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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
In-house Radio.app in the works for iPhone and iPod touch — We've just received a tip that an iPhone radio.app is being developed in-house by Apple for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. From what we know, the app will be allowed to operate in the background like iPod.app and will offer …
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Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
iMovie update reveals new Apple video format — Like most companies, Apple periodically releases software updates for its applications, fixing minor issues. However, an iMovie update released on Tuesday revealed a brand new video format the company has been developing.
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Google LatLong:
Introducing Google Building Maker — [Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog] — Some of us here at Google spend almost all of our time thinking about one thing: How do we create a three-dimensional model of every built structure on Earth? How do we make sure it's accurate …
Tom Lowry / Business Week:
Bloomberg Wins Bidding For BusinessWeek — Bloomberg LP, the global financial data and news empire created by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, is the winning bidder for BusinessWeek. — Terms of the offer will not be disclosed by Bloomberg and BusinessWeek parent McGraw-Hill Cos.
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Got the wrong Bob? — Posted by Ari Leichtberg, Software Engineer and Yossi Matias, Head of Israel Engineering Center — When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, “Are you sure you meant to send this to me?” and promptly realized that you didn't?
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The Official Google Blog:
Invite a friend to Google Voice — (Cross-posted from the Google Voice Blog) — Since the debut of Google Voice, our early users have shared lots of feedback that has led to some exciting new features, like the ability to receive SMS messages via email and the option to change your Google Voice number.
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Jennadawn / Twitter Blog:
Help us nail spammers — Today we've added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter. — Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable. Click the “Report as spam” …
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Jamie Sport / The Daily Quail:
The Carter-Ruck school of viral marketing — How to ensure maximum publicity for your new gagging order — Marketing experts were stunned today at the success of media law firm Carter-Ruck's high profile ‘gagging order’ campaign, designed to generate buzz around their client Trafigura's latest toxic waste product.
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Padraig Reidy / The Great Debate:Internet freedom prevails over Guardian gag order
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Microsoft Taps ‘Family Guy’ to Help Sell Windows 7 — Inks Branded-Entertainment Deal With Seth MacFarlane for Commercial-Free Variety Show on Fox — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — To sell people on the merits of its latest operating system, Windows 7, Microsoft has employed good old-fashioned PR …
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Yahoo Settles Syndication Fraud Lawsuit For $4.3M — Yahoo has agreed to pay some search marketers refunds of $20 to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it served search ads on typosquatting sites, parked domains and other potentially low-quality locales.
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers — A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility. — How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the company began using in April 2008.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Skype In Negotiations To Acquire Gizmo5 — Litigation-beleaguered Skype is in negotiations to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5, say multiple sources. The price tag is said to be in the $50 million range, but the deal is far from consummated. Other potential buyers may be looking at the company as well.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
As Facebook Nears 100M U.S. Visitors, Twitter Falls Further Behind In The Rear-View Mirror — Although Facebook recently admitted that Twitter was in its rear-view mirror, it appears that Twitter may be moving out of eyeshot. September's U.S. comScore data has just been released and it appears …
Smw / Cerulean Studios' Blog:
Trillian for iPhone: Two months later, still no response from Apple... We've been getting more and more questions from customers wondering where the heck our iPhone App is. Unfortunately, we have no idea. — It's been 60 days since our initial and only submission to the App Store.
Vishu Gupta / Facebook Developers:
Making It Easier to Build with Facebook — Many websites are looking for ways to integrate Facebook Connect, such as commenting using Facebook identity or showing visitors their Facebook friends' recent activity. Companies like DISQUS offer widgets to such websites, providing off-the-shelf Facebook integration with just a few clicks.
Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley Lives — Barney Frank spares venture capital. — Printer — Friendly — In a rare bit of good news from Washington, the investment model that created Intel, Apple and Google will be allowed to exist. According to his draft legislation, Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nokia tells all on Booklet 3G: $299 with a 2-year contract on AT&T — Nokia, AT&T, Best Buy and Microsoft are all holding hands and singing the same song about Nokia's Booklet 3G today. The good news is that the device will be subsidized by AT&T, at $299 with a 2-year contract at a $60 a month data plan …
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Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:
Flickr Co-Founder Caterina Fake on the Value of Viral Loops [Exclusive Q&A] — This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget.
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage — Additional insiders have stepped forward to shed more light into Microsoft's troubled acquisition of Danger, its beleaguered Pink Project, and what has become one of the most high profile Information Technology disasters in recent memory.
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Twitter Status:
Researching username, password change problems — We're currently researching reports from users who are locked out after trying to reset their passwords or change their email address or user names. This seems to affect new users as well as long term users; we do not advise changing your user name …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Wave's Little Secret: It Already Works On The iPhone — Google Wave, the search giant's latest experiment in post-email communications, is hardly out the gate, with some of the first 100,000 private beta testers still waiting for their invites. (I just finally got mine today, two weeks after launch).
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Royal Pingdom:
Sweden's Internet broken by DNS mistake — Last night, a routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain .se went seriously wrong, introducing an error that made DNS lookups for all .se domain names start failing. The entire Swedish Internet effectively stopped working at this point.
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Apple shipping iPhone 3GS' resistant to jailbreaking? — To be perfectly honest we're surprised it took this long. Reports are surfacing that Apple is now shipping a new bootrom with the iPhone 3GS that is resistant to the 24kpwn exploit used by the Dev-Team and others to jailbreak the iPhone.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Cisco Is Buying Starent for $2.9 Billion to Bolster Its Wireless Networks Business — Another week, another $3 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems. — On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it would pay $35 a share, or $2.9 billion, for Starent Networks, which makes products …
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Jack Loechner / MediaPost:
8% of Internet Users Account for 85% of all Clicks — The results of an update to the comScore highly publicized “Natural Born Clickers” research, conducted two years ago with Starcom USA and Tacoda, indicate that the number of people who click on display ads in a month has fallen from 32% …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel's third quarter powered by inventory builds, back-to-school demand; Outlook bright — Updated: Intel's third quarter earnings and revenue handily topped estimates and the company said it was “confident about our business prospects going forward.” Intel added that its fourth quarter revenue would come in ahead of projections.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
OpenMoko branches out with new $99 WikiReader device — With the unfortunate downfall of the company's phone business, OpenMoko is looking for some slightly greener pastures. Its first new device hardly seems to hail from the same high-end Linux places that spawned the FreeRunner …
