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Christopher Cox / Facebook Blog:
Responding to Your Feedback — Since we launched Facebook's home page design, we've received thousands of e-mails, Wall posts and comments from you along with direct feedback from all of our friends and family. If you've already given us feedback, thank you.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Facebook Preparing To Tweak Site Design — As Facebook users remain in a huff over the site's new layout, which was unveiled a few weeks ago, it appears change may be coming. — Or so Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg suggests in a cryptic update he posted to his public fan profile on Friday …
The Official Google Blog:
Two new improvements to Google results pages — Today we're rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Implements ‘Orion’ Technology, Improves Search Refinements & Adds Longer Snippets — Google is announcing two changes to search results this morning. The first involves the use of longer “snippets” (text extracts containing the keywords) when users input queries of three words or more.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple sued for promoting iPhone as eBook reader — An overseas communications firm is suing Apple for promoting its iPhone handset as a touchscreen digital book reader, a concept it claims to have patented over seven years ago. — In a 7-page complaint filed with a Virginia district court Monday …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Mozilla, graphics group seek to build 3D Web — Wish you could play Crysis in your Web browser? Two influential organizations are banding together to try to bring accelerated 3D graphics to the Web, a move that eventually could improve online games and other Web applications.
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Nicole Loux / The Mozilla Blog:Mozilla and the Khronos Group Announce Initiative to Bring Accelerated 3D to the Web
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
iPhone Makes Up 50 Percent of Smartphone Web Traffic In U.S., Android Already 5 Percent — The iPhone now accounts for 50 percent of mobile Web traffic from smartphones in the U.S., according to an AdMob Mobile Metrics report released this morning. Over the past six months …
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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Looks Beyond Cellphones — As Core Business Slumps, Wireless Carrier Aims to Use Its Network for Dashboard Computers, GPS Devices — Unable to sign up enough new cellphone subscribers, Sprint Nextel Corp. is increasingly trying to use the excess capacity on its wireless network to power other consumer gadgets.
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Engineers show off “no jailbreak” iPhone keyboard hack — A couple of creative engineers at Perceptive Development have developed a method to connect an infrared keyboard to an iPhone and input text using 2.0 SDK-safe code. But don't get your hopes up quite yet, as it's for from the product most people are hoping for.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Boxee adds Pandora and makes its browser more Firefox-like for Hulu — Boxee, the streaming content startup, continues to push updates out at a brisk pace. Tonight, at its meetup in New York City, it's announcing a few new features, one of which should once again help bring back Hulu support.
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Richard Jones / Last.fm:
Last.fm Radio Announcement — Today we're announcing an upcoming change to the way Last.fm Radio works in some parts of the world. In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change. — In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month.
Lucy Hornby / Reuters:
“Unafraid” China apparently fears YouTube — BEIJING (Reuters) - China is not afraid of the Internet, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, even as access to the popular video sharing site YouTube was apparently blocked. — YouTube, owned by search giant Google Inc, has been unavailable …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Friends and Family Fly for Free, Frequently — Google's new 2008 proxy statement looks a lot like Google's proxy statements from previous years: The company's top executives received nice bonuses, though slightly smaller than last year's.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9630 Review: Part 1 — We've been playing with it non-stop all weekend. We've tastelessly shown it off with a dash of hood on video. But the review is now finally ready. We decided to split this into two parts, one now and one right before launch.
Royal Pingdom:
The most reliable (and unreliable) blogging services — Millions of people who blog don't want to deal with hosting their blog themselves, so they use a blogging service instead. There are many things that factor into the choice of blogging service, but one of them should always be site reliability.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple announces Cross Border ordering to 20 countries — Apple on Tuesday quietly introduced its new Cross Border campaign, which allows US-based customers to make purchases for recipients located in Mexico, 15 countries across Europe, and 4 countries in Southeast Asia.
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Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Apple's Netbook Foray Will Flop — Like a moth to a hot trend, Apple (AAPL Quote - Cramer on AAPL - Stock Picks) will fly into the netbook flame and get burned. — The company will unveil a 10-inch touchscreen tablet computer sometime this year, say analysts.
WMPoweruser.com:
Is this Windows Mobile 7? — A kind tipster send us this screen shots of what purports to be Windows Mobile 7. The latest inside rumours put the OS as being available to OEM's by the end of 2009 and out on devices by Spring 2010. — From what I have heard so far, it sounds worth the wait.
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store.steampowered.com:
Steamworks Makes DRM Obsolete — Suite of Services Expands With Customer Executable Generation (CEG), Support for DLC, Matchmaking, and More — Valve today announced a new set of advanced features delivered in Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools that are available free …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Tweaks Its Title Tags For Better Google Juice — Notice that title tag for my Twitter profile page? — It reads “Robin Wauters (robinwauters) on Twitter” where it used to say “Twitter / robinwauters”. For the TechCrunch Twitter account, it used to read “Twitter / TechCrunch” …
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
Samsung Papyrus: touchscreen ebook debuts … Samsung is too launch a touchscreen ebook reader to take on the Amazon Kindle Pocket-lint has learnt. — The new model called Papyrus will launch in Korea in June with the aim to eventually launch in the UK and US a spokesperson for Samsung told Pocket-lint.
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Alex Wilhelm / The Mind of Alex:
Chrome's Growth Is Far Too Slow — I am a dedicated Chrome user. I actually even subscribe to the alpha channel, giving me the flakiest and most advanced version to be had. I love it. Chrome is light, fast, and very well designed. But as a daily user, I lose sight of the fact, that most people do not use Chrome.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Movie Studios May Be About To Learn That Netflix Has The Leverage — from the over-and-over-and-over-again dept — You know how movies studios keep making the same movie over and over and over again with just slight changes? It seems that the entertainment industry simply has a problem recognizing …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
iPhone App Developers Gripe About Payment Delays and Dismal Customer Service — Are iPhone app developers getting paid on time from Apple? Not all of them. On this iPhone developer forum, there are numerous threads from developers who are complaining about delays in payments for January …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple Falls to Third Place in Reliability Report, Loses to Asus and Lenovo/IBM — Apple, the previous champ in RESCUECOM's consumer reliability 2008 report, just got demolished by Asus in an almost 3 to 1 score for Q1 2009. It even loses to Lenovo. — Asus scored a 972, compared with Lenovo's 348 and Apple's 324.
Mark Ghuneim / MediaPost:
Twitter: How Small Interface Changes Are A Big Win For Everyone — At first glance, Twitter's recent interface changes seem to be relatively minor — a “Featured Users” option within “Find People,” a “Search Now” box, and a new “Trends” section. Yet, after a more in-depth examination …
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Why Recession Is Causing Enterprises to Rethink Open-Source Strategy — Budget limitations and continued improvement in software and associated services are making open-source software alternatives such as MySQL, SUSE Linux, OpenOffice.org and plenty of others look mighty good to IT managers and CFOs.
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:
PHOTOS: Samsung N310 laptop … Just a day after it's official launch, Pocket-lint has already managed to grab a hands-on with the new netbook from Samsung, The N310. — Coming in four colours, the N310 has a rubberised feel to it and comes complete with an embossed logo on the back of the display.
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