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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone VoIP Apps To Run On AT&T's 3G Network — AT&T is changing its mind and now says iPhone VoIP apps will be able to run on its 3G wireless network. — Previously, Internet phone apps like Skype and the new Vonage app were forced to operate on wi-fi hotspots, which limits their utility.
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Josh Silverman / Skype Blogs:
Good move, AT&T — Since launching our iPhone application six months ago, people have downloaded and installed Skype on 10% of all iPhone and iPod touch devices sold - making it clear that people are extremely interested in taking Skype conversations with them on the go.
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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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 …
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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.
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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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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Chuq Von Rospach / Palm Developer Network Blog:What You Need To Know About the Palm App Distribution Program
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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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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
HTC HD2 Windows Phone gets official: Hands-on Video — After weeks of rumor, HTC have confirmed the existence of their latest flagship Windows Phone, the HTC HD2 (aka the HTC Leo). As expected, the HD2 runs Windows Mobile 6.5 on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, with a 4.3-inch WVGA …
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Boy Genius Report:
HTC Hero hitting Verizon in November? — We just got a tip that the phone pictured in Eric Schmidt's hands is actually Verizon's version of the HTC Hero and it will be called the HTC Hero. As you can see, there's a couple hardware modifications and one big one is that the buttons below the screen are …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google: A Web Browser Is Not A Computer, Not A Search Engine, And Not A Ham Sandwich — Google has spent a significant amount of time over the past couple of years building a very impressive web browser, Chrome. By most accounts, it's the fastest around, and isn't system resource heavy, and those who use it seem to love it.
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 …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
New BlackBerry Messenger to Launch October 7th?!! — Dang. Apparently I'll have to eat my own words on this one. So for the longest time both me and most members of the BlackBerry community have referred to the “new BlackBerry messenger” as BBM 5.0. Then, after hearing …
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.
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.
James Niccolai / PC World:
Adobe Developed IPhone Tool Without Apple's Help — Adobe Systems said it developed its tools that allow Flash developers to create native iPhone applications without help from Apple, but it hopes the iPhone maker will be glad of its efforts. — Adobe announced on Monday that the next version …
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 …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Servers With Cellphone Chips? Yep, Here They Come — If a server runs on a smartphone chip is it still a server? — The era of such a deeply philosophical data center question is upon us. A pair of stealthy start-ups have placed smartphone chips at the center of their plans to create a new breed of low-power servers.
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.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Palm Pixi stares GSM in the face, lives to brag about it (update: video!) — Though nothing's been announced, betting against a GSM version of the Palm Pixi would be a foolish move. There's certainly no mistaking that “E” for Edge logo and SIM slot beneath the battery in these leaked images from Vietnam (yes, again).
Rich Thomaselli / AdAge:
Pharma Drops Search Advertising After FDA Warning — Sponsored Links Fall 84% Following Dressing Down for Violating Marketing Guidelines — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Pharmaceutical companies, fearful of running afoul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's marketing guidelines …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Western Digital launches external drives with cool display indicators — Western Digital is announcing three new families of external hard drives today, all of them with indicators that tell you how much free storage you have. — WD, the biggest player in external hard disk drives …
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).
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
