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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Best Buy CEO: The Reports Of Microsoft's Death Are Grossly Exaggerated... By Me. — All day, the Internet has been erupting with news that the age of notebook and netbooks is over, and the age of tablets — specifically, the iPad, of course — has begun. One of the main catalysts …
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AppleInsider, IntoMobile, Gizmodo Australia, Tech Trader Daily, Computerworld and Silicon Alley Insider
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Brian J. Dunn / Best Buy:
Statement: Reports of notebook, netbook sales declines grossly exaggerated — RICHFIELD, Minn., September 17, 2010 -In a statement today, Brian J. Dunn, CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY), likened recent rumors of a pending decline in notebook and netbook sales to a legendary Mark Twain-ism:
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PC World, I4U News, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, AppleInsider, Thoughts from the Sidelines, msnbc.com, SmoothSpan Blog, Microsoft News Tracker, eWeek, Tech Check, Digital Daily, Hillicon Valley, IntoMobile and CrunchGear, Thanks:billcox
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
4chan DDoS Takes Down MPAA and Anti-Piracy Websites — Following a call to arms yesterday, the masses inhabiting the anonymous 4chan boards have carried out a huge assault on a pair of anti-piracy enemies. The website of Aiplex Software, the anti-piracy outfit which has been DDoSing torrent sites recently …
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Geek.com and Softpedia News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cuil Goes Down, And We Hear It's Down For Good — Cuil, the much maligned search engine that at one time had hopes of toppling Google, has gone offline. And from what we hear from former employees, it's not just a temporary outage, it may be done for good.
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VentureBeat and Andy Beard
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Adds Instant To Chrome Labs In Chromium (Windows Only, For Now) — Google Instant is great — but I rarely use it. Why? Because I simply don't go to google.com that often. That's not to say I don't search Google a lot — I do — I just use the Omnibox is Chrome for almost all of my searches.
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Softpedia News
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Finally Lets A Google Voice Application Into The App Store (Again) — Google Voice applications have had a pretty tumultuous history in the App Store. At first, Apple approved them, and the people rejoiced. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, they were pulled, with …
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Technologizer, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, Covering Web, Cult of Mac, pocketnow.com, TUAW, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Redmond Pie, TiPb, SlashGear, BlogsDNA, Erictric, The Next Web, Engadget, Gadgetell, Go Rumors, Phones Review, Electronista and everythingiCafe, Thanks:auralab
Doug Aamoth / Techland:
AirScouter Projects a 16-inch Display Directly onto Your Retina — Here's a quick glimpse into what may be the future of head-mounted displays. Recently shown off in Japan, Brother's AirScouter projects the equivalent of a 16-inch display directly onto your retina.
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Engadget, SlashGear, Technabob, techeblog.com and Ubergizmo
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Hewlett-Packard's Imminent CEO Choice Needs to (and Will) Be Internal — Because this is a big CEO search in Silicon Valley, naturally the Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) board turned to star headhunter Jim Citrin of Spencer Stuart for help in finding the next leader for the tech giant.
Fred / A VC:
The Office Matters — Originally uploaded by Etsy Labs. — Our portflio company Etsy has a person who is focused on the office, company culture, and making the work space as comfortable as possible. They have a chef come in and cook a healthy lunch for everyone three times a week.
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
The First Rule Of Defeating Web Censorship Is You Do Not Talk About Defeating Web Censorship — In the fight for the freedom of the global Internet, the heroes aren't always so easy to identify. Case in point: Haystack, a much-hyped software tool aimed at circumventing Iran's strict filter …
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Economist
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Peter Eckersley / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
On Writing, Funding, and Distributing Software to Activists …
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John Graham-Cumming and Guardian
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Intel Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Uses HDCP Crack — Intel threatened legal action Friday against anybody who uses its proprietary crypto key — leaked on the internet — to produce hardware that defeats the so-called HDCP technology that limits home recording of digital television and Blu-ray.
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Pulse2, CrunchGear, Gizmodo Australia, Switched, iClarified, Guardian, VizWorld.com, TechSpot and Geekosystem
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
When Web sites and Web apps collide with IE 9: Questions and some answers — “People go to the Web for sites, not the browser, much as they go to their PC for apps, not Windows.” — That's what Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dean Hachamovitch told attendees of Microsoft's Internet Explorer …
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Hardware 2.0 Blog, Between the Lines Blog, internetnews.com and ZDNet
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Distribute Mobile Devices To Businesses For Checkins, Ratings And More — In an effort to compete with services like Facebook, Yelp and Foursquare, Google is preparing to distribute millions of custom mobile devices to small businesses around the U.S., says a source with knowledge of the program.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista and Search Engine Journal
Paul McNamara / Network World:
Fly on the wall says Apple made Newsday kill funny iPad ap ad — Report unconfirmed; Apple has yet to respond — Yesterday we were speculating about whether Apple was behind the sudden disappearance from YouTube of a newspaper's funny iPad app ad that depicted a Dad “forgetting” …
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Go Rumors, Cult of Mac, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile and iClarified
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Shooting From Carol Bartz's Hip: Apple's iAds Are Just Awful, Which Is Why Yahoo Buys Them! — If you're going to trash the competition in the online advertising business in a widely quoted press interview, it's probably a good idea to check if someone on your staff was, you know, buying up the very product you dissed.
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paidContent, ChasNote, eMarketer and Blog Posts, The Loop and DailyFinance
Boy Genius Report:
Verizon discontinuing original Motorola DROID 2, will only carry DROID 2 World Edition? — We've just gotten wind of a vicious little rumor that we wanted to share. We're hearing that Verizon Wireless will be slowly discontinuing the Motorola DROID 2 that it launched last month and will soon …
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Go Rumors, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans and Phones Review
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Skyhook: Google forced Motorola to drop our location service, delay the Droid X — We figured Skyhook's business interference and patent infringement lawsuits against Google would turn up some dirt, and we didn't have long to wait: the location-services company's complaint flatly alleges …
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Daring Fireball, Gadgetell, MobileContentToday, Gadget Lab and Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
Jon Mundy / The Pocket Gamer iPhone gaming podcast:
EA set to throw its weight behind Android — Sees a shift in the smartphone balance — It seems everyone wants a slice of the Android gaming pie all of a sudden. — With OpenFeint bringing its social networking charms (along with 20 games) to the platform, id Software advertising …
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Gizmodo, IntoMobile and AndroidGuys
Amit Singhal / Wall Street Journal:
Is Google a Monopolist? A Debate — Amit Singhal of Google argues the competition is one click away. Charles Rule, an attorney whose firm represents corporations suing Google, counters that the company commands a share of search advertising in excess of 70%—the threshold for monopoly under the Sherman Act.
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Search Engine Watch
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Transcript: Twitter's Ev Williams Answers An Hour's Worth Of Questions, On Twitter — Talk about eating your own dogfood! Today, Twitter CEO Evan Williams took questions for an hour on Twitter, about Twitter, replying from his own account. What was he asked?
