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The Official Google Blog:
Here comes Google Voice — We've just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It's Very, Very Good. — GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn't been in the news much lately. Other than a few good natured jabs at their marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
One Number to Ring Them All — If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing's for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones. — It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google's Free Phone Manager Could Threaten a Variety of Services — SAN FRANCISCO — Google stepped up its attack on the telecommunications industry on Thursday with a free service called Google Voice that, if successful, could chip away at the revenue of companies big and small, like eBay …
Om Malik / GigaOM:GrandCentral Reborn as Google Voice Suite of VoIP Services
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances — Earlier in my career, I thought that innovation was solely about technology. If you wanted to address a new market or to increase sales, writing more code was always a good option. Having gained some wisdom and experience over the years …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing; Takes next step in its enterprise evolution — Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web Services-especially when they have tight budgets.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hoops To Go: CBS Streaming March Madness to iPhone — More catnip for the convergence optimists, who dream about to getting to watch anything they want on any device they choose: In addition to streaming all of its March Madness coverage on the Web, CBS is also letting iPhone and iTouch owners watch …
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Elizabeth Holmes / Wall Street Journal:
Hulu Embraces Social Networking — The Internet-video site Hulu is adding social-networking functions in hopes of building user loyalty and mining data to attract more advertisers. — Hulu Friends, to be launched Thursday, includes features much like Facebook's, such as the ability for users …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Spoon feeding: Facebook redesign brings feeds (and ads) to the masses — Facebook began rolling out a new design of its homepage today, with a number of subtle features intended to make feed-based social networking more intuitive to the typical user. When the company first showed off its plans last week …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Fusion-io touts ‘fastest’ solid-state drive — Fusion-io also claims Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist. — Targeted primarily at business applications, such as database servers, capacities range from 160 gigabytes to 640 gigabytes. And by the second half of this year, this will increase to 1.28 terabytes.
Jennifer Kwan / Reuters:
Nortel in talks to break itself up: report — TORONTO (Reuters) - Ailing telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp, which filed for bankruptcy protection earlier this year, is looking to break itself up by selling off major divisions, the Globe and Mail reported on Thursday.
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Wall Street Journal:Nortel Is in Talks to Sell Key Units to Rivals
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Ronald Grover / Business Week:
MySpace: A Playbook for Beating Facebook — CEO Chris DeWolfe outlines his strategy for expanding profits, luring advertisers with “hyper-targeting,” and keeping MySpace's U.S. edge over rival Facebook — Hunched over a small conference table, MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe is in full spin mode.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sirius XM: We're developing an iPhone app for second quarter launch — Sirius XM said Thursday that it is developing an application so its satellite radio service will be streamed to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The company said it expects to launch the application in the second quarter.
Jenna Bilotta / Google Reader:
Google Reader is your new watercooler — One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we've been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to share with …
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BBC:
BBC team exposes cyber crime risk — Spencer Kelly looks at how hackers use hijacked home PCs to send out millions of spam e-mails — Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Broadband Gap: Why Do They Have More Fiber? — This is the third in a series looking at the lessons for the United States from broadband deployment in other countries. Read the first and second posts. — In the paradises of broadband — Japan, South Korea and Sweden …
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google — Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker says the Chrome browser is making the foundation behind Firefox rethink its reliance on revenues from Google — From the head offices for Mozilla in Mountain View, Calif., executives can see Google (GOOG) in several directions.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
My Two Cents on Charging for Content — Time, the New York Times and others with their back against the economic wall are now reconsidering that whole free thing. — Ann Moore, the CEO of Time Inc, told a British newspaper: … And so on... My take: I actually don't think it matters …
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Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Tax-Prep Software Doesn't Add Up — I knew I was doomed about five minutes into this year's tax-prep ordeal. Two different programs — having been fed nothing more than basic personal info and the contents of a pair of W-2s — did not agree on the total tax bill for my wife and me.
PC Authority:
First Look: Kogan Agora Netbook, a super-cheap Wind lookalike — Ruslan Kogan (the same Kogan behind the $900 KEVIN37 TV, and a yet-to-be-released Google Android phone) came into the PC Authority offices today to show us pre-production models of the Kogan Agora Netbook.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Multitouch Dell Studio One Just Slightly Too Sexy For American Shores — What's that feeling you get when a beautiful, generously specced, 19" multitouch all-in-one PC from a major manufacturer is reported to be available only in Japan? Ahh, right. Disappointment. UPDATED.
