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Boy Genius Report:
Both Verizon Wireless iPhone and next generation iPad about to hit field testing? — One of our Apple sources has just informed us of something very interesting. Way down deep within iOS 4 is a pretty intriguing block of code. Our source says that the code queries the device …
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AppleInsider, PC World, DSLreports, Electronista, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Techland, MacRumors, Redmond Pie, Neowin.net, BlogsDNA, IntoMobile, SlashGear, Engadget, TiPb, I4U News, everythingiCafe, Phones Review, Erictric, iLounge, MacStories and Gizmodo
Graham Cluley / Sophos:
Facebook Dislike button scam spreads virally — Have you seen a message like this on Facebook? — If so, don't click on the link. — It's the latest survey scam spreading virally across Facebook, using the tried-and-tested formula used in the past by other viral scams including …
Boy Genius Report:
Motorola DROID Pro, World Edition and Tablet all found in Verizon Wireless systems — One of our Verizon Wireless sources has done a little digging for us, and we have turned up some awesome information. We exclusively reported that Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch a barrage …
New York Times:
Hulu Is Seen as Readying to Go Public — Hulu, the rapidly growing hub for online television and movies, aims to go public through an offering that could value the company at more than $2 billion, according to people briefed on the matter. In recent weeks, Hulu executives have begun talking …
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DailyFinance, Epicenter, Company Town, NewTeeVee, Reuters, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, The Atlantic Online, PE Hub Blog, FierceMobileContent, DealBook, SocialTimes.com, DailyTech, Black Web 2.0, MediaMemo, ReadWriteWeb, Venture Capital Dispatch, mocoNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, USA Today, Erictric, Guardian, Fast Company, Daring Fireball, Boy Genius Report, fierceonlinevideo.com …, Go Rumors, Tech Trader Daily and watchmojo.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Matt Bowman / VatorNews:
Someone* is fueling Hulu IPO rumors
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Company Town, more at Mediagazer »
JR Raphael / JR Raphael's blog:
It's time for the baked-in Android UI to die — Listen up, Android manufacturers: The time has come for your built-in Android user interface to go away. Call it Motoblur, call it Sense, call it whatever you want — as long as it's coming preinstalled on Android phones, it's officially overstayed its welcome.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google CEO Suggests You Change Your Name to Escape His Permanent Record — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has a great way of making public statements that are at once frank, unorthodox, thought provoking - and a little frightening. This weekend The Wall St. Journal ran an interview with Schmidt …
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Computerworld, Digital Daily, Google Operating System, Gawker, Google Watch and Asa Dotzler, more at Mediagazer »
Wayne Huang / Armorize Blog:
More than 500,000 (or 5,000,000 according to Yahoo) Network Solutions parked domains actively serving malware — A few days ago, in response to questions by one of our largest customers, we analyzed a widget by Network Solutions, confirmed that it was infected, and published the last blog …
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Help Net Security, SC Magazine US, CNET News, Krebs on Security and Domain Name News
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Record Five Million Sites Were Likely Infected By Hacked Web Widget
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Computerworld and Technologizer, Thanks:forbestech
Andrew Cave / Telegraph:
Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen believes he doesn't need Apple or the iPad — It's the battle of Silicon Valley A-listers. In one corner sits Apple, the $223bn (£143bn) big-hitter that is the world's second largest company and the darling of the technology sector.
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VentureBeat, NewTeeVee, SlashGear, IntoMobile, MacRumors, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, OSNews, Gizmodo, App Advice, Engadget, Geek.com and MacStories
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Chitika: Bing Passes Yahoo In Search Market Share — Well here's a surprise. New stats from Chitika show Bing has taken over the second place spot for search market share from Yahoo — and back in January 2010! — Chitika is an advertising network similar to Google AdSense.
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MediaPost, Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and eWeek, Thanks:rawmeet
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Rumored $99 iTV Could Pave Way for $2,000 Apple-Connected Television — “The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set-top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box.
