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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Apple's iTunes Pitch: TV for $30 a Month — Would you pay $30 a month to watch TV via iTunes? — That's the pitch Apple has been making to TV networks in recent weeks. The company is trying to round up support for a monthly subscription service that would deliver TV programs via its multimedia software, multiple sources tell me.
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Venture Capital Dispatch:
The First Mobile Device Dedicated Exclusively To Twitter — When the team at Twitter Inc. hatched the idea of producing a mobile device dedicated to “tweeting” they contacted Jonathan Kaplan, founder of a gadget company that experienced one of the most successful exits for venture investors in 2009.
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Rebecca Lefort / Telegraph:
Mystery of Argleton the ‘Google’ town that only exists online — Argleton, a ‘phantom town’ in Lancashire that appears on Google Maps and online directories but doesn't actually exist, has puzzled internet experts. — The town appears on Google Maps in the middle of fields close to the M58 motorway, just south of Ormskirk.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
RockYou Joins The No Scams Parade. But What's Facebook Up To? — Zynga changed their lead gen scam policy this morning (the whole Scamville background is here, see updates at bottom as well). And now RockYou is taking steps to clean up their act to, according to an email we've been forwarded.
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Google Chrome Blog:
Bookmark sync and more speed in the latest beta release — Fresh from a Halloween weekend, we're excited to introduce a brand new beta for Google Chrome, which includes a few new treats and cool tricks for our users. — For those of you who use several computers — for example …
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 announced, we go hands-on — The first Android device from Sony Ericsson may have undergone an upgrade in the naming department, jumping from X3 all the way to XPERIA X10 (probably to avoid confusion with Nokia's X3 handset), but what lies under the hood is reassuringly in line with what we've been hearing.
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Best Buy Prepares for the Post-DVD Era — Best Buy sells a lot of DVDs, but it is taking another step to get ready for the day when that business shifts online. — The giant electronics retailer on Tuesday is announcing a partnership with Sonic Solutions' Roxio CinemaNow service to deliver …
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Business Wire:
Spring Design Files Lawsuit against Barnes & Noble: Nook Violates Alex Intellectual Property — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Spring Design today filed a lawsuit to protect its Alex™ e-book intellectual property. The lawsuit asserts Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets …
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Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
Want a Droid for work e-mail? It'll cost you extra — Accessing Exchange e-mail over the new ‘iPhone killer’ costs an extra $15 per month — The industry is abuzz over the Motorola Droid, the first Google Android 2.0-based smartphone, to be released on Friday, Nov. 6, in the United States …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Reveals More Lists Power With A Widget — Since it was turned on for all users late last week, everyone is talking about Twitter's new Lists feature. Most people seem to like it, but some have no idea what it's good for. Perhaps those people will understand a bit more about Lists potential …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Pinching and the Droid — Joshua Topolsky, writing for Engadget, gives the Droid a very positive review overall. But regarding something I'd been wondering about, here's what he writes about multi-touch: … I, alas, don't have a Droid in hand, but my understanding of the multi-touch situation is as follows.
Dave Rosenberg / CNET News:
Turning Twitter into an application server — As much as Twitter is a powerful communication and social application, it's a relatively simple Web app. As part of a new contest sponsored by Engine Yard, Ruby on Rails developers are going to turn Twitter into their own application server.
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Preview Google's Search Results — Google added a new option to the web search toolbelt: page previews. If you click on “Show options” and select “Page previews” after performing a search, Google will show a longer snippet and a thumbnail for each search result.
Opera Press Room:
Mobile browsing revolution: now available for Nokia smartphones — Opera Mobile 10 beta brings powerful features to world's most-used smartphone platform — Opera Software today unveiled the beta of Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia and other Symbian/S60 handsets.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
This Is a Next-Generation iPhone 4 Part, China Ontrade Claims — China Ontrade calls this the iPhone 4 Generation Midboard. Not very exciting, but the last time they announced a next-generation iPhone part, they were right. A month later, the iPhone 3GS appeared with exactly those parts.
Google Wave Developer Blog:
WaveSandbox.com: Federate This — When we first unveiled Google Wave a few months ago, one of the fundamental concepts we discussed was the vision for wave as an open communications protocol. We are happy to announce that the developer instance of Google Wave is now available …
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Betina Chan-Martin / Hulu Blog:
Coming Soon: Your Resource for Good Things to Come — Here at Hulu, we prioritize our features based largely on the feedback we receive from our users, and some of your most common questions are related to our streaming schedule for shows that are currently airing on TV.
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
An App so You'll Never Forget — Adaptive-learning algorithms calculate how often people need to see information to remember it. — A language-learning application that's already big in Japan is coming to the U.S. in the form of a new iPhone app. Smart.fm, based in Tokyo …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie Piracy — 31 years ago, in 1978, the television program 60 Minutes put on an episode about the awful threat of “video piracy” to the movie industry. Featuring the MPAA's Jack Valenti, the episode focused …
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Trims Price of E-Mail Service, Aiming to Block Google's Inroads — Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will cut the price it charges customers to store and run their e-mail systems, a bid to keep Google Inc. from making inroads in the market.
Newsdesk / Tower Ticker:
Tribune Co. papers rewiring for experimental week without AP — The Chicago Tribune and other Tribune Co. newspapers plan to utilize as little content from the Associated Press as practical during the week of Nov. 8. — The goal, as the papers review costs and needs …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Yahoo! open sources uber web server — ‘400-terabytes-a-day’ Traffic Server lands at Apache — Yahoo! has open sourced the back-end software platform that underpins the company's webmail client and countless other applications offered up across its sweeping web portal.
Berkus / Skype for Linux:
Skype open source — Just a quick update, since we seem to have hit slashdot with this news. — Yes, there's an open source version of Linux client being developed. This will be a part of larger offering, but we can't tell you much more about that right now.
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BBC:
Brussels criticises UK on privacy — The UK government has been accused of failing to protect citizens' privacy by the European Commission. — It said the government should have done more to guarantee online privacy when trials of a controversial ad-serving system were carried out in 2006.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google: You too could win millions in stock — Google is once again dangling incentives before engineers. — The company threw open its doors Monday to the engineering community Monday, announcing that it granted a Founders' Prize—"a multimillion-dollar stock bonus"—to the team that developed Google Chrome.
