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Macenstein:
And then there was porn — Today the iTunes app store became a man, having finally seen its first adult app. Meaning nudity. Meaning boobies. — The app responsible for taking iTunes' virginity is called “Hottest Girls” ($1.99), an app that until today was merely a bunch of Asian chicks in lingerie.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yep, iPorn Is Here For The iPhone — Just as we were speculating a couple nights ago, Apple has apparently decided that with the new parental controls now built into the iPhone 3.0 SDK, nudity is now okay in iPhone apps. The first such app, Hottest Girls, has actually been around for a little while.
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program & Windows 7 Pricing - Bring on GA! — Today we have some news to share around Windows 7 including answering what may be some of the “hottest” questions people have as we head toward General Availability (GA) on October 22nd.
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 pricing announced: cheaper than Vista — Microsoft today announced Windows 7 retail pricing, upgrade information, launch details, and a preorder deal. The software giant has reduced the price on its most popular retail Windows product, the Home Premium upgrade version …
Gregg Keizer / PC World:Site Reveals Friday Launch for Windows 7 Free Upgrade
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Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’ — The Internet search giant is “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper business, Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton complains, before hinting he's working on a cure. — The gloves are coming off in the intensifying battle between newspaper publishers and Google.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Upgrade fee sees few iPod touch users updating to 3.0 software — Nearly half of all iPhone users have already jumped at the opportunity to enhance the functionality of their handsets by installing the free iPhone Software 3.0 update, but the same can't be said for iPod touch users, who …
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Arn / MacRumors:Apple TV 2.4 Update Now Available, Updated Remote App with Gestures [Updated]
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Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
Why We Need Steve Jobs — Love him or hate him, Apple needs its CEO back. Now. … I just spent an hour waiting in a line at an Apple store to buy a product I do not need. It's the new top-of-the-line iPhone 3GS, and it costs $299, and I waited in line for it even though I already …
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:Jobs' Doctor Speaks
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Working on Major Brand Overhaul (Pretty Please, No More Yodeling!) — In the past, Yahoo has used killer lasers and giant afros and has even tried a dog rising from the dead to brand itself. — Also, of course, there was the yodeler. — That was in 2003 …
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment — City Tours is a new addition to Google Labs that puts Google squarely in the tourism business: Give it a city name, and Google not only suggests sites to see, but it also maps out a multi-day itinerary and proposes a minute-by-minute travel schedule for you to follow.
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam — With less than a week until July 1 - the deadline for PC makers to start intalling the spyware called Green Dam Youth Escort - China appears to be cutting off access to Google after a bitter campaign accusing the American company of spreading porn.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
CBS Interactive's Smith On Authentication: ‘70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work’ — It didn't take long for CBS to issue a statement after Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) and Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) announced the upcoming national trial of TV Everywhere, expressing interest in anything …
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Richard Tyler / Telegraph:
Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading — Hedge fund managers are turning to Twitter in an attempt to steal a march on their rivals. — Traders are using software developed by US-based technology StreamBase to monitor “tweets” for price sensitive information.
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
HTC Sense interface coming to HTC Magic? — CEO hints at existing devices getting new interface — HTC has confirmed to Pocket-lint that its new Sense interface found on the Android-touting HTC Hero, would be available on other devices the company has already released.
Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog:
The Power of Word in Outlook — This morning we became aware of a Twitter campaign run from the website http://fixoutlook.org. This campaign is intended to provide Microsoft with feedback about our decision to continue to use Microsoft Word for composing and displaying e-mail in the upcoming release of Microsoft Outlook 2010.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Takes Aim at Twitter: New Publisher Makes Public Status Updates Easy — Facebook has just announced that it's now testing a new version of the “publisher” that allows users to choose who can see their status updates and posts. The most interesting part? The first option is “everyone.”
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Olaoluwa ‘Ola’ Okelola / Facebook Blog:More Ways to Share in the Publisher
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Did Shaq Just Find Out He Was Traded On Twitter? — Another day, another weird Twitter story. Tonight the news broke that NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal was being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Huge news, but what's humorous is that apparently Shaq found out he was traded on Twitter.
Bryan Barletta / Medialets:
Palm Pre App Catalog Reaches 1 Million Downloads — Just 18 days after the launch of the Palm Pre, their App Catalog has hit its first major milestone, 1 million downloads. On launch day, Palm sold 50k devices and their App Catalog experienced 100k downloads - that's an average …
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Bill Mitchell / Newspay:
Story of Neda's Death Reveals 7 Elements of Next-Step Journalism — Just before ending his news conference Tuesday, President Obama called on CNN's Suzanne Malveaux for one last question. — MALVEAUX: Back to Iran, putting a human face on this. Over the weekend, we saw a shocking video of this woman …
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Bloomberg:
‘Simpsons’ Draws Higher Rates on Internet than TV as Ads Target Loyal Fans — Television programs such as “The Simpsons” and “CSI” are for the first time commanding higher advertising rates at Web sites including Hulu.com and TV.com than on prime-time TV. — The premium rates …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
iPhone 3GS boosts mobile YouTube uploads by 400% — Google has announced that uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have increased by 400% since last Friday, when Apple's new iPhone 3GS went on sale. The handset lets users shoot video clips and upload them directly to the video-sharing site.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Why legendary game developer John Carmack shelved his ego and sold to ZeniMax — Here's an interview with John Carmack (right), the last remaining founder of id Software, the legendary video game developer which agreed to be acquired yesterday by another video maker ZeniMax Media.
