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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.
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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 …
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 …
Arn / MacRumors:Apple Introduces Magic Mouse - A Multi-Touch Mouse
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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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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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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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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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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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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:Windows Mobile 6.5.1, the 6.5 that should have been
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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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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Dave Kellogg / Mark Logic CEO Blog:
Gartner Sued Over Magic Quadrant for Alleged Damages of $132M plus Punitives of $1.3B — I found this story today, entitled Gartner's Magic Quadrant Goes to Court, about ZL Technologies who, citing damages of $132M, has decided to sue Gartner over its Magic Quadrants. From ZL's web page on the suit:
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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Yahoo's VP Applications Scott Dietzen Calls It Quits — We've just learned that Scott Dietzen, VP Applications at Yahoo and thus responsible for key products such as Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra, has left the company.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Web 2.0: Zynga's Mark Pincus predicts an economy built around social apps — Social gaming company Zynga has been one of the primary beneficiaries of Facebook's rapid growth to a social network of more than 300 million people. — The San Francisco-based company has been able …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks — A vulnerability in a Time Warner cable modem and Wi-Fi router deployed to 65,000 customers would allow a hacker to remotely access the device's administrative menu over the internet, and potentially change the settings …
