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Michael Cohen / The Official Google Blog:
Browse what the world is saying on Blog Search  —  Did you know that millions of bloggers around the world write new posts each week?  If you're like me, you probably read only a tiny fraction of these in Google Reader.  What's everybody else writing about?
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Launches Its Own Memetracker  —  Google has just launched a new homepage for its blog search that bears a strong resemblance to Techmeme, Memeorandum and their “memetracker” counterparts.  The site displays a listing of the top stories from across a variety of topics including business, politics, technology, and entertainment.
Discussion: broadstuff
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Google Blogsearch and Techmeme
Discussion: Download Squad
Apple Developer Connection:
To Our Developers  —  We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.  —  We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don't steal our work.  It has happened before.
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InfoWorld:
Ballmer: Microsoft will soon release ‘Windows Cloud’ OS  —  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed a few details on Wednesday of a forthcoming operating system that will help developers write Internet-based applications.  —  Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what Ballmer called “Windows Cloud.”
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
‘Windows Cloud’ to descend this month, says Ballmer  —  Microsoft prefers to ‘obsolete ourselves’  —  Microsoft will let loose a new operating system, Windows Cloud, at the company's annual developer conference later this month.  —  Boss Steve Ballmer announced Redmond's plans …
Nick / Rough Type:
Here comes the “Windows Cloud”
Discussion: The Register and SmoothSpan Blog
John Markoff / New York Times:
Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Canadian human-rights activists and computer security researchers has discovered a huge surveillance system in China that monitors and archives certain Internet text conversations that include politically charged words.
Tony Smith / The Register:
US consumers flock to Mac laptops  —  That sound you can hear is Steve Jobs laughing after reading figures from US market watcher NPD that Apple laptops accounted for 20 per cent of retail notebook sales during July and August.  —  That's the key back-to-school sales period …
Brent / The Official Netflix Blog:
New content to watch instantly  —  Hi, Brent here with some news about movies & TV episodes that are available to watch instantly.  Today we announced an agreement with Starz Play that adds around 1,000 choices that you can watch instantly today, and will add another 1,500 by the end of the year.
Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Laptop Makers Shy Away From Multitouch Technology  —  Apple's iPhone is making multitouch all the rage on mobile phones but laptop makers are not rushing to add the technology to traditional notebooks.  —  Multitouch, which lets users control applications through gestures on a screen …
Nicholas Thompson / Washington Monthly:
How Fast You Can Read This Essay Online  —  How John McCain's techno-monopolism  —  will hurt the economy  —  John McCain is an AT&T guy; Barack Obama is a Google guy.  And that's one of the most important policy differences between the two.  —  Think of the Internet as working at different layers.
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Will T-Mobile Sell Half A Million Google Phones This Year?  —  Still unknown: Whether Google's (GOOG) Android ‘GPhone’ smartphone operating system — an impressive technical achievement — will become a commercial success.  —  But U.S. carrier partner T-Mobile seems to think it could be …
Discussion: Electronista
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CENS.com:
HTC Expects G1 Phone to Infuse NT$7 B. Into Q4 Revenue
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Amazon launches pre-emptive strike against Microsoft's planned cloud platform  —  Microsoft is gearing up to go big with its plans for its own version of its hosted development platform later this month.  But Amazon.com isn't sitting idly by, waiting for Microsoft to rain on its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
Discussion: Valleywag and 3PAR, Inc.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
The Future of Widgets on Facebook: Dead  —  Enjoy this article?  Subscribe to our RSS feed  —  When Facebook released their platform last year, the company generated more buzz in the Valley since Google went public.  Thousands of developers flocked to their platform and now more than 40,000 applications have been built.
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
CBS Gets a Rude Lesson in Citizen Journalism  —  Network's iPhone App Turns Up Some User-Generated NSFW Pics to Mobile Site  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Like a lot of news networks, CBS jumped on the citizen journalism bandwagon with a free iPhone app, Eyemobile for iPhone …
darkREADING:
New DOS Attack Is a Killer  —  2:45 PM — Things are a-brewin' in Sweden.  Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and the employer of my friend Robert E. Lee and his colleague Jack C. Louis.
Discussion: Errata Security and The Register
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
Tim O'Reilly Course Corrects the Definition of Web 2.0  —  eBay was Web 2.0 before Web 2.0 was cool.  —  Tim O'Reilly wrote a nice piece the other day Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm.  In the post, he re-asserted the proper definition of Web 2.0.  Here's a quote:
Agence France Presse:
South Korea's free computer game model hits US  —  AFP - Free computer game play that is all the rage in South Korean is taking hold in a US market dominated by videogames sold on packaged disks or by online subscriptions.
J Mark Lytle / TechRadar.com:
Bizarre phone lets users see through walls  —  Multiple sensors give us perhaps the world's oddest phone  —  This week's CEATEC technology show just outside Tokyo is home to not just the latest mainstream gadgets, but also some of the weirdest tech you'll ever come across.
Discussion: Engadget and Gizmodo
The Official Google Blog:
Saving electricity one data center at a time  —  Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers.  We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously.  That's why, nearly a decade ago …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
New California law narrows overtime regulations for skilled tech workers  —  Tech companies glum about their sagging stock prices can take cheer in a bill Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law that aims to make it easier for employers to determine which of their workers are exempt from overtime compensation.
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
Palin Had Another Private E-Mail Account, Company Says  —  Gov. Sarah Palin maintained a private e-mail account that she used to communicate with a small circle of staff members outside the state government's secure official e-mail system, according to the Wasilla company that established the site.
Discussion: ZDNet Government
C.K. / Sample the Web:
Either the new StumbleUpon web-bar is busted, or everyone is misreporting a simple advertisement as the new hot feature...  So, I saw this post this morning, noting that StumbleUpon is doing this new thing where you don't need the toolbar.  Except, I cannot find any evidence of this anywhere …
 
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Report: Fujitsu to sell hard drive unit to Western Digital
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Sony Ericsson to Close UK Flagship Retail Store
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
House Lets Orphan Works Legislation Die; Tons Of Content Remains Locked Up
Discussion: Ars Technica
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Widget maker Gigya gets $11 million Series C
Discussion: Pulse 2.0 and TechCrunch
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blog:
Evernote Opens Up, Launches API, Hugs Geeks
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Roy Mark / eWeek:
Senate Bailout Bill Includes Tech Tax Credit Extension
Discussion: VentureBeat, Reuters and Techland
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Hands on: NPR gets social with new community
Discussion: Web Community Forum
InfoWorld:
Free version of Hyper-V now available
Discussion: The Register
Wall Street Journal:
EA Halts Work on Game Over Quality Issues
Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Guide:
Google SMS Channels: Send SMS Text Messages to your Group for Free
Discussion: MediaNama
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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