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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live from the Steve Jobs Keynote — "One more thing..."  —  The thinner all-in-one iMac.  Ok, punks, it's the day we've been waiting for: in a few short minutes His Steveness will reveal exactly what it is they have cooking.  Engadget bestest buddy Paul Boutin is there at the California Theater …
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Tom Dunmore / stuffmag.co.uk:
Live from the video iPod launch  —  We're now sitting in the auditorium at BBC Television Centre, having watched Steve Jobs live on stage in California via a satellite link-up.  He's got a new iMac, a new video iPod and a new iTunes with music video and TV downloads...  - Act 1 is the iMac.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Apple unveils video iPod, new iMac  —  update All that speculation that Apple Computer would unveil a video iPod on Wednesday was right.  —  The company also rolled out a new iMac and a new version of iTunes, iTunes 6, just five weeks after the debut of iTunes 5.
Discussion: PaidContent.org and OSNews.com
docs.yahoo.com:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  MICROSOFT AND YAHOO! ANNOUNCE LANDMARK INTEROPERABILITY AGREEMENT TO CONNECT CONSUMER INSTANT MESSAGING COMMUNITIES GLOBALLY  —  Consumers will be able to exchange instant messages, see presence, share emoticons and add friends from Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Messenger
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Associated Press:
Microsoft, Yahoo link instant message services  —  Combined community of IM users will nearly rival AOL's service in size  —  SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. will make their instant-messaging programs work together, a partnership that could give the companies more power to compete against market leader America Online.
Discussion: Channel 9 and Neowin.net
GoogleRumors:
Google Wallet close to launch?  —  It's about time for that bi-weekly update that Google Wallet is about ready to launch (only half joking).  This time there is news that Google's robots.txt file has been updated to reflect two new directories on Google: /gwt and /purchases.
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is Google Wallet or Some Other Google Payment System Getting Closer?  —  Since so much of the blogosphere revolves around speculation I thought I would join in.  Is Google Wallet or whatever they call their payment systems getting closer to reality?  I have no idea but some recent changes …
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Dot Bomb All Over Again?  —  A lot of the recent news around Web 2.0 is starting to frighten me.  There is just too much money flying around with too much hype and too little value.  Take the Web 2.0 conference for example.  This thing was way over hyped.  It was fun and all but worth $2800?
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live.macobserver.com:
San Francisco - Live Coverage of Apple Special Event  —  [12:49 PM] As it turns out, no live updating will be permitted during the event.  We will have a wrap-up to post as soon as the event is over.  Stay tuned, and we'll keep you posted here as to when that will be.
Discussion: digg and I4U News
Jon Burke / technologyreview.com:
Robotic Rollouts  —  Alarm:clock is a daily news site that evaluates privately-held technology startups in the areas of hardware, software, the Internet, and wireless communications.  One industry overview and one company profile by alarm:clock's editors come to Technology Review every Wednesday by special arrangement.
Official Google Blog:
About Google.org  —  When we told prospective shareholders about Google and how we wanted to do business, we said that we hoped our philanthropic efforts could some day have a greater impact than Google itself.  We committed one percent of our profits and equity toward that vision.
Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Developers 'should be liable' for security holes … Security expert Howard Schmidt wants coders to be held responsible for vulnerabilities in their code, but others say their employers should be held to account  —  Software developers should be held personally accountable for the security …
Discussion: Techdirt
justilien.com:
Google's Testing New Dictionary Feature  —  In the past year I have come to depend more and more on Google as a spell checker.  Yesterday I was looking up the phone number to a café with Google and a new dictionary feature appeared Google is testing.

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Discussion: Phone Scoop and textually.org
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Discussion: PaidContent.org

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