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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
BlackBerry Storm review — By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's largest network, Verizon. Even if you haven't heard how the tale ends …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon BlackBerry Storm review — The BlackBerry Storm. It feels like ages ago since we first broke news of this bad boy, but the release is finally right around the corner. Literally, it's tomorrow! Need we say more? Heck yeah! We've got a pretty substantial review on the device …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
BlackBerry's Storm Presses Into the Touch-Phone Fray — To its fiercest devotees, one of the best things about the BlackBerry is its carefully designed physical keyboard, which the skilled BlackBerry addict can play like a violin. These folks scorn Apple's popular iPhone …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:Shortages of BlackBerry Storms Friday?
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The Official Google Blog:
Lively no more — In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products …
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Apple:
Apple TV: About Apple TV software updates — Products Affected — Apple TV — Refer the table below for Apple TV Software Update 2.3 features: — How To — AirTunes Streaming from Apple TV — Music can be streamed via AirTunes to Airport Express speakers or other Apple TVs in your house.
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web — You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™ Pages. Tonight we're launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue™ beta.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive — Samsung on Wednesday night said it has begun mass-producing 256GB solid-state drives. This size tops the largest-capacity SSDs found in laptops today. — Samsung currently offers 64GB and 128GB SSDs for laptops.
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Dan Frommer / Alley Insider:
T-Mobile Picks Yahoo For Mobile Portal, Ads (YHOO) — T-Mobile is launching a new mobile portal powered by Yahoo (YHOO). The companies will share ad revenue, but aren't disclosing the length of the deal or whether Yahoo will offer the carrier guaranteed revenue.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions — With fewer consumers than hoped for signing up for all-you-can-eat music subscriptions, Microsoft and the record industry are trying to make the option more appealing. — As of Wednesday, those who pay for the $14.95 a month Zune Pass subscription …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs — Google's just-released and much-publicized update to their Google Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but …
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Reuters:
Nokia to add IBM's Lotus Notes email to smartphones — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia smartphones will be able to access IBM Lotus Notes corporate email starting from next month, the two firms said on Thursday, as the world's top handset maker battles Blackberry-maker RIM.
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Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Some open source attacks on Windows may be unfair — Here is one. — Pingdom recently did a comparison of uptime for the home pages of major OS distributors — 16 Linux distros, Apple, and Microsoft. (The image is a reduced screen grab of their chart — see the whole thing.)
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Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing — Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. — “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Mufin Now Open to All: Discover Music by Sound Analysis on iTunes and Facebook — Mufin, the music recommendation engine that suggests songs based on their sound characteristics, is now open to everyone in public beta. With the launch, Mufin is also introducing two new applications: Mufin for iTunes and Mufin for Facebook.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Facebook Sued For Patent Infringement — It's pretty much a rite of passage for any tech company these days, as you get larger and more recognized, some company that has an overly broad and probably obvious patent will sue you for patent infringement. For the company in question …
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New York Times:
Web Sites Wage Holiday Price Wars — SAN FRANCISCO — As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court cash-short consumers with steep discounts this holiday season, a similar and even more ferocious price war is being waged online. — Internet retailers, trying to navigate …
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Mike Snider / USA Today:
‘Grand Theft Auto’ yields road to the ‘Lost and Damned’ — The upcoming episode of the video game Grand Theft Auto IV looks to be a wild one. — GTA IV, which was released in April for the Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 3, focused on former Eastern European soldier Niko Bellic …
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Dan Frommer / Alley Insider:
Kindle A Year Old, Hasn't Changed Reading... Yet (AMZN) — Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle e-book reader celebrated its first birthday yesterday. How was its first year? — Amazon doesn't share sales figures, so we don't really know. Today, either supply is low or demand is high — there's a three to four week wait to buy them for $359.
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Under Worm Assault, Military Bans Disks, USB Drives — The Defense Department's geeks are spooked by a rapidly spreading worm crawling across their networks. So they've suspended the use of so-called thumb drives, CDs, flash media cards, and all other removable data storage devices from their nets …
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