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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPod Touch Second Generation Rocks Our Socks Off — The new iPod touch is out. It has a new design: chrome rim, with a tapered back similar to the iPhone, but thinner. It now includes external volume controls as well. It also has Nike+ integrated with no transmitter needed …
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Joshua Fruhlinger / Engadget:
Apple launches iTunes 8, NBC comes back, TV shows at $1.99, Genius in the house — Just in time for couch season, Apple has busted out iTunes 8 with a slew of new features, like the Genius sidebar. Also, NBC is back on board with its lineup of TV shows. According to Jobs …
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple event: A few extra details you didn't get (Updated) — By now, you've already heard about what was announced during this morning's Apple Event: Let's Rock. New iPod nanos, new iPod touches, price drops, iPhone/iPod touch 2.1, iTunes 8, oh my! And, if you've been paying attention to Infinite Loop …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Apple rocks out, announces new iPods, iTunes 8 — At the latest in what is becoming an annual September event for Apple, the company today announced a number of new products in time for the holiday rush. We covered the Steve Jobs' “Let's Rock” keynote live in San Francisco …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Official: iPod nano reaches 4G, looks tall for its age — Well well. Can't say we're surprised to be telling you about the new 4th generation iPod nano. As we heard, 9 colors, bigger $149 8GB and $199 16GB capacity, and wider display under the control of an accelerometer …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Live from Apple's 'Let's Rock' event in San Francisco — 9:08AM PT - We're outside the center, journalists are milling about in preparation for the event! Everyone's roped in, kind of like a small pasture. — 9:22AM PT - Apple Store is down. Shocking!
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
“Funnest” iPod ever: photos of the new iPod touch — You've seen the nano pictures, so here are the new iPod touch photos. The device is indeed more iPhone-like with a more curved back. The volume controls are in the same place as the iPhone and work well, and the speakers sound …
Brad Stone / Bits:
At Apple Event, a New iPod but No Big Surprises — We're at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for Apple's annual September music event, this year entitled “Let's Rock.” The prodigious Apple rumor mill predicts new iPod Nanos, a cheaper iPod Touch and perhaps a new version of the iTunes software.
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Matt Burns / CrunchGear:Apple updates the iPod Classic to a minimum of 120GB; kills thick, 160GB model
dpreview.com:
Sony Alpha 900, Previewed — Pre-Photokina: Nearly 18 months after it first appeared as a prototype at trade shows, Sony has announced its eagerly anticipated flagship digital SLR, the Alpha 900 - finally giving Minolta/Konica Minolta users a full frame option.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Turns 20 (fiction) — This month, September 2018, marks the 20th anniversary of Google as a business - ever since in 1998, a Mr. Bechtolsheim signed a check for $100,000. We've come a long way since the happy days of the 10th anniversary, around a time when Google employees got together …
Josh Cohen / Google News Blog:
Update on United Airlines story — Aggregators like Google News were today the subject of news - this time pertaining to a 2002 story regarding United Airlines. For those of you who are interested in the nuts and bolts of why this was indexed by Google News, here are the details:
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google News Error Aids In United Airlines Stock Drop
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 Livestream: Day 2 — We'll be streaming TechCrunch50 here Monday through Wednesday so everyone can see the conference's demos for themselves as they happen. — You can also find our written coverage of the conference here and coverage from other news outlets below.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
At VMware, a Firing Is Still Reverberating — In the summer of 2007, Diane Greene was lauded as a business hero for leading VMware, a maker of business software, to the hottest stock debut since Google. But in the ensuing year, despite her popularity with employees and on Wall Street …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-052 - Critical — Vulnerabilities in GDI+ Could Allow Remote Code Execution (954593) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows GDI+.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Fitness Gadget Aims to Help Users Lose Weight — Using the Fitbit Tracker is like having a personal trainer, nutritionist and sleep doctor attached to your hip at all times. — The gadget, unveiled Tuesday at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco, tracks your health minute-to-minute …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
New YouTube Tool Helps Increase Viewing of Videos — HotSpots Feature Tracks When Audience Watches — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Every minute, 10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube. While that figure is a source of pride for the Google-owned video-sharing site, for marketers …
Brian X. Chen / Epicenter:
SpinSpotter Combats Unethical, Biased Journalism — SAN DIEGO, CA — The media typically keeps organizations in check, but the tables have turned with a new web site allowing users to report journalists for bias and inaccuracies. — SpinSpotter unveiled its web site Tuesday at the DEMOfall 2008 conference.
Microsoft:
Silverlight Shines at International Broadcasting Conference 2008 in Amsterdam — Q&A: Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, talks about how Microsoft Silverlight is helping the global broadcasting and media industry grow their presence - and viewership - on the Web.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
MacBook Air owners find latest Apple fix producing mixed results — Users of Apple's ultraportable Mac are increasingly reporting that a firmware update might be taming processor usage, but is still leaving many of their systems too hot to use and prone to software freezes.
