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Archive for September 8th, 2007

Google execs take off with landing privileges at Moffett Field (San Francisco Chronicle)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Google execs take off with landing privileges at Moffett Field  —  Air Google has landed - at Moffett Field.  —  A Boeing 767 owned by the Internet giant’s billionaire founders used the NASA airport near Mountain View earlier this week, raising questions by local officials about the plane becoming a regular, noisy visitor.

Source:   San […]

Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake?  —  “Some of our competitors jumped over us in a Darwinian way,” Michael S. Dell says.  “Now it’s our turn.”  He recently returned as C.E.O.  —  Round Rock, Tex.  —  ON a recent afternoon at his company’s headquarters here, Michael S. Dell is seated …

Source:   New York Times
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3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November? (Electronista)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November?  —  Apple may launch its iPhone campaign in Europe with a 3G-capable iPhone with enhanced storage, according to what appears to be a leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany.  The ad promises a version of the handset with support for 3G-level cellular Internet access using …

Source:   Electronista | […]

iTunes 7.4.1 ringtones re-rename workaround discovered (Ryan Block/Engadget)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

iTunes 7.4.1 ringtones re-rename workaround discovered  —  So last night iTunes 7.4.1 came out which, among other things, blocked off the custom ringtone renaming method, which allowed users to add their own ringtones to their iPhone without buying them on iTunes.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/itunes-7-4-1…

Report Critical Of Telecom’s Online Customer Service (Elena Malykhina/InformationWeek)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Report Critical Of Telecom’s Online Customer Service  —  The nation’s telecom providers are failing to provide customers with a full range of online customer service capabilities, according to an industry survey.  —  The majority of telecom carriers in the United States are failing …

Source:   InformationWeek
Author:   Elena Malykhina
Link:   http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml…

iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones (Michael Rose/The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones  —  There are apps that age gracefully, staying functional and relevant for months or years with no changes at all (I’m looking at you, TNEF’s Enough — 2005 in the house!)…  and then there’s iTunes.

Source:   The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Author:   Michael Rose
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Search Within Radio And TV Channels With Spactor (Markus Spath/The blognation)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Search Within Radio And TV Channels With Spactor  —  Wouldn’t it be fantastic to know when, how often and where a term was mentioned in radio or TV?  Bremen based spactor is a brand new media search engine which tells you just that.  Currently they are searching within 75 German TV and radio stations.

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Microsoft bringing Internet TV feature to Windows Media Center (Darren Murph/Engadget)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Microsoft bringing Internet TV feature to Windows Media Center  —  During our chat with Microsoft today, we got wind of a brand new feature coming to Windows Media Center, and it’s slated to hit just as D-Link and Linksys get official with their Media Center Extenders.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Darren Murph
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/07/microsoft-bringing…

iTunes Store slip-up reveals future rental movie options? (Conrad Quilty-Harper/Engadget)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

iTunes Store slip-up reveals future rental movie options?  —  Movie rentals could be coming to the iTunes Store, if an apparent slip-up by Apple is any indication.  Mac developer David Watanabe uploaded a screenshot depicting an iTunes problem reporting system which has options for requesting …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Conrad Quilty-Harper
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/08/itunes-store-slip…

iPhone Hacking Kit, the next generation (Ben Long/iPhone Central)

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

iPhone Hacking Kit, the next generation  —  In mid-August, I posted a detailed guide to hacking your iPhone here at iPhone Central.  In those free-wheeling bygone days of iPhone hacking you customized and manipulated your phone using a combination of a simple “jailbreak” application and a lot of command-line work in the Mac terminal.

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