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• Life360 wins the Android challenge, has big aspirations but has yet to see an Android phone
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  With the first mobile devices running Google’s Android coming shortly, the development community at large seems apprehensive about the platform. After all, why develop for something that may or...

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• Video: Upcoming version 1.1 of Last.fm’s iPhone app?
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Last.fm, one of the truly great online music sites, has an iPhone app, but I find it somewhat lacking. It seems to have most of the features it needs, but for whatever reason the app just...

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• Tap Tap Revenge gets new music (and ads) to rock the holiday weekend
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Tap Tap Revenge held the mantle as the most downloaded application on Apple’s App Store for a while. It’s a solid Guitar Hero-like music game that utilizes the iPhone and iPod...

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• Bracing for Gustav, Oracle and Google woes
  Nancy Weil
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Software & Web

  This is typically one of the slowest weeks of the year for IT news, but the approach of Hurricane Gustav has Gulf Coast IT departments in full-out preparedness mode and the rest of the country...

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• Critics question Comcast broadband caps
  Grant Gross
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Comcast's decision to put a 250-gigabyte cap on monthly bandwidth use for its residential customers may look like a generous number, but some critics suggested the cap may cause problems for users in...

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• Chinese democracy meets U.S. justice
  Robert X. Cringely
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Standards & Legal

  Wednesday, FBI agents raided the Los Angeles home of 27-year-old blogger Kevin Cogill and arrested him. Cogill's crime? He uploaded nine unreleased tracks from the upcoming Guns N' Roses album to his...

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• Contest winner could help Presdo win at the scheduling game
  Anthony Ha
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  I have to admit, I’ve been a little skeptical about scheduling startup Presdo — I previously gave it the benefit of the doubt because founder Eric Ly (who cofounded professional...

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• ReputationDefender raises $2.6M to protect your good name
  Anthony Ha
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  ReputationDefender, a company that helps people manage their reputations and privacy online, has raised around $2.6 million in a first round of institutional funding.There are a number of businesses...

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• Virtual worlds: Warcraft graphics improve, for a price
  Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Lifestyle

  Virtual worlds Second Life and World of Warcraft (WoW) seem to be compared against each other on a regular basis, and have some crossover when it comes to userbase. However, in light of recent...

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• Sky rockets in flight. Google Maps delight
  MG Siegler
  Aug 29 2008
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  • Software & Web

  One the most important parts of online mapping tools is the satellite imagery that is used. Right now, the images used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo in rival products are all roughly the same. But...

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