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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions — Thanks to a special blessing from the folks in Redmond, we've had an opportunity to thoroughly give the rejiggered Xbox 360 Dash (AKA, the New Xbox Experience) a serious run through, and we've got the lowdown on the future of your gaming life.
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Darren Murph / Engadget HD:
HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first — It's something you can't get on the Roku. Nor on LG's BD300. Nor on Samsung's P2500 / P2550 Blu-ray players. Nor through Netflix's own “Watch Instantly” portal. It's high-def Netflix streaming, and it's coming first to Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Reid Hoffman / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing Applications on LinkedIn — Hi Everyone. I'm writing today to announce the launch of LinkedIn's applications platform that will enable over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform — LinkedIn has launched its new OpenSocial-based application platform called InApps - an answer to the platforms found on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, but without the clutter and “junk” apps that plague those sites.
Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Speed Dials Cell Overhaul — New Mobile Chief Plans to Slash More Jobs, Focus on Google Software to Simplify Design and Cut Costs — Motorola Inc.'s new cellphone chief is moving quickly to scale back the struggling division, simplifying the way it makes devices and cutting additional jobs.
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to launch Android handset in 1H09 — Asustek Computer plans to launch its first Android-based Google phone in the first half of 2009, according to company sources. Asustek may initially sell the Android-powered handsets under its own brand in the Taiwan market before also launching customized models …
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Vivek Shankar / Bloomberg:
Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses — Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. handled a larger chunk of U.S. Internet searches last month while Microsoft Corp. lost market share, according to researcher ComScore Inc. — Yahoo had about 20.2 percent of queries in September …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Wall Street Gives Up On Yahoo-Google Search, Wants Microsoft Deal
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Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
HP gets serious about Netbooks — The Mini 1000 MIE has a custom HP interface meant to hide its Linux OS from users. — After a brief experiment in the education market, Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday is set to introduce a whole line of Netbooks for mainstream consumers.
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Jim Courtney / GigaOM:
Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer — Having followed activity in the BlackBerry ecosystem over the past few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that BlackBerry Storm should be called BlackBerry Stealth. Why? With little media coverage, its forthcoming launch is the sleeper play …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google SearchWiki — Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the experimental feature: “Things are a bit smoother this time.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed — Switzerland-based Logitech, maker of personal computer peripherals, is entering the software market by acquiring internet video communications services provider SightSpeed for $30 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in early November.
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Tech giants in human rights deal — Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free speech and against official intrusion. — The Global Network Initiative follows criticism that companies were assisting governments in countries like China to censor the Internet.
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Eric Fisher / SportsBusiness Journal:
Tech leaders back sports blog network — Former AOL programming chief Jim Bankoff has secured a mid-seven-figure sum of venture capital for SB Nation, a startup network of sports blogs, from a group of digital media and technology luminaries. — The round of funding was led by Accel Partners …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Designing the New MacBook: Why It Couldn't Have FireWire — Rainer Brockerhoff's studied dissection of the new MacBook's design—how certain design choices intersect with the realities of components to produce real notebooks—perfectly explains how they are not simply a wishlist of parts and features that magically come together.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Garmin: Nuvifone on track for 2009 launch, but economy hurts outlook — Garmin said Wednesday that it nuvifone, a GPS enabled phone, is on track to launch in the first half of 2009 and should hit carrier labs in the earlier part of the year. — Garmin added in a statement that it has signed letters …
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Robin Harris / Storage Bits:
Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! — Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. — With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope.
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Samsung NC10 — This 10-inch netbook trumps the field with its spacious keyboard and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Current Price: $550.00 (1 seller) — Review Contents: … The Samsung NC10 has joined the ranks of 10-inch netbooks—including the Eee PC 1000H, MSI Wind, and Lenovo IdeaPad S10—and it beats them all.
Financial Times:
Out with a Bang — People flush with cash and with an eye for design have spent voraciously on loudspeakers, televisions and mobile phones from Danish audio and video company Bang & Olufsen in recent years. — But in a sign that €800 ($1,022) mobile phones and €1,250 DVD recorders …
