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Apple Announces Over 100,000 Apps Now Available on the App Store — Apple® today announced that developers have created over 100,000 apps for the revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. iPhone® and iPod touch® customers in 77 countries can choose …
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Microsoft Cuts 800 More Positions — In its third round of layoffs this year, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it is cutting 800 jobs across the company today. The software giant said in January that it would eliminate up to 5,000 jobs, in response to falling sales and profits.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Loses Don Dodge. This Is A Huge Mistake — Among the 800 or so employees laid off by Microsoft today: Don Dodge, Microsoft's Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team, reporting to VP Dan'l Lewin. Don writes about the change on his personal blog.
Mussie Shore / The Official Google Blog:
Google Friend Connect, now more personalized — (Cross-posted with the Social Web Blog) — On the subway, I bump elbows with a guy for 20 city blocks without exchanging a single word. Forty-five minutes later, I find the same guy at the local guitar shop, and we start to talk — turns out he plays a Gibson Les Paul just like I do.
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Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
Confirmed: Verizon Wireless to charge up to $350 early termination on “advanced devices” — Here's what Big Red is working with: they've offered up a BOGO sale on all new BlackBerrys for the holiday buying season, and where some see a great deal, others see a great opportunity.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Cuomo Files Federal Antitrust Suit Against Intel — Following the lead of foreign regulators, New York's attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Wednesday against Intel, the world's largest chip maker. — The lawsuit charges that Intel violated state …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
EMI Sues BlueBeat for Selling Beatles Tunes Online — The record label EMI is suing a little-known online music site called BlueBeat.com for selling Beatles songs without permission. — The Beatles catalog, including dozens of the top pop songs ever recorded, has famously never been licensed for sale as digital downloads.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon Turns On The Twitter Pump To Fuel Referral Fees — Tonight, Amazon sent an email to members of Amazon Associates letting them know about a new feature: Twitter integration. Basically, when you're logged into your Associate account, you'll see a new “Share on Twitter” …
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Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz:
Apple Unveils Music-Themed Movie Push — Apple today will launch a new marketing and promotional effort designed to drive music buyers to music-themed movies in its video store. — The most visible change to the iTunes service will be a Music Movies landing page dedicated to music films …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
Verizon Wireless: Tethering Coming for Droid — Think the Motorola Droid is almost perfect, but it just needs to be a modem for your laptop? Verizon can help with that, next year. Verizon Wireless told us that their “Broadband Access Connect” plan, which allows you to tether your phone as a modem …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Parallels launches latest software to blend Mac and Windows apps — Parallels is one of those little companies that could make some big companies very nervous. The Renton, Wash.-based software maker is launching its Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac today. — The software enables an Apple Mac computer …
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Kurt Wilms / Digg the Blog:
Experimenting with Digg Trends — Because there's so much that happens beneath the surface of Digg, we've been working on new ways to expose the most interesting stories to more people. Today we're launching a new homepage voting experiment called Digg Trends which will surface certain highly active stories …
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Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Interview: The Man Who Named the iMac and Wrote Think Different — Meet Ken Segall — the man who dreamed up the name “iMac” and wrote the famous Think Different campaign. — Segall is a veteran creative director who worked at Apple's agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day, back in the day.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release) — The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct in thinking the recipe Microsoft (MSFT) has cooked up to inform its design ethos-white …
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Softpedia News:
Mac Trojan Masked as Game Deletes a File for Every Alien Killed — Symantec has discovered a new threat targeting users of Mac OS X — Security expert Symantec has discovered what it refers to as an OSX.Loosemaque threat cleverly disguised as a classic video and targeting unsuspecting Mac users.
Financial Times:
Oracle braced for EU objection on Sun deal — By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Nikki Tait in Brussels — Oracle is braced for a formal objection from Brussels to its planned $7.4bn acquisition of fellow US technology company Sun Microsystems, escalating the company's high-stakes legal wrangle …
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Marisa Taylor / Digits:
Twitter's Dorsey Gets His Head Examined — Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey underwent a public session with a psychoanalyst in honor of the Rubin Museum of Art's exhibition of Carl Jung's “Red Book,” a previously unpublished work that discloses the renowned psychologist's own struggles with his subconscious.
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Chris Mellor / The Register:
USB 3.0 thumb drive pops up — Super Talent goes SuperSpeed — Flash vendor Super Talent is leading the pack again and has come up with a USB 3.0 thumb drive. — Its SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDRive comes in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and works with current USB 2.0 ports, but obviously at USB 2.0 speed.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Pictures Of Today's Filming Of “The Social Network” At Johns Hopkins — Last week we wrote that Johns Hopkins would welcome the crew of “The Social Network” this week as they'd be filming in front of some of the dorms. Today photos of the shooting are rolling in from Twitpic including shots …
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Juliet Williams / Associated Press:
Former HP CEO Fiorina announces bid for US Senate — SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said Wednesday she is running for the Republican nomination to battle liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat.
Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Pew Report Says Tech Not Turning Us Into Hermits — Good news, Facebook fans. Using social networks and surfing the Web will not turn you into a hermit. A Wednesday study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that the increased use of technology has not led to a jump in social isolation.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Linden Lab launches enterprise version of Second Life virtual world — Second Life is going corporate. The virtual world already has more than 1,400 companies staging meetings and conferences inside its virtual landscapes. But Linden Lab is now taking Second Life into the companies themselves …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Rumors of Disabled Intel Atom Support in Mac OS X 10.6.2 Unfounded? — Earlier this week, a report surfaced claiming that Apple had apparently disabled support for Intel's Atom processors in the latest developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.2. The revelation set off a firestorm around the Internet …
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Boy Genius Report:
Another Verizon DROID commercial, Stealth, and it's awesome — Forget the first commercial you saw, this one takes the cake. We've been told it should start airing on TV this week. Video is after the break.
