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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Storm 2!! — * Update: MORE PHOTOS ADDED! Sooo much Storm 2 goodness it's ridiculous. BOOM. Here it is CrackBerry Nation, your FIRST look at the BlackBerry Storm TWO. I'm not even sure what to say here... other than a super trusty source sent us …
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Jacob Schulman / Engadget Mobile:
Exclusive BlackBerry Storm 2 shots! — What's this we have here? A trusted source just hit us with a slew of beauty shots of the Storm 2 that leaked a little bit ago. Not much else to say at this point until we can get one in our hands — the photos really speak for themselves.
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Gearlog, Switched, Mobilewhack.com, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Electronista, MobileCrunch and techeblog.com
The Official Google Blog:
This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern... Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected.
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Data Center Knowledge, Tech Beat, ChannelWeb, GMSV, iTnews Australia, SANS Internet Storm Center …, CenterNetworks, WebProNews, Computerworld Blogs, VentureBeat, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Datamation, InformationWeek, Google Analytics Blog, Search Engine Watch, Forbes, Between the Lines, The Toybox, ITworld.com, TG Daily, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AppScout, Lifehacker, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, PC World, blogs.ft.com, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent.org, eWeek, Mashable!, CNET News, SiliconBeat, Tech Central, Technology Live, Epicenter, DSLreports, The Register, CircleID, Tech Trader Daily, Bits, Lockergnome Blog Network, Digits, TheNextWeb.com, Search Engine Land and GigaOM, Thanks:sinkercat
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Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security:
The Great GoogleLapse — Web sites go down. Circuits fail. Network engineers goof router configs. And few of these outages ever make the nightly news... But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice.
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PC World, Epicenter, NEWS.com.au, Network World, ChannelWeb, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, Tech Beat, AppScout and Mashable!, Thanks:taylorbuley
Dan Friedman / Inside AdWords:
Update to U.S. ad text trademark policy — Imagine opening your Sunday paper and seeing ads from a large supermarket chain that didn't list actual products for sale; instead, they simply listed the categories of products available - offers like “Buy discount cola” and “Snacks on sale.”
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AdAge, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Thanks:atul
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Companies Object to Google Policy on Trademarks — SAN FRANCISCO — When Audrey Spangenberg idly typed “FirePond,” the name of her small software company, into Google this year, she was not happy with what she saw. — Her company's site came up as the top search listing.
Royal Pingdom:
Congratulations, Google staff: $210k in profit per head in 2008 — Google had $209,624 in profit per employee in 2008, which beats all the other large tech companies we looked at, including big hitters like Microsoft, Apple, Intel and IBM. — (As you may know, we have been taking a closer look …
Biz / Twitter Blog:
The Replies Kerfuffle — Twitter evolves and thrives on how folks use it. Some of our best features are invented by users, so listening is extremely valuable. Replies and conversations are awesome and we fully intend to support and encourage their growth.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, AppScout, Stay N' Alive, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Lockergnome Blog Network, Electricpig.co.uk, Mashable!, broadstuff, TechCrunch and /Message, Thanks:atul
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Hulu Questions Count of Its Audience — Does Hulu, the Web's most popular place for TV viewing, reach nine million people a month or 42 million? — Millions of dollars in advertising revenue may hinge on the answer. But no one seems to know for sure how big the site's audience is.
