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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize — Jason Calacanis just announced that Mint was chosen as the best presenting company at TechCrunch40. The provider of an impressive personal finance application will receive $50,000 as part of the award.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances — [Update: Mint has won the TechCrunch 40 conference's competition, which goes to the most impressive presenting company from among the 40 participants. Mint will receive a $50,000 cash award and other services and awards from corporate sponsors.]
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TechCrunch, Joe Duck, Webware.com, Webomatica, The Startup Game, blognation USA, Download Squad, PC World: Techlog, Mashable!, down the avenue and Howard Lindzon
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look: Go, Go, Google Gadget Ads! — Google has just announced the limited launch of Google Gadget Ads, a new interactive ad format that will run on their content network. Unlike Google AdWords' existing array of text, video and graphical ads, Google Gadget Ads are designed to be interactive …
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Diana Adair / Google:
Google AdWords Introduces Google Gadget Ads, a New Interactive Ad Format — Engaging and flexible ad units give advertisers a new way to communicate with users online — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the introduction of Google Gadget Ads™, a new interactive ad format …
Louise Story / New York Times:
Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers — Google is seizing on the popularity of widgets — small online tools that function like mini-Web sites — for its latest push into advertising. — The online giant will announce today a Gadget Ads program that will provide tools …
Stuart Miles / Latest News:
Apple promises 3G iPhone for 2008 — You can expect a 3G iPhone later next year... Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has confirmed that there is a 3G iPhone in the works, although fell short of saying when we could expect to buy one. — Making the comments at the "Mum is no longer the word" …
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Uninformed Journal:
OS X Kernel-mode Exploitation in a Weekend — Abstract: — Apple's Mac OS X (OS X) operating system is attracting more attention from users and security researchers alike. Despite this increased interest, there is still an apparent lack of detailed vulnerability development information …
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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Hacker publishes notorious Apple Wi-Fi attack (finally) — A year after Black Hat uproar, David Maynor's ready to tell all — More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.
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Liquidmatrix Security Digest
Intel:
Industry Leaders Develop Superspeed USB Interconnect — Popular USB Computer Connection Technology Expands performance with Proposed USB 3.0 Specification — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 - Intel Corporation and other industry leaders have formed the USB 3. Promoter Group …
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:Gelsinger demos USB 3.0, PICe 3.0 and other new toys
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Ars Technica
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Announcing SoftTech VC's $12M seed fund - the Return to the Dark Side — After 3 years of angel investing in 20+ Consumer Internet startups (and profitably selling 5 of them), I am very excited, and humbled, to announce the launch of my very own VC fund, SoftTech VC II …
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Dogster Inc. Company Blog
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Ooma starts selling a land-line phone with unique features — Landline phones haven't changed much in decades. But Palo Alto-based ooma has created what it calls a true next-generation voice-over-Internet protocol phone. It has applied some clever technology to deliver a lot …
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Strategy Letter VI — IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they're probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second Coming and which fell totally flat.
Intel:
Intel Demonstrates Industry's First 32nm Chip and Next-Generation Nehalem Microprocessor Architecture — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 - Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini today outlined new products, chip designs and manufacturing technologies …
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DefenseLINK:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE — DoD Permanently Discontinues Procurement Of Global Positioning System Selective Availability — The Department of Defense announced today that it intends to stop procuring Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites with the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals.
Computerworld:
Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlocking hacks — Apple will do what it can to fend off hackers trying to unlock the company's popular iPhone, said Steve Jobs, but he acknowledged that doing so won't be easy. — NETWORKING & INTERNET / more stories... Mozilla slaps temp patch on Firefox
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch40 Session 8: Entertainment for All Ages — We're live blogging each session, adding to the summary of each company direct from the floor of TechCrunch 40. Click Refresh to view. — FlowPlay — FlowPlay is a virtual world community built around browser-based casual games.
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Brian Briggs / BBspot:
Vista SP1 Will Install XP — Redmond, WA - In response to customer demands Microsoft announced that instead of patching bugs and improving features of Windows Vista in the next service pack release, they would just install XP. — "We're focused on giving the customer what they want …
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking — With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends — When Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose launched Digg three years ago, the Web site attracted a community of like-minded people.
