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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Google Music Service Launch Imminent — Google will soon launch a music service, we've heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels. One source has referred to the new service as Google Audio.
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Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint.com, Neowin.net and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Apple declares war on the entire PC industry — There is absolutely nothing coincidental about Apple launching new products today. The big product launch is Apple's first preemptive marketing strike against Microsoft, Windows 7 and the entire PC industry.
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Computerworld, Apple, Softpedia News, The Next Web, dot.life, ZDNET.com.au, Washington Post, GottaBeMobile.com, eHomeUpgrade, DailyTech, OSNews, SlashGear and Erictric
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Arik Hesseldahl / BusinessWeek:
Apple Announces Major Consumer PC Upgrades — Hot on the heels of its knockout earnings report from last night, Apple is seizing more attention today with a significant upgrade to its consumer PC lines, specifically the entry-level MacBook, the iMac, and the Mac Mini. — Here's the rundown:
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Engadget, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Lockergnome Blog Network, Reuters, VentureBeat, Business Week, GeekBrief.TV, Obsessable, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, The Tech Report, geeksmack.net, NEWSFACTOR, NPR Blogs, Switched, L.A. Times Tech Blog, InfoWorld, MacRumors, Mobile Roar, PC Magazine, blogs.chron.com, 1001 Noisy Cameras, The Next Web, TUAW, AppleInsider, The Register and CNET News
Janette Barrios / Apple:Apple Updates MacBook With LED-Backlit Display, Multi-Touch …
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Engadget, MobileContentToday, SlipperyBrick.com, Macworld, Obsessable, Between the Lines, Digital Daily and The Apple Core
Chuong Nguyen / pocketnow.com:
Windows Mobile 7 Exclusive Screenshots and Analysis! — We've seen the 6.5.1 leaks from WMExperts today that combined TouchFLO 3D and 6.5.1 together into a tidy package along with the leaks of the Windows Mobile 7 mockups earlier. Now, our very own tipster has delivered …
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WMExperts, WMPoweruser.com, Phone Arena, Mobilewhack.com, MobileContentToday, Gizmodo, Gartner, FoneFrenzy, I4U News, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch, Maximum PC and Electricpig
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:Windows Mobile 6.5.1, the 6.5 that should have been
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Mobilewhack.com, IntoMobile, InformationWeek, ithinkdifferent, SlashGear, T3.com News and jkOnTheRun
David Coursey / PC World:
B&N's Nook Is A Kindle Killer: 5 Reasons Why — Barnes & Noble's new Nook e-reader is the e-reader that competitors must now beat. So long Kindle 2, it was nice knowing you, but a better reader has come along. And just in time for the holidays, too. — If Amazon doesn't have a new model …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader leaks a bit early: $259, pre-orders are live (video) — Looks like all those whispers were true — the “Android-based” nook is alive and well, and it's calling itself the planet's “most advanced e-book reader.” Measuring 7.7- x 4.9- x 0.5-inches and weighing 11.2 ounces …
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MediaMemo, Bits, Gizmodo, TeleRead, Ars Technica, L.A. Times Tech Blog, T3.com News, DisplayBlog, Business Week, Brainstorm Tech, Wi-Fi Networking News, Rational rants, Computerworld, Internet2Go, eWeek, Gadgetell, Pocket-lint.com, Digits, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, GeekTonic, The Mobile Gadgeteer, CrunchGear, ResourceShelf, Obsessable, ReadWriteWeb, Technology Questions and dailywireless.org
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen ‘Nook’ E-Reader (Updated)
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PC World, Sramana Mitra on Strategy, Digits, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Epicenter, TeleRead and Gadgetrepublic.com
Jeff Gillis / Google Analytics Blog:
Google Analytics Now More Powerful, Flexible And Intelligent — Today, we're announcing a new set of Google Analytics features which builds on last year's enterprise-class feature launch. Some add more power to existing capabilities. Others provide new flexibility to further customize …
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Softpedia News, WebProNews, the Econsultancy blog, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Journal, Adweek, Web Analytics World, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land and Traffick, Thanks:atul
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Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:Google Releases API for Website Optimizer: A/B & Multivariate Testing for All
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Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Droid mailers go out, scare children — Ready for more Motorola Droid nonsense? Good. We've just got a couple images of a promotional mailer that went out to one of our connects. It has a pretty decent shot of the device on it (What? You need more photos?) and those ever-clever “I do” key features the Droid, uh, does.
