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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yammer Takes Top Prize At TechCrunch50 — Three jam-packed days, and 52 startup demos later, we finally have a winner for this year's TechCrunch50. Every day, the presentations just seemed to get stronger and stronger. There were so many strong contenders this year that we are awarding …
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Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for BlackBerry: faster, stronger, better — Today we're pleased to launch Google Mobile App for BlackBerry. It's a free download and it looks like this: — To download the App, visit m.google.com on your BlackBerry device. — Once it's installed you'll have faster search …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone
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The Official Google Blog:
The future of search … I am a search addict. I'm naturally inquisitive - I've always liked finding things out. Plus, I've worked at Google on search for the past 9 years and 3 months. Of course I search - a lot. Yet I would guess that on any given day, I only do about 20% of the searches that I could.
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Will Smith / Maximum PC all:
Exclusive Interview: Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It — We sat down with Microsoft to hear the company's side of the Vista story. What lessons have been learned following the worst Windows launch in the company's history? Is Microsoft doing enough to regain PC users' faith?
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
A Stock-Killer Fueled by Algorithm After Algorithm — What made a six-year-old article about a bankruptcy filing by United Airlines reappear on Wall Street traders' screens on Monday as if it were fresh news, prompting a sell-off that erased $1 billion in the company's market value in a matter of minutes?
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Zune exec on phone future, new iPods — There are a number of businesses where Microsoft is playing catch-up these days. But arguably one where the company starts furthest behind is in the music business, where it decided two years ago to scrap its partner approach and go it alone with the Zune in its effort to catch the iPod.
Camille Sweeney / New York Times:
Twittering From the Cradle — IT would be easy to assume that the first month of Cameron Chase's life followed the monotonous cycle of eat-sleep-poop familiar to any new parent. But anyone who has read his oft-updated profile on Totspot, a site billed as Facebook for children, knows better.
Stuart Houghton / Kotaku:
Xbox 360s Flying Off The Shelves After Price Cut — Well, that seems to have done the trick. Following last week's Xbox 360 price cut in the US, the console has seen a big spike in sales. — Some retailers are reportedly showing 100% increases in sales of all Xbox models with up to six times …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Marillion One-Ups Radiohead, Releasing Free Album On To P2P — Here's another discussion point for our upcoming EconMusic conference... prog rock band Marillion is releasing its latest album for free on to P2P networks - with the proviso that downloaders cough up their email address for marketing use.
Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
App stores and APIs: It's the ecosystem, stupid — If you make a web application or mobile platform, one of the trendiest things you can do is add APIs and a software marketplace to it so developers will extend your product. Google is previewing its application market for Android (link) …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
CookieMonster nabs user creds from secure sites — Websites used for email, banking, e-commerce and other sensitive applications just got even less secure with the release of a new tool that siphons users' authentication credentials - even when they're sent through supposedly secure channels.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday's 'Let's Rock' Apple Special Event — OVERALL SCOPE — The overall takeaway from yesterday's news is that Apple's music and iPod business is right on track. There was nothing exceptional or particularly surprising, but the incremental improvements and changes were significant.
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Tim Moynihan / Today @ PC World:How to Confuse the iTunes Genius
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Jen Mazzon / Official Google Docs Blog:
Back to school with a bunch of new features — Fight on, Trojans! Yesterday, we spent the day at the University of Southern California, the first stop on the App to School bus tour of U.S. college campuses. We hung out with a lot of students (and some professors, too) who dropped by our demo stations …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Best of Shows: Top 10 from DemoFall, TechCrunch50 — CNET's judges for this article: Dan Farber, Josh Lowensohn, Elinor Mills, Rafe Needleman, and Daniel Terdiman. — More than 120 companies presented at this week's competing start-up conferences: DemoFall and TechCrunch50.
BBC:
Classical download store opens — Classical music lovers in the UK will now be able to download their favourite works from the web, thanks to a new resource launched today. — Passionato is providing the world's biggest collection of high-quality classical downloads, first in the UK and later worldwide.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
What's happening in Mobile: a peek at new products, services — Last night, I had the chance to meet with some companies who are exhibiting at this week's CTIA Wireless conference in San Francisco at a press-only event called Mobile Focus. It was a good show - food and drink alongside …
