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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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Peter / gdgt:Subscription music comes to the iPhone: Rhapsody app exclusive …
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Nokia:
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?
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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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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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo's New Search Clothes — But Will It Help? (Probably Not) — Less than a month after seeming to pull out of the search game by announcing a search outsourcing deal with Microsoft, Yahoo seems to be doing a push to prove it still has search chops. The latest are new user interface changes …
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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.
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 …
