root Wireless might be for you.  —  The Bellevue company, which is coming …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health  —  The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals.  Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are really made by individuals …
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Official Google Blog, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Box.net Acquires Increo Solutions To Expand Document Collaboration And Sharing  —  Silicon Valley based Box.net, a cloud storage and document sharing startup, has acquired Increo Solutions, the makers of the Backboard and embedit.in products.  Both startups share an investor, Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Microsoft's Project Pink Might Be Dead In The Water  —  To say we were unimpressed with the first leaked shots to come out of Microsofts “Project Pink” would be a bit of an understatement.  This was Microsoft's first in-house foray into the mobile hardware space, and we'd been hearing tales of it for years …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google Decides to Find Its Creative Side  —  Internet Giant Seeks to Work Closer With Madison Avenue as It Targets Display Ad Dollars  —  Google Inc., which has long championed the belief that advertising should be less about art and more about science, is working harder to embrace its inner creative side.
Thanks:atul
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records  —  When 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he'd end up with an FBI agent trying to stake out his house.
Discussion: Raw Thought
Michael R. Bloomberg / NYC BigApps:
Welcome to NYC BigApps  —  Today, the City launched the inaugural NYC BigApps Competition to encourage talented application developers to create innovative online and mobile applications to serve New York City residents, businesses, and visitors.  By developing these apps …
Discussion: Bits and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:joshdilworth
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
PopCap Games raises $22.5 million to fund expansion into social games  —  For almost ten years, PopGames has shown it can come up with one hit after another in the casual downloadable games business.  One of its titles, Bejeweled, has been played more than a billion times.
Discussion: TechFlash, paidContent and Xconomy
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Trapster Speed Trap App Downloads Hit 50,000/Day  —  A must-have iPhone application for people who drive a lot is Trapster - the app for avoiding speed traps.  Or a better description by Paul Carr before he was fired from The Guardian: “Yes, that's Trapster: the mobile distraction for when driving …
 
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Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire:
Yahoo Awarded Patent for Human-Enhanced Search Engine
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
OneRiot aims to make money from Twitter search
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IP Camera turns your iPhone into a security cam
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K. T. Bradford / LAPTOP Mag:
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Brad Stone / Bits:
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Josephine Lien / DigiTimes:
Memory industry now on recovery path, says A-Data chairman
Discussion: Maximum PC
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Creates A New, Simplified Ad Unit For Local Business
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Discussion: A VC
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
FTC regulates our speech
Simon Avery / Globe and Mail:
Bell, Telus to launch iPhone next month
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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Evan Drellich / New York Times:
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
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