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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
Testing, testing...YouTube begins trial of new live streaming platform — From U2 to the Indian Premier League to the White House to E3, we've worked closely with our partners to give you a front row seat to a wide array of live events. Today and tomorrow, tune in as we open a new chapter of YouTube live streaming.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
It's Real: YouTube Debuts Live Streaming Platform With Two-Day Test
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Associated Press, Mashable!, internetnews.com, Boy Genius Report, Telegraph, Black Web 2.0, BetaNews, Music Ally, Electricpig.co.uk and Electronista
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
First Look: YouTube's Live Streaming Platform
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Gizmodo, PC World and SiliconANGLE
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
“Embarrassing And Damaging” Zuckerberg IMs Confirmed By Zuckerberg, The New Yorker — Earlier this year, we published a series of posts featuring instant messages written by Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg. — Today, the New Yorker quoted two of them in a profile of Zuckerberg.
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TechFlash, The Not-So Private Parts, Electricpig.co.uk, USA Today and Hollywood Reporter
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Jose Antonio Vargas / New Yorker:
Mark Zuckerberg opens up. — Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his college dorm room six years ago. Five hundred million people have joined since, and eight hundred and seventy-nine of them are his friends. The site is a directory of the world's people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities.
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Atlantic Online, Silicon Alley Insider, BoomTown and The Huffington Post
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Wal-Mart introduces wireless plan under own brand — NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it is introducing the first cell phone plan that uses the chain's own branding, further demonstrating its clout in getting special deals from wireless carriers.
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Fast Company, Hillicon Valley, DSLreports, DailyTech, Engadget, mocoNews, Black Web 2.0, Gearlog, IntoMobile, Switched, The Next Web, Geek.com and Thoughts from the Sidelines
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
The Boxee Box: Intel Inside, Available for Preorder — Boxee and D-Link are announcing today that their upcoming Boxee Box will be powered by Intel's CE4100 Atom processor. The online video set-top-box, which will ship in early November, can also be pre-ordered from Amazon.com starting today.
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Macworld, Crave, Mashable!, Digits, Faster Forward, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Techland, Electronista, Neowin.net, Technologizer, Liliputing and GMSV, more at Mediagazer »
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Boxee Box ditches NVIDIA's Tegra 2 for Intel CE4100, pre-orders start today at $199
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eHomeUpgrade, SlashGear and Geek.com
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Acquired Imsense Ltd for HDR Capabilities in iOS 4.1 [Updated] — One of the most highly-publicized features of iOS 4.1, released last week, is the ability to take High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos, a feature which allows the iPhone 4's camera to capture a wider range of light intensity …
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9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Mobile-Geeks, Edible Apple, IntoMobile, 1001 Noisy Cameras, iLounge, TiPb and iClarified
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Video: New Amazon Kindle Ad Shows How Impossible It Is To Read The iPad In Direct Sunlight — Real Madrid v. Barcelona, Ali v. Frazier, and now Kindle v. iPad. This here commercial illustrates, in humorous fashion, the fact that the iPad isn't nearly as easily visible in direct sunlight as the Kindle.
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Electronista, Electricpig.co.uk, Kindle Review, everythingiCafe, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, Appletell, PadGadget, TechEye, Gizmodo and Pocket-lint
David / TmoNews:
myTouch HD Internal Doc Hints Toward FFC And America's Largest “4G” Network — While most of the Android attention at T-Mobile these days is focused on the T-Mobile G2, the myTouch HD waits in the wings. We just received, via one of our ninjas, the above document showing off some early details on the myTouch HD.
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Boy Genius Report, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Crave, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Android Phone Fans, Engadget, MobileTechWorld, Erictric, Rethink Wireless, Androinica, The Toybox Blog, Yahoo! News, Pocket-lint, I4U News, Softpedia News, Know Your Cell, PhoneNews.com, Phone Arena and Gadgetell
Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Said to Plan Debt Sale to Pay for Dividends, Buybacks — Microsoft Corp. is planning to sell debt this year to pay for dividends and share repurchases because too much of its cash is held overseas, according to a person familiar with the matter. — The company would try to raise …
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechFlash and DailyFinance
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
“The Social Network” is Just as Brutal as Mark Zuckerberg Feared — It's hard to feel sorry for a billionaire. But here I am, feeling bad for Mark Zuckerberg. If you see the “The Social Network”, you're probably going to feel bad for him, too. — I saw a screening of the movie last week …
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DealBook, more at Mediagazer »
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
iPad headed to Target on October 3rd? — It's not quite the definitive proof that some boxes spotted in the wild would be, but a tipster has sent us a few pieces of a puzzle that seem to suggest that Apple could be expanding the iPad's retail presence into Target stores just in time for the holiday shopping season.
