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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade [u] — Just days before Apple is expected to unveil its new line of iPods, multiple reports are suggesting that some of the widely anticipated camera-equipped media players could be delayed due to technical difficulties. [Updated with info from Hardmac.]
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple's Sept. 9 music event: What's Steve Jobs got up his sleeve? — New iPods? Check. With cameras? Very likely. iTunes 9? Why not. Steve Jobs on stage? Who knows. The Beatles on iTunes? Don't count on it — but don't count it out, either. — Apple's (AAPL) …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Inevitable Move Of iTunes To The Cloud — Here we are on the eve of another Apple event. There is never a shortage of hype surrounding these, but this one may have a bit more than normal because of the possibility that it could be Apple CEO Steve Jobs' first public gig since returning …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App — Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr has done things the hard way on the iPhone. That is to say, for browsing photos they've made you go through their optimized website, and for uploading you had to do it through email.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Don't expect Apple TV as cable set top box, Apple exec says — Though rumors have persisted for years that the Apple TV might transition from a media streaming solution into a cable box competitor, a new report said an Apple executive “killed that concept.”
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BBC:
T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger — T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. — The deal between Orange-owner France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK will see a business with sales of 9.4bn euros (£8.2bn; $13.5bn).
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Let It Be: Beatles Still Not Coming to iTunes Tomorrow — iPods with cameras? Maybe. iTunes with new features? For sure. iTunes with Beatles? Nope. — I'm sure that Apple (AAPL) will indeed sell the Fab Four's music via its digital music store one day. But it's not happening at Apple's keynote presentation tomorrow.
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NME:
Paul McCartney: 'We'd like Beatles songs to be downloads' — Macca speaks in special ‘13 covers’ Beatles edition of NME - get yours now — Paul McCartney has told NME.COM that he wants The Beatles songs to be available as downloads. — The Fab Four's work has long been absent …
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Mayfield Fund Hires a Young V.C. for Her Fresh Eye — There are not many young faces in Silicon Valley's venture capital firms. That worries some people, who say that young entrepreneurs need young investors who are up-to-date on new technologies. — Mayfield Fund, a venture firm founded in 1969, is taking that notion to heart.
Matthew Aslett / 451 CAOS Theory:
WSJ reports OIN to acquire former SGI patents (via Microsoft) — An interesting story in today's Wall Street Journal states that the Open Invention Network is “nearing an agreement to acquire 22 patents that Microsoft sold to another organization earlier this year” that could be used to protect Linux from patent attacks.
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Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
iPhone C64 Emulator Approved by Apple, Removed Again for Hiding Banned Feature — UPDATE: C64 Emulator has yet again been pulled from the App Store for sneaking in an easter egg that allows the execution of code in a BASIC interpreter. See the end of the post for details.
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Chris Angelini / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Intel Core i5 And Core i7: Intel's Mainstream Magnum Opus — Table of contents — Intel's emphasis right now is on Clarkdale, the Nehalem-based mainstream lineup centering on a 32nm process shrink. Clarkdale will be the foundation on which upcoming Core i5 and Core i3 CPUs are based.
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Ryan Shrout / PC Perspective:Intel Lynnfield Core i7-870 and Core i5-750 Processor Review
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AIM Now Goes Both Ways (With Twitter And Facebook) — In July, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) embraced the stream in a new beta (for both Windows and Mac) and started moving beyond simple IMs. You can now see your Facebook and Twitter feeds, along with AIM buddy updates and feeds from other services.
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
Foxconn Developing Inexpensive, Arm-based Smartbooks — Foxconn Technology plans to launch its first smartbooks next year, which are mini-laptops that use microprocessors from Arm Holdings normally found in smartphones. — Smartbooks are similar to netbooks except that they don't use …
Lambert V. / technabob:
microsoft (mis)educates best buy employees about linux — A Best Buy employee recently posted screenshots of what he claims is part of a training program about Windows 7. The screenshots show some Windows vs. Linux comparisons. You probably know where this is going.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support — Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft's client software …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to preview two Silverlight 4 features — Microsoft is slated to show off two features that it is incorporating into the next version of Silverlight, its Internet Explorer plug-in alternative to Adobe Flash at the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam, which kicks off on September 11.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Tattoo (aka, Click) brings Android, Sense UI to all — This one sure took awhile but the oft leaked HTC Click has been renamed and kicked out the door as the Tattoo. While HTC is light on specs with the press release, we know it has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5-mm headset jack, and microSD expansion.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft's Xbox — Does today's speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened to it, I personally can't see many parents objecting. But I could see one tech company not happy: Microsoft.
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Services' E-Mail Hacking Illegal, but Officials Need More Than That to Prosecute — When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com. — And for only $100, YourHackerz.com provided Cioni …
James Boyle / Financial Times:
A copyright black hole swallows our culture — Librarians call it the 20th-century black hole. The overwhelming force is not gravity but copyright law, sucking our collective culture into a vortex from which it can never escape. — That culture includes millions of books Google wants to make available online.
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Chris Brandrick / InfoWorld:
Firefox 4.0 to arrive late 2010 — Latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser will bring a new user interface and multi-touch gesture support — Mozilla recently released a product roadmap with a number of new details on what the foundation is hoping to release between now and the end of 2010 …
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Michele Sinner / Reuters:
EU law may allow bans on foreign bet websites: court — LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The 2.5 billion euro ($3.6 billion) online betting industry suffered a setback on Tuesday as the European Union said that a member states could be allowed to ban gambling websites if its intention was to stop crime.
Mercedes Bunz / Guardian:
Twitterers prepare for Twestival — Party for a good cause with the get-together for fans of the microblogging site — Do something for your karma: the Live Aid of the technology world, Twestival, is about to happen again. On Thursday evening, 10 September, Twitterers will get together …
