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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Microsoft Expected to Debut New Kumo Search at D: All Things Digital — The long-awaited upgrade to Microsoft's search engine will soon make its debut. — Sources say the company is expected to demonstrate it at our D: All Things Digital conference next week.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo: We're Moving From Web Of Pages To Web Of Objects — Yahoo held a search event today in San Francisco at which the company connected the dots among a number of search initiatives that it has rolled out over the past couple of years: Search Assist, BOSS, Search Monkey, Search Pad and oneSearch.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Search, As We Know It, Is Over — Earlier today, we were at Yahoo's “End of the 10 Blue Links” event. Basically, it was their state of search gathering, similar to the “Searchology” event that Google had last week. But there was a key difference, as anyone who was following along …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Movie fans to get a TV-friendly Netflix experience on Windows Media Center — Microsoft is announcing today that its Windows Media Center can now show more than 12,000 movies and TV shows from Netflix's library of online video rentals. — The videos are now available to watch instantly …
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Automatic message translation — Back in the early days of human existence, before language had fully developed, our caveman ancestors probably did a lot of grunting. Language, and thus life, were pretty simple: watch out for that saber-toothed tiger ("Blorg! AIYA!!!")
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
What Larry Page thinks about Twitter — I just asked Larry Page what he thought about Twitter here is what Larry answered: — “I have always thought we needed to index the web every second to allow real time search. At first, my team laughed and did not believe me. With Twitter, now they know they have to do it.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:Larry Page: Twitter made Google focus on Realtime Search
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook CEO says IPO a few years out — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to eventually take his company public but said it won't be for a few years, and stressed that the world's largest online social network is in no immediate need of capital.
Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
Latest round of Reader improvements — The Google Reader team has just finished releasing a new version of Reader with a bunch of small changes and tweaks that we thought you'd like to know about. — If you've added enough friends in Reader that you're feeling overwhelmed, we're here to help.
Rik Myslewski / The Register:
Apple patents all-seeing display — Here's looking at you, kid — Free whitepaper - Empowerment as a growth strategy — Apple was granted a flurry of patents today, including one that describes a flat-panel display that doubles as a camera. — More on that “Integrated sensing display” in a moment.
The Official Palm Blog:
Palm Pre to arrive on Sprint on June 6 — Sprint has announced today that the Palm Pre will be available on June 6. Sprint announced that it will be available nationwide in Sprint stores, as well as at Best Buy, Radio Shack, and select Wal-Mart stores. The webOS-based phone will retail for $199.99 …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android Donut Interface Makes Us Forget All About Palm Pre — Palm what? A better look Android “Donut” build for the HTC Hero shows us just how buttery smooth and slick Android can be, and it's incredible. — The widgets have the tang of HTC—if you've used a Touch Diamond or Pro …
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Groklaw NewsPicks:
Terms of Use: A Real Difference Between Wolfram|Alpha and Google — Google and Wolfram|Alpha are providing utterly different services, and as you might expect, that means the terms of use are also utterly different. — Wolfram's Terms of Use are not at all what I would expect from a search engine …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HP's earnings offer some evidence that downturn has run its course — Hurt just a little by the downturn, Hewlett Packard hit its expected financial targets as it reported net income fell 17 percent to $1.7 billion for the second fiscal quarter ended April 30.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Elemental Shakes Up Video Servers With Parallel Processing — Elemental Technologies — aka the smart young startup in Portland that makes video processing better by doing it in parallel — is beta-releasing a video encoding and transcoding server. — In the last year, Elemental has put GPUs …
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Rob / Apple iPhone Apps:
Source Reveals Specs And Release Date of Next iPhone! — Recently we were approached by a source who is closely connected to Apple's hardware development team. The source was willing to provide detailed information on the specs and release date of the next generation iPhone.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel previews Atom ‘Pineview’ chip, Linux OS — On Tuesday, Intel released information on its next-generation Atom silicon and the next version of its Linux operating system for Netbooks. — Noury Al-Khaledy, general manager of Nettop and Netbook Computing at Intel …
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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
We must ensure ISPs don't stop the next Google getting out of the garage — Allowing ISPs to have too much would drastically hinder the chances of fresh new startups developing into major businesses - as happened with Google — If politicians want to effect economic recovery …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Financial Exposure: Rudder Inadvertently Shows Users Each Other's Bank Account Info — Hundreds of people who use personal financial monitoring service Rudder woke up this morning to find that their personal bank account, credit card, and other financial data was exposed to other users.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Second Life generates 15 billion minutes in web voice calls — When you think of phone companies, Linden Lab's Second Life virtual world doesn't come to mind. But the company is announcing today that its users have used its web-voice calling feature to talk to each other for a total …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
YouTube Ordered To Pay $1.6 Million To ASCAP — You may remember last year around this time, a district court set a totally arbitrary royalty fee that AOL, Yahoo and RealNetworks had to pay ASCAP for music streamed over their services. Reading through the details of the decision was immensely troubling …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Wiping data ‘hits flu prediction’ — Forcing Google to delete user data after six months could dent its ability to predict pandemics such as swine flu, said the search giant's co-founder. — Larry Page said he thought more debate was needed around the issue of storing user data.
Wall Street Journal:
Who Owns Your Name on Twitter? — Social networks can be friendly places, but they are not democracies. Nor are they free markets. They are authoritarian regimes with whimsical and arbitrary rules. — Nowhere is this fact more evident than in the doling out of domain names.
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Scott Morrison / Wall Street Journal:
Google Searches for Staffing Answers — Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm. — The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Vish Makhijani Leaves Operating Role At Yandex, Moves To Zynga — Yandex Labs CEO Vish Makhijani, a former Yahoo executive, will be leaving his operational role at the company, we've learned, and will be taking a new “senior operating role” at fast growing Zynga.
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
RoamBi iPhone app makes data uberpretty — A data report-reader may not seem like the most exciting candidate for an iPhone app, but if you're working in the field—or are even just a numbers nut—the new RoamBi app will catch your eye. — RoamBi (short for 'roaming business intelligence') …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
A Service to Prove You Are Really You — On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog, as the New Yorker cartoon famously said. But what if, while you are surfing, you want to prove your pedigree? — Equifax, the big credit agency that already knows more about your flea count than you do, wants to help.
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John Koblin / New York Observer:
Bill Keller's Best Frenemy — “Google is one of those companies that we generally refer to as a frenemy,” said New York Times executive editor Bill Keller at his semi-annual newsroom question-and-answer session, informally called Throw Stuff at Bill. — Google has been a popular whipping boy these days.
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
HP, Microsoft hook up to snare SMBs — Tech giants ink $180m deal in storage, comms, software jamboree — Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have inked a multi-million-dollar partnership to dish up integrated unified communications and collaboration software over the next four years.
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Google Threatened With Sanctions Over Photo Mapping Service in Germany — BERLIN — A German data protection official on Tuesday threatened Google, the world's largest search company, with “unspecified sanctions” if the company did not change its Street View panoramic photo mapping service …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Next up for France: police keyloggers and Web censorship — Having just passed its super-controversial Création et Internet “graduated response” law, you might think the French government would take at least a brief break from riling up the “internautes.”
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Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon.com sues Discovery as patent spat intensifies — Back in March, Discovery Communications, which produces the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon.com over the Kindle reader's electronic security technology. Now Amazon is firing back.
