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New York Times:
Smartphone Is Expected via Google — T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company's plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Confirmed: AOL will acquire Socialthing — AOL's People Networks division, formed when the company acquired Bebo, has picked up a new friend: Socialthing, a Boulder, Colo.-based start-up that aggregates social feeds from sites like Digg, Twitter, and Flickr. — The acquisition has not yet been completed, but is close to it.
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Matt / Socialthing! blog:
Ok, so yeah...it's true! We got acquired... You my have seen the rumors, the leaks, etc. and while we just had to sit here and watch it all go down, we wanted nothing more than to tell the entire world how excited we are. — This post has been a long time coming and we're very excited …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Launches AdSense for Feeds — I noticed a new option in my AdSense account: AdSense for feeds, a program that displays contextual and placement-targeted ads in FeedBurner feeds. FeedBurner announced in May that AdSense for Feeds will be available to a small number of publishers and now it seems that everyone can use it.
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Dell Puts the Bite on Apple — Former Apple vet Tim Bucher, now at Dell, is counting on his Zing software to give iTunes some competition — On Nov. 10, 2004, Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had a strained conversation with Tim Bucher, one of the company's engineering executives.
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Andrew Clark / Guardian:
Google pipped - Apple the new king of Silicon Valley as market value overtakes hi-tech rival — The sleek, touchscreen iPhone has proved so lucrative for Apple that the electronic gadgets manufacturer has unseated Google to become the most valuable company in America's cradle of technological innovation, Silicon Valley.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Palm Treo Pro Revealed (Lookin' Good) — Wow, check out the Treo Pro, previously thought to be the Treo 850. It's safe to say Palm is plunging ahead with the Centro's industrial design, but the stark (glossy?) black and white color scheme with the phone/end orbs make it slick, rather than kiddie cool.
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Chris Snyder / Epicenter:
Google Ordered to Unmask Mystery Blogger in India — Google has been instructed to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger in a defamation lawsuit filed by an Indian construction company against them, reports the Wall Street Journal. — The blogger known only as “Toxic Writer,” …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
10 Worst Web glitches of 2008 (so far) — We have been reminded several times lately that Web 2.0 is in no way a synonym for “reliable.” Major services have crashed. Big product launches have fizzled. Users have raised their collective fists in the air. What's going on? Is the Web crumbling?
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Exclusive: A Look at Google Ad Planner Data Vs. Comscore — When Google Ad Planner came out back in June, I immediately thought of Comscore - and I was not alone. Many in the marketing industry thought that Google's product would be a “Comscore killer,” and when I noted as much in my coverage …
Dennis O'Reilly / CNET News.com:
Merge your Outlook and Gmail contacts — I spend most of my workday Alt-Tabbing between my Gmail inbox and the Outlook account on my employer's Exchange Server. The problem is, when it comes to contacts, there isn't much overlap between the two: Only a handful of Gmail addresses are also in the Outlook contacts list, and vice-versa.
Industry Standard:
Facebook users change middle names to Hussein in Obama solidarity protest — Facebook claims it cracks down on fraudulent profiles and approves every name change that users make — so why are they letting Barack Obama supporters to change their middle name to “Hussein”?
Meghan Keane / Epicenter:
NBC Laughs All the Way to the Bank (Take That, Bloggers) — UPDATED with quotes from Jeff Zucker. — NBC may be taking lumps in the blogosphere for its decision to provide so much of its Olympics coverage exclusively through traditional channels, but they have given advertisers …
David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Sun open-sources mobile Java UI toolkit — Sun has open-sourced its toolkit for creating Java-based user interfaces for mobile phones. — The source code for the lightweight UI toolkit was released Thursday under the “GPLv2 with Classpath Exception” license.
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Yahoo!:
Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple Appointed to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple were appointed to Yahoo!'s board of directors. — “We are pleased to add people …
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Steve / Netflix Community Blog:
Thursday Morning Shipping Update — Hi, it's Andy again. Unfortunately, we continue to experience significant shipping issues as of Thursday morning. We were able to ship some DVDs from about half of our distribution centers yesterday but we haven't yet been able to resume shipping this morning.
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