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Punit Soni / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time — For more than 200 years, matters of local and national significance have been conveyed in newsprint — from revolutions and politics to fashion to local weather or high school football scores. Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions …
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Kevin Rose:
Predictions for tomorrow's Apple event — It's been a couple weeks, so I thought I'd do a little roundup of my predictions/rumors: — New design for the iPod Nano (this one) — iPod price reductions — 2.1 software on iPod Touch — iTunes 8.0 — New audio visualization (this one)
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Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple looks to revive that special event magic — Other than football fans, there are probably few people in America happier to see the month of September than Apple executives. — Apple will look to put the last six weeks behind it with the expected launch of new iPods this week during …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Apple Predictions+Grain of Salt=Impossible — As usual before yet another big Apple event, the psychic friends network is in overdrive, in anticipation of the iconic computer company's “Let's Rock” media gathering to be held in San Francisco tomorrow. — At this point, I think Apple …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft confirms Zune details — Updated 10:20 a.m., with pricing details. — With most of its news already leaked out there, Microsoft on Monday confirmed the details of its fall Zune lineup. — On the hardware side, Microsoft will beef up Zune's capacity, expanding the hard drive-based model …
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Microsoft:
Zune Takes Music Discovery to the Next Level With New Ways to Find and Access Digital Music — Software update will enable Zune users to tag songs and buy music directly from FM radio and download and stream music on the go beginning Sept. 16. — Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end-to-end music …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zune Gets New Features That Won't Help Sell Zunes — Not a coincidence: The day before Apple is expected to update its iPods, Microsoft (MSFT) is reminding the world that the Zune still exists, via a handful of new features. — These include the ability to sync your music remotely over wi-fi …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Tuning in to Apple TV 3.0 — Does Steve Jobs have a surprise in store for the analysts and reporters gathering in San Francisco for Let's Rock — the dog-and-pony show Tuesday at which Apple (AAPL) is widely expected to unveil the next generation of iPods? — Peter S. Magnusson hopes he does …
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Does DRM guarantee Spore is destined for extinction? — Will Wright's long awaited sim game Spore seems to have become the focus of a anti-DRM Internet flash mob who seem determined to sink the game on Amazon.com by dishing out poor ratings. — As things stand right now …
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Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
DVD Ripping Software - Really? — For those who haven't figured out how to use iTunes, YouTube, BitTorrent, DVD Shrink or DVD Decrypter, Real Networks has introduced what it calls the first “mainstream” DVD saving tool. Of course it can't claim to be the first ripping tool, or DVD copying tool …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Finalists — We've gone through more than 1,000 companies to get down to the final 50 (okay, 52) that will present on stage at TechCrunch50 starting later this morning. We will be covering all of the companies as they present onstage or shortly after.
Kent German / Crave: The gadget blog:
T-Mobile denies rumors of 3G service in Philadelphia — T-Mobile is denying reports that the carrier's 3G service is now available in Philadelphia. According to a T-Mobile spokesman, the post on TMoNews is false and just a rumor. Still, it does make us wonder why a TMoNews blogger is reporting service throughout the city.
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Enomaly / ElasticVapor:
The Cloud Application Marketplace — I've been saying this for awhile and I'll say it again: Cloud computing isn't a management model so much as a software delivery paradigm. What Apple has done with its App Store is show the world that the key to monetizing the cloud is in the delivery …
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper — The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Scientology fights critics with 4,000 DMCA takedown notices — A huge trove of critical videos of Scientology was targeted for takedown late last week by a group called American Rights Counsel. The group sent more than 4,000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube and claimed that every video infringed …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google makes waves and may have solved the data center conundrum — Google is pondering a floating data center that could be powered and cooled by the ocean. These offshore data centers could sit 3 to 7 miles offshore and reside in about 50 to 70 meters of water.
Justin Yu / Crave: The gadget blog:
Intel releases pricing, details on solid-state drives — Less than a month ago, Intel announced its line of solid-state hard drives. We didn't have much information at the time, other than a model number and a few benchmarks provided by Intel, but we're pleased to officially announce the X25-M …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Zillow, newspaper consortium launch ad network — Zillow.com, which in November 2007 teamed up with a consortium of newspapers to carry their listings on its real-estate site, has now expanded that deal to include the sale of ads on each other's sites. — Under the Zillow Advertising Network agreement …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Ashton Kutcher's Web Video Show: Blah Girls — I'm at the TechCrunch50 conference right now, where Ashton Kutcher is presenting his web startup. Not only is this one a celebrity-driven startup, but it's about celebrities. It's an animated web video show with interactive elements called Blah Girls.
Telegraph:
Google's ‘Android’ Dream phone to hit UK — A new front in Silicon Valley's fierce battle for technology supremacy will be opened in Britain before Christmas with the launch of Google's first mobile phone venture. — Google's ‘Dream’ phone, which uses its much-hyped Android open-source operating system …
