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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Wal-Mart Preparing to Offer iPad [Updated] — Back in May, Wal-Mart announced that it was expecting to begin offering the iPad for sale in its U.S. retail stores “later this year”, and with the holiday shopping season rapidly approaching and rival Target launching the device in over 1700 stores around …
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TiPb, AppleInsider, Shoutpedia, MWD Tech News, The Next Web, Go Rumors, Erictric and iClarified, Thanks:atul
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
UK carrier's roadmap points to October 21 release for Windows Phone 7, over 2,000 apps at launch — The whole world and his neighbor's dog may already know when Windows Phone 7 will be announced, but when are the actual phones going to hit actual shelves? If you're in the US …
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I4U News, WMPoweruser.com, WMExperts, Neowin.net, Phone Arena, SlashGear, MacHackPC and Go Rumors
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Windows Phone 7 to launch Monday amid crowded smartphone market
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Electronista, Computerworld and InformationWeek
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
A Double Standard at H.P. — And so it came to pass that on the 55th day — 55 days, that is, after firing its chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, for playing footsie with a consultant and fudging his expense accounts — the board of directors at Hewlett-Packard proudly announced it had found …
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Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard … Disclaimer: my business partner, Marc Andreessen, is on the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard. I note that I have no inside information, and this blog post is based purely on published material.
Mike Szczys / Hack a Day:
Reddit hacking for votes and profit — Looks like someone figured out how to game the Reddit system. This probably has been done before, but as far as we know nobody's actually shared the methods in detail. [Esrun] wrote some scripts that allow him to register multiple accounts and use them to up-vote stories.
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: Microsoft buying Adobe would fix both companies' Apple problem — The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has recently been at a secret meeting with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to discuss topics including the two companies' mutual competitor, Apple.
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Softpedia News, Geeky-Gadgets and MarketWatch
Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
With Verizon on the Horizon, iPhone Users Weigh Leaving AT&T—but There's a Catch — Network quality won't be the only issue for iPhone buyers trying to decide between AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless when the smartphone becomes available to a second U.S. carrier. The technology behind their high-speed networks matters, too.
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I4U News, Electronista, TechCrunch and New York Times
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Gartner:
Gartner's 2010 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates Maturity of 1,800 Technologies — Hype Cycle Research Provides a Cross-Industry Perspective on Potentially Transformative Technologies — Media tablets, private cloud computing, and 3D flat-panel TVs and displays are some of the technologies …
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ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld and Between the Lines Blog
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Some Thoughts on Facebook Groups — Earlier this week Facebook announced the revamp of Facebook Groups. At first I planned to avoid commenting on this release since there is significant overlap between it's functionality and that of Windows Live Groups so it is hard for me to have an objective perspective.
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All Facebook and TechCrunch
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
MySpace Unveils New, Artsy Logo — If you've been following the news lately, you've probably realized that logo redesigns are a kind of a big deal. Today at the Warm Gun Design conference in San Francisco, butt of too many design/user experience jokes to mention social networking site MySpace unveils …
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Softpedia News, Geek.com, Warm Gun and The Huffington Post
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
North Korea opens up Internet for national anniversary — IDG News Service - North Korea appears to have made its first full connection to the Internet. The connection, planning for which has been going on for at least nine months, came as the reclusive country prepares to mark …
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The Next Web and reviewmylife
Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Mercury News interview: Craig Silverstein, Google's first employee — Everyone knows “the Google guys” — Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the multibillionaire founders of the world's most popular search engine. But another Google guy was there from the company's creation 12 years ago …
