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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network — Ignore Orkut, OpenSocial, Yahoo Mash and Yahoo 360. Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Inbox 2.0 Makes Me Sad — Saul Hansell at the The New York Times is reporting that both Yahoo and Google are planning to use their email services as the core of their social networking strategy over time. — Of course, by social network, they mean Facebook and MySpace.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Social networking: Quietly being subsumed by your everyday apps — The future of social networking is coming into focus and it looks like Facebook-ish features will be increasingly be integrated into your everyday applications. — To wit: — Yahoo and Google are looking …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Yahoo! Says the Future Will be Modeled on Facebook
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usercentric.com:
Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher — Text Entry Error Rate for iPhones — User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based usability consultancy, finished a third and final study examining the user experience of Apple's iPhone.
Nokia:
It's what cameras have become - the new Nokia N82 — Nokia introduces a leading edge connected camera, navigation device and multimedia computer in one — Espoo, Finland - Nokia unveils the Nokia N82, the latest multimedia computer optimized for photography, navigation and internet connectivity.
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Sandisk:
SanDisk Offers New Flash-Based Accelerator to Speed Up System Performance in Consumer Laptops and PCs — SanDisk Vaulter Disk, a PCI Express Module, Wins — 2008 Best of Innovations Award From Consumer Electronics Association — SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today unveiled …
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
View Wall Street Journal Online articles from Digg — The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you'll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg. The Digg buttons have started appearing on WSJ.com articles tonight. — Digg on.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a "Chief Technology Officer" — The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google's headquarters.
Associated Press:
Singapore's MobileOne phone operator eyeing acquisition targets, Apple's iPhone — Singapore's third-largest telecommunications company MobileOne Ltd., or M1, is looking at overseas acquisition targets as its domestic market is already saturated, its chief executive said.
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BBC:
Nintendo warns of Wii shortages — A chronic shortage of Nintendo's popular Wii console could mean disappointment for those putting it at the top of their Christmas list. — The BBC has learned that high street retailers are struggling to keep up with demand for the console, which has been in short supply for months.
Christoph Oehler / Google LatLong:
Google Transit trip planning in Europe — We are very happy to announce the launch of Google Transit trip planner in Europe. For quite some time, Google Maps has featured transit stop icons with helpful information like lines serving a station and next departures for many cities.
Chris Preimesberger / eWEEK.com:
Dell to Offer Sun's Solaris, OpenSolaris in Servers — New deal marks the first time Solaris will be sanctioned for use in Dell hardware. — SAN FRANCISCO - Erstwhile bitter rivals Dell and Sun Microsystems are set to announce that Sun's Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems will be supported in all of Dell's servers.
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Market Wire:
VeriSign Refines Strategic Direction to Focus on Internet Infrastructure — Strategy Broadens Footprint in Core Businesses and Returns to DNA — VeriSign, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VRSN - News), the leading provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, unveiled new details …
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Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
Apple iMac: Still the Desktop Star — A minimalist redesign, a zippy new OS, and terrific new software make the iMac the all-in-one desktop computer of choice for multimedia lovers … Zooming around a sharp corner while playing Electronic Arts' Need for Speed video game on my computer …
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Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers — The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing. — Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Edgar Bronfman told mobile operators …
