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Open Angel Forum, an event bringing together entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and industry professionals, was started by puckish entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to make it easier for entrepreneurs and investors to meet. With Open Angel Forum, service providers get charged to attend the event but it’s free for angel investors and very expensive for service providers, in the region of $1,500 each. Companies are not required to be in stealth or launch mode at the event.

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Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, ousted in this year’s election, is forming the Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, and has accepted three pro-bono appointments all with some connection to the Web. He’s joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education. Queen Rania has 1,337,872 followers on Twitter and last year spoke at Le Web

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Gordon Brown joins Berners-Lee’s Web Foundation – but he really should join Twitter

Belgium’s Gimv – the investment firm that is behind companies like Inside Contactless , Openbravo and Telenet – has just put some 15 million euros into Onedirect , which specializes in e-commerce for B2B telephone devices and solutions.

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Belgium’s Gimv puts 15 million euros into Onedirect

Music identification app Shazam has announced big feature updates to its iPhone and iPod touch music discovery apps. There are now customised settings for ‘tagging on start-up’ make the process of identifying a music track faster, a new UI, the ability to search for ringtones and videos on iTunes and better video.

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Shazam launches major updates to iPhone app, now 20m users

Headline: Slightly insane Finn decides to drive all over the Nordic countries looking for startups. “The Travelling Salesman” aka Kristoffer Lawson, Co-Founder of Scred.com, is setting out on expedition through every single Nordic city with a computer science department and a startup scene. So that’ll be over 30 cities, over 10000 km of continuous driving, through 5 countries in temperatures as low as -30C and in almost total darkness much of the time

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Startups in a cold climate: Finn plans Nordic startup tour. In Winter. In a car.

Apple’s latest wave of new iPods and a re-iteration of Apple TV are ‘cool’ from a consumer’s perspective (ok, maybe not the new Apple TV which is once again a half-hearted product), but its movement into the social media space with Ping, a music focused social networking service, has the potential to impact the media market in a vastly different way. Analyst firm Frost and Sullivan makes that point in a research note today. It says Ping probably won’t affect Facebook but may affect MySpace, which has a heavy music focus and is already on the ropes

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How Ping could morph into a new wave of social services from Apple

Yahoo and Vestel Group, the largest TV manufacturer in Europe you’ve never heard of (because much of their business is white-label), have struck a deal to ship Yahoo! Connected TV to consumers in more than 40 countries across Europe starting in Q1 2011. The service covers movies, TV shows, social networks, videos, and other kinds of Internet content.

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Yahoo! Connected TV to come pre-baked into Euro TVs

There’s a good video on the BBC website which takes a look at the new 7″ Samsung Galaxy Tab we covered yesterday. There’s a hands-on and a wry smile from Carey McGregor (Senior Product Manager at Samsung) when BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones states, “It looks lovely, but it looks just like a shrunken iPad though”. The Folio 100, from Toshiba, is also shown and comes with Android 2.2, Flash 10.1 support and a miniHDMI port

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Samsung Galaxy Tab and Toshiba Folio 100 handled

The Android-powered Samsung Galaxy S handsets have only arrived the United States for one and a half months, but they have already proved a great hit among smartphone users. According to the company’s press release, more than 1 million units were sold across the country since their launch in mid July. The impressive sales figure was contributed by the two released variants, the Samsung Vibrant from T-Mobile and the Samsung Captivate from AT&T.

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Samsung Galaxy S Smartphones – 1 Million Shipped in the U.S.

A BlackBerry with a new form factor may be on its way to the smartphone arena. A newly-published patent application filed by Research in Motion (RIM) presents us a unique design concept of a physically rotatable keyboard that can be used in both portrait and landscape layouts

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RIM’s Latest Patent Reveals Innovative Keyboard Design

A creepy caricature of Google CEO Eric Schmidt drives an ice cream truck in this video produced by a consumer group targeting the search giant for its data collection practices. The video is part of a lobbying effort by Consumer Watchdog to get the government to create a so-called “Do Not Track Me” list “to prevent online companies from gathering our personal information , just as Congress had the Federal Trade Commission create a Do Not Call list to prevent intrusive telemarketers.” The group says they’ve paid to have a version of the video shown 36 times per day on a jumbotron in Times Square. It’s not the first anti-Google antic from the group, which is largely funded by legal fees, the Rose Foundation, Streisand Foundation, Tides Foundation and others.

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‘Evil’ Eric Schmidt Debuts in Video Targeting Google Privacy

A phone-hacking scheme involving British royals and reporters working for one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid newspapers went far beyond what was previously disclosed and prosecuted, according to The New York Times . Andy Coulson, currently media advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, is accused of having encouraged the hacking during his tenure as editor of Murdoch’s News of the World paper. According to the N.Y

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Murdoch Reporters’ Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds

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Posted by Mistique Cano, Manager, Public Policy Communications YouTube’s Margaret Gould Stewart recently gave a TED talk about how YouTube’s Content ID system cross-references over 24 hours of uploaded content a minute with our rights holder database to give copyright owners choices. In the video, she shows how the Content ID technology works and explains, “The scale and speed of the system is breathtaking… We’re talking about over a hundred of years of video a day.

