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Susan Wojcicki / The Official Google Blog:
Making ads more interesting — At Google, we believe that ads are a valuable source of information — one that can connect people to the advertisers offering products, services and ideas that interest them. By making ads more relevant, and improving the connection between advertisers and our users …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google to Offer Ads Based on Interests — SAN FRANCISCO — Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral targeting, which has been embraced by most of its competitors but has drawn criticism from privacy advocates and some members of Congress.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Gets Into Behavioral Targeting, Launches “Interest-Based Advertising” Beta
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:Google Starts Targeting, Too. What Will Congress Do?
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Christine Monaghan / Apple:
Apple Announces Incredible New iPod shuffle — World's Smallest Music Player Now Talks to You — Apple® today introduced the all-new iPod® shuffle, the world's smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you (updated with video!) — Bam, another Apple rumor vindicated. Apple just doubled the capacity of its iPod shuffle to 4GB while ditching the control wheel entirely. The new design keeps the clip and adds VoiceOver …
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Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
The Gross Inconvenience of the New iPod Shuffle — If you're an iPhone user, you just looked at Apple's [AAPL] new 4GB iPod Shuffle and groaned. — Announced this morning, the little stainless steel slab is beautifully minimalist, and about the size of a piece of Trident.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Its Developer Strategy for the Next Generation of Windows® Phones — Familiar tools, large worldwide customer base and transparent policies allow mobile developers to innovate and generate new revenue opportunities with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Windows Marketplace for Mobile.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft details app store plans — Microsoft on Wednesday is offering up more details on its would-be rival to the iPhone's app store. — The software maker said it will charge developers $99 a year, plus $99 for each application they submit to get an app into the Windows Marketplace store.
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Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for third quarter: source — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Apple will take third-quarter delivery of newly developed 10-inch touchscreens from Taiwan, a source said on Wednesday, amid talk the U.S. firm is developing a touchscreen PC.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:Apple orders 10-inch touchscreens for mystery product
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Lithium breakthrough could charge batteries in 10 seconds — A new version of lithium battery technology can either provide a higher storage density than current batteries, or can charge and discharge as fast as a supercapacitor, emptying its entire charge in under 10 seconds.
Peter X. Deng / Facebook Blog:
Welcome to Your New Home Page — Last week, we shared our philosophy behind the new updates and changes on Facebook to give you a better understanding of why we make certain product decisions. We explained how we've been mapping out the Social Graph, or the network of connections that exist in the world …
Alan Travis / Guardian:
Web inventor warns against third-party internet snooping — Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks out against collection of users' data by commercial companies — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, today warned MPs and peers that they should not allow third parties …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
SAP to offer corporate apps on iPhone — Corporate software makers SAP and Sybase are teaming up to make it easier for business users to access SAP's software on mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone. — SAP, which is the world's biggest maker of business management software …
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:SAP, Sybase partner to deliver apps for any device
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Ghassan Haddad / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Now Available in Arabic and Hebrew — . Ù' . — . . Ù' . — Ù' Ù' . . . . . "" “Ù'” "" . — We're making Facebook available in Arabic and Hebrew—two languages where writing begins at the right-hand side of the page and concludes on the left.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's Snow Leopard may be delayed - analyst — Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the update of Apple's (AAPL) current Macintosh operating system that Steve Jobs said would ship in “about a year” when he introduced it last June, may not arrive until later this summer or fall.
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
The Officer Who Posted Too Much on MySpace — In pictures, Vaughan Ettienne is a champion bodybuilder of surreal musculature. In conversation, he is polite and thoughtful. — And in the looking glass of his computer screen, he becomes a man of fierce, profane views on how to keep law and order.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Faster iTunes 8.1 with new import and Genius features due soon — Apple sometime later today or this week will make available for download a speedier version of its iTunes media software that extents the company's Genius feature to more media types and also support direct imports to iTunes Plus, new parental controls and more.
Anita Barci / Checkout:
Google Checkout fees in 2009 — When we launched Google Checkout in 2006, we set out to create a fast, secure online shopping experience for our users. Now in our third year of helping merchants increase sales and attract user interest, we're announcing the decision to move …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Valley Exec Twitters Through Home Break-In — A strange man broke into Revision3 COO David Prager's home last night. — Did David call the police? No, he updated Twitter and turned on a live video stream at Ustream. — This is someone who needs to get out of Silicon Valley.
Associated Press:
EBay's PayPal envisions doubling in size by 2011 — SAN JOSE, Calif. - EBay Inc.'s name may conjure images of online auctions, but the company is hoping to turn attention to its second-largest business — PayPal — which it expects to blossom significantly in the next few years.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Nokia fights to hold on to smartphone dominance — Nokia is still by far the No. 1 mobile handset maker in the world, but as competition heats up in the smartphone market, Nokia has become increasingly vulnerable to smaller players such as Apple and Research In Motion, which are increasing market share.
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Ed Hardy / brighthand.com:
T-Mobile G1 Now Available for Under $100 — Amazon.com is now offering the T-Mobile G1 at a special price — just over half what this Android-based smartphone normally sells for. — The regular price for the G1 is $180 when purchased with a two-year contract, but this online retailer is selling it now for $98.
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast Now Third Largest Phone Company - Passes Qwest with explosive digital voice growth... Sure, we've given Comcast some grief over the years, but one thing that can't be denied is the speed at which the company absolutely dominated of the VoIP (sorry, Digital Voice) market.
Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube — For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan. 10, 2009, where Gmail moved up one rank to reach #10.
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Nokia:
Nokia latest releases set to hit the top of the charts — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced the arrival of new Nokia Music Stores, more Comes With Music launches and three new music devices. The Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 5330 XpressMusic and Nokia 5030 bring people's music to life …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
AMD: MacBook issues giving graphics bad rap — Advanced Micro Devices worries that lingering issues—both real and speculative—with Apple MacBooks are giving laptop graphics a black eye. — In a phone interview Tuesday, Stan Ossias, director of marketing, mobile graphics, at AMD …
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