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Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Carriers begin to believe in data revenue, as Android's puzzle pieces come together — Carriers have long worried that they'll be relegated to being “dumb pipes” as more developers churn out applications for mobile phones. But some new figures are now making those carriers change their stance …
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Reuters:
T-Mobile to offer Android smartphone soon: sources — T-Mobile to offer Android smartphone soon: sources — FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile unit is set to start selling a mobile phone based on Google Inc's Android software within weeks, according to people familiar with the matter.
Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for BlackBerry: faster, stronger, better — Today we're pleased to launch Google Mobile App for BlackBerry. It's a free download and it looks like this: — To download the App, visit m.google.com on your BlackBerry device. — Once it's installed you'll have faster search …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone — Updated at 3:50 p.m. PDT with further detail and information about Blueprint programming tools for mobile devices. — SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called OneConnect …
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The Official Google Blog:
The future of search … I am a search addict. I'm naturally inquisitive - I've always liked finding things out. Plus, I've worked at Google on search for the past 9 years and 3 months. Of course I search - a lot. Yet I would guess that on any given day, I only do about 20% of the searches that I could.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer Clarifies: Search Is Only 10% Done, Not 90% — I spoke to Google's Marissa Mayer at TechCrunch50 on Monday (a little after she we celebrated Google's 10th birthday with cupcakes) and asked her about the search is “90-95%” solved story over the weekend.
Mike Nizza / The Lede:
A Stock-Killer Fueled by Algorithm After Algorithm — What made a six-year-old article about a bankruptcy filing by United Airlines reappear on Wall Street traders' screens on Monday as if it were fresh news, prompting a sell-off that erased $1 billion in the company's market value in a matter of minutes?
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comScore:
YouTube Draws 5 Billion U.S. Online Video Views in July 2008 — Americans Watch 558 Million Hours of Online Video During the Month, According to comScore Video Metrix — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released July 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service …
Senator Herb Kohl:
KOHL CALLS ON CELL PHONE COMPANIES TO JUSTIFY RISING TEXTING RATES — In Three Years, Text Message Charges Have Doubled for Wireless Customers — WASHINGTON, DC — Today, US Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, asked the presidents and chief executive officers …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Notes and Observations Regarding Yesterday's 'Let's Rock' Apple Special Event — OVERALL SCOPE — The overall takeaway from yesterday's news is that Apple's music and iPod business is right on track. There was nothing exceptional or particularly surprising, but the incremental improvements and changes were significant.
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Matthew Rothenberg / Flickr Blog:
There's No Place Like Home — Also available in: , Português, Deutsch — Starting today, we're rolling out a sneak preview of the new Flickr home page. — Why all the change? Well, that's easy: Everybody knows the best part of Flickr is uploading photos and getting feedback from the community.
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Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:Flickr revamp spotlights photos, social features
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
TC50: Birdpost and Closet Couture, Two Social Networks for Birds — The first two companies to present at this afternoon's Vertical Social Networking session proved that niche social networks can be exciting, even for people outside of their respective niches. — On paper, a social network for bird watchers sounds like a joke.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Email becomes a dangerous distraction — Back in the early 1990s, email was a privilege granted only to those who could prove they needed it. Now it has turned into a nuisance that's costing companies millions. We may feel that we have it under control, but not only do we check email …
MobileTechNews:
iPhone Traffic Almost Doubles in the US — San Mateo, CA — AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, today highlighted the rapid and global growth of smartphone usage in their August 2008 AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. The anticipated launch of new smartphones in the coming months …
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Rachel Metz / Associated Press:
Apple senior execs settle options case for $14M — Apple senior execs and directors settle options lawsuit; company gets millions out of it — NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs and several other senior executives and board members have agreed to settle a lawsuit that claimed …
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Is Apple's Genius a music subscription service in disguise? — Getting hold of a big database of peoples' music tastes would be a great way to sell more music, don't you think? Continue reading... Microsoft previews work-anywhere BlueTrack mice — It's not often you see Microsoft trumpeting …
Crave at CNET UK:
Photos: Hands-on with the new Apple iPod classic — We're huge fans of the iPod classic. When you rip all your CDs in Apple Lossless format, have about 30 podcast subscriptions, an archive of music videos, and insist on carrying the whole lot around with you, the 160GB model is the only way to go.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Opens Itself Up Tomorrow-Literally — Yahoo-because it has decided its living-inside-a-cave press strategy has been, shall we say, a bust-has invited a passel of media tomorrow to its Sunnyvale, Calif., HQ and will trot out a range of top execs to talk specifically about the various facets of its “open” strategy.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
As Facebook rolls out new redesign, 2.5 million users are already protesting — Facebook's new design will begin to fully replace the old one today, although its not clear which users will be forced to use it, first. Until now, users could opt to use the old design, instead.
Dan Farber / Webware.com:
Fotonauts crafts Wikipedia for photos — An estimated 500 million images are captured every day, but less than 5 percent end up on major photo sharing sites. Uploading photos is not the easiest task and most photos are locked into a specific photo sharing service and have all rights reserved licenses.
