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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T? — Liked that blurry photo of a new Palm webOS phone we saw earlier? Well how about some specs, a name, and a better look at this thing? Enter the device above, apparently dubbed the Palm Eos (codenamed Castle... where have we seen that before? …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to introduce more affordable Macs, sources say — Determined to grow its share of the personal computer market during the worst economic climate in its corporate history, Apple is tailoring changes to a pair of its offerings that will help drive down prices of some of the most popular Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
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Industry Standard, CNET News, DisplayBlog, OSNews, Pulse2, ChannelWeb, MobileContentToday, The Toybox, The Tech Report, Tech Trader Daily and Neowin.net
PC Pro:
Windows 7 free for a year — Microsoft is effectively giving away Windows 7 free for a year with the launch of the Release Candidate. — The Release Candidate is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and will go on unlimited, general release on 5 May.
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Biz / Twitter Blog:
Twitter Search for Everyone! — Every public update sent to Twitter from anywhere in the world 24/7 can be instantly indexed and made discoverable via our newly launched real-time search. What was that loud noise outside your apartment? Did you just feel an earthquake?
Apple:
Twitter. Triumph of humanity. — Twitter's meteoric rise to ubiquity is proof positive that the world, in all its complexity, is eager to embrace simplicity. Wielding more impact on social networking than most communication tools this generation has yet seen, Twitter is one of those universal phenomena …
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Christian Science Monitor:
Is Twitter the next Second Life? — Lance Armstrong loves it. Oprah's all over it. Ashton Kutcher found a million people to follow him on it. Heck, Barack Obama used it to get elected president. So why is Twitter in trouble? — According to David Martin, Vice President of Primary Research …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app — There's been a lot of buzz around personal finance websites like Mint and Wesabe, but finance software maker Intuit has joined the online fray too- and no, not just by sending threatening letters to Mint.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Odd Net Out CBS Responds To Disney Joining News Corp-NBCU In Hulu — In the wake of the Disney deal with Hulu, what about CBS? Hulu CEO Jason Kilar told paidContent he'd love to have CBS (NYSE: CBS) add its programming to the video service, while CBS Interactive, representing …
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The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, NewTeeVee, mocoNews, AppScout, WebProNews and Ars Technica
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Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
Acer confirms Windows 7 available 23 October … Acer has confirmed that Windows 7 will be available pre-loaded on their new all-in-one Z5600 PC, from the 23 October 2009, not by the end of January 2010 as Microsoft has been previously suggesting. — Although some rumours have put …
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Engadget, iTnews Australia, Between the Lines, Electronista, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, Windows 7 Center, PC World, AppleInsider, The Register, Digital Inspiration, Pulse2, CrunchGear, CNET News, Gizmodo, TechFlash, SlashGear and TechSpot, Thanks:radioedit
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Google Search right in Gmail — I used to have a problem. People would ask me questions, over chat or email, and I'd have to leave Gmail to search Google for an answer. Then I'd have to select the answer, copy it, go back to Gmail and paste the answer into the chat window or my reply.
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ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Search Engine Watch, SmoothSpan Blog, VentureBeat, Mashable! and Search Engine Journal, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Time's 100 Most Influential People Includes 4chan And Twitter Creators — This list is in. Time has released its annual Time 100 list, honoring the most influential people in the world. There are a lot of interesting names including Sarah Palin and President Obama, but let's focus on the names from the tech sphere.
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Ashton Kutcher / Time:The Twitter Guys — Years from now, when historians reflect …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Apple Is Serious About Gaming: Steals Xbox Senior Director of Strategy — Anybody who said Apple wasn't serious about gaming can swallow their pundit nuggets right now: They just hired Richard Teversham, Xbox Europe's (now former) senior director of business, insights and strategy.
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Google's Android Angst — A software developer has sued the Internet giant over the trademarked term Android. — Could a lawsuit hold up Android, Google's high-priority, open-source software project? — It could if Erich Specht gets his way. The software developer is seeking close …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Intelius buys Spock, the people search engine — Intelius, a company that performs background checks on people, has acquired Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount. — The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock's co-founder Jaideep Singh.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Wolfram Alpha Demo Returns, This Time With Actual Footage Of The Service — Yesterday, days of hype culminated in the unveiling of the Wolfram Alpha search engine, which made its debut at a presentation put on by Harvard University's Berkman Center. Unfortunately the resulting video footage turned …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Papa Johns Says iPhone App is a Dud - Maybe They Should Try Launching a Real One — At the OMMA Mobile conference on Wednesday, Jim McDonnell, marketing manager, emerging channels for Papa John's International, shared some bad news about the potential for mobile applications associated with a business.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Analyst: “The Pre Is DOA” — Here's the flip side of reports that Palm plans to deliberately keep supplies of the Pre artificially low to foster the perception of a shortage and spur demand: There will be a shortage, but it won't be deliberate or artificial.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone Sweeps JD Power Consumer Smartphone Ratings — Except In Battery Life — The latest 2009 JD Power Consumer Smartphone Satisfaction Study numbers are in. And the winner is ... the iPhone. Apple's device nearly swept every category, with top marks in operating system, features …
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iTnews Australia, Electronista, TUAW, CNET News, MobileCrunch, Macworld, Ars Technica, Macsimum News, TWICE and The iPhone Blog
WordPress:
Make Friends with BuddyPress — Filed under Cousins. — What if there was software with the elegance and extensibility of WordPress but all the features you've come to expect from social networks like Facebook? Now there is: check out BuddyPress. — BuddyPress is an official sister project of WordPress.
Allan Swann / National Business Review:
Entire Copyright Act to be scrapped — The National government will freeze any further changes to the Copyright Act with an eye to throwing the whole thing out and rewriting it from scratch. — Over the last two months the National government has progressively scrapped Labour's ‘band-aid’ adjustments to the Copyright Act 1994.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google Custom Search Cuts uTorrent Off — With over 28 million active users a month, uTorrent has established itself as the client of choice for most BitTorrent users. In an attempt to bring in some much needed revenue, BitTorrent Inc. decided to add a search engine to its website using Google's custom search program.
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Peter Vajgel / Facebook:
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos — The Photos application is one of Facebook's most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
The EFF digs deep into the FBI's “everything bucket” — A new EFF report pulls together everything that's now known about the FBI's monster internal records system. — Earlier this week, the EFF published a new report detailing the FBI's Investigative Data Warehouse …
