Om Malik & Arrington Blow Off BlogWorld-iJustine Fills In  —  The buzz around the show was that Om Mailk and Michael Arrington were skipping BlogWorld Expo even though both are confirmed speakers.  Right now Leo Laporte, after giving what I’ve heard was a kick-ass keynote, pulled iJustine in as a last minute panel member.

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News Corp (NWS): Launching An Ad Network, Too  —  News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media unit is one of the few big Web players that has yet to roll out its own ad network (selling space on third-party sites).  That’s about to change, sources tell us: FIM is building out it own ad network …

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iPhone: Testing the 1.1.2 Jailbreak  —  After a really late night, I had the privilege of being able to test some of the jailbreak software this morning.  This is not the final jailbreak software.  That will involve using a nice graphical user interface.  For now, I’m invited to use …

Source:   The Unofficial Apple Weblog […]

DivX and Xbox 360: A Potential Win-Win For Everyone  —  DivX (DIVX) followed up Tuesday night’s earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference.  After having just undergone their quarterly confessional, I didn’t expect to hear any new information, but wanted to tune in anyway.

Source:   Seeking Alpha
Link:   http://seekingalpha.com/article/53570-divx-and-xbox…

Tapping at the window  —  Spying is best done surreptitiously.  The Peeping Tom that you don’t see is of infinitely less concern to you than the one who taps on your window and waves.  With its new Beacon ad program, Facebook taps on the window.  —  Nate Weiner reports on his first experience coming face […]

Can WiMAX be saved?  —  It costs money to build a nationwide network, even a citywide one.  Without some assurance of a return, few people want to go up against the current shared monopoly and drive down prices.  —  That’s the clear message of the Clearwire-Sprint split on WiMAX …

Source:   Open Source
Author:   Dana […]

Samsung Stops Selling in Japan  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it had stopped selling flat panel televisions and other consumer products in Japan, citing poor profitability.  —  Samsung has emerged in the past decade and a half as a global giant in consumer electronics …

Source:   Associated Press
Author:   Kelly […]

Nigeria favors Linux vendor Mandriva over Microsoft once more  —  San Francisco - Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all.  —  Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August …

Source:   InfoWorld
Author:   Jeremy Kirk
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071109…

Fans queue but iPhone fails to grip Germany  —  COLOGNE/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Hundreds of German Apple (AAPL.O) fans braved rain and wind before dawn to be among the first in Europe to get their hands on an iPhone but the arrival of the year’s hottest consumer gadget passed most Germans by.

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071109/tc_nm…

1.1.2 iPod touch Jailbroken—before its official release!  —  They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  And here is the first picture from a jailbroken 1.1.2 iPod touch, courtesy of hacker planetbeing.  Congratulations to all the iPhone/iPod team, including Pumpkin, Edgan, Dinopio, Drudge, Kroo, and all the rest.

Source:   The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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