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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Beta Love May Die In Fight For Enterprise Customers — Being in Beta is cool. So cool that five years after its April 2004 launch Gmail is still held in Beta by Google. That's despite the fact that it has 146 million users worldwide (Comscore, April 2009). Which is sort of ridiculous.
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Google Operating System, Beyond Search, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and The Raw Feed, Thanks:atul
Financial Times:
View from the Top: Eric Schmidt of Google — Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor, interviewed Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, in London. They discussed the future of newspapers, developing online advertising and antitrust issues. This is a transcript of that interview.
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Google drops idea to buy newspaper — Google has considered buying a newspaper or using its charitable arm to support news businesses seeking non-profit status, but is now unlikely to pursue either option, Eric Schmidt, chairman and chief executive, told the Financial Times.
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HipMojo.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Telegraph, CNET News, Epicenter, AppScout and Gawker
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Tablet In 2010 — Apple (AAPL) is reportedly working on a “media pad” tablet to fit between its iPod touch and MacBook devices. The idea is that it'd be better for surfing the Web, watching movies, and reading books than the iPod or iPhone, but not powerful enough that it would crush notebook sales.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Analyst: An Apple tablet is coming to shake up netbook market
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft hit with $200 million patent verdict — A federal jury in Tyler, Texas on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million in a patent infringement case. — The jury ruled that the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007 infringed on a patent from Toronto-based i4i.
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Mozilla Labs:
Introducing Jetpack, Call for Participation — Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web. — The add-ons community for Firefox is arguably one of the largest, most vibrant sources for innovation on the Web today. If you want to affect people, to reach them and make a difference …
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PC World, Between the Lines, Softpedia News, Webware.com, Lockergnome Blog Network, the Econsultancy blog, eWeek, Ajaxian, techno.blog, Asa Dotzler and digg.com, Thanks:atul
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Strap In: Mozilla's Jetpack May Be The Next Step In Browser Extensions
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Acer takes on HP in home servers — Acer plans to unveil its first home server for the U.S. market on Thursday, called the Acer Aspire easyStore Home Server. — The server is intended for home use as well as small businesses that have a need for networking multiple PCs.
Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Thinking About Buying Into That Whole Social Networking Thing — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is looking to buy companies that will allow it to become a bigger player in social networking and revamp its family of products, Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh said Wednesday.
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Yahoo eyes social networking acquisitions — Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) is looking to buy companies that will allow it to become a bigger player in social networking and revamp its family of products, Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh said on Wednesday. — Yahoo has had conversations with companies …
The Official Google Blog:
Faster is better on Google Suggest — As we prepared to write this post, we discovered a common childhood passion for fast things: high-speed trains, roller coasters, firetrucks, and more. That may be a key part of why we're so excited to be working on Google Suggest …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Intuit GoPayment lets you process credit cards on your phone — Want to process a credit card payment on your smartphone? There's an app for that. — Okay, to be more specific, there are actually several iPhone apps for that, most notably Credit Card Terminal from developer InnerFence.
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:Intuit unveils mobile phone credit card processing
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Book-Scanning Pact to Give Libraries Input on Price — SAN FRANCISCO — In a move that could blunt some of the criticism of Google for its settlement of a lawsuit over its book-scanning project, the company signed an agreement with the University of Michigan that would give some libraries …
Dan Frommer / The Business Insider:
Microsoft Kicking Apple's Butt In The Living Room (MSFT, AAPL) — There are many things about Apple (AAPL) that Microsoft is jealous about. But Apple's home entertainment business is not one of them. — Microsoft's (MSFT) Xbox 360 and its Windows Media Center software are quickly looking better than anything Apple offers.
Ars Technica:
4chan, eBaum's World carpet bombing YouTube with porn videos — YouTube is the latest target for pranksters looking to amuse themselves. Today, May 20, has been deemed “Porn Day” by denizens of 4chan and eBaum's World, with an organized group of users from the sites uploading video clips of explicit …
BBC:
Websites ‘keeping deleted photos’ — User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites even after people have deleted them, Cambridge University researchers have said. — They put photos on 16 popular websites - noting the web addresses where the images were stored - and deleted them.
Gordon Haff / CNET News:
Intel's Tukwila slips yet again — Intel has slipped out a revised schedule for its next-generation Itanium processor, code-named Tukwila. Again. This time it's into 2010. — Intel released a statement Thursday on the schedule changes. It reads in part: … That may be true.
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Meg / meish dot org:
Seventeen things that people are actually saying when they retweet others — Retweeting (that is, repeating someone else's tweet, with attribution) has emerged from daily twittering habits and has become part of Twitter's cultural vocabulary. — The idea of rebroadcasting something …
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Gawker Chief: ‘Original Reporting Will Be Rewarded’ — Q&A: Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Gawker Media impresario Nick Denton, one of the more vocal Cassandras of media collapse last fall, got a surprise this spring when things turned out to be, well, not so bad.
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BuzzMachine, HipMojo.com, paidContent.org, Silicon Valley Watcher, The Blog Herald and Felix Salmon
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Job Listing Reveals More Powerful ARM Processors and Video Processing for iPhone — A recent Apple job listing that we just discovered reveals that Apple is looking for a low level iPhone programmer with detailed knowledge of the ARM processor including its NEON vector unit.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Surges Past Digg, LinkedIn, And NYTimes.com With 32 Million Global Visitors — How quickly they grow. Remember when Twitter was just a little pipsqueek, with less than 10 million monthly unique visitors to its site worldwide? That was back in February, 2009.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Kumo: Already a step behind Google, Yahoo? — Once again, Microsoft is finding itself beaten to the punch in the search game. — While it has been readying Kumo for its first public airing—probably at next week's D: All Things Digital event—Yahoo and Google have already shown off their latest search enhancements.
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Congressmen want automakers to cough up diagnostic codes — Like everything else these days, cars are getting increasingly computerized, with embedded microprocessors controlling everything from the fuel-air mixture in the engine to the air temperature in the car.
Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Satellite Net Service Sued for Caps, Paltry Bandwidth — Satellite internet provider Hughesnet treats its rural customers like rubes, advertising its service as being equal to DSL, while actually delivering paltry bandwidth and over-throttling subscribers, a new lawsuit claims.
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Mathew Ingram / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The golden age of computer-assisted reporting is at hand — Computer-assisted reporting or CAR has been around, well — ever since there were computers. Even when I was in journalism school (which was longer ago than I care to remember), we learned about databases we could search, etc.
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OUseful.Info, the blog
Tim Greene / Computerworld:
Interop: Skype calls for interoperability — Network World - Peer-to-peer communications vendor Skype used its Interop keynote slot today to put out a call to traditional PBX vendors, inviting them to make their gear interoperable as the company tries to make inroads with businesses.
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Scott Austin / Venture Capital Dispatch:
OpenTable IPO Prices At $20, Better Than Expected — OpenTable Inc.'s initial public offering has priced at $20, an underwriter said. That's well above original expectations, suggesting strong investor demand. — It's another positive sign for venture capitalists, which on Wednesday saw …
