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Nicola Leske / Reuters:
Google to start TV service in U.S. this autumn — (Reuters) - Google Inc will launch its service to bring the Web to TV screens in the United States this autumn and worldwide next year, its chief executive said, as it extends its reach from the desktop to the living room.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Google TV Revealed: One Screen to Rule Them All — Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses Google TV live and on television at the IFA (Internationalen Funkausstellung) conference in Berlin, Germany. — BERLIN - Google gave a live demonstration of Google TV at Berlin's IFA Tuesday …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Google's Schmidt: Autonomous, Fast Search Is ‘Our New Definition’ — In a big-picture keynote at Berlin's IFA home electronics event, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt said Google's new guiding principle is in serving users automatic search results, all the time, super-quick...
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ReadWriteWeb, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Broadband TV News, ARMdevices.net and Techland
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Former H.P. Chief Joins Oracle as Co-President — SAN FRANCISCO — In naming Mark V. Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, as Oracle's new co-president, Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle's chief executive and largest shareholder, really has put his money where his controversial mouth is.
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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
HP Suing Mark Hurd — HP is suing Mark Hurd, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. We've only just seen the flash of the news on CNBC, and we don't see the story on the Journal's site. Our guess is that HP thinks Hurd violated some sort of non-compete by taking a job at Oracle, where he is co-President.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Can Oracle, Hurd topple HP, IBM without services?
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GMSV, TechEye, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily and Irregular Enterprise Blog
Max Read / Gawker:
Oracle Loses One Scandal-Tainted Exec, Hires Another—Former HP CEO Mark Hurd
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Wall Street Journal, Neowin.net, SlashGear, DealBook, Computerworld, Communications … and Gizmodo
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Official: Samsung Fascinate launching September 9 for $199 (update: September 8 online) — Put away your leaked Verizon documents, good folks, the Fascinate finally has an official release date: September 9. Verizon's Galaxy S variant snuck up on all of us with a commercial appearance last night …
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BetaNews, Computerworld, Ars Technica, Verizon, VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, The Toybox Blog, Electronista, MobileCrunch, Thoughts from the Sidelines, IntoMobile, SlashPhone, PhoneDog.com, Androinica, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Go Rumors, Fone Arena, Ubergizmo, Phones Review and Android Phone Fans
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Samsung Fascinate review
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ZDNet, Computerworld, SlashGear, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, PC Magazine, DailyTech and The Huffington Post
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Samsung's Orion is the 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 we've all been waiting for — We still consider Samsung's Hummingbird application processor to be among the very best for mobile computers, but this morning Sammy itself is stepping up the charge to make it look real old real fast.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Android and Me, eWeek, Gizmodo, PC World, Inquirer, TechEye, Boy Genius Report, EuroDroid, I4U News, Electronista, Androinica and Liliputing
Gary Cutlack / Gizmodo:
Five of the Best Tablets Revealed So Far — We've seen numerous announcements of tablet computers in recent weeks, as the R&D labs of the world push out their hastily assembled attempts at competing with Apple's game-changing iPad. But are any of them up to the job?
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Technologizer, Inquirer and Crave
Brian Peterson / Google Voice Blog:
Missed call notifications delivered to your inbox — Google Voice lets you take charge of your telephony experience, giving you one number that rings all your phones. But what if you're not around to answer any of them? — Starting today, whenever you miss a call, you can see a notification …
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IntoMobile, Softpedia News, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, 901am, Boy Genius Report, Lifehacker and Phone Scoop
Reuters:
Samsung warns DRAM oversupply on weak PC sales — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's top memory chipmaker, warned of an oversupply in the computer memory chip market from next quarter as a sputtering global economy may further weaken PC sales. — The downbeat comment …
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Tech Trader Daily, AppleInsider, jkOnTheRun, Fortune, Electronista and MacDailyNews
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Once a Dynamo, the Tech Sector Is Slow to Hire — For years the technology sector has been considered the most dynamic, promising and globally envied industry in the United States. It escaped the recession relatively unscathed, and profits this year have been soaring.
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TechCrunchIT, Silicon Forest and Profectio
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Confirms Game Center Compatibility: Yes on 2nd-Generation iPod Touch, No on iPhone 3G — Apple has confirmed on its Game Center overview page that the social gaming network will be available for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and second-, third-, and fourth-generation iPod touch models …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Complete iOS 4.1 Walkthrough
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, The Apple Core Blog, IntoMobile, dailywireless.org, TUAW, TiPb, Gizmodo, Geek.com and Phones Review, Thanks:markgurman
CB Insights:
Pure-Play Twitter Startups Attract 50% Less Venture Capital and Angel Investment Than Last Year — For information on private companies and the people behind them, access CB Insights for free, sign up for the CB Insights newsletteror follow us @cbinsights on Twitter.
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GigaOM, ReadWriteStart, CNET News, Mashable!, The Next Web and Stowe Boyd
Eric Sachs / The Official Google Blog:
Simpler sign-ups for Yahoo! users with OpenID — How many times have you created a new account at a website and seen a message that said: “Thank you for creating an account. To activate your new account, please access your email and click the verification URL provided.”
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TechCrunch, Google Code Blog, Search Engine Journal and The Next Web, Thanks:rawmeet
Danah Boyd / The Huffington Post:
How Censoring Craigslist Helps Pimps, Child Traffickers and Other Abusive Scumbags — For the last 12 years, I've dedicated immense amounts of time, money and energy to end violence against women and children. As a victim of violence myself, I'm deeply committed to destroying any institution …
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Digits, Wall Street Journal, Computerworld, Internet Evolution, Techdirt, ReadWriteWeb and broadstuff, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:rawmeet
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 ad promises ‘the revolution is coming’ (video) — Usually we'd advise you not to read too much into this — we'd point out that this was a themed ad served up before the showing of Lawrence of Arabia at London's Secret Cinema event — but what the hell: Microsoft says the revolution's coming.
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Gadgetell, BoomTown, TmoNews, WMPoweruser.com, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, MSDN Blogs, Electricpig.co.uk, PhoneDog.com, WMExperts, 9 to 5 Mac, Phones Review, SlashGear and Neowin.net
Bloomberg:
Samsung Electronics May Use Google's Android Software in TVs — Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest television maker, said it may equip its TVs with Google Inc. software, and compete with Sony Corp. in offering sets that surf the Web and double as computers.