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Engadget Mobile, Android Central, Erictric, Mashable!, IntoMobile and Android Phone Fans
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Beleaguered Sun Forced to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees — In an 8-K filing with the SEC, Sun says its board approved a new strategic plan that it said would better align the company's resources with its strategic business objectives, a plan that includes laying off 3,000 workers during the next year.
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Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, The Register, CNET News and internetnews.com
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Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:Stallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun
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Open Sources's blog, The Register, 451 CAOS Theory, AustralianIT.com.au and rand($thoughts);
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter CEO: Lots Of Ways To Make Money, But 97% Not Focused On It Today — Twitter CEO Evan Williams sat down to talk with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. (See all of our coverage here.) — Battelle, whose Federated Media provides Twitter with some of its meager …
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Bokardo, Mashable!, the Econsultancy blog, eWeek, Don Dodge on The Next …, VentureBeat and GigaOM
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Microsoft Poised to Integrate Twitter Into Bing? — According to sources, Microsoft is close to striking a nonexclusive data-mining deal with Twitter to integrate the microblogging service's full feed into its results of its Bing search service. — News of the deal, which was still …
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Dow Jones Newswires
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Calgary live photos: Verizon's second Motorola Android device — If you thought you were in Android heaven, think again. We've just been given the go-ahead from one of our Motorola connects, and what you're looking at is the Motorola Calgary (that's a codename you might remember) slated to hit Verizon.
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Mobilewhack.com, Android Central, InformationWeek, I4U News, Phone Arena, Electronista, Android Phone Fans and AndroidGuys
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Mary Meeker: Economy Is Recovering, Mobile Is Exploding, And The iPhone Is Awesome. — Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Morgan Stanley Managing Director, Mary Meeker, gave her usual quick presentation with a ton of information. Rather than trying to squeeze it all in …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Comcast: Twitter Has Changed The Culture Of Our Company — Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts spoke on stage with Federated Media's John Battelle. For the first part of the discussion, they talked about the usual stuff: the state of the industry, competition, and the like.
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Exclusive: Google Plans Its Own Android Phone — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Move over, Apple (AAPL Quote), Research In Motion (RIMM Quote) and Motorola (MOT Quote), Google (GOOG Quote) is jumping into the smartphone market with an Android phone of its own. — In what is likely to be seen …
David / my california adventures:
Time Warner cable modem/router major security hole — If you're a Time Warner/Road Runner internet customer, and are using a SMC8014 series cable modem/wifi router combo. You should be aware of a serious security hole that allows anyone to access your private network and possibly capture and manipulate your private data.
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks
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Wi-Fi Networking News
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia's new Cloud 3D platform to vastly improve web-based 3-D imagery — Graphics chip maker Nvidia today introduced Cloud 3D, a platform that will make it much easier to for developers to create powerful 3-D graphics technology and show it to users by the millions via cloud computing.
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NVIDIA Press Room, Electronista, eWeek, Digits, Maximum PC, GigaOM and InformationWeek, Thanks:marissac
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Web 2.0: GE's Jeff Immelt shows off “stethoscope of the 21st century” — Jeff Immelt, the chief executive officer of General Electric, showed off what he called the “stethoscope of the 21st century” at the Web 2.0 Summit today. — He held up a white gadget with a flip-out screen …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Yammer Experiencing Extended Outage — Yammer, the Twitter-like short messaging service for business users, has been experiencing a prolonged period of downtime today due to DNS issues. The service first went down over 12 hours ago, was alive for a short period tonight, and then became unresponsive again a few hours ago.
