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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?”
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RotorBlog.com, Joe Duck, Don Dodge on The Next …, AppScout, RyanSpoon.com and The Social Times
Google Mobile Blog:
Gmail gets a new engine for iPhone and Android-powered devices — Today, we're thrilled to tell you about the improvements we've made to Gmail for mobile, running in the iPhone and Android web browser. First, you'll notice that it's a lot faster when performing actions like opening an email, navigating, or searching.
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Softpedia News, MobileContentToday, ReadWriteWeb, Macworld, NEWSFACTOR, The Register, The Official Google Blog, TechSpot, Android Phone Fans, Google Operating System, Engadget, MobileCrunch, CNET News, InformationWeek, webmonkey, RyanSpoon.com, mocoNews, Technologizer, Local Mobile Search, Download Squad, AndroidGuys, iLounge, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Lifehacker and eWeek, Thanks:atul
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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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Live From Google Campfire '09: Java Support Launches — For the rest of the videos, visit the archive here. — We're here at the Google campfire event, where Google is celebrating the first birthday of App Engine and is planning planning to unveil new developer-related features.
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The Official Google Blog:
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 …
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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Engineering Windows 7:
Delivering a quality upgrade experience — This is a little bit of a tricky post to write because we're going to be asking everyone using our Windows 7 Beta to help us out, but doing so is going to take a little time and require a bit of a commitment to helping test the next milestone.
Julie Moos / Poynter Online:
Transcript of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Q&A at NAA — This is an unofficial transcript of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's brief question and answer session following his speech at the Newspaper Association of America convention. It has been edited for clarity (incomplete sentences have been removed in places) …
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New York Times, paidContent.org, Newshare, The Information Valet Project, ClickZ and Gawker, Thanks:kevinmarks
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Google's Schmidt To Newspaper Publishers: Don't ‘Piss Off’ Consumers
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Exclusive Apple iPhone 3.0 screenshots leak out — One of our trusty ninjas just blessed us with some exclusive iPhone 3.0 shots. Things like detailing a video recording application, more settings options, an accessibility entry, and even showing that Apple could possibly be integrating voice dialing, too.
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Softpedia News, PC World, SlashPhone, iPhone Buzz, Edible Apple, Network World, tinyComb, PhoneDog.com Cell …, iPhone Savior and The iPhone Blog
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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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CNET News, All Things Digital, ReadWriteWeb, CrunchGear, Mashable! and Digital Inspiration
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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Top Exec Singh Cassidy Leaves Google to Go to Accel Partners …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
ShoeMoney Sues Google Employee For AdWords Violations — The constant hunt for valuable Google AdWords keywords is akin to Search Engine Optimization - a dark magic that can become very lucrative for those that can figure out how to best their competitors. It's also very competitive …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twhirl goes into a user feedback cocoon and is reborn as Seesmic Desktop — I'm here at headquarters of San Francisco video blogging company Seesmic for the launch of Seesmic Desktop, the next step in the company's product offering. — The product is a revaming of the popular Twhirl …
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Sun Board to Meet, Discuss Next Steps in IBM Acquisition Attempt — Talks involving Sun's lawyers and executives — including Chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, CEO Jonathan Schwartz and the board members — have been tabled since the weekend but will resume today.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Acer PC joins Nvidia's ‘Ion’ with Intel's Atom — Acer launched a PC Tuesday that attempts to bring PC-class performance to Atom-processor-based PCs. — The Acer AspireRevo is the first Atom-based PC from a major PC supplier to use Nvidia's Ion graphics, a chipset that packs GeForce 9400M graphics …
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon.com: Don't blame us for Twitter problems — Twitter's much-discussed hiccups yesterday, including the disappearance of some user icons, had many people pointing the finger at Amazon.com. Twitter uses Amazon's S3 web service for storing profile pictures, background pictures …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Tim Armstrong Starts at AOL-His Entire 100-Day-Countdown-To-Magic Memo! — Former Google (GOOG) exec Tim Armstrong officially started his job as new AOL chairman and CEO today and sent out a hello-there memo to the troops. — According to Armstrong, he is poised to “bring back the magic of AOL.”
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers — The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses. — The raids were part of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T …
Dan Nystedt / LinuxWorld.com:
Intel sets launch of Moorestown, new Moblin Linux at 2010 — The new chip platform had been on for a launch as early as this year but it's now confirmed for next year — Intel revealed more details about the future launch of its Moorestown chip platform at the Intel Developer Forum …
Dana Wollman / LAPTOP Mag:
Acer Unveils 11.6-inch Aspire One, Affordable Aspire Timeline Series — Greetings from the Liberty Science Center. A few members of the LAPTOP team are here, where Acer just announced more than 20 products. the mobile ones included 11.6-inch and 10.1-inch netbooks, two lines of Gateway notebooks, two Acer lines, and a nettop.
Reuters:
Taiwan's Elan sues Apple over touchscreen patents — Taiwan chip designer Elan Microelectronics is suing Apple in the United States for what is says is infringement of two of its touchscreen technology patents by the MacBook, iPhone and iPod Touch. — Elan said in a statement released …
Randy Nelson / Joystiq:
Iwata: Nintendo considering Wii to DS video-on-demand — During an interview with the Wall Street Journal (registration required), Nintendo president Satoru Iwata hinted that the company's Wii no Ma Channel, intended to bring video-on-demand to its latest console, may be extended …
