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The Official Google Blog:
A fresh take on the browser — At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well! As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit “send” a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Chrome Screenshots — Google announced their browser Google Chrome to be available on Tuesday, but their download page and tour was already partly available at gears.google.com/chrome/ just now, as Uval in the forum noticed. While the download itself didn't work when I tried …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meet Chrome, Google's Windows Killer — Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft. — Chrome, the Webkit-based Google browser that launches tomorrow at Google.com/chrome …
Nick / Rough Type:
The cloud's Chrome lining — Google's release today of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet “cloud.” I distinctly remember when, back in 1988 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Here's the Google Chrome Browser Comic Book: Hey Microsoft, Kaa-POW!!!
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Google Launches Video Sharing for Business — Google has found a way to make money from video sharing — but not on YouTube. The company will add video to its paid business edition of Google Apps on Monday. In a way, Google is opening up a whole new category of online video: internal corporate video sharing.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Video added to Google Apps — Google is introducing video into Google Apps with the hope that companies will be attracted to a service that helps with training and internal communication but also removes the hassles of hosting video. — According to Google executives who spoke to CNET News last week …
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Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces — Google wants to help you put a name to that face. — With a face recognition feature set to launch at noon PDT Tuesday, Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects.
Nokia:
Nokia to launch ‘Comes With Music’ first in the United Kingdom — Carphone Warehouse exclusive pre-paid channel with Nokia 5310 XpressMusic — London, UK - Nokia today announced that the United Kingdom will be the first market in the world to launch ‘Comes With Music’ …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple iPhone: 8 million and counting — On Saturday, Aug. 30, the daughters of “BillH” bought an iPhone at an AT&T store in Sunnyvale, Calif. The next day, their father, an Apple investor from Minneapolis, reported on The Mac Observer's Apple Finance Board (AFB) that the so-called IMEI number …
Ted Dziuba:
OpenID Is Why I Hate The Internet — I've been farting around with Jeff Atwood's StackOverflow for a few weeks now as a beta tester. — Everything was all well and good until I had to figure out how to use OpenID. I've been watching the development of this s**t from the sidelines for a while …
Associated Press:
Russia's MegaFon to sell iPhone — MOSCOW - MegaFon, Russia's third-largest mobile phone company, said Tuesday it will start selling Apple's iPhone 3G in Russia later this year. — MegaFon did not provide further details of the deal. — iPhones have not gone on sale officially in Russia …
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Vishesh Kumar / Wall Street Journal:
Price War Erupts For High-Speed Internet Service — The battle between cable and phone companies to sign up new customers for high-speed Internet service is heating up, creating fresh opportunities for consumers to cut their bills. — Verizon Communications Inc., which last quarter became …
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Damien McFerran / Sony PSP, Nintendo DS …:
Opening the box: The story of the Pandora (so far) — We lift the lid on the most powerful handheld ever — Product: — Manufacturer: — Open source handhelds have been with us for a while now. Those of you with a decent memory will recall the excellent GP2X from Korean manufacturer …
BBC:
Ultrasound to give feel to games — The power of ultrasonic waves has been harnessed to produce “virtual” objects in mid-air. — The field of haptics - integrating computing and the sense of touch - has been around for some time but has required gloves or mechanical devices to impart a sense of feeling.
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