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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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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.
Jason Snell / Macworld:
Apple overhauls iMac line, with 21.5-, 27-inch models — All-in-one line to also add a quad-core processor — Apple on Tuesday announced a major update to its iMac line of desktop computers, replacing the old 20- and 24-inch models with new 21.5-inch and 27-inch models featuring …
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Janette Barrios / Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook With LED-Backlit Display, Multi-Touch Trackpad & Built-in Seven-Hour Battery — Apple® today updated its popular MacBook® with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch™ trackpad …
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Apple quietly unveils new hardware remote — Amidst a number of new product launches Tuesday, Apple also released a new aluminum remote that can be used with any Mac or iPod Universal Dock. — The new Apple Remote eschews the iPod shuffle-like buttons of the previous product.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Introduces Magic Mouse - A Multi-Touch Mouse — Apple introduced a new multi-touch mouse today called “Magic Mouse”. The mouse uses the same multi-touch technology found in the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Mac notebook trackpads. The entire surface of the mouse is a seamless multi-touch surface.
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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 …
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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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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results — Maintains Strong Balance Sheet with over $4.5 Billion in Cash and Marketable Debt Securities — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) today reported revenues of $1,575 million for the quarter ended September 30 …
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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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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:Barnes & Noble Unveils Kindle-Killing, Dual-Screen ‘Nook’ E-Reader (Updated)
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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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Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Stallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun — Digital civil liberties organization Open Rights Group and Knowledge Ecology International and software developer Richard Stallman told the EC in a letter that they are both concerned with Oracle's possible squashing of competition in the database market by abandoning MySQL
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Tim Karr / savetheinternet.com/blog:
AT&T Boss Asks Employees to Fake It — AT&T has “asked' its employees to fake it in the fight against Net Neutrality. — The company's top policy officer sent a memo to workers on Monday urging them to hide their company affiliation before posting anti-Net Neutrality comments to the Federal Communication Commission's Web site.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Web 2.0 Summit: The king for cable giant Comcast, surprisingly, is content — Brian Roberts, chief executive of cable giant Comcast, said that his company continues to invest on faith in faster Internet access and bigger digital cables into consumers' homes.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Mobile 6.5.1, the 6.5 that should have been — Windows Mobile 6.5.1 screenshots courtesy Patrick/OSNN.net — Most of you probably know by now that Windows Mobile 6.5 is not the be all end all Microsoft mobile operating system. However, what you might not know is that Microsoft …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ning Launches Virtual Gifts, Allows Network Creators To Design Their Own — Today Ning, the platform that lets users build their own social networks, is launching a new feature called Ning Virtual Gifts, bringing a built-in virtual goods store to the site's 1.6 million networks.
Daniel Roth / Wired News:
The Answer Factory: Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell — If Christian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he's got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for which he'll earn just $200. To get anything close to his usual rate, he'll have to do it all in two hours.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Condé Nast Tries Turning the App Store Into a Newsstand: Will You Buy GQ for Your iPhone? — I've all but declared a moratorium on “Company X has an iPhone app” stories-memo to PR folk: There are now 85,000 apps-but this one is actually interesting: Condé Nast is turning the app into a digital magazine.
David Barrett-Kahn / The Official Google Blog:
Manage your tasks with Google — People use all kinds of tools to help them get stuff done — paper to-do lists, messages with a certain label or stars in Gmail, notes in Google Calendar, a couple different iGoogle gadgets and so on. Late last year, we added a lightweight way to help …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Gets A Little More Serious About Using Twitter — While the various forms of social media are becoming increasingly important to brands, Apple is one company that hasn't exactly rushed to get involved. Sure, they have a few accounts here and there, but they're not exactly Google …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
We Ask a Twitter Co-Founder, What's Up with Fail Whale? — Q&A: Former Quality-Control Engineer on How Twitter Can Make Money, and Why Biz and Ev Send Such Boring Tweets — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter was the brainchild of Jack Dorsey, but it was birthed in 2006 by Mr. Dorsey …
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
City committee declines to recommend Google e-mail contract — Budget and Finance Committee Chairman Bernard C. Parks. — Credit: David Sarno / Los Angeles Times. — The Los Angeles City Council's Budget and Finance Committee agreed Monday evening to abstain from voting on a proposed contract …
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Calling America's bluff on Internet gambling — A man plays poker online. Although a federal ban on Internet gambling exempts “skill” games and poker aficionados contend it's a game of skill, the regulations seem to outlaw the game. (Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty Images / October 3)
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Unity Technologies Raises $5.5 Million From Sequoia Capital — Unity Technologies, the company behind the Unity game development platform, has closed a $5.5 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Unity is a powerful tool that allows developers to build 3D worlds for games running …
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