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3:10 PM ET, October 9, 2008

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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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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple announces October 14 notebook event in Cupertino  —  Apple has just sent out invites to a special media event on Apple's campus for October 14.  The invite reads, “The spotlight turns to notebooks,” and has a ray of light shining over the back of an unidentified Apple notebook.
Discussion: The Apple Blog and The Tech Report
AppleInsider:
Apple to hold special MacBook event October 14th after all
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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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
EXCLUSIVE: Apple to launch $800 laptop  —  Some Apple retailers in the United States have been given price lists for a new Apple laptop line, and there's a big surprise: an $800 laptop.  The information comes from a source we would categorize as reliable, would have access to such information, and who has been accurate in the past.
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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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Amazon S3 Storing 29 Billion Objects
Discussion: Webware.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon Cuts Prices on S3
Discussion: Storage Station
Gene Johnson / Associated Press:
40 laid off at software company as execs arrested  —  SEATTLE (AP) — Two former software executives grossly overstated their company's revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found …
Discussion: PC World and Valleywag
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble  —  Updated: Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Angel Investor Ron Conway Emails His Portfolio Companies Over Financial Meltdown
Discussion: GigaOM, Technosailor.com and PR 2.0
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.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek planing touch panel Eee PCs  —  Asustek Computer is planning to launch touch panel Eee PCs in the first quarter of 2009, which the company expects will help drive sales further, according to Samson Hu, general manager of Eee PC business at Asustek.  —  The company has not yet decided details …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Digg's Kevin Rose: We've got to be more than a fanboy hub  —  LONDON—Digg founder Kevin Rose had a message for the audience at the Future of Web Apps conference on Thursday: It's time to grow up.  —  “We have to do better,” he said in his talk, called “The Future of News,” …
Brian X. Chen / Wired Science:
Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image  —  This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sling Takes On Apple TV With SlingCatcher Set-Top Box  —  Yet another digital set-top box trying to bridge the gap between your TV and the Internet: Sling Media's new SlingCatcher started selling today for $300, and will compete with similar gadgets from Apple, LG, Roku, and others, and media features on Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PS3.
LG:
LG Launches LG-KC780 Slim 8 Megapixel Portrait Phone  —  LG Electronics, a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, announced today the launch of its LG-KC780, a slim 8 megapixel camera phone with special features that make it ideal for shooting portraits.
Crave at CNET UK:
12-year-old finds iPhone flaw while texting girlfriend  —  A 12-year-old boy who uses his iPhone mostly for texting with his girlfriend has discovered what looks like a new vulnerability with the device.  —  The unnamed boy, son of blogger Karl Kraft, turns on the passcode lock …
Discussion: CrunchGear and Valleywag
Netzökonom:
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...
David / TmoNews:
“Behold” the Samsung T919  —  We first got wind of this phone back in mid-August and it certainly has a lot of expectation as the first ALL-touch screen phone for T-mobile.  Dubbed the “Behold” we're still waiting on a detailed list of specs, but we know a 5mp camera, Honestly, where do they come up with these names lately?!
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why Netflix May Be an Online Video Leader  —  I've been thinking a lot about how Netflix — that odd combination of Internet ordering, the post office and DVDs — may actually be one of the companies best positioned to take advantage of online video.  —  Follow me on this …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Mixx Turns One - Sees Rapid Growth  —  Mixx, the social news site that competes directly with Digg, just celebrated its first birthday by announcing that traffic to its site has grown rapidly over the last few months and that it now attracts more than 4 million unique visitors a month.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Wakoopa Begins Tracking Web Apps Alongside Their Desktop Counterparts  —  The team behind Wakoopa, a social network that tracks and shares information about the desktop applications used by its members, noticed that Firefox and Safari were consistently ranked as the network's top two applications by usage.
Discussion: The Next Web
 
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