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7:35 AM ET, October 13, 2009

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Ina Fried / Crave: The gadget blog:
T-Mobile says Sidekick data may yet return  —  T-Mobile said late on Monday that it may yet be able to recover Sidekick users' information that it had previously thought was lost as part of a massive server failure by Microsoft's Danger subsidiary.  —  “Recent efforts indicate the prospects …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile Lets Furious Sidekick Users Ditch Their Contracts for Free
Ina Fried / CNET News:
T-Mobile halts sales of Sidekick
Vijay Bangaru / Docs Blog:
Shared folders and more in Google Docs  —  Today, we are happy to announce the updates to the Google Docs docs list that we promised in July.  We're rolling out these update gradually, so they should be available to everyone soon.  The biggest update is the introduction of shared folders …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Desktop Touch Screens Don't Really Work Well For Humans  —  Hewlett Packard refreshed their TouchSmart line of computers today.  If you're not familiar with these, imagine an iMac all in one computer that has a touch screen, and you're most of the way there.
Discussion: Gizmodo and blackrimglasses
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HP brings touch to the mass market with new laptops and desktops  —  Hewlett-Packard is launching a series of new products today, including some long-awaited touchscreen laptop computers.  —  The highlight of today's 10 product introductions are laptops with multi-touch touchscreens that work …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney's Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores  —  LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall.  —  At a time when many retailers are still cutting …
Discussion: dot.life, Gizmodo, Edible Apple and Gawker
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Scott McNulty / Macworld:   NYT: Apple inspiring new Disney retail strategy
Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Apple acknowledges Snow Leopard data loss issue  —  For the past month, some Mac OS X users have been reporting their personal data missing after logging into their guest accounts, and Apple now says it's working on finding a fix.  —  “We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Tim Berners-Lee Looks Back: the “//” in Web Addresses Was Unnecessary  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that the double slash, the “//” after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary.
Discussion: Guardian, Bits and Gizmodo, Thanks:beet_tv
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Unemployed?  Blogging?  Don't Put Ads On Your Site Or You Might Lose Your Unemployment Check  —  For quite some time, many people credited part of the rise of blogging to the fact that many folks in the tech industry found themselves out of work in the wake of the dot com bubble bursting.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple immune to Windows 7 impact, analyst says  —  Analysis shows Mac sales typically climb after Microsoft unveils a new OS  —  Computerworld - Microsoft's introduction of Windows 7 later this month won't cost Apple any Mac sales, a Wall Street analyst said today.
Discussion: Brainstorm Tech
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Next Firefox can detect computer orientation  —  (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET  —  The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you're listing to starboard—and pass that information along to applications running in the browser.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Google Is Trying To Hold Up The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — You didn't think Google was going to take the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal lying down, did you?  —  The Mountain View, Calif.-based giant hasn't taken an official position on the proposed deal …
John P. / Woopra:
Woopra Officially Exits Beta  —  Well, the day has finally come.  It simultaneously feels like its been both forever, and just yesterday, since we started developing Woopra.  Today, I'm happy to announce the beginning of Woopra General Availability!  —  Let's talk a little about what that means.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Ooyala gets $10M more for online video  —  Ooyala, a video startup founded by a group of former Googlers, has raised $10 million in a third round of venture funding.  —  The Mountain View, Calif., company sells its technology to companies that want to include video as part of their web content.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Google's Ad Gadfly  —  Harvard prof Ben Edelman is preparing the world's biggest catalogue of typosquatters.  —  Ben Edelman has long positioned himself as the Internet's referee.  The Harvard Law professor's research has taken on spyware scams, click fraudsters, even Sony in its infamous “rootkit” debacle.
Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Twitter moving to larger SoMa office space  —  Twitter, which recently closed a round of financing worth a reported $100 million, is expanding its workforce and has agreed to a deal to move its headquarters into a larger South of Market space.  —  The micro-blogging service has agreed …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Hops On A New Satellite To Watch Us From Space  —  Last year, there was a lot of coverage of Google striking a deal with satellite imagery company GeoEye to be able to use the high resolution images from its new GeoEye-1 satellite for their Google Earth and Maps products.
Discussion: Google LatLong and Softpedia News
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Ubuntu Linux adds private cloud backing  —  Canonical's upcoming server upgrade supports the Eucalyptus project's open source system for cloud implementation using hardware and software already in place  —  Canonical is touting private cloud capabilities in an upgrade to its Ubuntu Linux OS being announced on Tuesday.
Discussion: eWeek
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome OS Peeks Out Its Head A Bit Further.  And What Is The Touchpad?  —  Pretty much every morning and every night I download the newest build of Chromium for Mac (the open source builds that will eventually turn into Chrome for Mac).  While we made an auto-updater to do it for you, you can also manually find the latest builds here.
Discussion: Maximum PC
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple: Finding Even More Uses for iTunes  —  The online media store is already one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world.  Here are some other things Apple might be able to sell via the Web  —  As Apple closes in on the release of a device usually described as a tablet …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Genentech's (And Apple Board Member) Arthur Levinson Leaves Google Board  —  Genentech chairman Arthur D. Levinson is resigning from Google's Board of Directors, the Mountain View company announced earlier this morning.  His departure comes shortly after Google Chairman and CEOEricSchmidt resigned …
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Bloomberg:
Google Director Resigns, Resolving Regulatory Probe
Discussion: Washington Post
 
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Chris Woodyard / USA Today:
Who needs a key? IPhone app unlocks and starts car
Discussion: textually.org, Thanks:mrinaldesai
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Refuses to Punish Lawyer for Anti-RIAA Blogging
Discussion: Techdirt, p2pnet and digg.com
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Studies Point to Growth for Search Ads, and for Bing
Discussion: MediaPost, paidContent and Tech Beat, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Facebook Hit With Another Beacon Lawsuit
Discussion: All Facebook
Jackson West / NBC Bay Area:
More Layoffs Rumored at Current TV
Discussion: Gawker, Thanks:nbcbayareacom
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
The Founder Institute's Adeo Ressi on his plans to leave no entrepreneur behind
Discussion: TechCrunch
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook database outage cut off about 150,000
Discussion: Maximum PC
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Aiming To “Make Meaning,” Jaiku Co-Founder Leaves Google
Discussion: All About Symbian
 Earlier Items: 
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, But How Much?
Discussion: MobileContentToday and GigaOM
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Asks Page Owners to Prove Authenticity
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6 Billion In Third Quarter. …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
He Can Haz Big Blog Empire
Discussion: Digits, EW.com, 901am and Gawker
Jason Notte / TheStreet.com:
Microsoft's Ad Blitz Targets Wrong Enemy
Discussion: Maximum PC
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
The Onion, backed by some Sandy Hook families and Everytown for Gun Safety, buys Infowars in a bankruptcy auction, and plans a January 2025 relaunch as a parody

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
Disney reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $22.6B, TV network revenue down 6% YoY to $2.5B, and a $321M DTC streaming profit, up from a $387M loss in Q4 2023

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney plans to add an ESPN “tile” to Disney+ for US subscribers on December 4, giving users access to some free ESPN content

 
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