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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
The CLIQ, Storm2 Join Long Parade of iPhone Threats — (See Correction & Amplification below.) — It's raining smart phones. No, make that super-smart phones, the type of hand-held computer, like Apple's iPhone or the models powered by Google's Android software, that browse the Web well …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Motorola CLIQ review — Palm and Motorola have taken very different paths to get where they are today; one began life as a scrappy Valley start-up founded by a tablet computing pioneer, the other traces its roots to all the way back to the early days of consumer electronics and the automotive industry.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Confirms Data Recovery for Sidekick Users — Data Restoration to Begin as Soon as Possible for Affected Customers. — Dear T-Mobile Sidekick customers, — On behalf of Microsoft, I want to apologize for the recent problems with the Sidekick service and give you an update …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Lawsuits filed over Sidekick outages — It was only a matter of time, but the T-Mobile Sidekick issue has now spilled over to the courthouse. — A number of lawsuits have been filed, including two filed in federal court in Northern California on Wednesday that allege both negligence …
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
Firefox 3.6 reaches beta stage — While it's slightly behind schedule — having been originally slated for a mid-September release — Firefox 3.6 has reached beta. — Version 3.6 beta RC1 is now available for download from Mozilla's servers. As Softpedia mentioned a few days ago, Mozilla is pondering an early exit for Firefox 3.5.
AppleInsider:
Mac sales grow 11.8% as Apple takes 9.4% U.S. market share — Mac sales saw double-digit growth in the third quarter of 2009, maintaining Apple's position as the fourth-largest U.S. PC manufacturer, according to new data released Wednesday from IDC. — Overall, Apple came in fourth for U.S. vendors …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Want That Early Chrome OS Build? You Got It. — The hits keep on coming from Jonathan Frederickson, the TechCrunch reader who turned our initial revelation of a “chromeos” folder on the Chromium build site into a full-on walk through. Today, he's doing what Google won't: Making the early Chrome OS build available for download.
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Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines — From direct mail to web design, A/B testing is considered a gold standard of user research: Show one version to half your audience and another version to the other half; compare results, and adjust accordingly.
Bloomberg:
Nokia Reports Unexpected $834 Million Loss as Sales Miss Analyst Forecasts — Oct. 15 (Bloomberg) — Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, posted an unexpected third-quarter loss, reversing a profit in the year-earlier period as demand slid.
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Android about to get a lot sweeter — We don't know a lot about the feature set of Android 2.0, but the latest firmware version has started to appear in the wild. Earlier today, Android 2.0 was spotted on the upcoming Motorola phone and now I have more evidence of its existence.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Flame On: FCC Launches Its Net Neutrality Web Site — The Federal Communications Commission today launched a site where engineers, consumers, ISPs or anyone with a stake in the game (or an opinion) can comment on the plans to codify six principles that would ensure ISPs can't block …
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Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Revealed: Spotify's new music purchasing features — Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek recently blogged that “we've admittedly not made it easy for our users to buy music. That's an area we need to improve”. — Well, that improvement didn't take long - Spotify is going live today with new purchasing features in its desktop application.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Walmart Offering $45 Unlimited Cellphone Plan Nationwide — Walmart has been beta testing their exclusive Straight Talk no-contract wireless service for months, but now the retailer will offer two low-cost wireless plans nationwide starting October 18th, including an unlimited plan for just $45.
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
UrbanSpoon Makes It Easier to ‘Scope’ Out Restaurants — Most people using the UrbanSpoon iPhone application give their phones a vigorous shake to serve up a list of restaurants in the immediate vicinity. — But now they have a new way to find a place to get a bite: Aim the iPhone …
Steven Sande / TUAW:
Software Update Alert! Performance Update 1.0 available for download — Our sharp-eyed iPhone goddess, Erica Sadun, alerted us to the fact that there's a small, but potentially important, update that has just shown up in Software Update. — Performance Update 1. “addresses intermittent …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Spigit Raises $10 Million For Social Productivity Software — Social productivity startup Spigit raised $10 million in Series B funding from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. This brings Spigit's total funding up to $14 million. Spigit's CEO and Founder, Paul Pluschkell says that the company …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google's third quarter: Expectations are high — Google's third quarter is expected to be strong and analysts are already busy raising targets for the fourth quarter. — The search giant reports earnings Thursday and Wall Street is expecting earnings of $5.42 a share on revenue of $4.24 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
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HardMac.com:
Future Mac Pro: Apple to Enjoy Short-Term Exclusive Use of Future Xeon CPU? — According to one of our sources, Apple is finalizing the future Mac Pro models. They are currently testing the last evolution of Xeon CPU, known as Gulftown, that Intel only demoed a couple of times so far.
Ellen McGirt / Fast Company:
Intel Risks It All (Again) — How Sean Maloney and brand guru Deborah Conrad are helping Intel's first carpet-dweller CEO reengineer the company once known as Chipzilla — and free the bong. — When Paul Otellini, Intel's famously reserved CEO first heard the news, he got quiet.
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Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM:
Acer's Dual-Boot Netbook, Liquid Phone: More Open Doors for Android? — Could some of the biggest boosts yet for Google's open-source Android operating system, outside the realm of smartphones, come from unlikely sidekicks: Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 OS and offbeat new processors?
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Hands-on: Social networking on Xbox 360 — Microsoft was expected to release Twitter, Facebook, and Last.fm apps for the Xbox 360 as part of a system software update that went out back in August, It was decided that the apps should be delayed for a fall release, but CNET got a sneak peek …
Tim Danton / PC Pro:
Acer 3D laptop review: first look — dual-booting Android and Windows 7 netbook at today's global press conference: it also revealed the world's first mainstream 3D laptop, the Acer Aspire 5738PG (at this point, I should point out to Acer that if Apple launched a 3D laptop it probably wouldn't give it a terrible name like 5738PG).
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
AT&T: Tethering is probably going to be a 2010 thing — AT&T's iPhone tethering is something near and dear to my heart. In fact, I may or may not be writing this tethered to my iPhone on a train to New York City right now. We know tethering works on AT&T's network because frankly …
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Google Wave's Best Use Cases — Last week we asked a simple question: How will you use Google Wave? Over 600 responses later, we're sending Wave nominations to the people who had the best use cases. Here are a few. — Education: Increasing Interactivity and Collaborative Learning
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Owen Van Natta / MySpace:
MySpace Adds Top Talent to Executive Ranks — Today MySpace is pleased to announce several new executive appointments that support our technology and partnership goals. First, Nada Stirratt has joined MySpace in the role of Chief Revenue Officer, effective immediately.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Layar Brings Augmented Reality Browser To The iPhone (Screenshots) — Half an hour ago, I just had an iPhone 3GS. Now, I have an iPhone 3GS with Layar installed. — It was one of the main questions I had for the Dutch company, which markets an augmented reality browser …
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Don Reisinger / Crave: The gadget blog:
Samsung delivers Blockbuster, Amazon on-demand video — The Samsung UN46B7000—one of the newly entertained Samsung HDTVs. — (Credit: CBS Interactive) — Samsung announced on Wednesday that on-demand video services from Blockbuster and Amazon are coming to some of its home entertainment products.
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