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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 …
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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Can Oracle, Hurd topple HP, IBM without services?
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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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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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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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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?
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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Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Feeling Burned By the Press, Craigslist Hunkers Down
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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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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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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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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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Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Police in Europe conduct raids over file-sharing sites — Police across Europe conducted raids on Tuesday against ISPs and private individuals to collect evidence against several websites suspected of offering content to file-sharing networks without permission of the copyright holder.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Feature: Advertisers get hands stuck inside HTML5 database cookie jar — Even casual Internet users know that if you want to hold your privacy in check, it's good practice to clear out your browser cookies every once in a while. Our recent coverage about “zombie” Flash cookies has shown us …
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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Dan Shapiro:
How to read a patent in 60 seconds — Someone's claiming you're infringing their patent! You need to figure out how bad the situation is. — Or... your boss has asked you to take a look at an old patent you wrote, and see if someone else is infringing it.
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Sid Yadav / VentureBeat:
Nike iPhone app keeps track of where, how fast you run — There was a time when going out for a run meant putting on some sneakers and leaving for a jog around the park. But if you need any indication of how far we've come, take a look at Nike's latest Nike+ GPS app for the iPhone, released today on Apple's App Store.
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