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Gadget Lab, Wall Street Journal, Edible Apple, TiPb, PadGadget, The Toybox Blog, Gearlog, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, Appolicious Advisor, iPhone Alley, MacRumors, Gadgetell and Go Rumors
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Five Words You Can Never Suggest On Google Instant — Like it or not, lots of people search for nude celebrities on Google. But with Google's new Google Instant Search, those inclined to seek celebs in the buff have to figure out their queries without any help from Google.
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internetnews.com, Inquirer, malcolm coles, AdAge and MediaMemo, Thanks:rawmeet
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iLoveHandles turns nano iPods into oversized watches — What happens when Apple introduces a square-shaped new iPod and adorns it with an analog watch face for a lock screen? A whole new cottage industry sprouts up, whereby entrepreneurial types dust off old and mostly worthless watch straps …
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Thoughts from the Sidelines
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft to investigate charges of antipiracy abuses — Microsoft's top lawyer said on Monday that the company is taking action in the wake of a report that its antipiracy efforts have been used by the Russian Government as a means to monitor computers of dissident groups in that country.
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The Microsoft Blog, Techdirt and Ars Technica
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Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:
Anti-Piracy Enforcement and NGOs
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Digits, Network World, Computerworld, New York Times, Electronista, TechFlash and Seattle Times
Apple:
iPad Wi-Fi Models Available in China on September 17 — Apple® today announced that the Wi-Fi models of its magical iPad™ will be available to customers in China from Apple Retail Stores, and select Apple Authorized Resellers, on Friday, September 17 starting at 10:00 a.m.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AOL Said To Be Dialing Up Brizzly-Maker Thing Labs For An Acquisition — A couple months ago, a rumor was spreading around that Thing Labs (makers of the Twitter/Facebook app Brizzly) was being acquired by Foursquare. That wasn't true, it was simply speculation based on some tweets.
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VentureBeat and Download Squad
Mat Honan / The Awl:
The First Interview: Meet Josh Simpson, the Man Behind Twitter's @BPGlobalPR — On May 19, @BPGlobalPR started sending out messages about the Gulf oil spill to Twitter. The parody account took on the persona of an inept and insensitive public relations pro working at BP …
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The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Natalie Zmuda / AdAge:
Gap Taps Foursquare Cofounders for Holiday Ad Campaign — Crowley and Selvadurai Participate in Exchange for Donation to Nonprofit CampInteractive — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — What do Foursquare cofounders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai have in common with Lauren Bush? The Gap, apparently.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Adobe Illustrator Goes HTML5 — Does Adobe want Flash to have a long and healthy future? Sure, but as the dominant player in software used by people who design Web sites, it's clear that it must embrace open-source HTML5 standards with at least as much energy as it gives its own technologies.
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Adobe Labs, 9 to 5 Mac, eWeek, TiPb, Download Squad, Erictric, Inquirer, Insanely Great Mac and John Nack on Adobe, Thanks:rawmeet
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel takes the wraps off its “Nvidia killer” — Intel showed a demo of its hybrid graphics-microprocessor chip today, a chip that's aimed at eliminating the need for a stand-alone graphics chip in personal computers. — Code-named Sandy Bridge, the hybrid chip is a threat to the maker …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, UberMobile Blog, TechEye, Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, Engadget and dailywireless.org
Coderspiel:
Exchange “remote wipe” is a terrible, terrible bug — Let's say you know someone who works in a fairly small company. He handles a good amount of off-hours office email but was never offered a Blackberry as these were dolled out not according to need but status, for which they quickly became an important symbol.
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InformationWeek and Daring Fireball
