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The Paperboy / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Courier's Swipes, Snips and Scribbles: The Leaked Interface — We've seen slides and videos of Microsoft's Courier booklet in action, but nothing has quite explained how all of these things actually work. This document explains Courier's interface, gestures and features more in-depth than ever before.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
In midst of offers debate, Offerpal names George Garrick as CEO — Offerpal Media has named George Garrick as chief executive. He replaces founder Anu Shukla, who has been in the midst of a fiery debate about the ethics of the business of offers, which are special ads that direct users …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Offerpal Tries Out A New CEO. Shukla, Queen Of Scams, Is Out.
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Boy Genius Report:
HTC DROID Eris gets unboxed — One of our connects just blessed us with a couple shots of the HTC DROID Eris and graciously unboxed the retail packaging. We could bore you with meaningless details about how the phone is thinner and lighter than the Sprint HTC Hero, feels much better in the hand …
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geeksmack.net, Phone Arena, Pocket-lint.com, IntoMobile, MobileTechWorld, Android Phone Fans and Engadget Mobile
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Loses Don Dodge. This Is A Huge Mistake — Among the 800 or so employees laid off by Microsoft today: Don Dodge, Microsoft's Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, reporting to VP Dan'l Lewin. Don writes about the change on his personal blog.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Search Til You Drop: Google Launches Hosted Commerce Search For Retailers — Searching retail sites can be frustrating at times. While many retailers try to present product search in a visually appealing way, search can often be slow or difficult to refine.
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Search Engine Land, internetnews.com, The Official Google Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Google Blogoscoped, VentureBeat and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:atul
Apple:
Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store — Apple® today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone® and iPod touch® customers in 77 countries can choose …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account. You'll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the “personal settings” of the “my account” page. — The dashboard lists some of the information associated with the Google services you use …
Twitter Status:
Testing new tweet notifications — We're starting a limited test of notifications on twitter.com for when you have new tweets. So if one of the folks you follow has tweeted since you loaded your homepage, you'll get a little notice saying “1 new tweet” that, when clicked, will display the new content.
Mussie Shore / The Official Google Blog:
Google Friend Connect, now more personalized — (Cross-posted with the Social Web Blog) — On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks without exchanging a single word. Forty-five minutes later, I find the same guy at the local guitar shop, and we start to talk — turns out he plays a Gibson Les Paul just like I do.
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eWeek, Search Engine Journal, AppScout, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Maximum PC, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News, The Next Web Appetite, Technologizer, Mass High Tech, Mashable! and CNET News, Thanks:atul
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Cuomo Files Federal Antitrust Suit Against Intel — Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York's attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world's largest chip maker. — The lawsuit charges that Intel violated state …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CrunchPad Dead? Delayed By Higher-Than-Expected Costs? — The CrunchPad, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington's entry into the gadget business, is still missing in action. — Are higher-than-expected costs to blame? — One story we heard from a few people on a recent trip to California …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Motorola's Droid Is Smart Success for Verizon Users — Verizon Wireless customers tend to love the company's fast 3G network. But many tech-oriented Verizon loyalists gripe about the carrier's high-end smart phones, which haven't matched the cachet and versatility of the Apple iPhone sold by AT&T (T).
Softpedia News:
Mac Trojan Masked as Game Deletes a File for Every Alien Killed — Symantec has discovered a new threat targeting users of Mac OS X — Security expert Symantec has discovered what it refers to as an OSX.Loosemaque threat cleverly disguised as a classic video and targeting unsuspecting Mac users.
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AppleInsider, Vitalsecurity.org, Symantec, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Technologizer, Cult of Mac, Guardian, The Register and bub.blicio.us
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Kurt Wilms / Digg the Blog:
Experimenting with Digg Trends — Because there's so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we've been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we're launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories …
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TechCrunch, MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, CNET News, AppScout, The Blog Herald, The Next Web Appetite and Search Engine Watch, Thanks:atul
Taylor Wimberly / Android and Me:
Has the T-Mobile HSPA 7.2 rollout begun? Yes! Confirmed. — Earlier today we reported that T-Mobile's HSPA 7.2 upgrade was still on track for 2009. One of our readers Ted left an interesting comment: HSPA has been lit up in Chicago! I just tested it and got 6.8 Mbps!
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different — Meet Ken Segall — the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign. — Segall is a veteran creative director who worked at Apple's agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, back in the day.
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Confirmed: Verizon Wireless to charge up to $350 early termination on “advanced devices” — Here's what Big Red is working with: they've offered up a BOGO sale on all new BlackBerrys for the holiday buying season, and where some see a great deal, others see a great opportunity.
Google News Blog:
Create and Share custom News sections — Today, Google News is making it even easier to follow the latest stories on whatever subjects interest you. We are happy to announce our Custom sections directory, which gives users of some of our English-language editions the expanded ability …
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TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web Appetite, Mashable! and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:dcinc66
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Eventbrite Gets A $6.5 Million Infusion From Sequoia Capital — Popular online event site Eventbrite has raised $6.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has confirmed the funding, and says Sequoia Capital is the new investor. Sequoia partner Roelof Botha joins the board of directors.
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions the news consumer of the future — For all the bluster about Google as an enemy of the news industry, you might be surprised to learn that Eric Schmidt, the company's CEO, is kind of a triumphalist for mainstream media, big newspapers, and print.
Thanks:atul
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
CNN Explains the Cloud ... Badly — Thanks to the amazing viral powers of Twitter, I found a series that CNN is running on cloud computing, complete with stories (I liked the one on server huggers) and fun video about an oddly named dog. The goal clearly is to explain cloud computing to the masses …
Preston Gralla / Computerworld:
Is Apple targeting Windows 7 pirates? — Has Apple decided that among its top potential customers for switching to a Mac are Windows 7 pirates? Based on ads that Apple is buying on Google that might be the case — search for “download Windows 7” and you'll see an Apple ad urging PC users to switch to the Mac.
Arne Hess / the::unwired:
PREVIEW: Acer Liquid Android 1.6 WVGA Touchscreen Smartphone — Early October, Acer finally announced its long-awaited first Android smartphone, the Acer Liquid. And beside being Acer's first Android smartphone, it's also the first Android device which runs on Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Rumors of Disabled Intel Atom Support in Mac OS X 10.6.2 Unfounded? — Earlier this week, a report surfaced claiming that Apple had apparently disabled support for Intel's Atom processors in the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2. The revelation set off a firestorm around the Internet …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
A Little Perspective (Digg, Twitter, Facebook) — It wasn't all that long ago that Digg captured our collective imagination. In fact, even last year Google thought it was important enough to seriously consider buying Digg, only to back out at the last minute. Digg was the future of news.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp. Saved by Movies and Cable, Hammered by Broadcast and Print — The theme we've seen from big media players that aren't Google (GOOG) so far this quarter: The worst may be over, but things aren't exactly great quite yet. In many cases-see: Viacom (VIA), Time Warner (TWX) …
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Rivals to Challenge Microsoft Browser Settlement — BERLIN — Three rivals of Microsoft are seeking last-minute changes to its proposed settlement with European regulators that would give buyers of computers loaded with Windows the ability to choose a default browser other than the company's Internet Explorer.
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