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Joe Wilcox / Apple Watch:
Should You Pay Twice as Much for a Mac? — [Editor's Note: This is companion to another post at Microsoft Watch telling a different story from the same NPD data.] — On Saturday, I got to wondering about Mac versus Windows PC pricing after seeing two HP notebooks on sale at the local Target.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
BitTorrent Inc. laying off 12 of 55 employees — BitTorrent Inc., the file-sharing startup whose underlying technology is responsible for much of the piracy that plagues Hollywood, is laying off its sales and marketing department. The immediate cause of the layoffs: A failure to sell …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Mozilla mocks up possible Firefox successors in idea factory — Mozilla Labs this week took steps to open up its idea factory to wider outside input, asking for community help to develop the next big ideas that might power future browsers. Like any good research lab, the goal …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Worthless, $1000 “I Am Rich” iPhone App Disappears (AAPL) — The $1000, zero-utility “I Am Rich” app for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch has been removed from the iTunes App Store. — It no longer appears in searches, and a tipster tells us that it's no longer visible …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Pew: Daily Search Usage Approaching Email Levels — According to a new report from The Pew Internet & American Life Project, daily use of search engines is growing and starting to approach email usage levels. New research conducted by telephone 2,251 US adults, age 18 and older …
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eWeek:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Ready for RTM — Microsoft is releasing SQL Server 2008 to manufacturing after several delays. Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 will help Microsoft compete with Oracle and its 11g database, and IBM and its DB2 9.5 database. SQL Server 2008 will be generally available within two weeks.
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Arn / MacRumors:
New Apple Cinema Displays Finally at MWSF 2009? — Readers interested in new Apple Cinema Displays may have to wait just a bit longer. — Apple has not significantly updated their Cinema Displays in years. Apple currently offers 20", 23" and 30" monitors at $599, $899, and $1799, respectively.
Harichandan Arakali / Bloomberg:
Bharti Airtel to Bring IPhone 3G to India This Month — Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) — Bharti Airtel Ltd., India's largest mobile-phone operator, will introduce the iPhone 3G in the country on Aug. 22, part of a 70-nation rollout of the faster, cheaper upgrade to Apple Inc.'s mobile handset.
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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Facebook Stock for Sale — Top execs at the social network are selling shares—at prices far lower than the site's once-vaunted $15 billion valuation — Insiders at Facebook are selling stock in the social networking company, and the prices they're getting for their shares suggest …
Dan Lewis / Wikia Search Blog:
Introducing Wikia Evolution — One of our core values at Wikia Search is Community. We want everyone to be able to participate in the Wikia Search project. That's why we are proud to introduce Wikia Evolution, our new Firefox toolbar. You can download it here, or via Mozilla's Firefox Add-On Library.
Peggy Nahmany / Google:
Publicis Groupe to Acquire Performics Search Marketing Business — Paris and Mountain View, Calif. (August 6, 2008) - Publicis Groupe (EURONEXT Paris: FR0000130577) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire the Performics search marketing business (Performics) from Google.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple, Palm among the targets in GSM smartphone lawsuit — A small patent licensing firm hopes to skim profits from Apple and other top smartphone makers by suing them for allegedly violating no less than ten patents relating to GSM phone technology and voice encoding.
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
How To Watch The Beijing Olympics LIVE On The Web — Even If NBC Doesn't Want You To — NBC will bring 2200 hours of Beijing Olympics streaming video to the web, starting today. But Americans will miss some of the best parts. Why? Because NBC, which has exclusive rights to the games …
Grant Gross / PC World:
DOJ Files Complaint Against Online Ad Firm — The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to seize two houses and US$53 million from the owner of an Internet-based business allegedly engaged in a “massive” Ponzi scheme, the agency said. — The DOJ on Tuesday filed a civil forfeiture complaint …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Goes Gaudy With YouTube Ads — Take a look at the image here and you see proof of what we all knew: Google is not going to put its highfalutin ideals above the practical realities of its business. — This is a screen grab of a YouTube player embedded in a blog.
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
‘GTA IV’ making its way onto PCs this fall — Over at our sister site, Gamespot, Wednesday, the eagle-eyed Guy Cocker noticed that Rockstar Games has officially announced its mega-hit, Grand Theft Auto IV, is coming to the PC. — Originally available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 …
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Phil Wainewright / Software as Services:
When Google disowns you — SaaS providers are still learning the hard way that If you trade in dependency, you have to earn trust: “[Clients of] on-demand application providers ... depend on them for everyday functions and operations, and therefore trust is paramount.”
BBC:
UK questioned on online ad system — The UK government has until the end of August to respond to a letter from the European Union about the controversial online ad system Phorm. — EU commissioner Viviane Reding has asked the UK government to clarify whether the system is in breach of European data laws.
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