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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.
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iClarified, MobileCrunch, The iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, PMP Today, Computerworld, AppScout, Erictric, MobileContentToday, I4U News and Pocket-lint.com
New York Times:
BlackBerry, Upgraded, Aims to Suit Every User — The Storm was supposed to be the smartphone that would keep Verizon Wireless customers from deserting to Apple's iPhone, which runs on AT&T's network. — Research In Motion, the company that created the BlackBerry phones that business users find …
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IntoMobile, SlashGear, I4U News, Phone Scoop, InformationWeek, Pocket-lint.com, Engadget, Gizmodo and Smalltalk Tidbits …, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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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PR Newswire, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, Gadgetell, Ars Technica, TidBITS, Engadget, NewTeeVee and Macworld
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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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The New Technorati — Technorati relaunched its site tonight, changing and adding key features. Most notable is an expanded and fresher top 100 blogs list, and a new feature that lets authors post their content directly to the site. — In 2007 Technorati redesigned the look and functionality of its home page three times.
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Erictric, Regular Geek, Softpedia News, Andy Beard, jalichandra.com, Doc Searls Weblog, The Next Web and louisgray.com, Thanks:mgcreed
Cade Metz / The Register:
Michael Dell: Netbooks go sour after 36 hours — You'll be happier if you give me more money — According to Michael Dell, a netbook is a dream purchase - until it's about 36 hours. — “If you take a user who's used to a 14- or 15-inch notebook and you say 'Here's a 10-inch netbook,' they're gonna say 'Hey, this is so fantastic.
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.
Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Acer Android smartphone hands-on! — UPDATE: The Acer Android smartphone is the A1, and it comes with Android version 1.6 - AKA Donut. Acer's talking about it right now at its London prezzer, so more details to come. — UPDATE 2: Acer's dancing to two different tunes here.
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:Acer Liquid Snapdragon-based Android smartphone announced
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Engadget, Android Central, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, Gearlog, Google Android News …, Electronista and Phone Arena
Derek Powazek:
Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists — Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned. — First came the web, and it was a mess.
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Andy Beard, Search Engine Land, Workbench, Search Engine Watch and rc3.org, Thanks:rcade
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Still Hoping to Sell Music by the Month — SAN FRANCISCO — The idea of selling monthly subscriptions to a vast catalog of online music has met with only limited success. That isn't stopping a new batch of entrepreneurs from trying to make it work. — The latest and perhaps …
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Acer Slaps a Multitouch Screen On Its $800 Aspire 5738PG — You wouldn't know it by looking at it, but that is Acer's new multitouch laptop. Sort of like Lenovo has done with the T400s, Acer has put a multitouch screen on an existing clamshell notebook. — Besides its long ass model number …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Shazam's Newest Fan Is Kleiner Perkins's iFund — For cellphone owners, Shazam has abolished the nagging question about which song is playing. Its cellphone application lets people simply hold the phone toward the source of the music to identify it. — It will soon be able to do a lot more …
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GigaOM, mocoNews, Times of London, Music Ally, Softpedia News, Guardian, blogs.ft.com and TechCrunch Europe, Thanks:atul
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 …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Nikon D3s DSLR Has Night Vision With 102,400 ISO (Yes, You Read That Right) — The D3s is not simply the D3 plus 720p video recording, a la the D300s. A redesigned sensor allows it to shoot at up to ISO 102,400. Yeah, that's a six-digit ISO. — The D3s's sensor is an evolved form …
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 …
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CNET News, The Register, Engadget, Guardian, Digital Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechFlash and The Microsoft Blog
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Warns Texas Instruments to Stop Harassing Calculator Hobbyists — San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its baseless legal threats against calculator hobbyists who blogged about potential modifications to the company's programmable graphing calculators.
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” …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A First Glimpse Of Chrome OS In The Flesh — Following our post about Chrome OS yesterday, it looks like those wily folks at Google have removed the “chromeos” folder from the Chromium build folder. Too bad. But luckily, before they did, TechCrunch reader and Linux user, Jonathan Frederickson …
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Living in a Google World, Softpedia News, Search Engine Journal and Erictric, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
The State of Solid State Hard Drives — I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a plain jane hard drive, or a generic video card. For most users, that fire-breathing quad-core CPU …
Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News:
Opera prepares Unite for release — Opera Unite was going to change the Web, according to the hype from the Norwegian browser maker. Despite only being available for a number of months in a beta separate from the main Opera build—and the Internet looking more or less like the same place in the aftermath …
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ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, The Register, Opera Press Room, Softpedia News and AppScout
Theo Valich / Bright Side Of News:
nVidia Tegra wins contract for next-gen Nintendo DS — When Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of nVidia announced that he expects to see Tegra capturing 50% of nVidia's revenue within the next couple of years, a lot of people thought that this is a smoke screen to sway the attention from its battles against AMD and Intel.
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Engadget, PC Perspective, VG247, Softpedia News, Electronista, GamesIndustry.biz, The Tech Report, Gizmodo, GoNintendo and Kotaku
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
US city to start giant ‘mapathon’ — The capital of the US state of Georgia will soon be the world's most digitally mapped city, according to organisers of a massive “mapathon”. — OpenStreetMap, or OSM, is behind the effort to produce a map more accurate than anything else on the market.
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.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk Digital Connection:
An Open Letter to Elisa Steele EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Yahoo Inc. on the New “The Internet is You,” Yahoo Marketing Campaign — Dear Elisa: — Last month when you announced Yahoo! Inc's new multi-million dollar ad campaign including the tagline, “the internet's under new management yours,” I wrote you an open letter.
The Anti LumberJack / Gizmodo:
Barnes and Noble's E-Reader Like a Kindle/iPhone Chimera: First Photos and Details — Barnes and Noble's late to e-books. But the company's new gadget—first seen here—should address the weaknesses of all other readers with multiple screens, each playing to tech strengths.
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Fast Company, Engadget, TeleRead, SlashGear, Mobility Site, Electronista, Gamasutra and GottaBeMobile.com
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
Joost UK dissolves, office furniture already in the hands of another startup — The once immensely hyped and heavily-funded video company Joost continues its unceremonious journey to the deadpool. — TechCrunch Europe has learnt that the startup, famously co-founded by Skype founders Janus Friis …
Google Voice Blog:
Invite a friend to Google Voice — (Cross-posted from the Official Google 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.
