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Bloomberg:
AT&T, Verizon Said to Target Visa, MasterCard With Smartphones — AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., three people with direct knowledge of the plan said.
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GigaOM, Computerworld, Silicon Alley Insider, Yahoo! News, Internet2Go, Engadget, DailyTech, CrackBerry.com blogs, FierceMobileContent, Techland, IntoMobile, Electronista, SlashGear, Daily Patricia, MobileCrunch, DailyFinance, Go Rumors, everythingiCafe, Ubergizmo, Phone Scoop and Gizmodo, Thanks:rawmeet
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 coming to Europe in October, US in November, according to Microsoft COO (video) — Here's something that seems to have slipped the net from Kevin Turner's recent presentation on Windows Phone 7 devices. While discussing the move to Microsoft's next great hope in the mobile space …
New York Times:
Bing and Google in a Race for Search Features — Edwin Perello discovered that Bing, the Microsoft search engine, could find addresses in his rural Indiana town when Google could not. Laura Michelson, an administrative assistant in San Francisco, was lured by Bing's flight fare tracker.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Watch, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net and Data Mining, Thanks:steverubel
Microsoft:
Office for Mac 2011 Hitting Store Shelves This October — Qualifying new purchases of Office 2008 will include a full upgrade to Office 2011. — Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, the next version of the leading productivity suite for the Mac, will be available in more than 100 countries around the world at the end of October.
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Quashed Effort to Boost Online Privacy — The online habits of most people who use the world's dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn't the plan at first. — In early 2008, Microsoft Corp.'s product planners for the Internet Explorer 8. browser intended …
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Download Squad, Fast Company, VatorNews, GMSV, Technologizer, ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net, Tech Eye, Digits, THINQ.co.uk and paidContent, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:atul
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MSDN Blogs:
Online privacy, Tracking, and IE8's InPrivate Filtering
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Inquirer and PC Magazine, Thanks:rawmeet
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Media Companies Try Getting Social With Tumblr — By now, plenty of traditional media companies have hopped on the social media bandwagon, pumping out news updates on Facebook and Twitter. — But do those companies have the time and resources to work yet another Web outlet into their daily routine?
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Hillicon Valley, Stowe Boyd, DealBook, Gawker and The Atlantic Online, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:nahumg
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
What Microsoft isn't saying about its iPad compete strategy — Some believe Microsoft is being coy about its slate plans. Others simply think the company is being clueless. I think the Redmondians are planting decoys, hoping they'll provide cover for missteps.
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Silicon Alley Insider and Technologizer, Thanks:rawmeet
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Official: iPhone 4 jailbreak hits from iPhone Dev Team (updated with video) — The Library of Congress made it legal, MuscleNerd showed us it was a go, and now Comex and company have delivered the long-awaited jailbreak to the fourth rendition of iPhone. According to their new page JailbreakMe …
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Inquirer, Computerworld, Gadgets DNA, Boy Genius Report, Redmond Pie, AppleInsider, Telegraph, The Register, TiPb, CNET News, Dev-Team Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, VentureBeat, App Advice, Hardware 2.0 Blog, iHackintosh, Cult of Mac, Techland, Startup Meme, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Zatz Not Funny!, O'Grady's PowerPage, Insanely Great Mac, I4U News, Switched, MobileCrunch, Guardian, Softpedia News, Mashable!, Pulse2, Phone Arena, SlashGear, Gadget Lab, The Next Web, DailyTech, The Apple Core Blog, Erictric, MobileBurn.com, Electronista and Mobile Tech Addicts
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Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
Jailbreak iPhone 4, 3GS, 3G on iOS 4 / 4..1 and iPad on iOS 3.2.1 …
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Apple Gazette, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Neowin.net, MobileContentToday and techeblog.com, Thanks:taimurasad
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Exclusive: PlayOn brings Hulu and Netflix to the iPhone — without Apple's help — PlayOn, the service that allows you to view streaming media from the web and PCs on a variety of devices, is finally headed to the iPhone as of tomorrow. It originally planned to release an iPhone app via …
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Technologizer and ITworld.com
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Facebook Would-Be Owner Says He Owes Claim to Arrest, Andrew Cuomo Lawsuit — Paul Ceglia, who claims in a lawsuit that he owns 84 percent of Facebook Inc., said his case wouldn't have been possible if state troopers hadn't come to his house in October to arrest him for fraud.
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TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyFinance, bizjournals and Startup Meme
Dave Methvin / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Phone Idea Is Nuts — Over at Ars Technica, Peter Bright has proposed that if Microsoft really wants to succeed at Windows Phone 7, the company should build its own phone. That idea is, in a word, nuts. It doesn't address any of the real problems that Microsoft has in this market.
Thanks:rawmeet
Net Market Share:
Internet Explorer on a Roll - Gains Another .42% — Internet Explorer extended its usage share gains by another .42% in July, gaining about 1% global share since May. This is the second month in a row of global gains for Internet Explorer and the third straight month of gains for Internet Explorer 8 in the United States.
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eWeek, The Register, Hardware 2.0 Blog, The Windows Blog, Softpedia News, Silicon Alley Insider, Neowin.net, GigaOM, Linux.com, BetaNews and WebProNews
