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  • Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old (AP)   - 

    In this Aug. 19, 2004 file photo, a photographer photographs the board at the Nasdaq Marketsite in New York shortly after shares of the Internet search engine giant started trading. When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.


  • Microsoft deploying in-store customer-service reps (AP)   - AP - NEW YORK ? As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases.
  • Tech firms fare better than most in jobs slump (AP)   - AP - Technology appears to be one of the least hard-hit sectors in an economy beset by unemployment at a five-year high.
  • Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive (AP)   - 

    Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, pictured in 2007. Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker cut its third quarter market share guidance, sending its share price tumbling.(AFP/File/Antti Aimo-Koivisto)AP - Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.


  • Google-focused satellite enters orbit (CNET)   - CNET - The GeoEye-1 satellite that launched into orbit Saturday is on a mission from Google.
  • Google: You've Come a Long Way, Baby! (PC Magazine)   - PC Magazine - Google! www.google.edu.stanford.edu.com "Here's your chance to search the Web and participate in high-level academic research at the same time.
  • EIC Squared: Chrome, iPods, and a Dell-Salesforce union (CNET)   - CNET - On this week's EIC Squared podcast ZDNet's Larry Dignan and I discuss Google's latest disruption in the Web 2.0 field, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple's product launch event on September 9.
  • Trends & Innovations - Friday (Investor's Business Daily)   - Investor's Business Daily - Teachers and professors are starting to use cell phones as educational tools in their classrooms, after previously banning them as distractions. Abilene Christian Univ. in Texas is giving two-thirds of its freshmen a smart phone that they're expected to use for receiving handouts in class and brainstorming. About 100 high school freshmen in N.C. are using phones during their math classes in a program sponsored by handset gear maker Qualcomm. They use the phones to play math games, network among themselves on problems and watch animation showing problems being solved.
  • Chrome Hints Google Aims To Become 'Big Brother' (NewsFactor)   - NewsFactor - What's behind Google's release of its new Chrome browser? While the software boasts some impressive technology, does Google seriously mean to reopen the browser wars, even against its open-source partner Mozilla?
  • Adobe sets Genesis mashup pilot (InfoWorld)   - InfoWorld - Adobe Systems in October plans to launch a private pilot program for its "Genesis" mashup technology, which provides a desktop client uniting multiple tasks in a single workspace.
  • Appirio opts for the cloud over servers (InfoWorld)   - InfoWorld - Can a business be run solely in the cloud without a server anywhere in sight? Appirio says it can and is already doing it.
  • EA's Spore aims to create new worlds, businesses (Reuters)   - 

    Game designer Will Wright speaks about his latest game SPORE at a promotion event in Singapore August 13, 2008. (Tim Chong/Reuters)Reuters - Electronic Arts Inc's creature-building game "Spore" offers players a chance to develop new worlds -- and maybe even new lines of business for the video game maker.
 
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