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Web Visitors Swarm Google Chrome - InformationWeek
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:23:51 GMT

ITProPortal

Web Visitors Swarm Google Chrome
InformationWeek - 29 minutes ago
The search giant's download site for its new Web browser was one of the week's most popular online destinations. By KC Jones Google's Chrome ranked 12th for traffic among software Web sites the first day it was released, according to a Web intelligence ...
Browser War Redux, Patch Time, IPod News PC World
Mozilla: Firefox is faster than Chrome Computerworld
ITworld.com - ZDNet - Financial Times - InternetNews.com
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First Gates-Seinfeld ad leaves us scratching our heads - Ars Technica
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:11:00 GMT

Canada.com

First Gates-Seinfeld ad leaves us scratching our heads
Ars Technica - 42 minutes ago
By Emil Protalinski | Published: September 05, 2008 - 12:01PM CT The first Windows ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, the ad agency that won the big $300 million contract with Microsoft, features Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates.
Reality Check: The Seinfeld ad was superb CNET News
Gates, Seinfeld, Yada, Yada CRN
InformationWeek - TG Daily - Wired News - Adweek
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Is there a subsidized Netbook in your future? - BetaNews
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:11:48 GMT

The Age

Is there a subsidized Netbook in your future?
BetaNews - 41 minutes ago
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews True to words spoken by Dell CEO Michael Dell last week, Dell's newly launched Inspiron Mini 9 will soon be bundled with Vodafone's mobile broadband services in parts of Europe.
Vodafone to Resell Dell's Netbook PC World
Dell, a Bit Late, Gets Small New York Times
Punch Jump - Financial Times - ITProPortal - The Tech Herald
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Spore Stages - PC Magazine
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:06:09 GMT

BBC News

Spore Stages
PC Magazine - 1 hour ago
The game opens with the fiery birth of your planet. This soon gives way to the creation of life in a primordial ooze and the beginning of your creature's existence as a cell.
Behind the prototyping of 'Spore' CNET News
In-Depth: EA's Gibeau On Spore, Reinvigorating EA Games Gamasutra
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Some Sony VAIO Users Have Been Hot And Bothered For Years - CRN
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:24:58 GMT

Canada.com

Some Sony VAIO Users Have Been Hot And Bothered For Years
CRN - 3 hours ago
Sony's recall of thousands of VAIO TZ notebooks due to possible overheating and the threat of a "burn hazard" had some VAIO laptop users saying "finally.
Video: Money Minute: Laptop Recall, Boeing, Mortgages AssociatedPress
Update: Total Recall 4: Sony Struck By Major VAIO Recall eFluxMedia
Computerworld - InformationWeek - Reuters - The Tech Herald
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Comcast to appeal decision on peer-to-peer Net connections - Bizjournals.com
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:40:43 GMT

eFluxMedia

Comcast to appeal decision on peer-to-peer Net connections
Bizjournals.com - 2 hours ago
Comcast Corp. appealed the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to ask Comcast to tweak practices related to the management of peer-to-peer Internet connections, the telecommunications company said Thursday.
Comcast Appeals FCC Ruling Washington Post
Comcast Appeals the FCC Decision BusinessWeek
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ATR: Low Expectations for Apple September 9 Event - The Mac Observer
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:22:31 GMT

The Press

ATR: Low Expectations for Apple September 9 Event
The Mac Observer - 1 hour ago
by John Martellaro , 12:00 PM EDT, September 5th, 2008 American Technology Research's Shaw Wu published a note to investors on Friday, obtained by TMO, and outlined his low expectations for a break-through announcement by Apple at the September 9 event ...
What’s at stake for Apple at Tuesday’s iPod event Macworld
Apple gets sweeter University of Colorado The Campus Press
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Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe - Register
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:50:18 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

Hadron boffins: Our meddling will not destroy universe
Register - 6 hours ago
By Lewis Page → More by this author Boffins preparing to fire up the most powerful particle-smasher ever built have released another reassuring report which says that their machine will definitely not destroy the universe - nor even the planet Earth.
Collider Triggers End-of-World Fears TIME
Special focus on the Large Hadron Collider PhysicsToday.org
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NASA delays Hubble mission 2 days due to storms - The Associated Press
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:31:34 GMT

TVNZ

NASA delays Hubble mission 2 days due to storms
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days. Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna have held up operations at Kennedy Space Center.
Hubble mission moved to October 10 Discover Magazine
Shuttle Atlantis hauled to launch pad in Florida Reuters
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Analysts endorse 360 price drops - GameSpot
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:56:33 GMT

