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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Comcast to Slow Some Web Traffic for Up to 20 Minutes — Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp. plans to slow Internet service to its heaviest users during periods of congestion, after regulators ordered the company to devise a new method for managing its Web traffic.
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Comcast to Slow Web Service at Times to Its Heaviest Users — The Comcast Corporation plans to slow service to its heaviest Internet users during periods of congestion after regulators ordered the company to devise a new method for managing its Web traffic.
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Intel® And Yahoo!® To Bring The Internet To Television — TV Widgets Bring “Best of the Internet” Experience to Complement TV Viewing — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20, 2008 - Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television …
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Michael Wolf / NewTeeVee:Intel and Yahoo Look to Widgetize the Living Room Web
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook's forthcoming iPhone app to be more like its web site; that site redesign was no coincidence — Facebook is planning to launch a new version of its iPhone application in September, that will make the app more like the newly-redesigned web site. So, the deeper rationale for the site redesign …
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Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Apple tries to de-bug iPhone — Apple (AAPL) acknowledged Tuesday that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G. — Though mum on details, Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock said on Tuesday …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Apple hit with class-action lawsuit over iPhone 3G flakiness
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget Mobile:
Palm Treo Pro unboxing and hands-on — Well we've gotten our hands all over Palm's new Treo - the Pro - and we've documented it all on film... er, disk. Here's what were liking so far - no more recessed screen (finally!), that HTC-licensed task manager, and the extremely slick packaging.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle
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Erica Sadun / TUAW:
The Rumor Room: iTunes Unlimited — By definition, nearly all tips we receive about Apple future product intros are wrong. After all, we're not Engadget. People aren't going to risk their jobs to deliver insider information. — That being said, a tip that shot into our mailbox …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
LG's PRADA II? — We don't have much to go off of besides this picture right now, but it looks as if LG is keeping the PRADA line of mobile handsets around for a little bit. The PRADA II, as it's pictured, adds a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easier text entry.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Social Median Disregards 75 Years Of Securities Regulations With Sale Of Stock On Twitter — SocialMedian founder Jason Goldberg wrote a Twitter message moments ago letting people know that they are raising a new round of funding, up to $500k, and to contact him if you're interested.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hillcrest Labs: Nintendo's Wii Infringing Our Patents — Hillcrest Labs, a Rockville, Mnd.-based startup, says it has filed a complaint for patent infringement with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in Washington, D.C., and a separate patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court …
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
Martin wants broadband across USA — WASHINGTON — High-speed Internet access is so important to the welfare of U.S. consumers that America can't afford not to offer it — free of charge — to anybody who wants it, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin says.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft, Sony offer new video-game gizmos — There's lots of video-game controller and peripheral news coming out of the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, today. Here's a roundup: — New keyboard: Microsoft, continuing the revival of its SideWinder gaming peripheral brand …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
An Unexpected Look at an All-New Google News — Google has long liked to test new features by randomly surprising a subset of its visitors with them to gauge their response. Seems like I'm always reading blog posts from folks who have stumbled upon something unexpected and interesting …
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
New iPhone Comes Loaded with Photos of the Girl Who Made It — We've seen pictures from the factory coming loaded on new iPhones before, but this is the first time we've seen what appear to be intentional snapshots loaded on a new iPhone. Surprise: the person who put your iPhone together is a cute girl!
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Retail sources say its closing time for current iPod line — Resellers both near and afar are reporting signs that Apple's current line of iPod digital music players are on their way out the door, just as one prominent Wall Street analyst restates his claim that a $199 iPod touch is likely …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
OpenSocial Now Reaches 350 Million Users, And Growing — Six months ago, OpenSocial was nothing but a list of promised partnerships. But the social network application platform backed by Google has made a lot of progress since then as those partners started to go live with their OpenSocial Apps.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sony gets official with PSP-3000 — It's not like Sony could really keep this thing under wraps for much longer, but the company finally did the deed by announcing the PSP-3000 at the Leipzig Games Convention. The unit itself will look exactly like the PSP-2000, though it will feature an …
