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5:55 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  —  T-Mobile's initial apologia to Sidekick users grieving their lost data was a joke.  A month of free data service?  To access what?  Now they've manned up, giving affected customers something they might actually want: A way out of their contracts.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Desktop Touch Screens Don't Really Work Well For Humans
Discussion: Gizmodo and blackrimglasses
Scott McNulty / Macworld:
NYT: Apple inspiring new Disney retail strategy  —  PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ:  —  Steve Jobs isn't just the CEO of our favorite computer company, he's also a very large shareholder of a little company called Disney.  The New York Times is reporting that Mr. Jobs is helping Disney bring …
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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: Gizmodo, Edible Apple and Gawker
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.
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 …
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Facebook Hit With Another Beacon Lawsuit  —  Facebook probably thought its Beacon problems were behind it last month, when it announced an agreement to settle a class-action privacy lawsuit.  But three Texas residents who have a pending lawsuit against Blockbuster for participating …
Discussion: All Facebook
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Aiming To “Make Meaning,” Jaiku Co-Founder Leaves Google  —  In October 2007, Google bought the Finnish social networking site Jaiku.  In the following couple of years, they somehow managed to do absolutely nothing with it, even as rival Twitter rose in popularity.  Today, co-founder Jyri Engeström is leaving Google.
Discussion: All About Symbian
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Mystery Facebook outage affected about 150K users  —  Thousands of Facebook users who have been unable to access their accounts for nearly a week and a half now are now seeing their profiles restored—but some data related to recent profile updates may have been lost.  —  What happened?
Discussion: Maximum PC
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Refuses to Punish Lawyer for Anti-RIAA Blogging  —  An attorney defending against a music-piracy lawsuit didn't cross ethical bounds by filing motions broadly attacking the recording industry and posting them on his blog, a magistrate judge has ruled, rejecting demands from the RIAA for monetary sanctions.
Discussion: Techdirt, p2pnet and digg.com
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
Bloomberg:
Google Director Resigns, Resolving Regulatory Probe  —  Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Arthur Levinson, a director at Apple Inc. and Google Inc., stepped down from Google's board, a move that resolved a regulatory probe into overlapping directors at the two companies.
Discussion: Washington Post
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Levinson resignation means Apple, Google boards sever last tie
Discussion: New York Times, TG Daily and 9 to 5 Mac
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Genentech's (And Apple Board Member) Arthur Levinson Leaves Google Board
 
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Studies Point to Growth for Search Ads, and for Bing
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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
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Nokia Booklet 3G Hands On: Nice Netbook, But How Much?
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Asks Page Owners to Prove Authenticity
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6 Billion In Third Quarter. …
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Web Ads Hidden Under Cloak of Invisibility
Discussion: ClickZ, WebProNews and AdExchanger.com
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He Can Haz Big Blog Empire
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Loses Connected TV Leader Patrick Barry.  Is Bartz Paying Attention?
Jason Notte / TheStreet.com:
Microsoft's Ad Blitz Targets Wrong Enemy
Discussion: Maximum PC
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
The $1.5 billion scramble for Vente Privee by Gilt, eBay and Amazon
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Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal:
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