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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th! — The rumors were true folks. Apple is staging an invitation-only Town Hall event in Cupertino next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST. It's absolutely safe to say they'll be showing off new laptops... and you know we'll be there live!
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Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing Gadgets:
MacBook in Oct. 14 event ad is 13.3", aluminum, and not the MacBook Air — It's hard to tell from the gloomy marketing shot, but the Apple logo is about 1.5 inches wide on my MacBook Pro. From that, this machine would appear to be under 13 inches wide, which would suggest a 13.3" diagonal.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: latest MacBook Pro photo is the real deal — A photo of a mysterious notebook leaked on the Internet Wednesday is indeed one taken of Apple's next-generation MacBook Pro casing, AppleInsider can confirm. Meanwhile, some additional photos of a similar, but still unauthenticated 13-inch notebook have since surfaced.
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Ryan Block:
Is right now really the moment for Apple to launch new laptops? — Next week I'll be with Josh at Apple's new laptop event in Cupertino, and I'll be up front about it: I'm pretty stoked. I've been holding off on buying until the next major MacBook or Pro revision — which I thought would come …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Inside Details of Sequoia Capital's Doomsday Meeting With its Companies — Last night I reported on a special meeting held by Sequoia Capital for its portfolio companies, warning them about the fiscal hurricane that was going to hit them, and how they'd better figure out ways to survive what could be a big downturn.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Have A Business Plan In Three Years — If you've had a nagging suspicion that Mark Zuckerberg really doesn't know how he'll turn Facebook into a business, wonder no more. You're right. Here he is talking to German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Our focus is growth, not revenue — FAZ: “The web 2.0 architecture is not necessarily a revenue opportunity. This is not where the money is”, said Eric Schmidt from Google. Do you agree with him? — Mark Zuckerberg: I disagree. He has a clear incentive for saying what he is saying...
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Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
The Sum of Your Facial Parts — IS the woman pictured on the right more attractive than the woman on the left? Do her wider-set eyes, the longer distance between her hairline and the bridge of the nose, and the rounder shape of her face make her more beautiful?
Walaika Haskins / E-Commerce Times:
Microsoft Aims for an Experience, Sony Just Wants a Home — Microsoft and Sony both talked up their consoles' proprietary virtual worlds at the Tokyo Game Show Wednesday. Sony said that its long-delayed Home will arrive before 2009, and Microsoft offered some details on the New Xbox Experience, which will arrive in November.
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: October 9, 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: October 14, 2008 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on October 14, 2008.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Turns On Text Ads In Google Maps — With Google's stock down $100 in the past two weeks, the company all of a sudden isn't so shy about pulling every advertising lever it can reach. So far this week, we've seen new click-to-buy buttons on YouTube (YouTubevertorials), AdSense for Flash games …
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Wojtek Dabrowski / Reuters:
Plunge in RIM's shares could attract takeover bid — TORONTO (Reuters) - The recent plunge in the market value of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion could leave the company vulnerable to a takeover from a well-capitalized buyer such as Microsoft Corp. — RIM's shares, which were worth …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
CAN TINA BROWN SHOW ME EVERYTHING THAT'S GREAT ON THE WEB TODAY? — Early every morning, I open my Web browser and load up a half-dozen “aggregator” sites: Techmeme, Memeorandum, Real Clear Politics, Google News, the Drudge Report, and the Huffington Post. This is my first sortie into the day's news …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Internet Companies Hammered by Economic Concerns — It was another awful day in the stock market with the Dow dropping more than 7 percent and the Nasdaq more than 5 percent. Internet companies were not immune, as a growing chorus of analysts are now saying that the financial crisis …
Shishka / Bungie.net:
Meet Our Next Game — Bungie has several projects underway within the studio, one of which is a brand new campaign experience for Halo 3 that we teased two weeks ago. Now, at long last, we can lift the shroud of secrecy and shed a little more light on what we've been working on.
Amazon Web Services Blog:
Amazon S3 - Busier Than Ever — Amazon S3 usage has grown very nicely in the last quarter and now stands at 29 billion objects, up from 22 billion just a quarter ago. As one of the S3 engineers told me last week, that's over 4 objects for every person now on Earth! — Our customers are keeping S3 pretty busy too.
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Chris / Mobile Tech Addicts:
Orange internal statement on Blackberry Bold quality issues — We mentioned the other day about Orange removing the Blackberry Bold from sale due to quality issues, well today we received an anonymous tip off with a copy of the Orange internal statement explaining the decision to their staff.
Slobodan Simic / Fudzilla:
MSI's new Wind U120 pixellized — Exclusive: In all its glory — We've managed to get our hands on some pictures of MSI's upcoming Wind U120 netbook, or as some like to call it, the Wind 2. Still featuring a 10-inch screen, the new U120 will also be less “cute” than the previous generation as it is oriented at business users.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Court Deems Pirate Bay Block to be Illegal — This August The Pirate Bay was “censored” in Italy following a decree from a public prosecutor. The Pirate Bay appealed the block and eventually won the court case. Earlier this week the Court of Bergamo detailed its decision …
Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Inside Obama and McCain's Conflicting Takes on Net Neutrality — It wasn't a contentious topic at last night's presidential debate, but network neutrality is the hot-button issue on the mind of PM's senior tech editor. He explores the candidates' stands on the issue in a Geek the Vote edition of his biweekly trends column.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Don't stop believing — Silicon Valley lip-synchs while market burns — Tech stocks are plunging and venture capitalists are telling their startups to hunker down for an extended downturn, but a group of Silicon Valley techies still found time for a nice little retreat to Cyprus.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Parents want to be “cool,” are using SMS with their kids — Hate on the kiddies and their SMS speak all you want, but text messaging is taking off among the masses. AT&T has released data from two studies it recently commissioned, showing that both families and romantic partners are using SMS more and more to communicate.
David B. Wilkerson / MarketWatch:
Media, entertainment shares dive to new lows — CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Every major diversified-entertainment stock fell to its lowest point in at least a year Thursday, with some falling to their weakest levels in five years as ongoing credit fears rocked the U.S. stock market.
