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Archive for September 11th, 2007

iUnlock released: the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software (Ryan Block/Engadget)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

iUnlock released: the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software  —  It looks like the battle’s officially over between iPhoneSIMfree and the numerous unique groups of open source hackers trying to software SIM unlock the iPhone.  As we’ve been following in our previous post on the topic …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Ryan Block
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Social News Update (Tom Drapeau/The Netscape Blog)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Social News Update  —  › tags: Netscape, Propeller, Social News, SocialNews  —  We promised you in our last communication about the Netscape.com site that we would get right back to you about where your current social news site will live after we redirect to the new Netscape portal.

Source:   The Netscape Blog
Author:   Tom Drapeau
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Running the numbers on Vista (Ina Fried/CNET News.com)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Running the numbers on Vista  —  Sales of boxed copies of Windows Vista continue to significantly trail those of Windows XP during its early days, according to a soon-to-be-released report.  —  Standalone unit sales of Vista at U.S. retail stores were down 59.7 percent compared with Windows XP …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Ina Fried
Link: […]

Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts (Philipp Lenssen/Google Blogoscoped)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts  —  A video disclaimed to be “Google - Confidential” with the title “Nooglers And The PDB: Reactor (Ben Darnell, September 6, 2007)” made its way onto a public Google Video page.  A “noogler” is what people at Google call new employees …

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Philipp […]

Google Health’s Adam Bosworth Leaves Google (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Google Health’s Adam Bosworth Leaves Google  —  I got a tip that Google vice president Adam Bosworth, who headed up the Google Health project, had left Google.  Now Google has confirmed this is so — Bosworth is leaving the company.  Says Google: … Bosworth joined Google in July 2004, having left BEA Systems.

Source:   Search […]

Black screen of darkness to haunt Vista pirates (Rodney Gedda/Computerworld)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Black screen of darkness to haunt Vista pirates  —  Buy the software or suffer the consequences  —  Microsoft Windows’ infamous “Blue Screen of Death” has become synonymous with an operating system crash or freeze, but that’s nothing compared with what users of pirated copies of Vista worldwide …

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Rodney Gedda
Link:   http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do…

Universal Music Sketches Subscription Concept, Details Emerge (Presnikoff/Digital Music News)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Universal Music Sketches Subscription Concept, Details Emerge  —  CD sales are dropping at an alarming rate, and that has majors entertaining a number of fresh sales scenarios.  At Universal Music Group, that includes an experimental stab at DRM-free downloads, a move considered unthinkable just one year ago.

Source:   Digital Music News: Top Stories
Author:   Presnikoff
Link: […]

T-Mobile’s new data plans (Joshua Karp/The Boy Genius Report)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

T-Mobile’s new data plans  —  Just when you thought they couldn’t get any cheaper….T-Mobile is set to completely revamp their data plan lineup with a new pricing scheme that is sure to make subscribers swoon.  Beginning tomorrow, September 12th, the big Pink will be dropping updates …

Source:   The Boy Genius Report
Author:   Joshua Karp
Link: […]

When it comes to music fans, iLike faces Myspace (Eric Eldon/VentureBeat)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

When it comes to music fans, iLike faces Myspace  —  ILike, by far the most popular music application on Facebook, has started overtaking MySpace in sheer number of fans registered for some top music artists.  —  The young Seattle company is being coy on specifics, but consider this …

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Eric Eldon
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Polish Man Allegedly Arrested for Googlebombing (Philipp Lenssen/Google Blogoscoped)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Polish Man Allegedly Arrested for Googlebombing  —  Ludwik Trammer translated an article from “Gazeta Wyborcza”, calling it the biggest Polish quality newspaper:  —  Young internet geek is facing up to 3 years in prison.  The man is accused of insulting president Lech Kaczyski.

Source:   Google Blogoscoped
Author:   Philipp Lenssen
Link:   http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-11-n78.html