IPhone: iPhone Re-Reviewed (Verdict: Don’t Buy)  —  It’s about 3 months after the iPhone launch, and happy with the improvements, I was planning to change our “Wait” verdict to a full-on and rabid “Buy”.  That wasn’t because of Apple, but because of the cool apps being offered by independent developers.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Brian Lam
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Gizmodo says Don’t buy an iPhone  —  This week’s Apple iPhone update may have bricked a few hacked phones, but this is the least important part of the problem.  What probably upset many more early adopters was the way Apple wiped out their applications, reducing their phones to the “official” software.

Source:   Guardian Unlimited: Technology
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YouTube offer Publishers AdSense Embedded Video Players  —  I’ve had a number of readers email me in the last 24 hours to let me know that they’re seeing options to monetize sites using YouTube custom video players with AdSense units in them.  —  Perhaps this was announced previously without …

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Bain Capital to Acquire 3Com for $2.2B  —  The $2.2 billion deal gives Huawei Technologies a minority share in 3Com.  —  Beleaguered 3Com announced on Sept. 28 that it has struck a deal to be taken private by Bain Capital and former Chinese partner Huawei Technologies for some $2.2 billion.

Source:   eWEEK.com
Author:   Paula Musich
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Altered iPhones Freeze Up  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28 — Since the iPhone hit the market in June, tech-savvy owners of the phone have been busy messing with its insides, figuring out how to add unauthorized software and even “unlock” it for use on networks other than AT&T’s.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Katie Hafner
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Ad-Supported “Free” Music Plays On: SpiralFrog, Imeem, QTrax  —  As Apple (APPL) and Amazon (AMZN) duke it out in the MP3 price war, music publishers are still trying to figure out how to cash in on a crowd that will go to great lengths to get its music for free.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Adena DeMonte
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Apple, Jobs, AT&T sued over iPhone price cut, rebates  —  Apple Inc., along with its chief executive and exclusive U.S. iPhone wireless partner AT&T, have been hit with a new lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who charges the trio with a variety of offenses stemming from the recent iPhone price cut.

Source:   AppleInsider
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iPhone update: facts and fiction  —  If you haven’t already bitten the bullet and taken your unlocked iPhone down that scariest of paths, the 1.1.1 update, we’re here to sort out a bit of the hearsay from the actual and fairly inconvenient truth.  Even if you have already updated …

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Paul Miller
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Go from hell  —  Why do we continue, in 2007, to believe that markets are all about What Big Companies Do?  Worse, why do we continue to take advertising for granted as the primary source of the the Bux DeLuxe required to fund technical, social and personal progress?

Source:   Doc Searls Weblog
Author:   Doc Searls
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The problem with newspaper blogs is . . .  . . . they are on newspaper sites.  —  I’ve come to argue that newspapers should not be big brands but big collections of brands.  —  If I develop a relationship with a blog, I don’t go searching for it through the many layers of an […]