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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple TV requires a re-download of iTunes Extras and LP, Remote.app updated — Interestingly, Apple is requiring people who want to use iTunesLP and iTunes extras with the new AppleTV 3.0 to re-download their content. We're not sure why but perhaps Apple had a last second change of format since …
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
iTunes Updated to 9.0.2, Pre Sync is Dead. Again. — Here we go again. Apple has updated iTunes to version 9.0.2 and Palm Pre sync is dead again using webOS 1.2.1, despite Palm's Hurculean efforts to spoof nearly every aspect of USB identification known to mankind.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Launches Apple TV 3.0 Software and iTunes 9.0.2 [Updated] — Apple today announced the launch of Apple TV 3.0 software, offering a redesigned user interface and compatibility with Apple's iTunes LPs and iTunes Extras, as well as Genius Mixes and Internet radio.
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Apple Introduces Apple TV 3.0 Software With Redesigned User Interface — Enjoy iTunes Extras, iTunes LP & Genius Mixes on Your HD TV — Apple® today introduced new Apple TV® 3.0 software featuring a redesigned main menu that makes navigating your favorite content simpler and faster …
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Facebook awarded $711 million in spam lawsuit — Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages in a judgment Thursday against self-described “spam king” Sanford Wallace. — Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California granted Facebook's application …
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Sam O'Rourke / The Facebook Blog:
The Fight Goes On — UPDATE on Thursday, October 29: Today, a San Jose, Calif. court awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace, one of the spammers who accessed people's accounts without their permission and sent phony Wall posts and messages.
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Sprint: Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile Updates Coming — Sprint executive David Owens sat down for a virtual chat on Sprint's Web site with consumers today, and updated folks with some good news about his carrier's plans. — Google Android OS updates are coming for the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment.
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
HTC CEO On Android, Verizon, Microsoft — Wireless executive confirms first Verizon Android handset and discusses strengths of Android, Windows Mobile. — TAOYUAN, TAIWAN — For more than six months, HTC enjoyed the privilege of being the only cellphone maker to have a handset running on Google's mobile platform, Android.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Launches Comparison Ads, Starting With Mortgages — Google's now officially announced “Comparison Ads,” starting with a way for mortgage advertisers to have their products compared against each other but which may expand to other products in the future.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Epix Launches Premium Movie Channel for TV and the Web (Invites) — Almost every TV channel offers some programming on the Web these days. Epix, a new premium movie channel that will launch this weekend, goes a step further. If you are a Verizon FiOS subscriber, you will be able to watch …
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Matt Thomas / WordPress for iPhone:
WordPress for iPhone — WordPress for iPhone 2 now available in the App Store — We've just received word that WordPress for iPhone 2 is now available on the App Store. Woohoo! — A quick note about installation: WordPress for iPhone 2 is a new app, and the previous version won't automatically update to 2.0.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Music: What Were Ticketmaster And Facebook Thinking? — Now that the dust is settling on the newly launched Google Music (if you don't yet have it in your normal Google search results, you can use it here) that integrates LaLa and iLike/MySpace streaming music, all I can think of is this …
Microsoft SMB Community Blog:
Regardless of what any hack says, a Windows 7 Upgrade is an Upgrade. What you need to know. — First, the feedback, excitement, etc. we've been seeing since the launch of Windows 7 last week has been phenomenal! Thank you to all of you for providing your feedback to us to let us know how your Windows 7 experience is going.
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InfoWorld, internetnews.com, eWeek, The Microsoft Blog, Network World and CodenameWindows
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First 5,000 Tags Released to the Linked Data Cloud — For more than 150 years, The New York Times has meticulously indexed its archives. Through this process, we have developed an enormous collection of subject headings, ranging from “Absinthe"[1] to “Zoos"[2]. — Unfortunately, our list of subject headings is an island.
Phone Arena:
New images of the HTC Droid Eris — Published on: Today by PhoneArena Team — Over the past two weeks we've been hearing tidbits about the HTC Droid Eris, and that it will launch at the same time (or shortly after) the Motorola Droid is released on November 6th.
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Motorola Droid Car Kit, Bedside Dock to Cost $29.99 — Want to turn your Motorola Droid into an in-car navigation device? Google's navigation software is free, but the car kit will run you $30. Ditto for transforming your Droid into a bedside alarm clock.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Rolling Out Lists To Everybody. Have You Gotten Yours? — Ever since Twitter announced it is working on a new Lists feature a month ago, users and developers have been awaiting its broad rollout. Over the past few weeks, Twitter has been expanding the number of people in the Lists beta …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Kaspersky tool detects malware in Twitter links — Kaspersky unveiled a new tool on Thursday called “Krab Krawler” that analyzes the millions of tweets posted on Twitter every day and blocks any malware associated with them. — The tool looks at every public post as it appears on Twitter …
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Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft Opens Store in Same Mall As Apple — Microsoft opened its second retail location, this one in Mission Viejo, Calif., on Oct. 29. — Microsoft executives have stated that they intend to compete aggressively against Apple in the retail arena, with plans to open some Microsoft outlets …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
VoIP Ringing Up Billions in Sales — Can you believe that VoIP-based telephony services brought in nearly $20.7 billion in revenues during the first six months of 2009? Incredible as it might sound, it is indeed true, according to data reported by market research firm Infonetics Research.
Lex Friedman / Macworld:
New iPhone app translates English into Spanish as you speak — Jibbigo is a new iPhone app that can translate English speech into Spanish—and the reverse—all without going online. You simply launch the $25 app and speak into your iPhone's microphone and the translation is played over the speaker.
Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence:
Twitter Revisited - in More than 140 Characters — A quick update from my Twitter post from last month. I had the pleasure of speaking at two excellent conferences this week, iMedia Breakthrough and Digital Media West. During the Q&A of my talk at Digital Media, I was asked about my views …
Business Wire:
Best Buy® Mobile Offers Pre-Sells of Motorola DROID in Stores Beginning October 29 — Best Buy Mobile will apply rebate savings for the new smartphone at the point of purchase to help customers avoid the hassles of mail-in rebates. — MINNEAPOLIS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Best Buy Mobile …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Stream Foo Fighters Concert Tomorrow Night, Powered By Livestream — Facebook has teamed with the Foo Fighters to stream a concert live tomorrow night from the band's Studio 606 headquaters in Los Angeles. You can RSVP to the event here, and stream it live here beginning at 7 PM PST tomorrow.
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Dwight / blogs.chron.com:
Comcast's bandwidth meter: Still vaporware — When last I checked on the bandwidth meter Comcast had said would be available to its customers at the start of this year, I was told it was still under construction. — It became a hot issue late last year when Comcast announced it was going to cap …
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Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:
DARPA challenge — find 10 red balloons, win $40,000 — DARPA is holding a competition to find ten large weather balloons. Winner gets $40,000! … I predict Pascal to be the winner. — More information and rules here
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Nokia to invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T — AT&T, the major U.S. phone operator, will launch a Nokia Symbian phone with a Qualcomm chip in the U.S. market, an industry source close to Nokia has told VentureBeat. It's just the latest in a wide front of attack the giant Finnish company is making on the U.S market.
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