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Laura Northrup / Consumerist:
MMS For iPhone Rollout Begins, 2 Weeks Early — Reports are showing up online that AT&T is beginning a slow rollout of official MMS functionality to seemingly random iPhone users, from Manhattan to Idaho. The official start date is September 25, but it makes sense that the company …
Will Park / IntoMobile:
Opera: What's next? A whole bunch of ‘shiny’ — Opera Software, makers of the popular Opera Mini 4.2 mobile web browser, are cooking up something really big in their R&D kitchens. Opera's browser technology is already good enough to get bundled on new smartphones like the HTC Touch Diamond2, but things are about to get even better.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Home Delivery: The New York Times Serves Up Some Malware — Here's a front page story the New York Times (NYT) would rather not be running: The paper is warning readers to be aware of bogus ads running on its Web site. — The paper says “some readers” have seen unauthorized pop …
Sean Power / Watching Websites:
An Open Letter To All TechCrunch50 2009 Startups: The TC “Bump”, What It Really Means & How To Navigate It — Disclaimer 1: All site-related data found in this post comes from compete.com. The company was kind enough to give us a “pro account” to help us research the O'Reilly book …
Martin Bryant / The Next Web Blog:
iPhone usage on Flickr falls dramatically - What's happening? — Only three weeks ago the iPhone was on course to become the most popular camera on Flickr. It had been just below the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi for several weeks but now iPhone usage on Flickr, as measured by Flickr's own data, has started to fall off dramatically.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Dirt cheap: Techdirt bets on ‘free’ business models — Heaping criticism and scorn on media companies has worked well for Mike Masnick, operator of the popular blog Techdirt. — Masnick is the firey commentator who blasts copyright owners and anyone else he believes has failed to accept …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo Set to Unveil Massive New Marketing Campaign at Advertising Week, Declaring Size Does Matter — Yahoo is set to unveil a major marketing campaign to reset advertiser and consumer perception of the long-troubled company during Advertising Week in New York, which starts a week from tomorrow.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Settles Mob Wars Litigation As It Settles In To Playdom Fight — Social game startup Zynga sure does get into a lot of legal fights. Just as they settle down to business with the Playdom you-stole-our-playbook fight, we've confirmed that they settled a different lawsuit - one where they were playing defense.
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Ran / Omgili blog:
Near-Real-time search on Google — Did you ever want to know what's happening on the internet in real-time? Yes you say, I use Twitter! Well good for you, I guess I can't teach you anything new since you already know everything... So go on and don't read the rest of the post because you are so smart and successful...
Richard Tyler / Telegraph:
DFJ Esprit buys telecoms and technology portfolio from 3i — Venture firm DFJ Esprit has snapped up a portfolio of European technology and telecoms companies from 3i as it launches new funds worth $380m (£233m). — 3i Group — The deal with 3i is financed by investors Coller Capital and HarbourVest Partners.
Chris / cdixon.org:
Google and newspapers: the false choice of opting out — First let me say I love Google. I think Google created one of the greatest inventions of the past century and continues to give back much more value to the world than they “capture” in revenue. — Secondly, I think Google itself …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Linux webserver botnet pushes malware — Attack of the open source zombies — A security researcher has discovered a cluster of infected Linux servers that have been corralled into a special ops botnet of sorts and used to distribute malware to unwitting people browsing the web.
