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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's Snow Leopard to include location, multi-touch tools — Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system will include tools borrowed from the iPhone that let developers determine the geographical location of Macs, as well as extend additional support for multi-touch to their apps, AppleInsider has learned.
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VentureBeat, Ars Technica, CNET News, TG Daily, Gadget Lab, MacRumors, Lifehacker, Boing Boing Gadgets, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo, SlashGear, O'Grady's PowerPage, GPS Obsessed, Engadget and AppScout
Google Book Search Blog:
1.5 million books in your pocket — Posted by Viresh Ratnakar, Guillaume Poncin, Brandon Badger, and Frances Haugen, Book Search Mobile Team — One of the great things about an iPhone or Android phone is being able to play Pacman while stuck in line at the post office.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Globe and Mail, ReadWriteWeb, Google Blogoscoped, The iPhone Blog, WebProNews, Chronicle of Higher Education and TeleRead, Thanks:atul
Douglas Bowman / Stopdesign:
Recreating the button — Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we've been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched in Gmail yesterday …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple planning connected television, Apple TV with DVR - report — Although Apple has publicly denied interest in such markets, investment bank Piper Jaffray said Thursday it expects the company to introduce a networked television in the next two years and update its Apple TV set-top-box with DVR capabilities by year's end.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia-based Microsoft smartphone coming? — Nvidia's Tegra chip will be used in an upcoming Microsoft smartphone, according to an analyst at Broadpoint AmTech. — The San Francisco-based research firm also is speculating that Apple will eventually use the Nvidia ARM-based chip in a future iPhone.
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GadgetGirl / Gaj-It.com:
Shush! Samsung Acme i8910 is Leaked — Be the first to hear it here, as we have exclusive leaked photos sent to Gaj-It showing Samsungs latest addition to their eclectic portfolio of mobile phones. This new, but very ‘hush hush’ arrival is the Samsung Acme i8910, however …
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SlashGear, Mobilewhack.com, Unwired View, WMExperts, Boy Genius Report, PhoneReport v2.0, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, SlashPhone and Engadget, Thanks:patrickaltoft
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Chrome Will Have Extensions by May — Nicholas Moline noticed an interesting session from Google I/O, a developer conference that will be held in May. — Developing extensions for Google Chrome — “Learn how Google Chrome makes it easy to write extensions using the web technologies you already know.
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Guardian, Download Squad, The Open Road, Obsessable, TechSpot, Mashable and OStatic blogs, Thanks:sampad
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Offline Google Calendar — Some Google Apps users noticed a new option in Google Calendar: read-only offline access to the calendars using Google Gears. Mark Mathson has screenshots for the new feature, but it's surprising to see that Google Apps users, who usually received the updates later …
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Keenpath, Epicenter, Lifehacker, Download Squad, Mashable! and AppScout, Thanks:markmathson
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Wonderwall Gonna Be the One That Saves MSN? — In an interesting and innovative move compared to what has typically been less-than-hip online programming over the years, Microsoft's MSN service is debuting a slick new celebrity site called Wonderwall today-created, designed and produced …
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Mike Anderiesz / Guardian:
‘We simply have to suffer,’ says Sony — For a man whose employer has just recorded its worst Christmas in years, David Reeves seems surprisingly calm. Indeed, speaking last Thursday, the day Sony announced third-quarter losses of Y18bn (£141m), he sounded more like a corner-man psyching …
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CrunchGear, PC World, TechSpot, Joystiq, Silicon Alley Insider, Kotaku, Game|Life, Engadget and VG247
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft offers to just ‘Fix it’ — When people encounter a problem with their PC, they often go to the Web and do a search to see if others have had the problem. If they are lucky, someone has found a fix and listed the steps on either a support document or within a user forum.
Market Wire:
JAJAH Turns iPod Touch Into an iPhone — White Label Solution Enables Any Carrier to Provide High Quality Calls and text Messaging via the iPod Touch — JAJAH, the leading IP telecommunications company, today announced a complete revamp of the iPod touch, turning the device into a fully functioning mobile phone for consumers.
