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Justin Uberti / Gmail Blog:
Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat — I'm a big user of Gmail chat. Being able to switch from email to chat as needed, all within the same app, is really great for productivity. But people can only type so fast, and even with our new emoticons, there are still some things that just can't be expressed in a chat message.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Google launches video chat for Gmail — Google is rolling out video and voice capabilities for the chat function that is embedded in the Gmail interface. It's a bare-bones voice and video-conferencing service, but it's simple to install and use and is a very good addition to Gmail.
Chris Alden / Six Apart News & Events:
Changes at Six Apart — Earlier today, I published the following message on our internal company blog. For those members of our community who wanted to know about the changes at Six Apart today, I've reposted it here publicly for reference. — Today we are making some changes at Six Apart.
The Official Google Blog:
Tracking flu trends — Like many Googlers, we're fascinated by trends in online search queries. Whether you're interested in U.S. elections, today's hot trends, or each year's Zeitgeist, patterns in Google search queries can be very informative. Last year, a small team of software engineers began …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Who's Got The Flu? Google Flu Trends Reveal State-By-State Activity — Wondering if it's just you or if others have the flu, too? Google's announced a new tool that tells you. Google Flu Trends allows you to see flu activity across the United States. — How's Google doing this?
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Uses Searches to Track Flu's Spread — SAN FRANCISCO — What if Google knew before anyone else that a fast-spreading flu outbreak was putting you at heightened risk of getting sick? And what if it could alert you, your doctor and your local public health officials before the muscle aches and chills kicked in?
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple may turn to carbon fiber for lighter MacBook Air — Apple enthusiastically claimed ownership to the world's thinnest notebook earlier this year with the introduction of the MacBook Air, but is rumored to be unsatisfied with the system's weight, which it now hopes to drop below 3 pounds.
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Microsoft Security Patch Was Seven Years in the Making — Some security patches take time. — Seven-and-a-half years, in fact, if you count the time it's taken Microsoft to patch a security issue in its SMB (Server Message Block) service, fixed Tuesday. This software is used by Windows …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Now Worth About $4 Billion, Revenue Light — Facebook's common stock is now changing hands in private sales at about a $4 billion valuation, a source says (unconfirmed). And Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is indeed trying to raise money in Dubai, the source says (also unconfirmed).
Aviv / MacBlogz:
AT&T iPhone Tethering Plan Specifics, No Unlimited Plan? — AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph De La Vega has recently announced the arrival of an official iPhone tethering plan. While we already knew the plan was in development prior to his announcement, little information pertaining to specific tethering offerings has been revealed.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Storm hitting Verizon on November 24th, pre-launch on 20th? — We just got our hands on this document detailing the latest release dates for the Storm on Verizon. Just be careful, we have all learned that target launch dates come and go quicker than a Sprint subscriber.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:BlackBerry 9530 Storm pricing revealed on VZW staging server
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Digital dealmaker and a dozen others out at Wired — A quarter of the 50-something employees in Wired.com's San Francisco newsroom are gone, a source tells us — and with them, the bubbly delusion that Wired would not just report on the transformation of media by technology, but be a part of the revolution as well.
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Obama's Twitter goes silent — @barackobama: Please update your Twitter. Since last Tuesday's historic election, Barack Obama's Twitter account hasn't sent any messages. Some Internet President-Elect! He didn't even use Twitter to announce his transition website, change.gov …
John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Best Buy's Gift Card is a Tiny Audio Speaker — Who is the consultant that told all of the big boxers that it would be a good idea to turn this year's holiday gift cards into some sort of tangible object? They are raking it in right now. First Target made this year's gift cards into digital cameras …
PC World:
Amazon to Sell OLPC's XO Laptop Starting Nov. 17 — One Laptop Per Child confirmed it will start selling the XO laptop through Amazon.com on Monday. — The XO laptop will be sold through Amazon in the same way as the G1G1 program, where a consumer donates US$400 for two laptops …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Cisco details tech plans for new Yankee Stadium — A picture of the new Yankee stadium in the Bronx set to open in April 2009. — NEW YORK - Cisco is teaming up with the New York Yankees to offer baseball fans an interactive experience at the ballpark and eventually bring that experience to their living rooms.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Loopt Jumps Ahead Of Facebook And MySpace On iPhone. Told You. — Facebook and MySpace have great mobile apps. At least, they're great if you're satisfied with a subset of the features you get on their normal websites. But they don't yet take advantage of location/presence features on the iPhone and other platforms.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Consumers Aren't Shopping Online, Either — It is not only retail stores that are feeling the pinch as shoppers close their wallets just ahead of the holiday season. E-commerce sales, though still growing faster than retail, are hurting, too. — E-commerce spending growth slowed …
Marc Flores / Boy Genius Report:
Full details on the Verizon Wireless Nationwide Connect Plan — Listen up, Verizon folks! Your carrier (or soon to be carrier if this news sways you) will soon be offering the Nationwide Connect Plan that has been passed around the rumor mill lately. As of November 16 …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Would You Manage Your Money Through The Newspaper? — Wesabe and the UK Telegraph Think You Might — Online money management service Wesabe and the UK newspaper giant The Telegraph have entered a partnership to offer co-branded tools on the Telegraph website. It's a daring move, we can't help but admire it.
Udi / VideoSurf:
Never get Rick-Rolled again! — The most annoying thing about online video is that you don't always get what you want. Too often, you're led astray by misleading thumbnails and mischievous Rick-Rollers. — To help with this problem, we use advanced algorithms to intelligently identify …
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
iTunes Store finally gets a bargain bin for movies — The glory days of grabbing that $5 DVD at the road trip pit-stop or Target checkout counter have finally made their digital transition to the iTunes Store. — With a new section unfortunately called “This Week's Great Movies Under $5” …
Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Current TV's official body count: 30 gone, 30 shuffled — This just in: Current TV's director of public relations sent us an email designed to be printed in its entirety. (Thanks for that. Since Valleywag fired everyone else, I spend way too much time editing.)
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Energy industry at risk of cyberattack, survey says — Asked which industry is the biggest target for cyberattack, critical infrastructure insiders in the U.S., Canada, and Europe point to the energy sector. — The energy industry also is the most vulnerable to cyberattacks …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Google Patents Searching Through Multiple Categories At Once — from the this-is-non-obvious? dept — Every week, when new patents are issued, I usually scan through various patents issued to certain companies. Each week, Microsoft usually has somewhere between 40 to 60 new patents.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
DeepDyve: Indexing the Deep Web — DeepDyve is a new search engine that is aimed at students, academics, and knowledge workers. DeepDyve's mission is to index the ‘deep web’ that is hidden behind pay walls and subscription fees. We first looked at DeepDyve in September …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / PC World:
The Next Windows: 7Up or New Vista? — Running away as fast as it can from Vista , Microsoft rolled out an alpha version of Windows 7 at its recent Professional Developers Conference . But is Windows 7 going to be 7Up, the Un-Vista, or is it going to be (gag) New Vista ?
