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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Wallet Likely Launching Tomorrow — Last week, Google posted an awesome teaser video for Google Wallet featuring George Costanza. The implication: Google Wallet would finally be launching soon. Now we think we know when: tomorrow. — As you can see in the above image …
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9to5Google, Business Insider, Front Side Bus, Gizmodo, CNET News, Slashdot, Android Phone Fans and Local Media Watch
Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
The $99 TouchPad Returns To HP's Employee Purchasing Program On Sept 28th — It's not very often I get to write that it's a good day to be an HP employee. But it's also not everyday that HP employees are offered some of the last TouchPads. — The company is set to release a final batch …
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Examiner, PC Magazine, ZDNet, Liliputing, Electronista, I4U News and Neowin.net
Horace Dediu / asymco:
OS turning circles: Questioning Windows' maneuverability — I'm glad Windows 8 is named the way it is. With Windows 7 Microsoft went to a numbering system which is much more rational than the mixed naming of the past. The number 8 actually corresponds to the actual sequential number of major versions of Windows released to date.
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Siobhan Dowling / Guardian:
Pirate party snatches seats in Berlin state election — Irreverent campaign that initially focused on filesharing, data protection and censorship draws 8.5% of vote, exit polls indicate — An upstart band of internet freedom activists are to enter Berlin's state parliament …
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TorrentFreak, Boing Boing, Slashdot, Aljazeera, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, Associated Press, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, @anked and Deutsche Welle
Michelle Quinn / The Politico:
Google's algorithm for Hill hearings — SAN FRANCISCO—When Google's Eric Schmidt takes the oath at a Senate hearing Wednesday, he's expected to present the Internet giant as a cool innovator that just wants to improve Web searches — not a ruthless firm that controls what people see online and squashes competitors.
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Reuters, @dannysullivan, Search Engine Land, Washington Post and PC World
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing New Celebrity Endorsement Advertising Program — Google users may soon see celebrity endorsements included as annotations under paid search results as part of new advertising program that the company has just started testing. Google's Christian Oestlien revealed the test …
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PC Magazine, Thanks:steverubel
Dan Seifert / MobileBurn.com:
AT&T's 4G LTE network set to go live today — News by Dan Seifert on Sunday September 18, 2011. — Sponsored links, if any, appear in green. — Today is the day that AT&T has said that its 4G LTE network would become operational and available to general consumers in the five test markets previously announced.
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Digital Trends, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, Business Insider, PC World, InformationWeek, This is my next, Engadget and CNET News
Dieter Bohn / This is my next:
Windows 8 demos hint at phone integration? — Could Windows 8 let you call and text your relatives directly from your “Metro-style” tablet? That's what a raft of new evidence suggests, as istartedsomething discovered that two videos from Microsoft's Build developer conference have a variety of references to telephony.
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istartedsomething, PC World, eWeek, WMPoweruser, WinRumors, GottaBeMobile and OSNews
Michael Riley / Business Week:
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Robot — CSIdentity's artificial intelligence program extracts data from hackers — Hackers have proven they can crack just about any computer network, from Sony's to Citigroup's. Afterward, they face another challenge: unloading the virtual booty.
Seth Sternberg / TechCrunch:
Search Wars? Just Wait For The Social Wars. — Editor's note: This guest post was written by Seth Sternberg, the CEO and co-founder of Meebo. — Rewind to the year 2000. There was an explosion in internet innovation. The stock stock market was starting to get shaky.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why Twitter doesn't care what your real name is — Amid all the noise and fury over Google's policy of requiring real names (or at least real-sounding names) on its new Google+ network — a policy that Facebook also has, and one we have been critical of in the past — it's easy to forget …
Thanks:mathewi
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed — Five years ago Intel announced its ambitious tick-tock release cadence. We were doubtful that Intel could pull off such an aggressive schedule but with the exception of missing a few months here or there tick-tock has been a success.
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