Scientific American

Analysts endorse 360 price drops
GameSpot - 18 hours ago
By Tom Magrino, GameSpot Industry watchers agree that Microsoft stands to regain ground thanks to cross-SKU cuts, with Nintendo and Sony unlikely to counter.
Showdown: is the Xbox 360 price cut desperation or boldness? Ars Technica
With Xbox Pricing, Microsoft Gut Punches its PC Gaming Partners CRN
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Spore Mobile for iPhone Spawns Monday - PC Magazine
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:34:58 GMT

dBTechno

Spore Mobile for iPhone Spawns Monday
PC Magazine - 2 hours ago
by Brian Heater Good news, iPhone owners. Looks like EA will be spreading a little Spore love your way, September 7th, the same day the game hits for Mac and PC.
EA working on Spore Origins, nine more iPhone games Macworld
iPhone to get EA's 'Spore Origins' CNET News
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Strongest Hurricanes Getting Stronger, Study Finds - FOXNews
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:51:04 GMT

TopNews

Strongest Hurricanes Getting Stronger, Study Finds
FOXNews - 3 hours ago
By Andrea Thompson The news comes as Tropical Storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine march almost in a line across the Atlantic basin, and just days after Hurricane Gustav slammed into the Louisiana coast.
Strongest Hurricanes May Be Getting Stronger New York Times
Strong Hurricanes Getting Stronger; Warming Is Blamed National Geographic
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Meltdown Signals Long-Term Trend - Inter Press Service
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:49:59 GMT

CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Meltdown Signals Long-Term Trend
Inter Press Service - 1 hour ago
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada , Sep 5 (IPS) - Soaring temperatures have led to the collapse of several huge ice shelves in the Canadian Arctic over the past few weeks.
The Arctic's "New Reality": Another Ice Shelf Collapses Wired News
Canadian Ice Shelf the Size of Manhattan Breaks Loose eFluxMedia
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Honda bringing back Insight nameplate for hybrid - The Associated Press
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:21:31 GMT

The Gazette (Montreal)

Honda bringing back Insight nameplate for hybrid
The Associated Press - 8 hours ago
TOKYO (AP) - Honda is bringing back the defunct Insight nameplate for a hybrid-only vehicle planned for the Japanese, European and North American markets early next year, as the automaker strives to play catch-up with rival Toyota in hybrids.
Honda To Introduce Revamped Honda Insight Hybrid In Paris This Fall eFluxMedia
Toyota Prius, Honda Civic hybrid both do-gooders in mpg The Olympian
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App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple - BusinessWeek
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:54:42 GMT

Ars Technica

App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple
BusinessWeek - 10 hours ago
Suddenly, the cell-phone app store market is getting crowded. Can rivals grab share from the maker of the iPhone? by Olga Kharif When Apple (AAPL) opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, ...
Apple Nixes 'Pull My Finger' App, Even Though It's A Gas InformationWeek
Apple to developer: No, you pull MY finger CNET News
CIO - Forbes - Ars Technica - iPhone, Therefore I Blog - Chicago Tribune Blog
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Amazon launches video on demand service - Computerworld
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:04:02 GMT

eFluxMedia

Amazon launches video on demand service
Computerworld - 2 hours ago
By Heather Havenstein Amazon Video on Demand updates the company's Unbox application, which allowed users to watch videos on a PC or on TiVo digital video recorders.
Amazon's New And Improved Video On Demand Service eFluxMedia
Amazon flicks on its streaming Video on Demand service CNET News
PC Magazine - The Tech Herald - Financial Times - Red Herring
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Google: 10 ways the Cloud is good for business - CNET News
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:00:32 GMT

ReadWriteWeb

Google: 10 ways the Cloud is good for business
CNET News - 23 hours ago
Matthew Glotzbach from Google's enterprise products group took the stage at the Office 2.0 conference today with a talk called, "10 Things I could do in the cloud today that I couldn't do a year ago.
Office 2.0 Day 1 Recap ReadWriteWeb
Google touts iPhone, Chrome browser InfoWorld
VentureBeat - Internet News
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Google Fixes Chrome's End User Terms Of Service - InformationWeek
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:01:52 GMT

ITProPortal

Google Fixes Chrome's End User Terms Of Service
InformationWeek - 22 hours ago
The old "Terms of Services" was seen by many in the Internet community as Google being evil by asserting ownership over its users' work.
The Google Chrome EULA debacle: Whose content is it, anyway? BetaNews
Google Removes Big Brother Clause in Chrome's EULA DailyTech
PC Magazine - CNET News - ReadWriteWeb - Slashdot
all 132 news articles
3 UK Abandons Multimedia Ambition, Fancies iPhone Carriage - Washington Post
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:16:51 GMT

iPhone Buzz

3 UK Abandons Multimedia Ambition, Fancies iPhone Carriage
Washington Post - 5 hours ago
3 UK wants to pick up the iPhone if O2's exclusive UK deal with Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL) comes to an end, says CEO Kevin Russell (via Guardian.
UPDATE: Czech T-Mobile Sold 5000 iPhones Since Local Launch CNNMoney.com
iPhone 3G sales in Czech Republic "very small despite heavy marketing" Ars Technica
iPhone Buzz - BloggingStocks - MocoNews
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American Mammoths Invaded Russia, Study Finds - FOXNews
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:51:04 GMT

BBC News