Bruce Vielmetti / JSOnline:
Geek Squad owners send cease-and-desist letter to God Squad — Luke Strand (center) and his classmates at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in St. Francis pose with the God Squad car in 2008. According to the Three Holy Women parish bulletin where the photo appears, the people in the photo are …
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Computerworld and CNET News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Professional Content Platform SlideShare Goes Freemium — SlideShare,the “YouTube for presentations,” has been focusing its efforts on becoming the premier platform for professional and business content. Today, SlideShare is going freemium with the announcement of tiered, paid plans for businesses.
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Lessons Learned, Business Wire, paidContent, VentureBeat, GigaOM and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:
Ubuntu Linux to go multi-touch — I spoke with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, this morning, and he tells me that Canonical will be bringing true multi-touch to Ubuntu Linux in Ubuntu 10.10 (code name Maverick Meerkat). — “Multi-touch is just as useful on a desktop as it is on a phone or tablet …
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Tech Sanity Check, The Register, Mark Shuttleworth, internetnews.com, Datamation, Canonical Blog and CNET News
Matthew Danzico / BBC:
Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive — Chris Yurista, a Washington, DC resident who lives out of a backpack, claims digital technology has replaced the need for his home and his possessions — Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books.
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Switched, PSFK, TreeHugger and Boing Boing
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Verizon trial of fiber-optic network reaches nearly 1Gbit/sec. — Google also wants 1Gbit/sec. to the home via fiber — Computerworld - Verizon today said a fiber-optic field trial it conducted in June for a business customer in Taunton, Mass., delivered near gigabit-per-second speeds.
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Electronista, Obsessable, DSLreports and TG Daily
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Radio, RIAA: mandatory FM radio in cell phones is the future — Music labels and radio broadcasters can't agree on much, including whether radio should be forced to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars a year to pay for the music it plays. But the two sides can agree on this …
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How much can you really make developing mobile apps? — There is a huge buzz around mobile applications and app stores such as the AppStore and the Android Market which look more and more as a new Eldorado. Of course everybody starts dreaming when an app like Angry Birds shares …
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Macworld, Fast Company, Gizmodo, TheAppleBlog, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Alley Insider, Hung Truong, MacRumors and dailywireless.org, more at Mediagazer »
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Google's motives for abandoning Net Neutrality — As Google moves into (and starts to depend on) ISPs' business, is it having an easier time seeing things from their point of view? — It's now clear that Google underestimated the public's desire for true net neutrality over both wireless …
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PC World, internetnews.com and Search Engine Land
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Google Is From Mars and Facebook Is From Venus — One of the notable things about the question-and-answer site Quora is the quality of answers that are posted to interesting questions. One recent example is the in-depth response posted to the question: “Which is better to work for, Google or Facebook?”
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Bryan Mason / The Typekit Blog:
Adobe partners with Typekit to bring legendary typefaces to the web — Today marks the one-year anniversary of Typekit's launch. It's been an unbelievable 12 months of growth and learning, not just for us but for webfonts, web design, browser development, and so much more.
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Yahoo! News, Webmonkey and John Nack on Adobe
StreetInsider.com:
Goldman Sachs Calls RIM's (RIMM) BlackBerry Torch Launch “Underwhelming” — Goldman Sachs commented on Research In Motion Ltd. (Nasdaq: RIMM) following the August 12th launch of the new BlackBerry Torch. They firm called the launch “underwhelming.” — The firm noted that nearly …
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Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Computerworld, IntoMobile and Know Your Cell
eMarketer:
Social Network Ad Spending to Approach $1.7 Billion This Year — 6.7% of all US online ad spending to go toward social networks this year — Social network advertising is getting renewed attention in 2010. The US's gradual economic recovery, combined with marketers' incessant focus …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
An atom bomb aimed at Intel: Smooth-Stone raises $48M for low-power ARM server chips — Hoping to outdo Intel in the server chip market, Smooth-Stone has raised $48 million to complete development of its ARM-based server chips which consume small amounts of power.
