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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Smartphone Showdown: iPhone 3GS vs Motorola Droid — If hype were to be believed, the Motorola DROID is the pièce de résistance of the mobile world; the conclusive creation sent down by the Great Smartphone in the sky to rid us of our woes. It would prepare your breakfast …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Motorola DROID review — It's hard to look at the DROID without looking at the company which brought the device to life. Motorola: for years the name has been synonymous with... well, disappointment. While the industry-stalwart made cellphones sexy with the RAZR, the days which followed …
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Gadget Lab, Android Phone Fans, PreCentral.net, I4U News, MobileTechWorld and Engadget Mobile
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google: We're not making Android hardware — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google's Andy Rubin, head of the company's Android development, would like to clear something up: Google is not in the phone-making business. — Last week TheStreet.com reported that Google had plans to sell …
Christian Cantrell:
Exhaustive List of Everything That's New in AIR 2.0 — This morning, I was going to start making videos demoing some of the new features in AIR 2.0 when I realized that I should probably start with a list of everything that's new. Below is an exhaustive list of everything that we're planning on including in AIR 2.0.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games — What's former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe up to these days? He wants to be the next big name in the social gaming craze, we hear. — In late July, TechCrunch floated a report that DeWolfe was hitting up big private equity outlets to amass cash …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Be A Featured Loser: Facebook Helps Out The Unpopular — Nobody wants to be the kid who only gets invited to birthday parties because his mom calls up the other mom and asks. Everyone knows that only succeeds in making you even more unpopular. — Our guess is a fair number …
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google talent search: error 502? — Google's recruiters are infamous in the Valley for dismissing Ivy-free applications* and posing highly technical brainteasers** during interviews. — But apparently these “past results do not necessarily guarantee future performance,” according to none other than Googlers themselves.
Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Windows XP Phone: A First Look at its Touchscreen Interface — Remember the xpPhone? The 4.8-inch touchscreen slider has netbook-like specs, some sort of “AMD Super Mobile CPU”, and runs a full-blown copy of Windows XP. They've just sent through shots of its phone-function interface...and they actually look pretty good.
Apm / alarm:clock:
Former YouSendIt CEO Busted By Feds For DOS Retribution — If the FBI's case against Khalid Shaihk holds up, the guy must be such a douche. He was indicted by a federal grand jury this week with four counts of mail fraud. According to an FBI release, the indictment says that from December 2008 …
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Macworld:
First Look: Apple TV 3.0 — The Apple TV is a strange beast. Steve Jobs famously referred to his company's media-playback box as “a hobby.” In early 2008 Apple released a major software update, Apple TV 2.0, that revamped its interface and added movie rentals to the mix.
Congested / N-Gage:
Mobile gaming evolves - Ovi Store is here — We've been busy evolving our mobile gaming service and building up the portfolio of games in Ovi Store. Currently, we have more than a thousand games available in Ovi Store supported by 100 Nokia device models and are growing the platform and portfolio as quickly as possible.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Director of Mobile Jed Stremel Resigns — Jed Stremel, Facebook's Director of Mobile who has been with the company for four years, has resigned, according to a post on his Facebook profile. Stremel was charged with leading the company's mobile strategy, and was previously involved in Business Development at Facebook.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
BlueBeat streaming and selling Beatles albums digitally — We have to admit, we're baffled by this one. BlueBeat is a US-based site offering high-quality streams of full albums, as well as downloads for $0.25 a track. Its Facebook page promises to “stop the insanity of overpriced online music” …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple Ad Guru: I'm Not Going Anywhere — Lee Clow, who gets credit for a couple decades worth of Apple's iconic advertising campaigns, wants us to know that he isn't going anywhere. — His agency, TBWA/Media Arts Lab, is shuffling people around, however.
Washington Post:
In Congress, a call to review internal cybersecurity policies — Inadvertent disclosure of ethics committee inquiries sparks furor — House leaders on Friday called for an “immediate and comprehensive assessment” of congressional cybersecurity policies, a day after an embarrassing data breach …
Associated Press:
Reports: Cyberattacks Traced to NKorea — SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The North Korean government was the source of high-profile cyberattacks in July that caused Web outages in South Korea and the United States, news reports said Friday. — The IP address — the Web equivalent of a street address …
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