New York Times:
Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios — On the day last July when “The Dark Knight” arrived in theaters, Warner Brothers was ready with an ambitious antipiracy campaign that involved months of planning and steps to monitor each physical copy of the film. — The campaign failed miserably.
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
First Look: Analytics for iPhone — Google Analytics is a popular and quite useful set of tools for monitoring a web site's traffic and performance. Set up is a snap and the reports are easy to read and flexible. You can create goals, monitor traffic and so on. What more could you want?
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Meebo launches Facebook chat, officially and securely this time — Instant message service aggregator Meebo is launching the first officially sanctioned version of Facebook's IM service, Chat, to work on another web site. Basically, it lets you IM with friends who are logged into Chat …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
China's Lenovo Fires American CEO — Chinese computer-maker Lenovo will replace its American CEO William J. Amelio as his three-year contract expires. Chairman Yang Yuanqing will take the CEO seat and Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi will re-take the chairmanship. — Lenovo hired Amelio in 2005.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Condé Makes Another Digital Move: Someone to Sell Ads — Another sign that magazine heavyweight Condé Nast would eventually like to start making money from the Web: It's appointed someone to run the sales force of its digital properties. — Condé has tapped former Wired publisher …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Obama DOJ pick: RIAA lawyer who killed Grokster — President Obama is continuing to fill the senior ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice with the copyright industry's favorite lawyers. — Donald Verrilli announced Wednesday that he had been named associate deputy attorney general.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp Misses, Rupert Says Downturn “Severe” (NWS) — News Corp reported fiscal Q2 earnings per share of $.12 on $7.9 billion revenues. Analysts expected Q2's EPS to be $.20 on revenues of $8.45 billion. — Rupert's statement: — 'Our results for the quarter are a direct reflection of the grim economic climate.
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Wall Street Journal:
A Makeover for Your Google Results — For years, I winced at what popped up when I Googled my name. — The top result of a search on “Julia Angwin” was an article I wrote for The Wall Street Journal in 2005 after I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was indicted for leaking the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Will Park / IntoMobile:
Is Apple working on a next-gen iPhone with customized multi-core chips? — By now it's an accepted fact that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has loosed a fleet of unannounced iPhones for real-world testing. And, true to Apple's usually secretive ways, the new “iPhone 2,1” feature-set is still a mystery.
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Engineering Windows 7:
Update on UAC — Hi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback we've been receiving. — Most of our work finishing Windows 7 is focused on responding to feedback. The UAC feedback is interesting on a few dimensions of engineering decision making process.
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Larry Ellison Buys Another Company — Oracle's acquisition machine struck again. — The business software giant Wednesday said it bought a Boston-area startup called mValent. It makes software that information-technology departments use to keep track of systems changes and configurations.
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Nick Heath / silicon.com:
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them — A “waste of time” for biometric ID checks — The first UK ID cards have already been issued - but no UK police officers or border guards have any way of reading the data stored on them. — Currently no police stations …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless BlackBerry BOGO sale, buy one get one free! — We just got a heads up that tomorrow, Verizon Wireless will start a BlackBerry BOGO sale. What's BOGO mean? Buy One Get One (free)! Here's the breakdown on how this will work, when you'll be able to do it, and what's included …
Agence France Presse:
MIT researchers make ‘sixth sense’ gadget — LONG BEACH, California (AFP) — US university researchers have created a portable “sixth sense” device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines. — The device created by Massachusetts Institute …
Monty says:
Time to move on — I have now departed from Sun and joined my own company, Monty Program Ab. — There were a lot of rumors around me resigning in August/September last year. I didn't back then want to comment on the rumors, because I was still trying to work something out with Sun.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
On YouTube, ‘popular’ no longer means the thing everyone's watching [UPDATED] — In the latest in a series of moves away from its early, freewheeling roots, YouTube has quietly changed the default filter on its highly trafficked main video page from “most viewed” to something called “popular.”
