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comScore Releases April 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. April 2008 saw Americans conduct 10.6 billion core searches …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPhone line forms at Apple's flagship for absolutely no reason — So word on the street (literally) is that a large number of people are queuing in line outside of Apple's flagship store on 5th Avenue in New York City — keep in mind the Cube is open 24 hours a day.
Andrew Zaeske / Official Google Blog:
Google Sites now open to everyone — A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the service on their own domains. Now we've made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Latest iPhone 2.0 beta adds geo-tagging to Camera photos — A new beta of Apple's iPhone Software v2.0 Update released privately to a select group of enterprise partners this week adds a few new preferences and the beginnings of geo-tagging support for the handset's Camera app.
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget Mobile, InformationWeek Weblog, The iPhone Blog, IntoMobile, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, iLounge, Ubergizmo and The Apple Core
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Daydreaming: Report Predicts Move Toward Home Devices — Predicting the new gadgets that Apple might concoct next is a favorite parlor game of the technology industry, Wall Street and the blogosphere. The latest chatter is that company CEO Steve Jobs will reveal at a developer …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Apple's digital home, five years out — Five years from now, with Apple aiming to become the center of the digital home, users may expect to see a number of key products and services designed to connect PCs and digital content to HDTV stereo audiovisual networks, according to “The Future of Apple” …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Doing A Fake Story For Linkbait? Disclose — Or Face The Wrath Of Google — Link baiting entered a new area last week when Lyndon Antcliff had success with a fake story being picked up by some mainstream media sites as well as social news sites. Controversy erupted over the tactic …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Search Engine Optimization Through Hoax News — Over at Search Engine Land's Sphinn, people are discussing a search engine optimization tactic which tries to assemble backlink juice by posting a fake news article. Jonathan Crossfield wraps it up: “Online marketer Lyndon Antcliff recently helped …
Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
AT&T upgrades 3G as iPhone waits in the wings — Update at 8:35 a.m. PDT: More details have been added throughout. — For some reason, this hasn't drawn a ton of attention. But AT&T is edging closer to completing a 3G upgrade just in time in for the rumored release of a 3G iPhone next month.
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Tech Trader Daily, Digital Daily, dailywireless.org, iPhone Central, Gearlog and IntoMobile
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Cecilia Kang / Post I.T.:
Google's Page Talks Wireless Policy — Google's billionaire co-founder, Larry Page, is in Washington this week talking up one of his biggest passions these days: spectrum policy. — Pretty wonky stuff for an Internet search engine that makes its money from online advertising.
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Guitar Hero World Tour officially announced — We posted the video yesterday, which I've reposted, and today Activision made it official. A few key things from the press release for Guitar Hero World Tour include downloadable content for the Wii, wireless instruments and a redesigned guitar.
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Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
ABC upgrades online video player — Full-screen, closed captioning among upcoming features — ABC.com is upgrading its full-episode broadband player with new features for the fall season. — Among the bells and whistles set for the broadcaster's online destination are full-screen viewing …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Empire Strikes Back: Our Analysis Of Microsoft Live Search Cashback — Most are negative. Some excessively so. After hearing Bill Gates give the pitch and trying the service myself to make a couple of purchases, here's what I think: It's a bold move that goes for Google's throat …
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Coop's Corner, Things That, TomsTechBlog.com, BetaNews, Beyond Search, TG Daily, Traffick, p2pnet, VoIP Blog, Washington Post and ComparisonEngines.com
Help Net Security:
U.S. corporations massively read employee e-mail — In its fifth-annual study of outbound e-mail and data loss prevention issues, Proofpoint found that large enterprises continue to incur risk from - and take action against - information leaks over outbound e-mail, as well as newer communications media …
Timothy Lee / Techdirt:
Copyright Battles Are About Controlling New Technologies — Copyright guru William Patry has a really interesting post remembering Harvey Schein, the man who oversaw the American launch of the Betamax VCR as head of Sony's American division. That was, of course, the product that produced …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Twitter VC Funding Done, Raises $15M — I spent most of the day digging up more information on Twitter and its new round of funding that I reported last night. The update is that Twitter reached an agreement with investors today to raise $15 million in funding at around $80 million pre-money valuation.
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STARTUP CHATTER, WebGuild, Zoli's Blog, BloggingStocks, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Todd Watson, duncanriley.com, paidContent.org, Data Center Knowledge, CNET News.com, TechCrunch, SEO and Tech Daily, Twitter Blog, The Social, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Confidential, bub.blicio.us, Texas Startup Blog, Pulse 2.0, Between the Lines, Webomatica, Rev2.org and notes, thoughts …
Ariel Waldman:
Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service — I started using Twitter in March 2007, just before their SXSW explosion. Not surprisingly, I instantly became addicted and since then have used the service for everything from personal to professional. — Overall, Twitter is a great platform …
