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Murali Viswanathan / The Official Google Blog:
Making search more musical — Every day we get millions of search queries about music. You want to know more about your favorite artists, find that new album or iconic song or figure out the name of that tune stuck in your head. In fact, according to Insights for Search, two of the top 10 queries in the U.S. are music-related.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:It's Almost Here: Exclusive Video Of Lala's Upcoming iPhone App
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Music Onebox: Video Interviews With Just About Everyone Involved
Jon Fortt / Brainstorm Tech:The anti-iTunes arms dealer
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Hitwise Intelligence, Newsome.Org, Electricpig, AppScout, Search Engine Land, Geek.com, L.A. Times Tech Blog and silicontap.com
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The T-Grid: Verizon Droid vs. iPhone 3GS — So Verizon's Droid is official, and officially arriving a week from Friday. I'm smart enough to know it's pointless to call any phone an iPhone killer, or even a potential iPhone killer-and that competing with the iPhone is much more about software …
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PC World, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, UMPCPortal, CenterNetworks, Engadget and InfoWorld
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Business Wire:
Best Buy® Mobile Offers Pre-Sells of Motorola DROID in Stores Beginning October 29 — Best Buy Mobile will apply rebate savings for the new smartphone at the point of purchase to help customers avoid the hassles of mail-in rebates. — MINNEAPOLIS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Best Buy Mobile …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple TV 3.0 software update to support iTunes LP, Extras — Apple has updated the iTunes Store Terms and Conditions to reference a forthcoming 3.0 software update for the Apple TV, which will allow viewing of iTunes LP and iTunes Extras content. — The new paragraph under the …
Ethan Beard / Facebook Developers:
Facebook Platform: A Roadmap for the Future — At Facebook, we focus on providing our developer community with simple building blocks to speed innovation and create an environment where small teams quickly push new products that can rapidly disrupt industries.
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Download Squad, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Digits and CNET News
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Meet Zong+, A Mobile Payments Platform On Steroids And Potential PayPal Killer — Zong has seen tremendous growth over the past year from when the company debuted its mobile payments service from the TechCrunch50 demo pit. Zong's model of billing micropayments to your cell phone bill caught …
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CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, mocoNews, Bits, Tech Beat, silicontap.com and Payments News
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Google says its navigation will come to iPhone, if Apple approves — Google on Wednesday revealed a free online navigation service that will be a part of its forthcoming Android 2.0 mobile operating system. It could also come to the iPhone, the company said, if given the green light by Apple.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft And Yahoo Delay Signing Search Deal — Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) have delayed signing their search deal, Yahoo told the SEC in a filing. — In their original Juy 29 agreement, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would sign finish negotiating the search deal by October 27.
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Computerworld, Maximum PC, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Register, paidContent and AppScout
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Amazon PayPhrase Tries to Make Paying Online Easier — Amazon.com is trying to take some pain out of the process of buying stuff online. I'm not sure that the new service it is introducing tonight, PayPhrase, accomplishes that, but it may be an important building block for the future of Amazon's fledgling subsidiary, Amazon Payments.
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Reuters, Softpedia News, Technologizer, TechFlash, AppScout and Pocket-lint.com
PC World:
Nintendo Profit Halved as Wii Console Sales Slow — For the last few years Nintendo has been riding high on the runaway success of the Wii console but now that success appears to slowing considerably. Sales and profit at the Japanese games company fell sharply during the first half …
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Guardian, CNET News, AppleInsider, Agence France Presse, Electronista, ITworld.com, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, DailyTech, Reuters, Gearlog, DeviceMAG, Gadget Lab and Engadget
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Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:Nintendo Announces Big Screen DSi
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Engadget, CNET News, VG247, Newlaunches.com, T3.com News, Electronista, Joystiq and GamesIndustry.biz
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Confirmed: Netflix Streaming Coming To The Wii Very Shortly — Last week I received some images that showed Netflix streaming on a Wii console. I didn't run with the story at the time as I didn't know if the images were legit and it's taken me until today to confirm they are in fact real.
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Silicon Alley Insider, DSLreports, Engadget, SlashGear, I4U News, Switched, SlipperyBrick.com, Pocket-lint.com, GoNintendo, Seeking Alpha and NewTeeVee
Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
Google tells FCC it's still blocking calls, but fewer of them — Google told the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday that it's still blocking some high-cost phone calls, but its engineers have figured out a way to reduce the phone numbers affected to fewer than 100.
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Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Turn Your Windows 7 Computer Into a WiFi Router In 5 Minutes, Free & No Hardware — Connectify.me is a new service we just found out about. They've sussed out how to make any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Since we just installed Windows 7 on a spare laptop …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Motorola delivers profit; Android-powered future awaits — Motorola reported a slight third quarter profit and projected better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings. But Motorola's real prospects going forward will depend on how many Android devices it can sell.
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CNET News, mocoNews, PR Newswire, TheStreet.com, Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista and The Toybox
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:Strategy of New Chief at Motorola Appears Poised to Pay Off
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Recombu, Computerworld, MobileTechWorld, VentureBeat, MediaFile, DisplayBlog, Gadgetwise, Gizmodo, GigaOM, Technology Review, NewTeeVee, Android Central and Macworld
scobleizer's posterous:
Why I don't use Google Reader anymore — I used to be the biggest user of Google Reader. At one point the Google Reader team told me I shared more items than anyone else. But lately it's a rare month I've checked into it and Twitter is in the process of adding a new feature — lists …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
How Apple sliced its pie in 2009 — The Mac and iPod slices shrank between '08 and '09. iTunes grew a bit. iPhone grew a lot. — Steve Jobs likes to describe Apple's (AAPL) business model as a stool built on three-legs: the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone. — But a quick glance …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Operating Systems Offer New Choices in PC Shopping — Now that both Microsoft and Apple have finally shipped the new versions of their operating systems, Windows 7 and Snow Leopard, respectively, it's time for my annual fall computer-buying guide. — This guide stresses laptops …
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:Microsoft selling crapware-free PCs in its stores
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CNET News, blogs.chron.com, CrunchGear, OhGizmo!, Gizmodo, The Register, Download Squad, Electronista, geeksmack.net, ChannelWeb, All about Microsoft and TechSpot
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple stores upgrading from Windows-based EasyPay to iPod touch — Multiple sources have noted that Apple will be transitioning its retail store EasyPay handheld checkout systems from Windows-based PDA devices to iPod touch hardware for the 2009 holiday season.
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The Mac Observer, App Advice, MobileContentToday, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile.com, TUAW, The Next Web and Gearlog, Thanks:mrinaldesai
