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Google's Mobile-Handset Plans Are Slowed — ‘Android’ Launch Is Being Delayed As Carriers Struggle — Google Inc. is learning that changing the cellphone industry isn't easy. — The Internet giant and more than 30 partners announced in November a bold plan for a new breed of handsets based …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Delayed: Android, aka Google Phone — If you are a start-up targeting the mobile industry, then you are well aware of the slow moving ways of incumbents, equipment makers and of course handset makers. You are made aware of their equally glacial ways when you come from the opposite end of the spectrum, Silicon Valley.
AppleInsider:
Five undisclosed features of Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard — Although Apple is marketing Mac OS X Snow Leopard as an operating system update with “no new features,” under the hood improvements will actually translate into a slew of new enhancements, five of which are described herein.
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Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
Ten Big New Features in Mac OS X Snow Leopard — Daniel Eran Dilger — Apple is marketing the idea of there being “no new features” for Snow Leopard and instead promising an overall improvement in how Mac OS X works under the hood, thanks to a diligent code optimization and refactoring cycle discussed in the previous article.
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Don MacAskill / SmugBlog:
SmugVault - Store everything for next to nothing. — SmugMug has always allowed everyone to upload an unlimited number of web-displayable files - JPEG, GIF, PNG, and MP4 - but to date we haven't been able to accept the RAW files generated by modern digital cameras.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft to Yahoo Shareholders: Fire Jerry And We Might Bid Again* — UPDATE: Microsoft says this story is the result of a translation issue and that nothing has changed (i.e., per Microsoft, Kevin Johnson didn't say what Bloomberg is saying he said.) — EARLIER: A long game of press telephone …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Pre-paid iPhone 3G customers may pay $600 for handset - report — Approximately one out of every ten iPhone 3G buyers are likely to be international pre-paid subscribers who'll find themselves paying in excess of $600 for the touch screen handset, according to a new report.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Modeling The Real Market Value Of Social Networks — Is MySpace worth $3 billion, or $20 billion? It depends on how you value a user. — It's time to start comparing the big global social networks on something other than unique visitors and page views.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue — For newspapers, the news has swiftly gone from bad to worse. This year is taking shape as their worst on record, with a double-digit drop in advertising revenue, raising serious questions about the survival of some papers and the solvency of their parent companies.
Darren Waters / BBC:
‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed — The net could see its biggest transformation in decades if plans to open up the address system are passed. — The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Marc Benioff's mantra: Anything but Microsoft — Today Salesforce.com announced a “global strategic alliance” (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. The alliance allows developers using Salesforce.com's cloud …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:Salesforce and Google take their partnership a step further with new APIs
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
A Window on the Cloud — Outsourcing compute power is wonderful — until something goes wrong. Unfortunately, when an Amazon Web Service goes down it's hard to know why, and it's even harder to know how well a particular cloud is performing in the first place.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
George Carlin's Death Spikes Searches For His Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV — I was saddened to hear one of my favorite comedians, George Carlin, passed away Sunday. Clearly he touched many people. A quick look at Google Trends shows searches related to him have spiked up as well as for his famous …
Bradley Johnson / AdAge:
Top 100's Ad-Spend Growth Grinds to Halt — LNA Report: Budgets Eke Out 1.7% Rise; P&G Breaks the $5B Barrier — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — The Top 100 U.S. advertisers last year increased ad spending by just 1.7%, while measured media spending rose a negligible 0.3% for major marketers …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Closed Facebook-ConnectU hearing ends with no ruling — Updated 1:12 p.m. PDT to reflect that the hearing session has ended. — SAN JOSE, Calif.—A hearing in a dispute between Facebook and ConnectU wrapped up early Monday afternoon with no ruling, after the federal judge overseeing …
