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Nokia Booklet 3G brings all day mobility to the PC world — Espoo, Finland - After more than 25 years as a pioneer and leader in the mobile industry, Nokia will bring its rich mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia Booklet 3G.
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Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Nokia Booklet 3G Netbook Packs GPS, 3G, HDMI and...Windows — So Nokia's got a 10-incher with built-in 3G and A-GPS (Ovi Maps) in the works. Interesting, but will it be just-another-netbook? I'd love to see a Nokia touch-screen interface on top of Windows. What about easy tethering with cell phones?
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Lacy Kemp / The Real Story:
Introducing Rhapsody on the iPhone — Every day I watch Twitter to see what people are talking about with regards to our brands. I see lots of suggestions and lots of feedback, but the one thing that keeps on coming is this question: When will Rhapsody be on the iPhone? Or, when will Rhapsody be on Android?
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities (Updated) — Today, Stockholm's district court took action to completely remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet. — The court ordered the site's major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kroner ($70,600).
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George Rush / NY Daily News:
Outed blogger Rosemary Port blames model Liskula Cohen for ‘skank’ stink — Sorry seems to be the hardest word for the blogger who anonymously scorned a model as a “ho” and a “skank,” igniting a legal and media maelstrom. — Speaking out for the first time since a court order forced Google …
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Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
‘Skank’ blogger talks, sues Google for $15m — Now the world knows: the “skanks of NYC” blogger is one Rosemary Port, a 27-year-old student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she is one pissed-off young lady. She not only has strong words for model Liskula Cohen …
Todd Wilder / Apple:
Apple to Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard on August 28 — Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple's online store is now accepting pre-orders.
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Plans to Increase Staff 50% Amid Engineer Surplus — Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. plans to expand its staff by as much as 50 percent this year as it benefits from a surplus of engineers amid the recession, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Why did Apple okay RingCentral? — Here's a question the FCC neglected to ask Apple (AAPL) in its inquiry into why the company rejected — or as Apple prefers, declined to approve — Google Voice: — Why has a free app that does essentially the same thing — and would seem to raise …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Update on Windows 7 in Europe — I want to provide a couple of updates for my friends in Europe today in regards to Windows 7. — I want to start off with an update to our plans for the Windows 7 Family Pack. As I mentioned last month, starting with the launch of Windows 7 on October 22nd …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Apple blogger legally unlocks iPhone — Thanks be to ‘benevolent carrier’ — An iPhone blogger has revealed a way of legally unlocking the device after paying off his mobile contract. — TheAppleBlog.com's Olly Farshi claimed he legitimately unlocked his two-year-old iPhone 3G …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Microsoft delivers OneApp app framework for featurephones — Who said Microsoft's mobile strategy has to be limited to Windows Mobile? Redmond has just announced OneApp, a comprehensive framework for delivering apps on a variety of featurephones — largely in emerging markets …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Barnes & Noble Lands Irex, Another Would-Be Kindle Killer — Here's another company choosing a side in the coming e-book war: Irex Technologies, a Dutch company that plans on selling a Kindle-like reader in the U.S. this fall, has allied itself with Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.
Boy Genius Report:
RIM acquires Torch Mobile; WebKit-based browser headed to BlackBerry handsets — Wow. That probably sums up everyone at BGR's initial reaction when we got a heads up that RIM acquired Torch Mobile. Why, might you ask? Well, it goes a lot deeper than this, but all we can see glistening right …
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Torch Mobile Blog, eWeek, Between the Lines, The Register, CNET News, Download Squad, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, PC World, mocoNews and Electronista, Thanks:mgcreed
Bloomberg:
Apple Highest Grossing Retailer on Fifth Avenue as iPhone Defies Recession — Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) — As vacancies increase and retail sales throughout the U.S. remain a shadow of the decade's boom, Apple Inc.'s stores are defying the recession. — At Fifth Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Zune HD's “Apps” menu item spotted in the Marketplace, still short on details — At Best Buy's Zune HD preview today a certain Matthew Arkin on Qik was able to shoot footage of the “Apps” item that resides within the “Marketplace” section on the device. It's still incredibly unclear …
Peter / gdgt:
Subscription music comes to the iPhone: Rhapsody app exclusive screenshots and details — Yep, Rhapsody is coming out with an iPhone app. Or at least they want to. Real just submitted it to the App Store for approval, so it may be a few weeks before it's actually available (assuming Apple doesn't get all fussy and block it).
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Beth Snyder Bulik / AdAge:
How Sony E-Reader Lost to Kindle and How It's Battling Its Way Back — Exceptional Marketing Needed to Avoid Becoming the Zune to Apple's IPod — YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — Mary Stewart is a digital-book convert. Her 9-month-old Kindle quickly and permanently replaced the paperbacks the York, Pa., dentist used to tote everywhere.
Caine Moss / VentureBeat:
Seed is the new Series A for VCs — It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that VCs have, over the past few quarters, been reluctant to put term sheets down on new investments. Most venture folks have instead been preoccupied with tending to their portfolio companies …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Swiss privacy commissioner says “nein” to Google Street View — Google launched Street View in Switzerland last week, and the Swiss Privacy Commissioner isn't satisfied that it will safeguard the privacy of Swiss citizens. — Whether you're searching for a storefront in a strange neighborhood …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Fanbase, a web directory of athletes and their teams — A new web directory of sports teams and athletes called Fanbase has launched today, aiming to mobilize fans around pages of any team, from football to golf at any level, from professional to college and high school.
