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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Multiple Inboxes — I'm seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my “flash” label, everything about paragliding goes under “flying,” and they all skip my inbox because that's how I like to stay organized.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Gmail Adds Support For Multi-Pane Viewing — A new feature in Gmail Labs just launched, giving users the ability to simultaneously view multiple panes in Gmail without having to open another browser window. For users that frequently label their messages and have saved searches …
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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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HeyJude, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, Google Mobile Blog, TechCrunch, Webware.com, Wap Review, PersonaNonData, internetnews.com, blogs.ft.com, Epicenter, jkOnTheRun, Pocket-lint.co.uk, RotorBlog.com, Chronicle of Higher Education, ReadWriteWeb, Beyond Search, Google Blogoscoped, TeleRead, WebProNews and mobilesyrup.com, Thanks:atul
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Google Book Search: Seriously, iPhones are eBook readers — Like reading on your mobile phone? Well, Google just added 1.5 million books to your library, with the launch of a new mobile site that optimizes the text of Book Search's public-domain (i.e., non-copyrighted) works for reading on your iPhone or Android device.
Engineering Windows 7:
UAC Feedback and Follow-Up — When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious. The unease is because at some point we knew we would mess up. We weren't sure if we would mess up because we were blogging about a poorly designed feature …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Microsoft Bows to Critics, Will Change Windows 7 UAC — Yesterday I wrote about the Windows 7 dust-up that involved a couple of security bloggers' concern that malware could silently turn User Account Control off, and Microsoft's seeming unwillingness to talk much about the issue other than to say it wasn't really a problem.
Mike Schroepfer / Facebook Developers:
Next Steps in Openness — Enabling social information to flow through the Web is one of the core goals of Facebook. In the two months since Facebook Connect became generally available, over 4,000 sites and desktop applications have gone live with the service.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:5 Reasons Why Facebook + OpenID is Good News
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Jason Wilk / tinyComb:
Apple Store Bans Facebook For Life — In an effort to thwart off time-theft and loiterers, Apple has decided to add Facebook to the list of banned websites at retail locations nationwide. When I asked some of the genius' today whether or not anyone noticed the change …
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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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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Ed Kohler / The Deets:
How Village Voice Media Uses Digg to Game Their Traffic Numbers — This is the story about a girl that's actually a dude who's brought in 3.8 - 19.4 million visitors* to Village Voice Media websites by gaming Digg. — Village Voice Media appears to be running an organized reciprocal Digg …
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Therese Poletti / MarketWatch:
Silicon Valley has a few rare bright spots — Commentary: No breadlines yet, but many compete for fewer jobs — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Jobs are disappearing across the United States at a horrifying pace. — It's frightening to tally up the numbers, especially when you consider …
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Bloomberg:
Baidu's China Lead Over Google Takes a Hit After Web Search Controversy — Feb. 6 (Bloomberg) — Chen Chen was so disappointed when he learned that Baidu Inc.'s Web site led some patients to seek unlicensed medical care, he started making Web queries through Google Inc. instead.
Peter Glaskowsky / Speeds and feeds:
Singularity University: Hope or hype? … Speeds and feeds — Singularity University: Hope or hype? — Posted by Peter Glaskowsky — Post a comment — The “Singularity” is that postulated point in time when technological progress, led by machine intelligences designing …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Last.fm fears for online radio future — Britain's complicated music royalty system is killing online innovation, according to one of the founders of internet radio service Last.fm. — Martin Stiksel, who helped oversee the $280m acquisition of the London-based music recommendation site …
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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 …
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Phone Arena, BerryReview.com, Gadgetell, CrackBerry.com blogs, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, MobileCrunch and Crave
Economist:
Virtual pleasures — Many young people prefer pleasure-seeking to politics—but for how long? — ONE of the reasons for Barack Obama's electoral success was his campaign's brilliantly effective deployment of young e-communicators. Their tireless use of blogs and social-networking sites helped …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp Misses, Rupe: Recession Worse Than We Thought (NWS) — News Corp. just turned in an ugly earnings report, with $6.4 billion in Q2 losses due to an $8.4 billion writedown. — Uglier than that loss: Rupert Murdoch's forecast for 2009. In the release he says …
David Pogue / New York Times:
So Many iPhone Apps, So Little Time — Who was it who wrote, in March 2008, just after Apple announced its intention to create an online app store for the iPhone, “You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone”? — Oh, right—that was me.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
No Escape From Work: Present.ly Releases AIR and Mobile Applications — Enterprise microblogging service Present.ly, which faces off squarely against TechCrunch50 winner Yammer, has made strides to match the accessibility of its competitor by releasing several applications for the desktop and mobile devices.
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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.
Channel 9:
The History of Microsoft - 1975 — Thirty-four years ago, a nineteen year old kid and his twenty-two year old business partner sold their first program to a little computer company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was called BASIC, and it was the start of this company we call Microsoft.
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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.
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Publisher Promising “Visitors” Owes “Visitors,” Not “Unique Visitors”—WebMD v. RDA — WebMD, LLC v. RDA Intern., Inc., 2009 WL 175036 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Jan. 6, 2009) — It's been a while since I've blogged about a lawsuit between an Internet publisher and advertiser, so you may enjoy this one.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon opens up payments platform to all developers — Amazon.com is making its Flexible Payments Service broadly available today. The service, which had been in limited beta, lets third-party developers tap into Amazon's existing payment infrastructure — letting them charge customers using …
Nigel Kendall / Times of London:
Over 30,000 people fall for ComputerTan hoax — New technology that promised workers a tan from their computers is really a skin cancer charity awareness campaign — A new technology that harnesses the rays of a computer screen to give office workers a tan while they type was today revealed …
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Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac:
Samsung SyncMaster U70 is a really great idea - not for Mac yet — So you've probably heard of Samsung's line of USB bus monitors. It is a pretty cool technology without much of an application (slow, overpriced monitors at regular sizes) - until now. The SyncMaster U70 is a small …
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
$6.6B British ID Program Has No Card Readers — The UK's ambitious program revealed to be a major waste of money as they have no available readers — The U.S. is beginning to find out the hard way that adopting a digital ID card system isn't as simple as it seems.
Economist:
Keep it official — Independent blogging under threat — COMPARED with his cabinet colleagues, Karim Massimov, Kazakhstan's prime minister, is a digital whizz-kid. When he took the job two years ago he already had his own website. Last month he flaunted both his technical …
