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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Five Facts About Google Phone — Is Google (GOOG) Phone fact or fiction? Engadget says Google's entry into mobile phone business is for real, and the company is going to announce it soon. Scott Kirsner talked to a bunch of folks over who are intimately familiar with the effort and outlined …
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Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:
Introducing the Google Phone — The Internet is buzzing about it, but only a privileged few know what it looks like, what it will do, or when it will hit the streets — Cambridge has a chocolate factory, and a Willy Wonka. The chocolate factory is Google's local research lab …
Willpark / IntoMobile:
Google puts in patent application for SMS text message payment system - say what? — Wait, hasn't this already been done before? Indeed it has. SMS text message-based payment system have been in use for quite some time now, and it seems that Google has been keen to the new trend for about a year and a half.
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Search Engine Land, Insider Chatter, textually.org, SMS Text News and Mobile Marketing Watch
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Could GPay Be Google's Killer Phone App? — An interesting new patent was published August 30 that would suggest that Google is developing a mobile phone payment system. — The Text Message Payment patent details a system where by Google offers a mobile focused payments under the title of GPay.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Software via the Internet: Microsoft in 'Cloud' Computing — The empire is preparing to strike back — again. — In 1995, Microsoft added a free Web browser to its operating system in an attempt to fend off new rivals, an effort ultimately blocked by the courts.
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Download Squad, TechCrunch, All about Microsoft, Sadagopan's weblog …, Mobility Site, Read/WriteWeb, 24/7 Wall St., LiveSide and Mashable!
Dburka / The Pownce Blog:
Fresh Features — We've just released a bunch of new stuff today to make Pownce even better. There are a number of changes behind the scenes to help the site run faster as well as some sweet new things you can definitely see. — Upcoming Event Notifications
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Download Squad, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, muhammad.saleem's …, TechCrunch, franticindustries, Mashable! and Digg
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPhoneSIMfree begins fulfilling bulk orders, apparently will not unlock end users' phones — Are you ready for it? Looks like iPhoneSIMfree is. A number of tipsters have sent us emails that they've received announcing the availability of the elusive software unlock — delivery on Tuesday, 4th of September.
BBC:
Mobiles to become digital wallets — The UK's big five mobile phone firms have switched on a payment system that turns handsets into digital wallets. — Called PayForIt, the scheme is designed for those buying goods and services with a value of up to £10.
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Sony confirms security problem — Electronics giant Sony has confirmed a recently discovered security flaw in some of its products that could leave PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers. — The firm said that the fault, which affected software packaged with memory sticks, was developed by a third-party.
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Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Jotspot Coming to Google Apps as Google Wiki? — Since acquiring Jotspot last October, Google has been busy working on integrating the wiki service into its infrastructure. — In April this year, Jotspot's help and support pages moved to Google and a few months later Dave Girouard mentioned …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Multi-Day Paypal Subscription Outage — PayPal users are reporting the widespread failure of the PayPal subscription service. — According to user reports, the subscription service stopped working August 30 and remains down. PayPal subscription payments are used widely by service providers …
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BBC:
Nintendo dominates in console war — Nintendo's Wii continues to dominate the Japanese console market, according to latest sales figures. — Nintendo sold nearly a quarter of a million machines during August, whilst Sony sold just over 80,000 PlayStation 3s and Microsoft just 11,000 Xbox 360s.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
A Man & His 100 Mbps Fiber Connected Life — Swedish grannies are connecting to the net at 40 gigabits per second life; 100 megabit per seconds are becoming common place in Japan and Korea; and even French are dreaming of an ultra-fast fiber future. And yet, in the US we are all stuck in the slow lane …
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Flynn De Marco / Kotaku:
Random Act Of Kindness: Games, Hope and Charity — Games, Hope and Charity — It always warms my heart to hear gamers acting selflessly and this little tale from the halls of PAX is one that deserves telling. — Mr. Pulsar (pictured, above) arrived at PAX this year wanting to compete …
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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:
A question for Twitter users out there — In the past week or so there has been talk about the informal use of tags in Twitter posts; also known as tweets, and using the pound key - # - as an identifier for those tags. In theory I think this could be a great idea put I have a couple …
Dick / Ask the Wizard:
Lessons Learned: Obviously, it's not Obvious — To say that the Wizard has not been answering his mail would be a dramatic understatement. Woe betide the person that has mistakenly turned to me for guidance over the past couple months. What can I say, there are only so many hours in the day …
