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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade [u] — Just days before Apple is expected to unveil its new line of iPods, multiple reports are suggesting that some of the widely anticipated camera-equipped media players could be delayed due to technical difficulties. [Updated with info from Hardmac.]
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Inevitable Move Of iTunes To The Cloud — Here we are on the eve of another Apple event. There is never a shortage of hype surrounding these, but this one may have a bit more than normal because of the possibility that it could be Apple CEO Steve Jobs' first public gig since returning …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple's Sept. 9 music event: What's Steve Jobs got up his sleeve? — New iPods? Check. With cameras? Very likely. iTunes 9? Why not. Steve Jobs on stage? Who knows. The Beatles on iTunes? Don't count on it — but don't count it out, either. — Apple's (AAPL) …
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T-Mobile and Orange in UK merger — T-Mobile and Orange plan to merge their UK businesses, creating a mobile phone giant with 28.4 million customers. — The deal between Orange-owner France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile UK will see a business with sales of 9.4bn euros (£8.2bn; $13.5bn).
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App — Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr has done things the hard way on the iPhone. That is to say, for browsing photos they've made you go through their optimized website, and for uploading you had to do it through email.
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Matt / WordPress.com News:
RSS in the Clouds — RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it's a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader or Bloglines. You may not know what RSS is but chances are people are using it to read your blog. We track over 50,000,000 posts read via RSS every week.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:WordPress Just Made Millions of Blogs Real-Time With RSSCloud
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Don't expect Apple TV as cable set top box, Apple exec says — Though rumors have persisted for years that the Apple TV might transition from a media streaming solution into a cable box competitor, a new report said an Apple executive “killed that concept.”
Chris Angelini / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Intel Core i5 And Core i7: Intel's Mainstream Magnum Opus — Table of contents — Intel's emphasis right now is on Clarkdale, the Nehalem-based mainstream lineup centering on a 32nm process shrink. Clarkdale will be the foundation on which upcoming Core i5 and Core i3 CPUs are based.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
To Revive Its Fortunes, AOL Will Acquire or Partner With Startups — Brad Garlinghouse, formerly a senior vice president at Yahoo, is joining AOL as its president of Internet and Mobile Communications, which includes AOL's e-mail and instant messaging. He will be heading up AOL's Silicon …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AIM Now Goes Both Ways (With Twitter And Facebook) — In July, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) embraced the stream in a new beta (for both Windows and Mac) and started moving beyond simple IMs. You can now see your Facebook and Twitter feeds, along with AIM buddy updates and feeds from other services.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
iPhone C64 Emulator Approved by Apple, Removed Again for Hiding Banned Feature — UPDATE: C64 Emulator has yet again been pulled from the App Store for sneaking in an easter egg that allows the execution of code in a BASIC interpreter. See the end of the post for details.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Inside Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Exchange Support — Windows Enthusiasts like to spin Apple's support for Exchange on the iPhone and in Snow Leopard as endorsement of Microsoft in the server space. From another angle, Apple is reducing its dependance upon Microsoft's client software …
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
Services' E-Mail Hacking Illegal, but Officials Need More Than That to Prosecute — When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com. — And for only $100, YourHackerz.com provided Cioni …
James Boyle / Financial Times:
A copyright black hole swallows our culture — Librarians call it the 20th-century black hole. The overwhelming force is not gravity but copyright law, sucking our collective culture into a vortex from which it can never escape. — That culture includes millions of books Google wants to make available online.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
HTC Tattoo (aka, Click) brings Android, Sense UI to all — This one sure took awhile but the oft leaked HTC Click has been renamed and kicked out the door as the Tattoo. While HTC is light on specs with the press release, we know it has a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5-mm headset jack, and microSD expansion.
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