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Om Malik / GigaOM:
With Google's My Location, Who Needs a GPS? — Despite all the hoopla around location-based services, the fact of the matter is that a mere 15 percent of handsets have a built-in Global Positioning System. Given Google's recent wireless push, one shouldn't be surprised that Google is releasing …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Maps for Mobile Shows Your Location — The latest version of Google Maps for mobile phones has a new feature called "my location". Instead of having to enter your location, Google Maps is able to find it. If your phone has GPS support the location detection should be very good …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Earth Heading Towards Extinction? — Google has announced two new features for Google Maps that mimic features in Google Earth, begging the question: is Google Earth on borrowed time? — The first new feature is the additional of terrain in Google Maps.
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Google Announces Launch of Google Maps for Mobile With "My Location" Technology — Google today announced the release of version 2.0 of Google Maps for mobile, its innovative and widely used mobile mapping and local search application. New in v2.0 is a beta version of Google's "My Location" …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google releases useful "my location" feature for cellphones — Google today released a revised version of its maps for mobile phones, including a new "my location" feature that uses cell tower ID information to provide users with their approximate location.
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
There's No Money In The Long Tail of the Blogosphere — In 2004 Chris Anderson wrote an influential book called The Long Tail. In it, he argued that the future of business is to sell less of more. The main premise is that collectively, things that are in rather low demand can amount to quite large volumes.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google Gadgets go cross-platform — Google is adding support for Google Gadgets in its Google Desktop for the Mac software. Google Gadgets, as you probably know, are mini applications with dynamic content that offer quick access for things like newsfeeds and to-do lists.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Asus resolves Eee GPL violation, releases asus_acpi code changes — Last week, software developer Cliff Biffle wrote a blog post pointing out certain discrepancies in the source code archive made available by Asus for the Linux-based software platform distributed on the Eee PC.
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CNN:
LinkedIn CEO: We'd only sell for "a helluva lot" — I sat down Tuesday afternoon in Mountain View, Calif., with Dan Nye, the newish CEO (he joined earlier this year) of LinkedIn. That's the company that is like Facebook for grownups, a businessperson's social networking site.
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Google Blogoscoped:
What the Google Intranet Looks Like — What do around 16,000 Google employees stare at in the morning when they've arrived at the office? They might be looking at Moma, the name for the Google intranet. The meaning of the name of "Moma" is a mystery even to some of the employees working on it …
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BBC:
Carphone misleading over iPhone — Staff at the UK's biggest mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, have been caught misleading customers about Apple's popular iPhone handset. — Undercover researchers from BBC One's Watchdog found staff made false claims about what would happen if a phone was stolen and hadn't been insured.
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo & Nero Collaborate on PC DVR Software — This can't be good news for Beyond TV, SageTV, and ReplayTV... TiVo's entering the PC software DVR market (!) with Nero at an unspecified time and price. A few years ago, perhaps before current CEO Tom Rogers took the helm …
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Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
AT&T quietly rolls out reasonably-priced unbundled DSL — Over the past month, AT&T has quietly started to offer reasonably priced unbundled "naked" DSL Internet service to customers around the country. The company's website makes no mention of the service, nor do its Internet phone sales …
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Is CondéNet's Web Approach Paying Off? — CondéNet today plans to announce it has struck a deal to distribute videos from its various Web sites, which cover topics such as food and travel, via YouTube. It is the latest in a string of partnerships for the digital division …
Tom Simonite / New Scientist:
Cellphone's slosh and rattle reveal its contents — Cellphone users could soon tell when their handset is running low on juice or laden with new messages simply by reaching into their bag or pocket and giving it a quick shake. — A new system uses a phone's speaker and vibrator …
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Future of the Web coming fast and furious — PALO ALTO, Calif.—Though the favorite metaphor to describe the Web has long been a highway, or for some, a "series of tubes," the man credited with inventing it all thinks of the Web more like the human mind. — "Lots of people are doing research around …
