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Google-focused satellite enters orbit (CNET)
CNET - The GeoEye-1 satellite that launched into orbit Saturday is on a mission from Google.
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Chris Shipley 1, Internet lynch mob 0 (CNET)
CNET - On the eve of the dueling demo-fests, Demo impresario Chris Shipley confesses that she has had it with the shoddy reporting, invective and arrogance that has attended most of the commentary on the phony faceoff between her conference and TechCrunch.
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Facebook botnet risk revealed (CNET)
CNET - Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into elements of a botnet that in a demonstration launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server.
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Security firm spots Chrome 'SaveAs' flaw (CNET)
CNET - It's been only a few days since Google released its Chrome browser, and security researchers are still digging into the software in search of the first few flaws.
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Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old (AP)
AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
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Napster faces challenges within and without (Reuters)
Reuters - When Napster reported its fiscal
first-quarter results in August, it tried to paint a positive
picture to investors who were growing increasingly nervous
about the company's future.
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Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Teachers and professors are starting to use cell phones as educational tools in their classrooms, after previously banning them as distractions. Abilene Christian Univ. in Texas is giving two-thirds of its freshmen a smart phone that they're expected to use for receiving handouts in class and brainstorming. About 100 high school freshmen in N.C. are using phones during their math classes in a program sponsored by handset gear maker Qualcomm. They use the phones to play math games, network among themselves on problems and watch animation showing problems being solved.
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EIC Squared: Chrome, iPods, and a Dell-Salesforce union (CNET)
CNET - On this week's EIC Squared podcast ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I discuss Google's latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple's product launch event on September 9.
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Start-up launches spectrum marketplace (CNET)
CNET - A Web site for matching buyers and sellers of wireless spectrum went live on Friday.
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Online TV Viewing Approaches the Mainstream (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Nearly 20 percent of American households are tuning into TV over the Internet. That's twice the number from 2006, according to new research from The Conference Board Consumer Research Center and market-research firm TNS. The most popular destinations for online broadcasts? The official TV channel home page and YouTube.com.
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iPhone Gets EA's Spore Origins, More Mobile Titles (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - If you can't manage to occupy yourself Web surfing, e-mailing or listening to tunes on your iPhone, EA Mobile has just announced a raft of games for the iPod touch and the iPhone. Phone games have become a real phenomenon as more and more mobile devices have enough screen real estate and processing power to become a viable game platform. The EA announcement Friday focused on the release of Spore Origins for the Apple mobile market, but the company also released details of nine other upcoming mobile game titles.
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Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk (AP)
AP - Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.
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Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive (AP)
AP - Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.
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Adobe sets Genesis mashup pilot (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Adobe Systems in October plans to launch a private pilot program for its "Genesis" mashup technology, which provides a desktop client uniting multiple tasks in a single workspace.
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Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump (AP)
AP - Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high.
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App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - When Apple opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, tools, and other applications for cell phones was a rarity. Handset owners could buy apps from their carriers or the occasional niche site. But these days, the app store concept is becoming commonplace. The question is, does the world need a warren of wireless app stores?
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Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps (AP)
AP - NEW YORK As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.
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Chrome Hints Google Aims To Become 'Big Brother' (NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - What's behind Google's release of its new Chrome browser? While the software boasts some impressive technology, does Google seriously mean to reopen the browser wars, even against its open-source partner Mozilla?
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Appirio opts for the cloud over servers (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Can a business be run solely in the cloud without a server anywhere in sight? Appirio says it can and is already doing it.
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