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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Best Buy becomes first independent iPhone retailer — NEW YORK - Best Buy Co. will start selling the iPhone on Sept. 7, becoming first U.S. chain to do so outside of Apple Inc.'s and AT&T Inc.'s own stores. — The announcement by Best Buy expands the availability of Apple's vaunted phone …
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Three-alarm fire scorches key building on Apple campus — A three-alarm fire burned for more than three hours late Tuesday night at Apple's Cupertino headquarters before firefighters were able to fully extinguish the blaze. — The Santa Clara County Fire Department said it received reports …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Does Good Tech Need PR? — Behind the scenes of many tech blogs these days, there's a rat race for attention, with PR agents struggling to overcome the noise of feeds, news sites and other agents in order to get coverage for their clients. Tiny web tech companies pay $5k …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The PR Roadblock On The Road To Blissful Blogging — Most PR professionals I know are flat out busy right now and being really picky about new clients that they take on. But the way that they do business is under fire. Today's volleys are just the most recent example …
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Launches Fire Eagle — New Platform Enables Users to Easily Update and Manage Their — Location Information Across the Web — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the general availability of Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net) …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Spot Runner lays off 100 — Nick Grouf once told me he started his online-advertising agency, Spot Runner, in Los Angeles, not Silicon Valley, for one reason: The video-production talent he needed to customize television ads en masse was down south. Now, a laid-off employee tells us Spot Runner …
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Kontra / counternotions:
Why Apple doesn't do “Concept Products” — Everyone has a favorite “concept car.” Whether it's the '54 Firebird, '64 Stiletto, '80 Epcot or '88 Sunraycer, these “flights of imagination” all have one thing in common: they weren't for real. — General Motors had no intention of selling these cars …
Richard Shears / Daily Mail:
Google's Street View captures the moment a drunken Aussie keeled over outside his home — A man who fell asleep in a drunken stupor on the grass outside his home was horrified to find his embarrassment posted on the internet. — He had been drowning his sorrows over the death of a friend and collapsed after climbing out of a taxi.
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
VMware: Don't shut down that virtual machine — Update at 8:35 a.m. PT on Wednesday: Since ZDNet UK published this article, a patch for the flaw has been posted to VMware's Web site. — VMware virtual machines on all hosts with the company's latest hypervisor, ESX 3.5 Update 2 …
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Amy Gilroy / TWICE:
Car Internet Debuts From Chrysler — Auburn Hills, Mich. — Chrysler will become the first car maker to offer Internet capability Aug. 25, when its parts division begins selling a Mopar car cellular/Wi-Fi hot spot, expected to be the first of many Internet offerings from the car companies.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint's '08-'09 roadmap: BlackBerry 8350i, Motorola i576, Motorola i950, and a lot more! — What would the world do without BGR? Well, you'd probably have a lot less broken AVAYA phones, less screaming, and just all around happier wireless executives. Oh well.
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Liam Tung / ZDNet.com.au:
HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones — Global banking giant HSBC is considering ditching the BlackBerry and adopting Apple's iPhone as its standard staff mobile device, a move that could result in an order for some 200,000 iPhones. — “We are actually reviewing iPhones from a HSBC Group perspective …
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9 to 5 Mac
Between the Lines:
Nvidia: We underestimated AMD — Nvidia had one ugly second quarter. It lost money. It took a charge for defective chips. And it's stuck with low-margin inventory it has to burn off. Amazing how a little price competition from AMD's ATI can magnify poor execution at Nvidia.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Lehman's Online U.S. Advertising Forecast: Another $20 Billion In Growth By 2012 And Online Video Takes Off — I was (digitally) leafing through the latest Lehman Brothers Internet Data Book for August this morning, and came across these forecasts for total U.S. Internet online ad spending and online video ad spending.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Facebook: No. 1 Globally — The social network site has vaulted over rival MySpace in worldwide audience growth, thanks to tools that translate content into many languages — When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to illustrate the impact of his social network, he tells a story …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Users Get More Control Over Feeds — Facebook will tweak the user profile sometime tonight to let users fine tune the news items delivered to them on their home page. Currently users can filter news items to see top items, status updates, new photos and posted items from friends.
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Adds Speed, Smarts, and Languages to Safari Plug-In, Inquisitor — Just 3 months after acquiring the assets of the Safari search plug-in, Inquisitor, Yahoo is announcing updates to the add-on. — Using the recently launched BOSS technology, Inquisitor is now faster in providing Yahoo results.
