Techmeme: Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges (Sean Hollister/Engadget)

3:59 AM ET, October 4, 2010

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Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Confirmed: Windows Phone 7 launches October 11th in New York City, and T-Mobile's on board — If there was any scrap of doubt in your mind, we'll obliterate it for you right now — October 11th is the day Windows Phone 7 will be unveiled in the US, not just at a fancy London event …

Discussion: AppleInsider, TmoNews, GeekSmack, WMExperts, BlogsDNA, WMPoweruser.com, The Next Web and Electronista

Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:

Ballmer Talks Windows Phone 7 — Microsoft Corp. has struggled for the past two years in the mobile-phone market. But CEO Steve Ballmer says his company finally has a compelling story. — On Oct. 11, Microsoft and its partners plan to announce the initial wave of handsets that will use Windows Phone 7 …

Discussion: Fortune, TechCrunch and Between the Lines Blog, Thanks:rawmeet

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

The OS Doesn't Matter... Once upon a time, operating systems used to matter a lot; they defined what a computer could and couldn't do. The “old” OS orchestrated the use of resources: memory, processors, I/O (input/output) to external devices (screen, keyboard, disks, network, printers...).

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Verizon agrees to refund customers $90 million for wrongful data charges — Did you have a Verizon phone sans data plan, but get billed for data anyhow? Verizon Wireless is dropping $90 million to make things right next month. The New York Times reports that the company …

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: FCC Probes Verizon Wireless for ‘Mystery’ Data Charges

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Opening Weekend: The Social Network Tops Box Office With $23 Million In Ticket Sales — This probably isn't too surprising. The Social Network, which had received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, topped the box office opening weekend with $23 million in ticket sales …

Discussion: USA Today, Hillicon Valley, Associated Press, Company Town, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, NY Daily News and TheHDRoom

Jose Antonio Vargas / The Huffington Post:

The Social Disconnect — How Hollywood Misread Facebook — What's Your Reaction: … Everything that's wrong about The Social Network is summed up by its title. — The movie, opening nationwide today, is not interested in the concept of social networking or the actual usage of Facebook.

Discussion: New York Times

David Carr / New York Times: Film Version of Zuckerberg Divides Generations

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

If Web 1.0's Kryptonite Was the Bust, Web 2.0 Kryptonite Was the Grind — There were two surreal moments for me at Disrupt last week. The first was during the SV Angels Party when Hammer was dancing. It wasn't just because MC-Freaking-Hammer was doing to Hammer dance in a tux and nerd glasses in front of me.

Dennis Howlett / Irregular Enterprise Blog:

Hey Larry (Ellison), worry about your own stuff before firing barbs — Larry Ellison, CEO Oracle didn't take long before opining on Leo Apotheker's appointment as CEO H-P. … Such comments are both totally predictable and stand in sharp contrast to Apotheker's gracious response to the Red Stack threat.

Vinnie Mirchandani / deal architect: Sean Parker, Leo Apotheker and “lazy journalism”

Boy Genius Report:

T-Mobile myTouch gets reintroduced, 1GHz Snapgradon, 3.8″ display, 4G speeds — Well, this one came out of nowhere... T-Mobile has just introduced the new myTouch, and it's a beauty. Packed with a 1GHz Snapdragon MSM8255 CPU, 5 megapixel camera, 3.8″ display, and front facing camera …

Discussion: IntoMobile, Engadget, mocoNews, MobileCrunch and GigaOM

Randall Stross / New York Times:

What Steve Jobs Learned in the Wilderness — THE saga of Steven P. Jobs is so well known that it has entered the nation's mythology: he's the prodigal who returned to Apple in 1997, righted a listing ship and built it into one of the most valuable companies in the world.

Discussion: FM Blog, MacStories, Gizmodo, Fortune and TUAW, Thanks:rawmeet

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Surface computing + augmented reality = Microsoft LightSpace — Microsoft is looking to extend its surface-computing work into the spatial-computing arena with a new research project known as LightSpace. — Andy Wilson, a Microsoft research who was key in bringing the Microsoft Surface tabletop to market …

Thanks:rawmeet

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

iPhone user privacy at risk from apps that transmit personal info — The user data collected by some iOS apps can be correlated to real-world identities, posing a privacy risk to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users. According to research from Bucknell University, a majority of iOS apps transmit user data back to their own servers.

Discussion: pskl.us

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