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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
VideoSurf: New, Genuinely Radical Video Search — I'm generally not given to hyperbole or breathless enthusiasm when writing about a new search service. Quite the opposite, in fact—over the decade I've covered search I've seen so many so-called “radically new” approaches that are simply updates …
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Research in Motion:
RIM Introduces the First BlackBerry Flip Phone — New BlackBerry Pearl Flip Brings The Industry's Leading Mobile Messaging Solution To Consumers Who Prefer Flip Phones — Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM, TSX: RIM) today unveiled the BlackBerry® Pearl™ Flip 8220 smartphone …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhone 2.1 software update announced (update: $10 for some iPod touch owners) — Ah, bug fixes galore. Apple just announced firmware 2.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch. “No crashes,” says Steve. He's calling it a big update with the promise of fewer dropped calls, big battery improvement, and faster backups.
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Bill Ray / The Register:
US Senate wants answers on soaring text rates — The chair of the Antitrust Subcommittee in the Senate Judiciary Committee has written to the four largest US network operators demanding they explain why the cost of texting has doubled since 2005. — Text messages have been a nice little earner …
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GamesIndustry.biz:
Phil Spencer: Ensemble closure is “right thing for our business” — Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Game Studios, has told staff that the closure of Ensemble Studios - the team behind the Age of Empires titles and the forthcoming Halo Wars - was a difficult decision, but “the right thing for our business at this time”.
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Nick Breckon / *Shacknews* Games:Rumor: Halo Wars Dev Ensemble Shutting Down, Non-essential Employees …
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Nokia:
Nokia brings Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync corporate mobile email solution to 80 million mobile devices — 43 Nokia S60 3rd Edition devices - the largest range from any device manufacturer to enable Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync - now feature the latest version of Mail for Exchange with fast and easy email set-up
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Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson announces launch dates for Xperia™ X1 — Sony Ericsson today announces 30 September 2008 as the official launch date for the highly anticipated Xperia™ X1 - initially available to consumers in the UK, Germany and Sweden. The handset will be available …
Bonnie Cha / CNET News:
Sprint first to offer HTC Touch Pro — Unlike last week's slip up, Sprint managed to keep this bit of news under wraps and announced on the opening day of CTIA Fall 2008 that it will offer the HTC Touch Pro starting in October (exact date is TBA). The ultimate replacement for the Sprint HTC Mogul …
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: 3 experiments with labels — Since launching our first batch of 13 Gmail Labs features, we've received a lot of suggestions for more experimental features you'd like to see — plus, we've had some of our own ideas. Today, there's a new batch of labs features to play with.
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Elaine Chow / Gizmodo:
iTunes 8 Causing Huge Problems, BSOD for Vista Users — Looks like iTunes 8 is really not playing so well with Windows. Users of both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista are reporting getting the blue screen of death whenever they plug in an iPod or iPhone. Downgrading back down to 7.7 appears to solve the problem …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Blogger's Arrest Resulted In Much More Downloading Of GNR Music — Last month, of course, there was a big story around the FBI arresting a blogger who was accused of posting the music files from Guns N' Roses latest album. He now faces many years in jail, despite simply being a fan helping to promote GNR.
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Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
State looks at antitrust in Google-Yahoo deal — California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office is reviewing documents related to an advertising partnership announced in June by Google and Yahoo, the No. 1 and No. 2 search engines on the Web, in preparation for a possible investigation of the deal.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:We hate success — The Justice Department has hired a litigator …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils World's Most Advanced Tracking Technology — Microsoft's proprietary BlueTrack Technology sets new industry standard, surpasses optical and laser to track on virtually any surface. — REDMOND, Wash. Sept. 9, 2008 Microsoft Corp. today unveiled the world's …
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Norman Chan / Maximum PC all:Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft's BlueTrack Mouse Technology
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Mohsin / Newlaunches.com:
T9 inventor now brings us Swype - simply slide to type — You may not know who Cliff Kushler is, he is the inventor of the T9 Keyboard technology, and he has now come with another revolutionary technology to make our texting even easier. The new technology called Swype is as simple as tapping …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
AOL rolls out one-stop e-mail service — AOL on Wednesday unveiled a new e-mail feature designed to allow users to access multiple e-mail services from one location on the site. — The e-mail service is part of AOL's plans to debut new features to the site over the coming weeks …
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Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
What do CIOs Think About Social Media? — The internal IT department, headed by the CIO, no longer acts as the gatekeeper for all new technology coming into the enterprise. IT may stand at the gate to the castle, but SaaS and social media startups are swimming across the moat.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mark Cuban: “When I die, I want to come back as me” — To round out the day's schedule at TechCrunch50, Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban, the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare …
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