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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Windows Phone 7 will be GSM-only in 2010 — When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks. Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work on its major rewrite of its phone operating system.
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Bloomberg:
Verizon Won't Sell Microsoft Windows Phone 7 at Start — Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, won't sell handsets with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7 operating system when it debuts this year, a blow to the software maker's efforts to reach a broad market.
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Jeanette Borzo / Digits:
Microsoft Has No Plans To Make Another Smartphone, Exec Says
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WMPoweruser.com, Mobile Entertainment, Channel 9, Softpedia News, MSDN Blogs, Engadget, MobileTechWorld, WMExperts and Boy Genius Report
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Fraudulent Groupon Photography Deal Calls Attention To Service Drawbacks — A photography deal offered on Groupon in Atlanta yesterday turned messy when it was revealed that the photographer had promoted her work with stolen images and was far from equipped to carry out the terms of the Groupon.
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ReadWriteWeb, PetaPixel, PlagiarismToday and msnbc.com
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Andrew / Groublogpon:
Too much of a good thing? — Traditionally, the biggest problem for most small businesses is getting customers in the door. Now, Groupon has presented some businesses with an entirely new problem: what happens when you have too many customers? — There have been a handful …
Jessie Burke / Posies Cafe:
Groupon in Retrospect
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Silicon Alley Insider and Redfin Corporate Blog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Internal Three Year Plan: 1 Billion Users And $10 Billion In Revenue — Yahoo unveiled a bevy of new product features today at a press event, and Yahoo product chief Blake Irving told the crowd “You're going to see things over the next few years that will feel a little bit different.”
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Kakul Srivastava / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
Get Ready... Yahoo! Mail Beta Is Coming — Don't blink. Some big changes are happening to your Yahoo! Mail. — In the next few weeks, you'll be able to experience Yahoo! Mail Beta, a faster, cleaner, and safer way for you to communicate and share with the people you care about most.
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Macworld, Relevant Results, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Download Squad, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News, Black Web 2.0 and GigaOM
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again
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Lockergnome Blog Network, blogs.ft.com and The Register
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details Of The Google Social Layer Emerge — Facebook may have known all the details about Google's new social product for months, but we're just now getting our sources to talk. — On Tuesday Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave additional details on the plan. We posted the entire press conference video …
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All Facebook and InformationWeek
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Fred / A VC:
Social Layers and Social Intention — I read Mike Arrington's post on Google's social efforts just now. I have not seen any of Google's work. I have not been briefed. I really have no clue what they are building. But this quote got my attention: … Q. Why did Twitter succeed and FriendFeed fail?
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
HDCP antipiracy leak opens doors for black boxes — An antipiracy code used in set-top boxes, Blu-ray and DVD players has been cracked and published on the Internet, and as a result, we may soon see devices on the market that allow people to make unauthorized copies of movies.
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Inquirer, Techdirt and Freedom to Tinker
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Intel: Leaked HDCP copy protection code is legit
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The Register, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Fox News, Engadget, PC Magazine, TechEye, Softpedia News, TG Daily, SlashGear, Geek.com, PC Pro and Electronista
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple's 27" LED Cinema Display Now On Sale — As anticipated, Apple has started selling the 27" Apple LED Cinema Display on their online store. — Connect the 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display to your Mac and supersize your view with an incredible 2560-by-1440 resolution …
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, TUAW, The Huffington Post, Engadget and Gizmodo
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Best Buy CEO: iPad Cannibalizing Up To 50 Percent Of Laptop Sales — One line buried in a Wall Street Journal story is making the rounds as the latest evidence of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad power: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn “said internal estimates showed that the iPad had cannibalized sales from laptop PCs by as much as 50 percent.”
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tech Probe Nears End — Several of the U.S.'s largest technology companies are in advanced talks with the Justice Department to avoid a court battle over whether they colluded to hold down wages by agreeing not to poach each other's employees. — The companies, which include Google Inc. …
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Hillicon Valley, Post Tech and Electronista
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Wall Street Journal:
VMware Is in Talks to Acquire Novell's Linux Software Unit — Novell Inc. is in advanced talks with at least two buyers, including VMware Inc., to sell the software company in separate pieces, people familiar with the matter said. — VMware is pursuing Novell's SUSE Linux operating system business, these people said.
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Reuters, Inquirer, Computerworld, virtualization.info, internetnews.com, Between the Lines Blog and Tech Trader Daily
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Matt Asay / GigaOM:
Novell's Patents Are Complicating Its Sale
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Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires and Computerworld
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Code for open-source Facebook littered with landmines — Diaspora release not for noobs — Four New York University students who raised a bundle of cash to build a privacy-preserving alternative to Facebook sure have their work cut out for them. — The release of pre-alpha source code …
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Download Squad, Jarinheit, Bits, Epicenter, CloudAve, SFGate, Gizmodo Australia and Ars Technica
semmyfun:
Get that 4 letter domain you've always wanted: include one digit — In our last experiment we attempted attempted to estimate the proportion of pronounceable 5, 6 and 7-letter domains that are already registered. — But what about 4 letter domains? — I wrote a series of random domain generators …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook: $50 Million A Year on Data Centers — A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility. — An analysis of Facebook's spending with data center developers indicates that the company is now paying about $50 million a year to lease data center space …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Netflix works over AirPlay — We tested Netflix on our iPad and it works with Apple's AirPlay service. We connected some speakers to an Airport Express and the audio from the Netflix film wirelessly streamed and played perfectly with absolutely no hiccups.
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Erictric, TiPb and Go Rumors, Thanks:markgurman
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Microsoft says legal risk adds cost to Android — Google software brings infringement risk, wireless exec says — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The top financial executive for Microsoft Corp.'s mobile-phone software business said Thursday that legal risks associated with rival Google Inc …
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Inquirer
Cris Castello / Google LatLong:
View Near Real-time Flights over the U.S. in Google Earth — Thanks to our friends at Flightwise.com, we've published a new, dynamically updating KML file of commercial flights over the U.S. Turn on the layer to see the current location and altitude of thousands of flights, in near real-time.
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The Next Web
Meghan Keane / the Econsultancy blog:
Case Study: McDonald's ups foot traffic 33% on Foursquare Day — McDonald's may be a large brand, but it doesn't always want to invest large budgets in marketing. With a little help from Foursquare this Spring, the fast food chain increased foot traffic 33% in one day with an investment of less than $1,000.
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Mashable!
Bloomberg:
Hewlett-Packard Said to Be Near Decision on Hurd's Successor — Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board is nearing a decision on a successor to Mark Hurd as chief executive officer, and is leaning toward picking an internal candidate, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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VentureBeat
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Samsung is Latest to Push Mobile Media and Apps for TVs — As Samsung Electronics promotes its version of Apple's iPad Thursday, the company is also revealing its answer to the iTunes store — or at least the video portion of it. — As part of the U.S. unveiling of the Galaxy Tab …
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Electronista, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Computerworld, Samsung USA Newsroom, Android Central, Crave, Engadget, PC World, LAPTOP Mag, Ars Technica, Gadgetell, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing, Mobilized, The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile, Fortune, Droid Life, LaptopMemo, Technologizer and The Tech Herald …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Logitech Revue with Google TV coming 9/29 for $299, Dish Network offering discounts? — Google TV is coming, and Logitech's Revue is gonna bring it to ya first. But, if you're a Dish Network subscriber, it looks like you might be able to get yours for cheaper — a lot cheaper.
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Google Watch, Stage Two, LIVEdigitally, Lockergnome Blog Network, IntoMobile, Obsessable, NewTeeVee, Android Phone Fans, CrunchGear and Ubergizmo
