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Research in Motion:
RIM Introduces the BlackBerry Bold Smartphone — Top of the line BlackBerry smartphone features premium design and unprecedented performance; perfect for business professionals and power users. — Waterloo, ON - For customers seeking a smartphone that makes a bold statement, Research In Motion …
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BlackBerry Bold officially announced! — Story developing... That didn't take too long, did it? We finally have it people — it's alive and confirmed. The BlackBerry Bold is indeed the official name for the BlackBerry 9000 device and it should be available starting “this summer.”
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund
RIM officially announces the BlackBerry Bold and a $150 million development fund
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Powerset Launches Showcase For User Search Experience — Today marks another milestone for San Francisco based contextual search engine Powerset. They've launched a showcase for their user search experience - effectively the search engine minus the web crawl.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Powerset Launches “Understanding Engine” For Wikipedia Content — After nearly two years in the making — and plenty of hype — Powerset has finally rolled out a “natural language” search engine. It's not a Google killer. It's barely a business model right now.
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Twitter and the China earthquake — I was beginning to think Twitter - the micro-blogging service that's all the rage amongst the technorati - was just another fad for people who want to share too much of their rather dull lives. Until this morning. — When I logged on to my desktop …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter is first on the scene for a major earthquake …
Twitter is first on the scene for a major earthquake …
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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Another Classic Rip-Off Job By Ars Technica — Ars Technica is really good at stealing other's ideas. Plain and simple. — Anyone else, and I may have given them a pass that they came up with what seems to be the exact same approach to a story that I took last week. Not Ars Technica.
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Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
Giving Attribution — An interesting email exchange (and even a little Twitter) arose this afternoon about one of my earlier posts and the way I gave attribution. I wont name the post, or name names (or print the correspondence), but I thought I'd take the opportunity to share how I give attribution.
Sean Carlson / Google:
Previewing Google Friend Connect: Website owners can make any site social — Easily insert social features to make “any app, any site, any friends” a reality — Tonight at Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/ ), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) will announce …
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses — As expected, Google has unveiled a preview of Friend Connect, a way to add social features to a Web site without programming. — David Glazer, director of engineering at Google, described Friend Connect as plumbing for the rest of the Web.
Business Wire:
Cablevision to Acquire 97% Stake in Newsday Media Group Through Partnership with Tribune Company in a $650 Million Transaction — Returns Newsday to Long Island-based Ownership After Nearly 40 Years — Addition of Complementary Print and Online Assets Provides Unique Opportunities …
Arn / MacRumors iPhone Blog:
SingTel Announces iPhone in Singapore, India, the Philippines and Australia — In a very brief press release SingTel announced that their companies would be providing the iPhone to multiple countries: … The countries include Singapore and the Philippines which have not had any iPhone coverage to date.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
What Google Knows About Spam — If you didn't attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I'll embed the keynote below as well. — The only thing I don't like about conference speaking is preparing slides.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook's CTO D'Angelo to Leave — Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo will leave the company. — BoomTown called Facebook PR last week about the rumor of D'Angelo's departure, but did not get a response. The company confirmed the departure by D'Angelo (pictured here) tonight.
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time? — This week, the television upfronts — in which the broadcast networks present their schedules to advertisers — will open with a mystery. Who stole six million viewers? — That's the number who were watching prime time television last May …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) — I'm going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning. The alternatives are either (1) Google is serving Malware …
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