It’s on: Apple event slated for September 5th  —  Well the rumors have been floating around for a few days, and now we’ve gotten official word — in the form of the invite you see above — that Apple will be holding a “special event” on September 5th.  Let the speculation begin!

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Apple now sells more than one in six laptops in U.S.  —  Coming next: A top-to-bottom iPod refresh, says analyst  —  Apple Inc.’s share of the laptop market is growing — the company now sells more than one in every six laptops purchased in the U.S., a research firm said today.

Source:   Computerworld
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5 new Nokia phones due tomorrow; we got them now  —  We received a whole bunch of press photos for Nokia’s announcement in London tomorrow, and decided to share with you.  Supposedly there would be 5 phones all focused on entertainment. the N81 gaming phone, N95 music edition with 8GB memory built in …

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BabyCenter Acquires Mom-Focused Social Network Maya’s Mom; Launching Online Ad Network  —  You’re reading it here first: The baby and mom-focused BabyCenter, owned by J&J, has made its first acquisition in its 10 years of existence: it has bought Maya’s Mom, a Palo Alto-based social networking site for mothers.

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Author:   Rafat Ali
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George Reyes To Retire As Google CFO  —  Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that George Reyes has informed the company of his intention to retire as Chief Financial Officer.  Reyes indicated that he will remain to assist in the search for a new CFO and to assure an orderly transition …

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George Reyes To Retire As Google CFO  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that George Reyes has informed the company of his intention to retire as Chief Financial Officer.  Reyes indicated that he will remain to assist in the search for a new CFO …

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index…

Google is working on a mobile OS, and it’s due out shortly  —  Can it be true?  Is the Googlephone nigh at hand?  Not that we haven’t been hearing this time after time (after time after time, etc.), but we’ve actually got some hot news from a number of very trustworthy sources about Google’s plans […]

Welcome to the new Boing Boing!  —  I’m writing this from Boulder, Colorado, which seems like a good place to make this announcement — it was in this town that Carla Sinclair and I launched bOING bOING as a print zine in 1988.  During the past 19 years we’ve gone through many changes — from […]

Microsoft cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3  —  “Microsoft has engaged in anticompetitive conduct in the software industry for many years, and has sought to attack free software for almost as long,” Free Software Foundation says  —  The Free Software Foundation …

Source:   FSF - The Free Software Foundation
Author:   Brett Smith
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Earthlink Announces Corporate Restructuring  —  First Step in Ongoing Efforts to Optimize Cost Structure and Boost Growth  —  Company also Authorizes Additional $200 Million to Repurchase Shares  —  ATLANTA, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — EarthLink, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELNK - News) today announced a corporate restructuring plan.

Source:   PR Newswire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070828/cltu016b.html