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Content ID explained at TED

It has been an extremely exciting week again for tech news and moreover for me personally as I got a chance to open up my Sony Dash and it is a very cool addition to my desktop as it allows me to view my photos and take advantage of widgets of all kinds which among other thinks allow me to see the pandas at the San Diego Zoo. This handy gadget has a slew of communications, social networking and calendar features as well but for now, I just want to see the pandas.

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Apple, Sony, Microsoft, Google and ITEXPO News September 1, 2010

When Danish entrepreneur Tommy Ahlers sold his ‘social phonebook’ ZYB to Vodafone in 2008 for €31 million and joined the company, it didn’t seem like he would stay forever at such a slow-moving corporate entity.

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Look out Yammer – Podio emerges with full business social network

If you’re running an online business like I am, there are times when you need to connect and log in to the server to tweak or check things. It can’t be helped and while the Cpanel solution and related are often splendid, sometimes I just like to get bits all over my hands as I “go old school” on my server and use a command line.

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Review: iSSH for the iPad/iPhone

The iTunes-for-apps , Allmyapps , has just announced its first round of funding with French VC fund, Elaia Partners – the same firm that has backed French all-stars like Goom Radio , Goojet and Criteo . With 1 million in the bank, the Paris-based company founded in June 2009 plans to focus on product development and emerge as the leading Microsoft-dedicated app store. Just so happens that Allmyapps, founded by Thibauld Favre and Arnaud Coulondre , is also the company that won the startup pitch competition at TechCrunch Paris in March.

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Allmyapps grabs 1 million euros for iTunes-for-apps

The European music streaming service Spotify has partnered with Sonos , the Californian maker of Wireless Multi-Room Music Systems. This will mean that by the end of this month, Spotify Premium subscribers – the same tariff that enables mobile access – will be able to stream Spotify’s music catalog around the home to a networked Sonos box (or multiple boxes), which is a nice additional option for users of the cloud-based music service.

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Spotify lands on Sonos home audio systems

“I had a great idea,” said Tim. “It’s called Landfit. I match people who have gardens that they don’t use with people who don’t have gardens who want to use that space to grow flowers, herbs, and vegetables.” “If it’s about getting people to use unused spaces, why not grow vegetables in the unused spaces in the logo?” — GOOD PEOPLE Nice idea, designed by Good People .

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Nokia’s high end smartphone sales have been on a steady decline and it doesn’t help their standing when they keep down shutting services they actively promote and bring customers into, but they are doing it yet again.

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How do you say closed in Finnish? Nokia shuts down yet another service

After a daylong standoff, authorities shot and killed an armed man wearing an explosive device who had taken three hostages at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside the District of Columbia. Most of the hundreds of employees, including children at an on-site daycare center, had already been evacuated, police said. The station was airing its normal broadcast

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Police Kill Hostage Taker Who Besieged Discovery Channel

If you’ve been looking for an affordable solution to your wireless needs, but you don’t want the hassle of a lengthy (and costly) wireless calling plan, Boost Mobile recently announced the addition of a $2 a day unlimited plan. Neil Lindsay, chief marketing officer of Boost Mobile said, “The new $2 Daily Unlimited plan exemplifies what prepaid is all about – offering a daily offer with all the benefits of the Monthly Unlimited plan without having to compromise on quality and service

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Boost Mobile Adds $2 Daily Unlimited Plan

A civilian defense attorney hired recently by alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning says the Army was so concerned about his client’s mental health prior to the alleged leaks that supervisors removed the bolt from his military weapon, disabling it.

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Attorney: Army Disabled Manning’s Weapon Prior to Leaks

I hate spammers! Stupid jerks waste so much of my time and clog up my mailbox with their stupid messages. I think it should justify the death penalty! Now I’m getting spam from Yahoo Groups where people are automatically adding me to their spammy groups without my permission? WTF?

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How do I prevent Yahoo Groups from spamming me?

Having recently purchased a Sony Dash which I still need to take out of the box, I am obviously intrigued by the idea of devices which allow widgets to run on them. Apparently Alcatel-Lucent too is enamored with the concept of widgets and mobile apps as the company just picked up OpenPlug , a company focused on cross-platform application development solutions.

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Alcatel-Lucent Outlines Next Generation Communications

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Notorious filesharing website The Pirate Bay is a long-standing enemy of the movie industry, but one Swedish filmmaker has plans to create a documentary called TPB AFK about the three founders of the site, and their reactions to being found guilty of being accessory to crime against copyright law and fined about $3.6 million.

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Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works

Samsung Wave 723 Official Pictures Related PostsSamsung to unveil Wave CDMA version SCH-F859 shortly!Samsung to launch first Bada powered phone ‘Samsung Wave’ at MWCSamsung unveils Wave 723 with Bada OSSamsung to launch 3 models on June 15Samsung announces bada SDK 1.0.0b2 official for Developers

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Samsung Wave 723 Official Pictures Gallery