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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Apple Announces The New iPod Touch: Dual Cameras, Retina Screen — Apple unveiled the new iPod touch today at their special event, along with several other music- and media-related devices. Of course, we've been hearing murmurs and leaks about it for some time now, and the new device pretty much tallies with our expectations.
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9 to 5 Mac, Ars Technica, Silicon Alley Insider, Apple, AppleInsider, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, Engadget and Gizmodo
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iPod nano redesigned: smaller, lighter, better and costing $149 for 8GB or $179 for 16GB — Apple has just revealed its 6th generation iPod nano, which has been outfitted with just about the boldest redesign the portable media player has experienced yet. Gone is the clickwheel …
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App Advice, Macworld, Apple and Gizmodo
Paul Miller / Engadget:
The new Apple TV for $99 — Steve Jobs just pulled out the world famous “one more thing” for nothing other than... a new Apple TV. It's now a streaming-focused device (as we predicted months ago) in a small matte black enclosure we're calling “the hockey puck.”
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CrunchGear, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, paidContent, Gizmodo and Boy Genius Report
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Bill / The Official Netflix Blog:
Netflix comes to Apple TV — Bill Holmes here, VP of business development. — Today Steve Jobs unveiled the new second-generation Apple TV, which includes streaming instantly from Netflix at no additional charge to Netflix members. — This is the third significant announcement this year about a Netflix collaboration with Apple.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
iTunes 10 Is All About Ping, Apple's Social Network for Music — Ping is Apple's music social network that lives inside of iTunes—it's all about music discovery. Like Twitter, you can follow and be followed—your friends to see what they're listening to, or artists like Lady Gaga.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, PC World, MediaMemo, VentureBeat, App Advice, Silicon Alley Insider, 9 to 5 Mac, Apple, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, TUAW and The Next Web, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Jobs: Hey Google, We're Activating 230,000 NEW iOS Devices A Day — Last month, Google CEO Eric Schmidt noted that Google was activating 200,000 Android devices a day. Obviously, that's a massive number. Today during the Apple event in San Francisco, Steve Jobs took the chance to one up him — then take a shot at Google.
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paidContent, CrunchGear, IntoMobile and Engadget, Thanks:waisybabu
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AppleInsider:
iOS 4.2 for iPad coming in November, adds wireless printing and Air Play — Apple on Wednesday showed off iOS 4.2 for the iPad, including folders, multitasking, support for wireless printing, and streaming of audio, video and photos through the new Air Play feature.
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PC World, App Advice, TheAppleBlog, Gizmodo and Engadget
AppleInsider:
Apple's iOS 4.1 ships for iPhone next week, will add HDR photos — Apple announced Wednesday that iOS 4.1 will add a new feature, allowing users to take high dynamic range photographs that produce stunning pictures, and will ship next week for the iPhone and iPod touch.
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App Advice, VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, TUAW, Gadget Lab, MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, Boy Genius Report, The Huffington Post and Gizmodo
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Apple Is Live Streaming Sept. 1 Event To Test New Server Farm [Exclusive] — Apple is live streaming Wednesday's iPod event as a test of its massive new data center, we've been informed by a source. — Apple's first live video broadcast in years is a test of the server farm's ability …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Apple's fall 2010 event — 10:11AM “Here's Mike Capps from Epic games to show us a tremendous new game using Game Center.” — 10:11AM Steve is running through some of the Game Center challenge features. “So that's Game Center.” — 10:11AM “So here's Thor, he's one of my 73 friends …
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GigaOMGigaOM, Download Squad, BaltTech, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, Digital Daily, BloggingStocks, Joystiq and BlogsDNA
Ryan Block / gdgt live:
Live Apple fall 2010 event coverage
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GigaOMGigaOM, Inc.com, WSJ Blogs - WSJ, Geek.com and The Huffington Post
Jon Swartz / USA Today:
Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is coming to a Target (TGT) store near you. — The social-network giant is getting into the gift card business, starting Sunday, with Facebook Credits cards. — The new Facebook gift cards will be available in values of $15 …
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ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, GigaOMGigaOM, Reuters, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, MediaMemo, everwas, ZDNet, TechCrunch and WebProNews, Thanks:rawmeet
Pete Barlas / IBD Click:
EBay To Ban Google's Checkout Service From Its Sites — Starting next July, eBay (EBAY) will no longer let Google (GOOG) provide transaction checkout services on eBay Web sites. It won't allow any checkout service except its own PayPal-featured service. — EBay's instituting the new policy …
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TechCrunch and Tech Trader Daily, Thanks:michaelkrey
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
To Win Over Users, Gadgets Have to Be Touchable — Whoever said technology was dehumanizing was wrong. On screens everywhere — cellphones, e-readers, A.T.M.'s — as Diana Ross sang, we just want to reach out and touch. — Scientists and academics who study how we interact with technology …
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BetaNews, CrunchGear, Sony Insider, Financial Times, Inc.com and Fast Company
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Sony's latest e-readers: Understanding the trade-offs and global strategy — Sony's new e-readers are a vast improvement over its previous versions. The latest Sony Readers are lighter, show off touch navigation on an E-Ink screen and could be worthy choices in the e-reader wars vs. Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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Computerworld, Bits, Ars Technica, Inquirer, Crave, mocoNews, eWeek, Technologizer, 1001 Noisy Cameras, Engadget, Kindle Review, Sony Insider, Gadget Lab, Electronista, Dow Jones Newswires and Mashable!
