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4:25 PM ET, September 29, 2009

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Lars Rasmussen / The Official Google Blog:
Surf's up Wednesday: Google Wave update  —  Starting Wednesday, September 30 we'll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to:  — Developers who have been active in the developer preview we started back in June  — The first users who signed up and offered to give feedback on wave.google.com
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:   Google to expand Wave testing, eyes Wave store
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Broadening Wave Access With GMail-Like Rollout
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The Paperboy / Gizmodo:
The Courier Files: How Microsoft Thinks We'll Use Their Secret Tablet  —  Microsoft's Courier booklet was surprising, mostly because it was so far outside of what everybody now expects from a tablet.  This internal video shows how Microsoft thinks we'll use Courier.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet  —  Want to know some more about Apple's upcoming tablet device?  You're in luck.  We've received the scoop from our reliable source—who correctly called the iPod nano 5G, iPhone 3GS and Chinese iPhone 3G months ago.  — Apple has created …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple warns of near-term iMac, Mac mini constraints [u]  —  Apple this week began informing its direct sales channels that several of its desktop-based Mac offerings have entered a period of constraint, further hinting that Mac hardware updates are on the horizon.  [Updated with additional info on Mac mini.]
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Palm Pre's New Strategy: Forget iTunes, Hello Wireless Amazon Downloads  —  When the Palm Pre debuted, one of its most useful features was its ability to sync with Apple's iTunes software.  Unfortunately, how it went about doing this was a little bit underhanded: it pretended to be an iPhone.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Latest Palm Pre update does not re-enable iTunes sync
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Newegg reveals Windows 7 OEM prices  —  Online retail store Newegg has posted Windows 7's OEM prices, and as always they're much cheaper than the retail versions.  —  Newegg.com today unveiled prices for OEM editions of Windows 7, and as always, they're significantly lower than the full retail versions …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
DoubleTwist Remakes Apple's Classic 1984 Ad With A New Dictator: Steve Jobs  —  On January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of the SuperBowl, Apple broadcast one of the most famous television commercials of all time.  Based on a dystopian future George Orwell described in his novel 1984 …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Garmin-Asus nuvifone G60 finally ready for AT&T: $300 on October 4?  —  Let's just be brutally honest here: Garmin-Asus' nuvifone G60 is basically the Duke Nukem of phones.  We've been following it since before Garmin and ASUS formed their joint venture, since before we we had an inkling …
Joanna Stern / Gizmodo:
Dell Latitude Z Hands On: Kills Cords Completely With Wireless Charging  —  Someone at Dell must have tripped over some wires and after cleaning up the bloody gash came up with the $2,000 anti-cord Latitude Z: It has wireless charging and wirelessly connects to displays too.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Chrome And Safari Are Rounding Errors  —  This is the third installment of our exclusive interview last week with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.  In the first article we showed an overview and video footage of the main subject areas we covered: Big Opportunities …
Mia / YouTube Blog:
Warner Music Comes Back to YouTube  —  Music Licensing: It's complicated.  Let's face it.  But today all of that is beside the point: we are happy to announce that Warner Music Group (WMG)'s artists are returning home to YouTube.  Under this new, multi-year global agreement …
Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM:
AppBank Wants to Help You Cash In on Facebook Apps  —  AppBank, a Seattle-based startup, today is launching a free application in beta that lets people without coding skills build their own Facebook apps, such as a quiz or game, in four steps — and earn a cut of the revenue from ads placed within them.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO  —  Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said today that in the coming years, wired broadband will likely be sold in packages based on the amount of data a person wants to consume, much like wireless broadband is sold today.
Discussion: DSLreports and Digital Daily, Thanks:atul
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney Tries to Pull the Storybook Ritual Onto the Web  —  LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company hopes an ambitious new digital service it plans to unveil on Tuesday will transform how children read its storybooks.  —  In what it bills as an industry-defining moment …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AOL's Google Reunion Grows Yet Again: Former YouTube Ad Guy Shashi Seth Joins Up  —  Of course, Time Warner's (TWX) AOL has hired yet another Google (GOOG) veteran.  That's what the company does under the Tim Armstrong regime.  —  Today's example: Shashi Seth, the one-time “monetization” …
Vodafone:
Vodafone to Sell iPhone in UK and Ireland  —  Vodafone and Apple today confirmed that they have reached agreement to bring iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS to the UK and Ireland in early 2010.  —  Beginning today, Vodafone UK and Vodafone Ireland customers can register their interest in iPhone 3G …
Bloomberg:
Microsoft Says Ford, Continental Moving to Windows 7  —  Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. said Ford Motor Co., Continental Airlines Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. and Intel Corp. will help introduce its Windows 7 operating system by upgrading to the new program.
Discussion: eWeek, All about Microsoft and Digits
Jon Fortt / Brainstorm Tech:
Xerox CEO defends ACS deal  —  Xerox CEO Ursula Burns has made a bold bid for services company ACS.  Photo: Xerox.  —  Xerox's new CEO bets big on services.  Can she convince investors she made the right move?  —  Ursula Burns calls less than 30 minutes after the markets close …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Tameka Kee / paidContent:
Akamai Rolls Out HD Video Network For Flash, Silverlight And iPhone  —  People continue to increase the amount of time they spend watching full-length movies and other premium content online—so shouldn't they be able to watch more of it in HD quality?  That's the premise behind the launch …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mint Widget And Other YAP Apps Make It To Yahoo's Home Page  —  With the new Yahoo homepage that was previewed last July and is now rolling out more broadly as part of Yahoo's new “It's Y!ou” branding exercise, the main Yahoo homepage is taking on more of the personalization features on MyYahoo.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
iPhone Developers Accessing Users' Telephone Numbers for Telemarketing?  —  French site Mac4Ever reports that a number of users of a free Swiss traffic application for the iPhone have received telemarketing calls from callers who claim that they received the users' telephone numbers from Apple after making the application purchase.
Discussion: Mac4Ever.com and Gizmodo
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple's FileMaker intros Bento 3  —  Apple subsidiary, FileMaker, this afternoon introduced the latest iteration of its personal databasing application, Bento, raising the software up to version 3.  —  Bento 3 offers new ways to view, use and share photos, contacts, calendars, files and more …
 
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Dogster and ICanHazCheezburger Join Ad Forces
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Wize Redesigns Product Review Search Engine
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Nicole Berett / The Windows Blog:
Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 update
 Earlier Items: 
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Pressure on Microsoft, as Windows attack now public
Discussion: Zero Day, GMSV and Security Watch
The H Open Source:
Open Android Alliance formed
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Court Dismisses WPP's $13 Million Lawsuit Against Spot Runner
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Ping is Like a Free SMS Client For iPhone and iPod Touch Users
Discussion: Gear Live and The Next Web, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Google, bank resolve issue over misfired e-mail
Brad Stone / Bits:
Apple Rehires a Developer of Its Newton Tablet
 

 
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