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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple to livestream its fall event — Hey, do you hate reading? Well, finally Apple is feeling your pain. Tomorrow at 10AM PT, Apple will stream its fall event directly to your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod as it unfolds. Of course, if you're a Windows user or you're wielding some kind …
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Kristin Huguet / Apple:
Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event — What: — Live video stream of Apple's September 1 event — When: — Where: — www.apple.com — Live Video Streaming — Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple's industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming …
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Steven Musil / CNET News:
Apple to stream music event—to Apple devices — Apple announced Tuesday afternoon it will provide live video streaming of Wednesday's music event, but unless you have access to a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod, you are going to be out of luck. — The event, starting at 10 a.m. PDT …
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Crave, Digits, Startup Meme and Geek.com
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Plan Netflix Streaming Service on New TV Product — Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc., preparing to announce a new set-top box that delivers TV to consumers, will include movies from Netflix Inc., according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
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Between the Lines Blog, App Advice, Computerworld, TechCrunch, NewTeeVee, CNET News, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, The Seattle Times, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Trends, TiPb, Erictric, Bloomberg, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, Daring Fireball, Hacking NetFlix and everythingiCafe
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Shira Ovide / Digits:
Apple Set to Announce 99-Cent Fox, ABC Rentals — Frothy anticipation about Apple's event Wednesday has centered on music and expected updates to iTunes and the iPod lineup. But television also is likely to be on the menu. — As part of the Apple event Wednesday, News Corp.'s Fox …
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9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, Techland, MacRumors and Engadget
AppleInsider:
Apple's new iPod nano to maintain price points, won't push out shuffle - sources — Sixth-generation iPod nanos on deck for an introduction by Apple on Wednesday will reportedly be priced in-line with existing models and will not replace the company's other diminutive media player, the iPod shuffle.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Mexican Carrier Executive Claims iPhone 4 Hardware Revision Coming by End of September — CanalMX reports [Google translation] on comments from an executive at Mexican carrier Telcel claiming that Apple is set to release a revised version of the iPhone 4 by the end of September to address the highly-publicized antenna issue.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meet Digg's New CEO — Digg has hired Amazon exec Matt Williams to be their new CEO, we've confirmed. This ends a months-long process that began with the ouster of former CEO Jay Adelson in April. Founder Kevin Rose has run the company since then. — Williams has been with Amazon for more than a decade - since 1999.
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PC World, MediaPost, TechFlash, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Startup Meme and paidContent
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Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
Company Update — Hey Everyone- — I'd like to update you on the latest change at Digg. After several months of searching, we are excited to announce that Matt Williams will become the CEO of Digg. As you know, I have been the interim CEO, while we looked for the right person …
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Bits, CNET News, Gawker, GigaOM, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, The Seattle Times and WebProNews
Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Grabs the TV Remote — Amazon.com Inc. is working on a new subscription service that would deliver TV shows and movies over the Internet, ramping up the battle among Web companies to control entertainment in the living room. — The Internet retailer has in recent weeks pitched …
T-Marco / Cell Phone Signal:
Exclusive: First Official Pictures T-Mobile G2 — We did it again, same as we were the first ones of obtaining the official pictures of the Samsung Vibrant, now we give you the first official pictures of the T-Mobile G2. As you know the T-Mobile G2 is going to be the first HSPA+ phone running speeds up to 11mbps.
Doug Aberdeen / Gmail Blog:
Email overload? Try Priority Inbox — People tell us all that time that they're getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today — Palm fans, get your party hats on. Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we're getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows …
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Archos unleashes five (five!) new Android Froyo tablets, we go hands-on — “How do you tablet?” Oh yes, that's Archos' new tag line when it comes to its growing number of Android tablets. Good timing since, you know, it just went ahead and released a quintuplet of new gadgets.
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Mobile Tech Addicts, Pocket-lint, Liliputing, dailywireless.org, GottaBeMobile, jkkmobile, Electronista and Crave
Jon Brodkin / Computerworld:
VMware aims to displace Windows with cloud-based desktop apps — VMware is developing a new hosted service that will allow delivery of cloud-based desktop applications to any sort of user device. — VMware is developing a new hosted service with the code name “Project Horizon” …
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internetnews.com, Between the Lines Blog, eWeek, GigaOMGigaOM, PC World, VentureBeat, Network World and All about Microsoft Blog
Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:
Facebook Wins Patent For Click-Behavior Based Search Engine Algorithm — Facebook has been awarded the patent for a click-behavior based search engine application. The United States Patent & Trademark office has today approved a patent application titled “Ranking search results based …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Inside Facebook and All Facebook, Thanks:atul
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
FDA has App Stores Under Surveillance — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively watching app stores for apps that it deems fill a medical purpose with an eye toward regulating them, according to Bradley Merrill Thompson, an attorney specializing in health care issues.
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Android and Me, Pocket-lint and digiday:DAILY, Thanks:jkendrick
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion — Someday, somehow, the U.S. Navy would like to run its networks — maybe even own its computers again. After 10 years and nearly $10 billion, many sailors are tired of leasing their PCs, and relying on a private contractor to operate most of their data systems.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Samsung really, really wants to sell web-connected TVs with apps this year — Samsung Electronics is going ga-ga over apps. The Korean electronics giant plans to spend $70 million marketing its Samsung TV apps for internet-connected TVs and other devices.
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SFGate and Electricpig
Ethan Bauley / Data Central:
HP and Hynix - Bringing the memristor to market in next-generation memory — Today, HP announced a joint development agreement with Hynix Semiconductor Inc., to develop a new kind of computer memory - one that will employ memristor technology pioneered by researchers at HP Labs.
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HP, Engadget, CNET News, Between the Lines Blog and Gadget Lab, Thanks:hpnews
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
ViewSonic ViewPad 7 official: Android 2.2 and ‘full’ phone functionality — We know you're positively giddy with excitement to get at this OlivePad rebadge and ViewSonic is today fanning those flames of desire with a little bit of pre-IFA PR. Made official today, the 7-inch ViewPad 7 …
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Computerworld, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, TG Daily, GottaBeMobile, Phone Arena, VentureBeat, Obsessable, EuroDroid, Electronista, DailyTech, Softpedia News, Liliputing and Techie Buzz
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Docs Gets a Taste of Wave with Collaborative Highlighting — Google may have killed Wave (prematurely by some accounts), but it has added a little bit of real-time collaboration to one of its flagship offerings, Google Docs, with the addition of collaborative highlighting. — Sponsor
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Docs Blog, Download Squad, Google Wave Blog and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:rawmeet
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life — There's always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd. It's a personal search engine for all that data you keep locked away in the cloud.
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Search Engine Journal
Jeff / The Official Pogoplug Blog:
Pogoplug Gains Two New Products and Enables Web Printing — A series of new Pogoplug features and products go live today! — Today we are delighted to begin rolling out a new firmware update to our customers that activates a number of new features we have announced in recent months, including our new cloud printing feature.
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Obsessable, The Toybox Blog, Fortune, GottaBeMobile and Cult of Mac, Thanks:pogoplug
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Patent troll or not, Paul Allen finds a friend in Steve Wozniak — Is there some kind of secret brotherhood of lesser-known Microsoft and Apple founders? Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder better known as Woz, is voicing some surprisingly strong support for Paul Allen …
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