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Acquisition Aims to Change History for Mobile Apps & Data — Mobile App Compiler OpenPlug Joins Alcatel-Lucent — Maybe you love mobile apps - or maybe you build them yourself. Either way, it's big news that international mobile infrastructure conglomerate Alcatel-Lucent …
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The Next Web and Mobile Marketer Software …, Thanks:the_spinmd
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Justin.tv Finally Broadcasts Live From Your Android Phone — When you think about broadcasting live video over the Internet, being tethered to your computer isn't so much fun. Broadcasting live from your mobile phone, now that starts to get interesting. Today, Justin.tv is joining …
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Justin.tv, ReadWriteWeb, AndroidGuys, Mashable! and Android Phone Fans
Financial Times:
Sony rises to digital-media challenge — Sony will begin its latest attempt to fight back against Apple's dominance in the digital media field, when it unveils a new music and video subscription service to run across a range of its devices
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
How Microsoft Research foresaw Google's ‘Priority Inbox’ feature — It's not uncommon for me to hear about some new technology product or feature, from some company other than Microsoft, and realize that it sounds very similar to something I've covered before.
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Download Squad and Electricpig, Thanks:rawmeet
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Milestone 2 arrives, 720p HD video, Android 2.2, and Motoblur Enhanced in tow — Even without yesterday's premature video promo, you had to know Motorola wouldn't leave its international audience without a successor to the Milestone, so today — surprise, surprise — we're being treated to the Milestone 2's launch.
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Video: Flash on Android Is Shockingly Bad — Many have touted the availability of Flash on Android devices as a competitive advantage over Apple's mobile devices, which rely on HTML5 and native apps for their video and interactivity. But how much of an advantage is it to be able to tune in to Flash-based video on your Android device?
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Daring Fireball, TheAppleBlog, Phone Arena, PC World, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, OStatic blogs, Computerworld and dailywireless.org
Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California — Scary news from California's Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips, thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding.
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Blog of Rights and GMSV, Thanks:atul
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps “Sponsored Map Icons” Test Comes To U.S. — Google Maps is now testing “sponsored map icons” in the United States. This was first tested back in March in the Australian version of Google Maps. The sponsored map icons are basically company logo enhanced points of interest icons.
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 …
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VentureBeat, PC World, VideoNuze, techblog.dallasnews.com, IntoMobile, Company Town, 9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, Parks Associates Blog, I4U News, fierceonlinevideo.com …, Fast Company, Inquirer, InformationWeek, CNET News, WebProNews, GeekSugar, Gadgetell, DailyFinance, NewTeeVee, SlashGear, Engadget, Technologizer, AppleInsider and Go Rumors, more at Mediagazer »
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Gowalla Continues The March Beyond The Check-In With Highlights — A Social Atlas — If you didn't think the check-in was a commodity before Facebook launched their Places feature, you likely do now. But Gowalla has known that for awhile, and that's why they've been moving to extend the service and build on top of the check-in.
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SocialTimes.com, The Next Web, Mashable!, Black Web 2.0 and ReadWriteWeb
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The New MySpace Movies, Presented By... The Facebook Movie — It seems as if the ads for Sony's upcoming movie The Social Network — you know, the Facebook movie — are everywhere on the Internet. They're here on TechCrunch, they're on VentureBeat, they're on Techmeme — they're just about everywhere but Facebook itself.
