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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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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 …
James Lewin / Podcasting News:
Microsoft Tries To Upstage Apple....With The Help Of Clear Channel — Microsoft today announced Zune updates, timed to upstage iPod/iTunes announcements anticipated from Apple on Tuesday. — Unfortunately for everybody who owns a portable media player, Microsoft's announcements are woefully misguided and mistimed.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Zune Gets New Features That Won't Help Sell Zunes
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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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Analyst: Steve Jobs must be feeling better — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says Steve Jobs' physical appearance at Let's Rock — a widely-anticipated Apple special event scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. EDT in San Francisco — will reassure investors and boost the company's share price.
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 in San Francisco tomorrow. — At this point, I think Apple could announce …
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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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:Gamers fight back against lackluster Spore gameplay, bad DRM
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Yammer: A ‘Twitter for the enterprise’ — I recently covered Socialcast, a “Friendfeed for business,” and liked it a lot. It takes emerging social interaction models that people are just now getting accustomed to and adapts them for business. — Here at TechCrunch50 …
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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.
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Clive Thompson / Wired News:
How Videogames Blind Us With Science — A few years ago, Constance Steinkuehler — a game academic at the University of Wisconsin — was spending 12 hours a day playing Lineage, the online world game. She was, as she puts it, a “siege princess,” running 150-person raids on hellishly difficult bosses.
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J.K. Rowling wins copyright claim over Harry Potter website operator — A judge ruled Monday in favor of “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling in her copyright infringement lawsuit against a fan and Web site operator who was set to publish a Potter encyclopedia.
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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.
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 …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
New CNN show pushes the limits of Twitter — literally — One anchor for the cable news channel CNN has become enamored with the micro-messaging service Twitter over the past several weeks. He used tweets (Twitter messages) to complement his coverage of the recent Hurrican Gustav …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch50 LiveStream — We'll be streaming the TechCrunch50 conference here all week so everyone can see these demos for themselves as they happen. — You can also find our written coverage of the conference here, as well as coverage from other news outlets below.
Dan Farber / Webware.com:
MySpace to engage Google Gears — MySpace plans to integrate Google Gears with its platform, according to the social network's co-founder Chris DeWolfe. Users will be able to access their profiles offline using the Google Gears APIs, but the feature won't be available for a few months.
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