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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple ads hint at thinner iMacs, lighter MacBooks, cheaper Mac minis — First on AppleInsider: A trio of online advertisements that appear to have been published prematurely by one of Apple's international online stores suggest it's only a matter of days before the Mac maker takes the wraps off …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blu-ray iMacs ‘In A Few Weeks’, Apple Ace Gruber Predicts — New iMacs with Blu-ray players could be announced this month, Apple's first set of products supporting the hi-def disc format. — At the very least, Apple is coming out with a new keyboard and mouse soon, and we know that ahead …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Ignores USB Group's Warning, Restores iTunes Sync — Oh, it's really on now. This morning Palm (PALM) announced WebOS 1.2.1 another point release to its new WebOS platform that restores media synchronization with the latest version of Apple's (AAPL) iTunes (9.0.1).
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google Wave's unproductive email metaphors — OK, I took a few hours off from playing with Google Wave yesterday. I read all my comments on the post I wrote Thursday about Google Wave, many of which were very ascerbic toward me. — I took the day off and said “what if they are right?” …
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy — Table of Contents: — Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Mike Shaver both lamented Google's release of Chrome Frame in blog posts. The browser experts, who helped Mozilla's Firefox browser reach 23.8 percent market share largely …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt On Newspapers & Journalism — Is Google a newspaper killer? Not by a long shot, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Nor does he want it to be. In a long interview about his company's relationship with newspapers and the print journalism industry, Schmidt made it clear he wants established players to survive.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Two New Apps Superimpose Wikipedia Over Your iPhone Camera View of the World — What is that mountain you're driving past? Just point your iPhone at it and you can read its Wikipedia entry. Science fiction? Not anymore. Two new apps for viewing Wikipedia entries about physical locations …
Devin Coldewey / MobileCrunch:
iPhone 3GS with 3.1 added to pwnable items list — If you've been dealing with a non-jailbroken 3GS running 3.1, now's your chance to redeem it. The Dev-Team has upgraded PwnageTool to allow the 3GS (and the newest iPod touch) to be busted wide open, provided it was previously pwned in 3.0 or 3.0.1.
Times of India:
Spooks want govt to block Skype — NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption code that prevents Indian investigators from intercepting conversations of suspected terrorists.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A Partnership Between Old and New Media — The offices of Curbed, a blog network start-up, are located in the Village Voice building in New York. That is perhaps telling, as readers increasingly turn to blogs like Curbed's — which cover real estate, dining and shopping in big cities — instead of print newspapers.
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John Tomasic / Colorado Independent:
Rocky Mountain Independent, online magazine experiment, folds — Weeks-long rumors of the end of the Rocky Mountain Independent journalism experiment have been confirmed. On Thursday evening the three-month-old website announced to subscribers that it would cease producing content Monday, October 5.
Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Apple flexes iPhone muscle with mobile networks — Apple dictates terms as iPhone price war looms between Vodafone, O2 and Orange. — Apple imposed such secrecy on mobile networks negotiating access to the iPhone that one was forced to keep the deal secret for a year …
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