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Vindu Goel / Bits:
Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook — Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. — Scrabulous has been shut down on Facebook. — If you try to pull up the popular Scrabble-like game …
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Neal Kanodia / Google LatLong:
New, blue, and better than ever — Less is more. — Before — After — With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter. Find businesses (creamery near palo alto), addresses (6605 Delmar Blvd, St Louis, MO), and more (root beer in sf) from one search box.
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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts — Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public. — For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:What if Apple had conducted the ‘Mojave Experiment’?
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:Viral Vista: The ‘Mojave Experiment’
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HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed — Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Lead the Way as Global Centers of Excellence — PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
HP, Yahoo and Intel Create Compute Cloud — Updated at the bottom: At long last, Hewlett-Packard is stepping up with an answer to cloud computing by inking a partnership with two other big technology vendors and three universities to create a cloud computing testbed.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone apps: 1,001 and counting — The number of offerings on the App Store — the venue for independently produced programs that helps distinguish Apple's smartphone from all others — hit 1,001 on Monday night. — That's roughly double the number that were available when the store opened …
CNN:
Sprint Loses Early Termination Fee Case, May Pay $73 Million — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) was dealt a major blow in its early-termination-fee case when a California judge ruled it would have to pay $ 73 million. — The decision could bode poorly for the various trials …
Dell:
Look Beyond the Rack for Style this Fall - Dell's New Studio and Inspiron Systems Redefine PC Design — Puts the PC back on the desktop, or the countertop, or the bookshelf, or the entertainment center — Dell's smallest, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC, the Studio Hybrid, launches today.
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Mobile web standards announced today — No question the mobile web is booming no matter who you ask. Consumers are accessing the web from phones in droves and the World Wide Web Consortium wants to make sure that everyone plays on the same 3-inch field. Today the WWWC announced …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
MSN Direct API “Send to GPS” released — Just getting the urge to regurgitate press releases out of our system today - but here's just one more (hey, we read press releases so you don't have to!). Today Microsoft has announced an API for MSN Direct, to allow websites to send location information …
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Marco Chiappetta / HotHardware.com News:
VIA Nano L2100 vs. Intel Atom 230: Head to Head — VIA caused quite a stir a few months ago when the company first revealed initial details regarding their low-power Nano processor. At the time, the product was referred to by its internal codename of Isaiah.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million — Will BT Make Ribbit Work? — Yes. Better To Look For Help Outside — Not a chance, $105 million wasted — BT, Ribbit... what? who? — BT (British Telecom) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets.
Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry — The deal between record companies and ISPs will drive music-swapping underground and erode their profits still further — This month's announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter's potential — This morning a 5.8 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles. Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip.
Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pickens rips Yahoo management, says he dumped shares at a loss — Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens excoriated Yahoo's management for failing to reach an agreement to sell all or part of the Web portal to Microsoft Corp. — Pickens, who bought 10 million Yahoo shares in May in hopes …
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Cooler than Cuil, True Knowledge takes a sniper's approach to search — Amidst all the noise surrounding the new “Google Killer” search engine Cuil, a quiet United Kingdom startup called True Knowledge is today announcing a second funding round and further progress on its product.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
MS Surface goes spherical, but probably won't go global — This week, Microsoft Research is showing off a project that has been the subject of rumor since March: a spherical display with an interface that's controlled by touch and gesture. The demonstration certainly has a significant wow factor but …
