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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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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Gmail Gets 13 Experimental New Features Tonight — Starting at 6PM Pacific Time tonight, Google will start rolling out Gmail Labs, an experimental area of new Gmail features that will be familiar and very welcome to users of the Better Gmail Firefox extension.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Google to let users test new Gmail features
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: The iPhone envy is starting to show (already) — Microsoft said it will sell nearly 20 million Windows Mobile licenses in a letter designed to rally its smartphone partners. It's no coincidence that the pep talk comes just a few days before these the likely launch of Apple's 3G iPhone.
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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 …
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.”
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Opera:
Opera and Haute Secure partner to protect consumers from next-generation Web-based threats — Opera improves its industry-leading Fraud Protection with advanced malware prevention technology from Haute Secure — Opera Software today announced a new partnership with Haute Secure, the leader in Web-based threat protection.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Opera Browser Integrates Haute Secure to Block Malware — Opera, the Norwegian-based web browser, has struck a deal with Haute Secure to include malware detection and blocking in the browser's new 9.5 release. The new version is currently available as a beta, with a final release imminent.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Want to get an iPhone ASAP? Raid the stock room at AT&T stores — We just got this message from someone who works for AT&T. It was sent by upper-management to stores: — “Just an FYI that as of today, the only iPhones left to sell are those in your inventory rooms in store.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple assigns new Senior VPs of iPhone Software, Mac Engineering — Apple Inc. last week extended its executive branch from ten to twelve members, creating a new position to oversee its iPhone software experience and appointing its first senior VP of Mac hardware development, AppleInsider has learned.
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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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 …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
ConnectU Wants Out Of Its Settlement With Facebook; Wants To Sue Again — Earlier this year, we were disappointed to see Facebook agree to settle with ConnectU. ConnectU was another wannabe social network that Mark Zuckerberg worked for briefly before going off to found Facebook.
Insider / iDealsChina:
iPHONE 3G LAST MINUTE SIZE CHANGE! — Has Griffin Technology made a boo-boo? — Today we were informed the new iPhone 3G dimensions have changed. Apparently they are now reported thinner and shorter than the iPhone 3G shells circulating in China and Griffin's new Flexgrip iPhone 3G case.
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