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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Google Chrome Ads Coming to Your TV — Google plans to promote its Web browser through a television ad that first appeared online. — The ad comes from Google's Japan office, part a series of viral videos spotlighting its browser Chrome. Google will be using its TV Ads platform to launch the campaign this weekend
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Google Chrome ads on TV — A couple of months ago, the Google Japan team produced a fun video to demonstrate how clean and simple our Google Chrome user interface is. After releasing this video on the web, we got lots of positive feedback and thoughtful comments.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Mixed Emotions: Our First Hands-On Test Of Wolfram|Alpha — Wolfram Alpha, the hyped “Google killer” will officially launch on May 18, but we already got preview access to it today, and had a chance to put it through its paces. — Let's get this out of the way quickly: Wolfram Alpha is not …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Botnet master hits the kill switch, takes down 100,000 PCs — Botnets aren't just dangerous because they can steal massive amounts of personal data and launch denial-of-service attacks—they can also self-destruct, leaving the owners of affected machines in the dust.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile's Walmart roadmap: T-Mobile G1 v2 — So check this, our brothers and sisters at TmoToday broke news of this second iteration of the T-Mobile G1 aka Bigfoot (aka Morrison according to the Walmart roadmap). But we've uncovered something very sexy — an awesome image! Full slide-out HTC-style QWERTY?
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PC World, Android Phone Fans, MobileCrunch, Unwired View, Gizmodo, Electronista, Engadget, Obsessable and AndroidGuys
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:T-Mobile's Walmart roadmap: T-Mobile G2 with a surprise
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
So Long Federated Media, And Thanks For All The Fish — Federated Media has been our advertising partner since December 2005. The first checks they sent us allowed TechCrunch to become something more than a guy sitting in a spare bedroom talking about startups to a small audience.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's “We're Not A Monopoly” PowerPoint Presentation — Update: Google sent us a color version of the deck. We've embedded it instead. Here's the company's response, too. — Earlier: An organization called Consumer Watchdog landed a copy of a presentation Google is showing around Washington D.C …
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Erica Sadun / Ars Technica:
Apple changes to App Store review policy worry developers — With the iPhone 3.0 firmware on its way, developers are running into new development headaches and are worried that a purge of “junk” apps may be on its way. — Apple sent shock waves through the iPhone developer community Thursday …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Execs: Twitter-like Functionality Could Be Added to Search — While taking questions yesterday about alleged violation of anti-trust laws, Google execs including CEO Eric Schmidt reportedly told press that the company is, in the words of Reuters scribe Alexei Oreskovic, “looking at …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joking Or Not, Official Or Not, Facebook Needs To Grow Up — It's sort of funny when Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg takes her frustration out on a club bouncer by saying (it has now been removed) it would be “a huge bummer if their facebook pages “accidentally” went down.”
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
SEC filing: Sun shareholders sue to block Oracle acquisition — Sun Microsystems' shareholders have filed three separate class action suits to block the $7.4 billion acquisition by Oracle, the company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Nuts: Twitter Inventor About To Launch His Next Project, Code-named Squirrel — Almost immediately following Twitter coming back from a planned downtime this afternoon, co-founder and current chairman Jack Dorsey sent out a tweet letting his followers know that he was, “Getting ready to embark on something new and entirely different.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon creates its own URL shortener for products — Amazon.com has quietly created its own URL shortener for products sold on its sites. People can now type “amzn.com/” and a product number to create a short URL, without the need for sites like tinyurl.com and bit.ly.
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
Analysis: SSD performance — is a slowdown inevitable? — How well an SSD performs over time depends on the firmware, controller — Computerworld) The recent revelation that Intel Corp.'s consumer-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives suffer from fragmentation that can cause …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Windows 7 RC gets its first bug, and it's a doozy — The first documented bug in the Windows 7 Release Candidate (build 7100) is a doozy. — Yesterday, Microsoft published Knowledge Base article 970789, which provides details of a problem that affects the 32-bit (x86) English-language version of Windows 7 build 7100.
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Ben Sillis / Electricpig.co.uk:
Asus Eee PC T91 launching by June! — The Asus Eee PC T91, the first touchscreen convertible netbook from the Taiwanese tech giant, will be twisting its way over to the UK within a month, and we now know how much for. Read on for the full scoop. — Although the Asus Eee PC T91 was unveiled …
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Julie Zhuo / Facebook Blog:
Recognizing Your Family on Facebook — A few months ago, I was thinking about my mother when, at one of our engineering hackathons, I began working on ideas for how to highlight more of the important people in my life. You already could specify if you were in a romantic relationship with someone …
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Michelle Higgins / New York Times:
The Price of Staying Connected — WIRELESS Internet access is no longer a rarefied luxury. It's free in cafes, parks, fast-food chains, campgrounds and gas stations — yes, gas stations. — Yet in some places travelers still must pay for Wi-Fi access, and perhaps nowhere is that more disturbing than in an upscale hotel room.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Search Goes Real-Time With Scoopler. Twitter Dominates Results. — There's a new trend that starting to sweep the web: Real-time. Everyone wants access to information as it happens instantaneously. FriendFeed recently went real-time and now Facebook is starting to embrace it.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Vevo-aka “YouTube Music"-Gets a CEO: Universal Digital Boss Rio Caraeff — There are plenty of question marks surrounding Vevo, Universal Music Group's new music video site that's scheduled to launch later this year with a big assist from Google's YouTube. But here's one answer …
Paul Bonanos / GigaOM:
Did Microsoft Buy SeeqPod? — Long plagued by legal challenges from major record labels, bankrupt MP3 search engine SeeqPod has been on the brink of extinction for months. But CEO Kasian Franks recently told Wired.com that SeeqPod was in final acquisition talks with a major media company …
Todd / The Official Netflix Blog:
More Accurate Star Predictions — Hi, this is Todd Yellin, Director of Product Management, and Jon Sanders, Director of Recommendation Systems, here at Netflix. We're pleased to announce that we have improved the way we predict the movies you're going to love.
John Cook / TechFlash:
DocuSign inks $5 million round — Seattle's DocuSign has reeled in $5 million in venture financing amid continued growth of its electronic signature product, TechFlash has learned. Existing investors — including Frazier Technology Ventures, Ignition Partners, Sigma Partners and West River Capital …
Russell Garland / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Insider Rounds Rule As VCs Tend Portfolios — More evidence that venture capitalists were preoccupied with their portfolio companies in the first three months of 2009: The rate of insider rounds jumped to 57% in the first quarter. — That was the same period during which venture investment fell …
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techon.nikkeibp.co.jp:
Ultra-Small HDMI Revealed: Same 19 Pins in Half the Size — At long last, the use of High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) in mobile phones, car navigation systems and other products is approaching reality. Molex Inc of the US and other companies have prototyped a miniature HDMI connector …
Steve Donohue / Contentinople:
Moonves: Hulu Deal Doesn't Hurt TV.com — CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) isn't threatened by Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS)'s move to join Fox Broadcasting Co. and NBC Universal on Hulu LLC , CEO Leslie Moonves told analysts on the company's first-quarter earnings call.
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