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Sarah Radwanick / comScore Voices:
Twitter Traffic Explodes...And Not Being Driven by the Usual Suspects! — Twitter seems to be just about everywhere these days, infiltrating pop culture and challenging traditional communication channels as people answer the simple Twitter question, “What are you doing?”
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Insists It's a Friend to Newspapers — SAN DIEGO — It had the makings of a high-tension face-off: Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, spoke Tuesday at a convention of newspaper executives at a time when a growing chorus in the struggling industry is accusing Google of succeeding, in part, at their expense.
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Julie Moos / Poynter Online:Transcript of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Q&A at NAA
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Cisco Cheng / PC Magazine:
Massive Acer Launch Includes New Timeline Laptop Line — It's rare when a company can launch over twenty new products on a single night. Acer did just that Tuesday night at an event held in New Jersey, unleashing a bevy of new systems that include a new line of laptops, two netbooks …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:Acer execs downplay Android, hint at Verizon Netbook deal
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Google App Engine Blog:
Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java™ — Today, we're very excited to announce the availability of a new programming language for Google App Engine. Please welcome the Java runtime! — When the two of us first heard the promise of Google App Engine …
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New features and an early look at Java for App Engine — Scarcity brings clarity, and many companies are taking important steps to adjust to today's economic climate. At Google, we've started changing the way we build and release products. — In the past six months alone we've launched nearly 50 projects …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
BumpTop gives Windows desktop a much-needed makeover — Microsoft's Windows desktop isn't nearly as efficient at using space as a real desktop. That's what Anand Agarawala concluded more than five years ago, when he began to study ways to create a better user interface for the screen that computer users stare at all day long.
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
First screenshots of build Windows 7 build 7077 leak — As you can see above, screenshots of Windows 7 build 7077 have started to appear around the Web. There are also reports that the 32-bit version has been leaked and is readily available on various websites.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Yet another Googler leaves: Singh Cassidy joins Accel Partners — The exodus from Google continues at a torrid pace. — Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Google's president for Asia-Pacific (APAC) & Latin American Operations, has left the company to join Accel Partners, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm …
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Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated by Spies — Robert Moran monitors an electric grid in Dallas. Such infrastructure grids across the country are vulnerable to cyberattacks. — WASHINGTON — Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs …
Jonathan Adams / New York Times:
Taiwanese Firm Sues Apple Over Touch-Screen Technology — TAIPEI — Taiwanese firm Elan Microelectronics has sued Apple Computer alleging infringement of two of its touch-screen patents, a company spokesman said Wednesday. — The suit was filed late Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Battle of the multicolumn Twitter clients — There was a time, not long ago, when the power Twitter users were gaga for Twhirl. This Air app gave (and still gives) you quick access to different views of your Twitter network, as well as your FriendFeed stream.
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Intel:
Intel Developer Forum: 1-Year Intel® Atom™ Processor Anniversary Brings New Chips, Demonstration of Next-Generation Device — Intel Executives Share Vision, Updates at Beijing Tech Event — Celebrating the 1-year anniversary of Intel Corporation's introduction …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:Acer PC joins Nvidia's ‘Ion’ with Intel's Atom
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Spam overwhelms e-mail messages — More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according to a Microsoft security report. — The e-mails are dominated by spam adverts for drugs, and general product pitches and often have malicious attachments.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Image Search Color Filter — The option that lets you filter images by the predominant color has been added to Google Image Search's interface. Just click on “All colors” above the search results and you can choose one of the 12 available colors. — Until the new feature propagates …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Lost in the Real World, Found via Cyberspace — Rhonda Surman and her husband were hiking around some Bronze Age ruins in western Scotland last year when they glimpsed sunlight reflecting off burnished metal. It was an Olympus digital camera, lying on the ground.
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Eight reasons we still need an iPhone Gmail app — Tuesday's release of a much-improved Web client for Gmail on the iPhone and Android handsets was nice, but it's still got me salivating at the idea of a native application for the iPhone. Over the last year we've hounded the Gmail team …
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Google Mobile Blog:Gmail gets a new engine for iPhone and Android-powered devices
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Dictionary.com Launches Free iPhone App — Dictionary.com, part of the Ask.com network, has launched a free iPhone app that delivers lets you look up definitions and synonyms from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, reaching into a database of more than 275,000 definitions and 80,000 synonyms.
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