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Android Developers Blog:
Announcing Android 2.0 support in the SDK! — I am excited to announce that the Android SDK now supports Android 2.0 (also known as Eclair). — Android 2.0 brings new developer APIs for sync, Bluetooth, and a few other areas. Using the new sync, account manager and contacts APIs …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android 2.0 Official: It's the Android We've Been Waiting For — This is it: The official video laying out Android 2.0's new features, to go along with 2.0 support hitting the SDK today. Man, Android 2.0 is nice. — Highlights of Android 2. revealed in the video are a new contacts setup …
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PC World, Softpedia News, MobileCrunch, AppScout, Gadgetell, last100, ReadWriteWeb, App Advice, Electronista, GottaBeMobile.com and techeblog.com
The Official Google Blog:
Similar Images graduates from Google Labs — Today, we're happy to announce that Similar Images is graduating from Google Labs and becoming a permanent feature in Google Images. You can try it out by clicking on “Find similar images” below the most popular images in our search results.
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Mashable!, Softpedia News, Search Engine Watch, CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad and Appetite, Thanks:atul
InvestorPlace.com:
Apple Soars Behind iPhone 3GS Momentum — By Paul Carton, Director of Research, ChangeWave Research — These are heady times for the smart phone market, with consumer buying plans near record levels. Moreover, electronics spending in general shows signs of a pick up.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Stalqer Peers Into Your iPhone For A New Level Of Location-Based Creepiness — Foursquare and Loopt have put location-based social networks on the map, and have potentially created a viable business model as well. Now there's a new kid on the block, called Stalqer, which best described as a Foursquare on steroids.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Los Angeles adopts Google e-mail system for 30,000 city employees — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc., making it the largest city in the nation to make the move and handing the Web search giant a major victory in its quest …
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Computerworld, Associated Press, Softpedia News, CNET News, Erictric, Between the Lines, The Microsoft Blog, internetnews.com and Mashable!
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris launching November 6th on Verizon — One of our connects hit us up and informed us that the much-awaited Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris will be launching on the same day of November 6th. We previously heard from another source that Droid Eris would launch on the 6th …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own — ISPs may not act for years on local complaints about slow Internet—but when a town rolls out its own solution, it's amazing how fast the incumbents can deploy fiber, cut prices, and run to the legislature.
Kristina Cooke / Reuters:
Facebook challenges financial regulators: FINRA — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn raise “serious new challenges” for financial regulators, the head of the largest U.S. independent securities regulator said on Tuesday.
John Resig:
Google Groups is Dead — As far as I'm concerned, Google Groups is dead. — For the jQuery project we've run all of our community discussions through Google Group mailing lists for the past three years. At this moment the main jQuery group is the second most popular programming group …
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Brian Garner / AppleInsider:
Magic Mouse software update released — Today, Apple released updates for both Leopard and Snow Leopard enabling the OS to use the multi-touch capabilities of standalone versions of the Magic Mouse. — The updates, which weigh in at 64 and 36 megabytes respectively, require Mac OS X 10.5.8 …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Did AMD's former CEO reveal confidential secrets in Galleon insider trading case? — Former Advanced Micro Devices chief executive Hector Ruiz allegedly shared confidential secrets about his company to a trader involved in the Galleon insider trading scandal, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Phil Schiller: No More Apple Products This Year [Update: Apple Called] — People are mumbling about incoming this and that “coming soon” from Apple. Normally, we don't have a clue about what really goes one at Cupertino. Sometimes, however, we hit gold, lurking in the dark. Others, we get The Word.
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Network World, Ars Technica, I4U News, EverythingiCafe, TheAppleBlog, The Loop, TUAW, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and LOOPRumors
David Colker / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Microsoft to shut down MSN Direct traffic service for GPS — Microsoft is killing its MSN Direct subscription service that provided real-time traffic information, plus weather, stock quotes and local gas prices to car GPS navigators. But not for a while — the company said the service would shut off Jan. 1, 2012.
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Considers Shifting Some TV Airwaves to Broadband — WASHINGTON—Federal regulators are considering taking back some airwaves from television broadcasters and auctioning them off to wireless companies to increase the availability of wireless broadband services.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Diller eyes deal making with possible Ask.com sale — * Q3 rev down 9 pct due to weaker ad sales — * Shares up 1 percent. — * Open to consolidation in search business (Adds analyst comments, CEO comments, new first sentence) — Barry Diller may be about to hang a ‘for sale’ on Ask.com …
Staci D. Kramer / mocoNews:
10-K Watch: Apple's iPod Net Sales Dropped 12 Percent In 2009; iTunes Up — Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is still selling millions of iPods but making less from them, according to the 10-K filed with the SEC late this afternoon: net sales dropped $1.1 billion—12 percent—to $8.091 billion in fiscal 2009 …
Rick Broida / The Download Blog:
Beloved boardgame Settlers of Catan comes to iPhone — Catan brings the complete Settlers of Catan boardgame experience to the iPhone. — If you've never heard of Settlers of Catan, you owe it to yourself to read the Wired story, Monopoly Killer: Perfect German board game redefines genre.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo To Launch Real Time Search, Too — Not wanting to be left completely behind, Yahoo will soon launch their own real time search engine too. But unlike Microsoft and Google, they won't be partnering with Twitter and Facebook directly for the data (perhaps memories of their ill-fated blog search engine from 2005 linger).
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
With eye on Oracle and MySQL, Red Hat invests in EnterpriseDB — The Linux vendor may be worried about Oracle's coming takeover of MySQL — Computerworld - Red Hat Inc. has invested an unspecified amount in open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc., a sign that the Linux vendor …
Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
New LoroBot ransomware encrypts files, demands $100 for decryption — Researchers from CA have intercepted a new ransomware variant encrypting popular file extensions (.zip; .rar; .pdf; .rtf; .txt; .jpg; .jpeg; .waw; .mp3; .db; .xls; .docx; .xlsx; .doc) and demanding a $100 for the decryption software.
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Frank D'Angelo / AdAge:
Happy Birthday, Digital Advertising! — The Banner Campaign that Started a $24 billion Business, and Got a 78% Click-through Rate — Oct. 27 marks the 15th anniversary of the industry's first banner display ads, which appeared on Hotwired.com. To the many of you reading …
Kim Hart / The Hill:
Defense Department wants more open-source software — Speaking of open-source software (see today's earlier post about the White House adopting open-source), the Department of Defense is also exploring ways to use open-source programs to as a way to be more efficient.
Liang Chen / business.globaltimes.cn:
Google accused of ‘malicious revenge’ — Google, the search-engine giant, is in the spotlight again after blocking the book channel of the People's Daily website, allegedly for having carried stories about Google's recent copyright conflict with Chinese writers.
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thebigmoney.com, The Register, Digits, Gizmodo, WebProNews, The Next Web and China Real Time Report
Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
iPhone cannot win the smartphone wars — I'm going to make a bold prediction: Apple's iPhone will lose the mobile device wars. Such statement will send some iPhone fans howling — perhaps appropriately so with the full moon days passed and Halloween days away. :)
