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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access To Cablevision Customers - And Turns It Back On [UPDATED] — UPDATE: That was fast. People familiar with the situation say that News Corp. is changing tactics and will turn on access to Fox.com and Fox programming on Hulu for Cablevision's customers.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
News Corp. Tries Fox.com, Hulu As Pawn In Retrans Battle With Cablevision
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MediaMemo
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Apple's App Store crosses 300,000 apps — Apple's App Store now has more than 300,000 apps as of the past day. — Mobclix's data shows that in the past 24 hours, Apple added the 300,000th app to its App Store. The number includes both free and paid apps available for downloading.
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The Next Web, IntoMobile, I4U News, Boy Genius Report and Gadgetell
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
300,000 Apple apps? Not so fast! — The iOS App Store is large and dynamic market place, and measuring its size can be tricky — On Sept. 1, Steve Jobs announced that there were more than 250,000 apps to choose from in Apple's (AAPL) App Store. — On Saturday, two websites …
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iPodNN and Phone Arena
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Groupon Is No Ebay — Chicago-based Groupon is certainly one heck of a startup. Like Zynga it sort of came out of nowhere in 2009. Even last December I was sort of only vaguely aware of how fast it was growing. — But it was clear by early 2010 to the whole world that Groupon was on a tear.
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Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Facebook Bans All LOLapps Games and Apps — At midday on Friday, comments began to stream into our Critter Island review complaining that the game had disappeared. It's now a day later, and Critter Island is still down, along with dozens of other apps we have listed in AppData for developer LOLapps.
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VentureBeat and Gamezebo
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Developer Love: Facebook Shuts Down LOLapps
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VentureBeat and Facebook Developer Blog
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Is this the new MacBook Air? — We just received this shot of what is purportedly the inside of the new MacBook Air. Contrary to popular belief, the machine appears to be another 13.3-incher, with the primary modification being extra room for battery cells and apparently no room for a hard drive.
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TechSpot, Startup Meme, CNET News, Redmond Pie, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, Liliputing, I4U News, MacHackPC, AppleInsider, The Huffington Post, TUAW, MacStories, MacRumors, Erictric, SlashGear and Gizmodo
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
MacBook Air Apparent: I Have Never Used My Computer's Optical Drive
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Product Reviews Net, Appletell, Electronista, Technologizer, CNET News, iThinkDifferent, Stowe Boyd, iClarified, Gadget Lab and AppleInsider
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
More details surface on Apple's next-generation MacBook Airs
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I4U News, MacRumors, Electronista, Techie Buzz, VentureBeat and Gizmodo Australia
Thomas Joseph / Boy Genius Report:
Angry Birds for Android gets over 1 million downloads in 1 day — There is no denying the Angry Birds phenomenon. Rovio Mobile, the developers behind the multi-platform Angry Birds app, have just announced a staggering stat — over 1 million Android downloads in 1 day.
BBC:
What would you do with gigabit internet speeds? — South Korea is already ahead of the global technological curve but it is looking to forge even further ahead by boosting broadband speeds across the nation. — It is not aiming at 100, 200 or even 500 megabits per second (Mbps).
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TechSpot
Walter Kirn / New York Times:
Little Brother is Watching — In George Orwell's “1984,” that novel of totalitarian politics whose great mistake was to emphasize the villainy of society's masters while playing down the mischief of the masses, the goal of communications technology was brutal and direct: to ensure the dominance of the state.
TechCrunch:
Why Twitter Is Massively Undervalued Compared To Facebook — Twitter was valued at one billion dollars in its last round of financing, but we believe it may in fact be severely undervalued relative to Facebook because Twitter's value proposition is less obvious.
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Scripting News, Twitterrati and Stowe Boyd, Thanks:rawmeet
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple's Steve Jobs pings Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for dinner — Did Steve Jobs friend, er ping, Mark Zuckerberg? — They are two of Silicon Valley's most famous founders: Jobs created the world's must-have gadgets, Zuckerberg the world's most popular social networking service.
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TechCrunch, Gawker, TUAW, winandmac.com, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, CNET News, Edible Apple, TiPb, MacStories, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, MacDailyNews, MacRumors, Fortune and iClarified, Thanks:steverubel
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Scientists work to improve Internet capacity — Our taste for the Internet is insatiable - traffic is growing so fast that its transmission systems soon might be filled to capacity. But scientists are coping, finding ingenious ways to satisfy our deep bandwidth hunger.