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Search Engine Land, NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider, Lockergnome Blog Network and MediaMemo
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Palm Pre pics released into the wild by Sprint freedom fighter — You know, if you're going to post pics of yourself onto the Internet goofing around with the Palm Pre in a Sprint back-office, Engadget's going to be there to post them. However, if you're dumb enough not to block out your face …
news.teamxbox.com:
Microsoft Working on Digital Entertainment Handheld — When I got the first piece of information regarding a Microsoft digital entertainment handheld last year, I wanted to be sure it wasn't just a wild gossip. In a time when people is afraid of losing their jobs because of the global recession …
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All about Microsoft, Engadget, WMPoweruser.com, blogs.chron.com, Electricpig.co.uk, SlashGear, Electronista, CrunchGear and Joystiq
Adam C. Engst / TidBITS:
GPS Accuracy Could Start Dropping in 2010 — We've all become accustomed to using the Global Positioning System, or GPS, whether via our iPhones, car navigation devices, handheld GPS units, or even watch-based devices like the Garmin Forerunner series. The GPS system went into full operation …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: YouPorn Still On Top Of Competition — A year ago, YouPorn had taken off as the top user-uploaded adult video site, attracting 3 million U.S. unique visitors in April '08, up 1300% year-over-year, according to Compete. A year later, YouPorn is still the king of kinky.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Quietly, Google Updates Its Blog Search Algorithm — There's no official announcement (yet), but Google tells Search Engine Land that it's made several improvements under the hood of Google Blog Search. — In an email conversation, Google's Jeremy Hylton — head of the search quality group …
Thanks:mattmcgee
Laura June / Engadget:
Random House now disabling text-to-speech function of Kindle e-books — The much-touted and extremely controversial story of the text-to-speech function of Amazon's Kindle 2 could fill a very large e-book. The tale continues to get longer still, as at least one major publisher …
BBC:
EU proposal could ‘stifle’ games — The future of games development has been called into question after the EU Commission suggested developers provide a two year guarantee. — Commissioners Viviane Reding and Meglena Kuneva want to expand the EU Sales and Guarantees Directive.
Michael McWhertor / Kotaku:
Take-Two Sues Duke Nukem Forever Devs Over Failure To Deliver — The 12-year-long development soap opera that was Duke Nukem Forever ended on a disappointing note. More disappointing for publisher Take-Two Interactive, which invested over $12 million in the game. Understandably, Take-Two is suing 3D Realms.
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Bloomberg, AppScout, Gamasutra, Electricpig.co.uk, Joystiq, bit-tech.net and Edge Online
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
DSi, PS2, Xbox 360 and other notes from April game data — Nintendo's DSi, the new version of the dual-screen gaming device, made its presence known in the U.S. video-game market in April, according to numbers from the NPD market-research firm. Unit sales of the overall DS platform exceeded 1 million …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Wait... Wouldn't Micropayments Be Bad For Journalism? — It's been funny watching newspaper execs and journalists go on and on and on about how important it is to “save journalism” and then come up with plans that will likely hasten the demise of newspapers — such as micropayments.
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Twitter Culture Wars at The Times: ‘We Need a Zone of Trust,’ Bill Keller Tells Staff — On Monday, The New York Times Web chiefs held a meeting about the future of nytimes.com. They discussed several proposals being considered for the future of paid content on the Web. It was an internal meeting.
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:Newspapers Tweeting Like Crazy—But What Are the Rules?
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
About Those iPhone App Store Revenue Numbers — I don't think it's a stretch to say that Apple's App Store has been more successful than even Apple ever imagined. It entered a market that had been completely controlled by carriers and handed the keys over to third-party developers to make their own apps.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Tony Hawk's new ‘Ride’ game includes motion-sensing skateboard controller for shredding your mom's new carpet — We'd heard rumblings that Tony Hawk was working on something with motion controls — which seems only natural after EA's Skate hit the scene with its intuitive Flickit control scheme …
Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Malicious JSRedir-R script found to be biggest malware threat on the web — Research done by experts in SophosLabs has revealed that a new web-based threat has blown all previous web-based malware out of the water, being found six times more often than its nearest rival.
Louis Gray:
Don't Tempt the Online Mob. They Come Bearing Pitchforks. — There's no need for me to recap Twitter's two-day flub as you've already seen it 40 different places. What's most interesting to me about the entire situation is the rapidity of how the user community turned on the service …
Thanks:atul
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Trouble Ahead For Blip.fm? — In an honest blog post, music recommendation and streaming service Blip.fm (which we likened to a Twitter for music when it launched almost exactly one year ago), CEO Jeff Yasuda has indicated that the startup is going through a rough phase right now that has forced …
