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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Jobs: Software Update to Address iOS 4 Performance Issues on iPhone 3G ‘Coming Soon’ — A new email from Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to confirm that the company will soon be issuing a software update to address issues with the iPhone 3G's performance under iOS 4.
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Wall Street Journal:
LG Readies Tablet, Optimus Smartphones — SEOUL—LG Electronics Inc., which was late to the smartphone game, said it plans to launch 10 more smartphones and sell five million devices by the end of the year in a scramble to compete with rivals. — The South Korean company also plans to launch …
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
LG To The WSJ, “Our tablet will be better than the iPad.”
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TechCrunch and GeekSugar
Hot Potato:
We've Moved to Facebook — It's been an exciting year at Hot Potato. Since going live last November, we've been inspired and energized by your reaction to the service and people's appetite for socializing around activities and live events. — Today, we're thrilled to announce …
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VatorNews, Between the Lines Blog, GigaOM, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Xconomy and The Next Web, Thanks:jonsteinberg
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Confirmed Hot Potato: Yup, Facebook Bought 'Em, Will Soon Shut Them Down — As we noted nearly a month ago now, Facebook has acquired social activity and ‘check-in’ service provider Hot Potato for about $10 million in cash. — Facebook, fresh from announcing its entry into the location game …
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DailyFinance and silicontap.com
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Tweet Button Bookmarklet: Share links from any page — Last week, we announced an easy-to-install and lightweight Tweet Button that allows publishers to make it easy for users to share a link to their content on Twitter. Thousands of sites have implemented the Tweet Button already.
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TechCrunch, The Next Web, Erictric, BlogsDNA, LiewCF.com and NewsGrange
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Foursquare's record check-ins aren't because of Facebook — Facebook's latest feature, Places, mimics the core function of another hot startup, Foursquare: announcing to your friends where you are. The long-expected competition stirred a lot of buzz in Facebook's Silicon Valley turf and Foursquare's home base, media-soaked Manhattan.
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Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Digg's Founder Kevin Rose Says New CEO, Website Are Both About a Week Away — Digg Inc., the Web service that lets people rate news stories, is about a week away from hiring a new chief executive officer and will soon overhaul its site to make the content more relevant to users, founder Kevin Rose said.
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Neowin.net, Erictric and The Next Web
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Textbooks Up Their Game — Inkling Adapting College Best Sellers for iPad, Capitalizing on Interactive Features — Maybe the iPad will move digital college textbooks out of theory and into practice. — Although electronic book sales have exploded, digital college textbooks have been slow …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Scores Sequoia Funding, Publisher Deals
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Business Wire, VatorNews and jkOnTheRun
Esther Dyson / Project Syndicate:
The Future of Internet Search — print recommend Send link clip secure rights — NEW YORK - Imagine that Googling an address gave you a list of the closest buildings, ranked by distance. Not exactly what you were looking for, most likely. But that is pretty close to what we still accept for most Internet searches.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Creep Executive Officer — In a weekend WSJ interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Schmidt said: … Nick Carr, quoting the above, quips: … But Carr doesn't even mention the oddest part of the WSJ interview: … I've been thinking about this since Saturday.
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Silicon Alley Insider and Computerworld, Thanks:atul
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Google TV demo shows off Dish Network integration, universal search (video) — For those still wavering over the possibility of dropping a few Ben Franklins on something rocking the Google TV logo this fall, maybe the best idea is to get to know this new flavor of Android a bit better.
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NewTeeVee, StuffWeLike.com, Download Squad, VentureBeat, eHomeUpgrade, Erictric, SimplyGoogleTV and Neowin.net
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
IDC: U.S. Internet Advertising Rose 15 Percent In Second Quarter — Internet advertising is making a comeback from last year's outright recession. According to new estimates from IDC analyst Karsten Weide, Internet advertising revenues in the U.S. grew 15 percent in the second quarter to $7.2 billion.
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IDC and Macsimum News
Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
The Fading Glory of the Television and Telephone — One day you're the brightest star in the galaxy. Then something new comes along — and suddenly you're a relic. It's a turn of fate that awaits sports heroes, movie stars, political leaders. And, yes, even household appliances.
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TechCrunch, techblog.dallasnews.com and Engage, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:steverubel
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile G2 again, this time with less Mr. Blurrycam — So we just got a second batch of T-Mobile G2 shots dropped in our mailbox — and this time, you can get a much better look at the inner workings of the carrier's version of the upcoming HTC Vision. [Looks like this bad boy slides and tilts …
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Erictric, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and CrunchGear
John Leyden / The Register:
Trojan-ridden warning system implicated in Spanair crash — Cascading fail — Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago. — Spanair flight number JK 5022 crashed with 172 on board moments after taking off from Madrid's Barajas Airport …
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Help Net Security, Tech Eye and CNET News
Justin Yu / Crave: The gadget blog:
FleshDrives pitch plug-and-play adult content — “Hundreds of adult movies in the palm of your hand” is the motto behind New York-based FleshDrive, a new company selling USB thumbdrives filled with porn. The small devices are targeted at busy travelers and others looking/lurking for virus-free porn …
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GadgetReview and Techland
Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100 — Online video stars The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today. — Billboard uses a number …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Ultimate Chart Overhyped? Its Top 10 is Nearly Identical to Billboard's
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Chris Crum / WebProNews:
Google Makes it Easier to Monetize iPad Apps — Google Gives AdSense for Mobile Applications Feature New Options — Google has launched a new feature for its Mobile for AdSense apps, which lets developers in the U.S. and Canada, who are participating in the beta program, to monetize their iPad apps.
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Google Mobile Ads Blog, MacStories and The Next Web
Stephen Shankland / Crave:
Google Runs out of Nexus Ones for developers — Google scrapped its plan to sell the Nexus One through its own store in July, six months after trying to rewrite the phone market's rules. With Android developers, though, to whom Google still sells the phone, it's become a bit too desirable at least measured by Google's inventory.
Computerworld:
Chrome 6 Beta May Hint at Mythical Chrome OS Tablet — The latest beta of Chrome 6 is out, and its menus havw been optimized for touch—complete with buttons for copying, pasting, as well as zooming in on a page. Could this be a taste of what the rumored Chrome OS tablet will be like? Maybe.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Has Been Trying (And Failing) To Trademark “Check-In” — You'd be hard-pressed to find a hotter term in technology right now than “check-in.” Following Facebook's entry into the location space with Places, it will soon be a term that hundreds of million of web users know well.
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Regular Geek and ReadWriteWeb
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Verizon invests $400,000 into CardStar to help you carry fewer loyalty and membership cards — Verizon has invested $400,000 into a small startup called CardStar according to The Wall Street Journal. CardStar, who's based out of Boston, has already received a $1 million investment round …
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VentureBeat, mocoNews and Venture Capital Dispatch
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Here's a Much More Realistic Facetime iPhone 4 Commercial — Those Facetime-based iPhone 4 ads sure are shmaltzy! This one is a little closer to what people are actually experiencing with the service. And yes, that's an older iPhone. Try to look past it. [Funny or Die]
Robert McMillan / PC World:
ICANN Asks Demand Media for Answers After Report — The group responsible for managing the Internet's domain name system is asking Demand Media's eNom division for answers following complaints from Internet security groups. — ENom, the world's second-largest domain name registrar …
