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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton — Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early '90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on the company's new mutli-touch technology, AppleInsider has learned.
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David Gainer / Microsoft Excel:
Calculation Issue Update — Yesterday we were alerted to an issue in Excel 2007 (and Excel Services 2007) involving calculation of numbers around 65,535. The Excel team would like to provide a description of the issue and explain what we're doing about it. — Background
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Yahoo! to Close Its Podcasting Site — Two years to the month after launching its large podcast search and listening site, Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! Podcasts will cease operation on Halloween, October 31st. The site never came out of Beta before the plug was pulled.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Surprise: MSN Has Built the Video Site of the Future — There are big changes underway over at MSN Video, some of which represent a real look forward for the industry. It's hard to believe, and it isn't pretty, but this is a site you've got to check out. The site's design, full screen player and advertising model are big.
Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP — Yesterday, Erica posted in her state of the iPod touch jailbreak that a hacker named "Martyn" had obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks — I've had it with all the hype about mobile being the next big thing — more to the point, I've had it with the mobile web. Here are five reasons why the web on the go still has a long way to go. — 1. Wireless carrier networks are SLOW
Caroline McCarthy / Crave:
MIT students turn famed Harvard statue into 'Halo' chief — It goes without saying that in addition to a stellar reputation for academic innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is renowned for its geeky pranks. The best-known of these was perhaps the time when students decorated …
Official Google Blog:
A new caffeine-free way to stay alert — Since new videos are constantly appearing all over the web, it's difficult to keep tabs on all of them. But now Google Alerts will make it easy for you to add video to your other Alerts: News, Web, Blog and Groups.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
When wireless > DSL: Sprint, Motorola show off WiMAX on the Chicago River — On a muggy early-autumn evening, I set sail down the Chicago River with a group of Motorola and Sprint executives, marketing people, analysts, and journalists. Everyone was there to see one thing: Mobile WiMAX …
Ben Charny / Wall Street Journal:
Free Wi-Fi Still an Elusive Goal — SAN FRANCISCO — The same forces slowing development of single-city wireless Internet networks are now overwhelming their supersize versions that cover thousands of square miles and scores of municipalities. — A telling example of the malaise can be found …
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Rubicon White Papers:
Growth of web applications in the US: Rapid adoption, but only when there's a real benefit — Status and implications for the tech industry September 25, 2007 Summary: Adoption of web applications is moving faster than most observers realize The rise of web applications …
Inside Google Book Search:
New ways to dig into Book Search — Posted by Pramod Sharma and Garima Sahai, Software Engineers — Every time I go into a bookstore or library, I go straight to the sports section, to check out the newest books on running. In my spare time I'm a runner, and I like to be up on the latest developments in marathon training.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Ranking Changes : Domain Name Importance & 301 Redirects — When Aaron Wall talks, the SEO community listens. Mr. Wall has recently noticed some major changes in the Yahoo ranking algorithm which could have a major effect on sites which enjoy Yahoo rankings, or can't seem to break the Yahoo Top 20.
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:
Widgetbox's App Accelerator turns widgets into Facebook apps — Widgetbox today announced App Accelerator, a step-by-step guide and tool for creating Facebook apps from Widgetbox widgets. The blandly named App Accelerator shrewdly connects the community developers of Widgetbox's widget marketplace …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Supreme Court To Determine If Patent Holders Can Shake Down Entire Supply Chain — from the more-judicial-patent-reform dept — While Congress continues to fight over patent reform (often missing the bigger issues for those that the lobbyists are most interested in) …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vonage: How Low Can You Go? — Vonage (VG), the Holmdel, NJ-based VoIP service provider has been on the ropes for so long that you think it can't get any worse. But it does! Earlier this year the company lost a patent infringement case to Verizon, and was asked by the courts to pay Verizon …
