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Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
Introducing Gmail Labs — We have a lot ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google. But there's only so much we can do at any one time. — People often ask how we decide what to build next. It's usually a mix of factors …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Live Coverage Of Google Gmail Event — Update: Our full story on Gmail Labs is here. — At 1pm PST Google is hosting an event to launch a new Gmail feature they're calling the “next evolution of 20% time.” They say it will be a change in their development process and “users will be able to influence Gmail's design.”
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Google to let users test new Gmail features
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Damnit...FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter — I still haven't decided if FriendFeed, which aggregates activities from other websites like YouTube, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, etc., is the ultimate walled garden of our personal data or possibly the answer to the Centralized Me problem.
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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations — I was just on a two-week vacation in Peru, and when I got back, there was so much stuff in my FriendFeed that I couldn't sort through it all. I just wanted to see the most interesting stuff I'd missed. — That's why I'm happy to announce …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Former Chief of Broadcom Is Indicted — Henry T. Nicholas III, the flamboyant co-founder and former chief executive of the chip maker Broadcom, was indicted Thursday in California on fraud, conspiracy and drug charges, including allegations that he spiked the drinks of other executives with ecstasy.
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Los Angeles Times:
O.C. tech billionaire indicted — Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas is accused of stock fraud and supplying drugs. — Somewhere in the skies between Orange County and Las Vegas, federal prosecutors say, Broadcom Corp. co-founder and hard-partying billionaire Henry T. Nicholas III gave new meaning to the term “highflying.”
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft tries to steal iPhone 2.0 thunder — With Apple rumored to be unveiling a new iPhone next week, Microsoft's Windows Mobile unit is trying to get ahead of the news by touting its position in a letter to its industry partners today. But the letter may also get attention for another reason …
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Microsoft's pre-iPhone ‘salute’ to Apple — Apple fan boys (and girls) are counting down the days before Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. Everyone and their mother-in-law expects Steve Jobs to use his keynote at the event introduce new iPhones, including new 3G models and a less expensive refresh of the 2.5G version.
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AnandTech:
The Nehalem Preview: Intel Does It Again — Two years ago in Taiwan at Computex 2006 Gary Key and I stayed up all night benchmarking the Core 2 Extreme X6800, the first Core micro-architecture (Conroe core) CPU we had laid our hands on. While Intel retroactively applied its tick-tock model …
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Joe Hughes / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Get bus and train directions on the go with Google Maps for mobile — Ever since Google Maps added public transportation directions for San Francisco, it's been a lot easier for me to figure out which buses and trains will get me where I'm going around town, so that today's gas prices take less of a toll on my wallet.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Qik comes to Windows Mobile. Not Qik enough for 3G iPhone — As mobile phones become more powerful and unlimited data transfer plans from carriers become widespread, technologies such as streaming live video from phones are becoming feasible. One of the most hyped players in this market is Qik.
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
OS X Leopard/iPhone banners appear at Moscone — The Leopard banner reads: “The world's most advanced Operating System.” The iPhone banner reads: “The world's most advanced mobile platform.” I'm so happy I'll be in Berlin during the keynote getting drunk and not dealing with this nonsense.
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Leaked Report: ISP Secretly Added Spy Code To Web Sessions, Crashing Browsers — An internal British Telecom report on a secret trial of an ISP eavesdropping and advertising technology found that the system crashed some unsuspecting users' browsers, and a small percentage …
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John Biggs / TechCrunch:
iCall Brings Seamless Free VoIP to iPhone — A company I'm calling iCraw just announced a VoIP system for the iPhone that allows you to hop onto a VoIP network mid-call whenever you hit an open hotspot. It also offers free calls to the U.S. and Canada. It should be available on the Apple iPhone App store next week.
Tim Smalley / bit-tech.net:
Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor — According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers. — We have spoken to a lot of people out here in Taipei …
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