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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.
Stephen Shankland / Webware.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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Dane Hamilton / eWeek:
Icahn Says Yahoo Should Sell to Microsoft — If Microsoft doesn't accept the offer, Icahn says he'll push for a deal with Google. — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor Carl Icahn on Friday told Yahoo Inc that it should offer to sell the company to Microsoft Corp for $34.375 per share, the latest volley in an acrimonious war of words.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo — After a one-day lull in the Yahoo-Icahn war of words, billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Friday listed his five-step game plan for the company, should his dissident slate of directors succeed in unseating Yahoo's current board at the August 1 shareholder meeting.
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 …
Washington Post:
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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.”
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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.
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.
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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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The growing importance of Design — It's happening slowly, but surely. Design is becoming news. — Take the example of Facebook's recently redesigned Profile pages. Huge news both for the users of the site as well as the developers Facebook is trying to court.
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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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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
I.T. 2.0 — How Changing Technology is Having Big Impacts on Business — In case you haven't heard yet - the I.T. world is changing. The rise of social computing technologies, generally branded as “Web 2.0” and including things like wikis, blogs, social networking, RSS, and more are slowly making their way into the business world.
Business Technology:
Men Write Code from Mars, Women Write More Helpful Code from Venus — We all know men hate to ask for directions. Apparently they loathe putting directions in computer code, too. — Emma McGrattan, the senior vice-president of engineering for computer-database company Ingres …
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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.
