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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Next iPhone — In the summer of 1994, I landed a college internship as a programmer at a DOS/Windows development shop. There were maybe 20 full-time programmers on the team, and, when I joined, they were nearing the end of a two-year-long project to port their flagship DOS app to Windows.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, The iPhone Blog, www.pocketgamer.biz and Edible Apple, Thanks:atul
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Arn / MacRumors:
32GB 600Mhz Video-Capable Next Gen iPhone? MacBook Pro Rebranding? — John Gruber of Daring Fireball weighs in with his sources about what the upcoming iPhone revision will entail. His list of details corresponds closely with many of the circulating rumors.
Darin Fisher / The Official Google Blog:
Put the pedal to the metal with a faster Google Chrome — We introduced Google Chrome back in September, and it's received a great response so far. Since launching, we've been working hard on adding the top requested features and making Google Chrome even faster.
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Gadgetwise, Chromium Blog, Mashable!, Softpedia News, Webware.com, Lifehacker, Google Chrome Blog, Download Squad, Technologizer, OStatic blogs, iTnews Australia, TechCrunch, BetaNews, PC World, ithinkdifferent, InformationWeek, TheNextWeb.com, Google Operating System, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, The Tech Report, Technology Live, AppScout and digg.com, Thanks:sinkercat
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Releases New Stable Version of Chrome: Faster, Full Screen Mode, Form Autofill — Today, Google announced a major new update to its Chrome web browser that gives the application a large speed boost, as well as some new features. According to Google, Chrome now loads JavaScript-heavy pages 30% faster …
The Official Google Blog:
New Logo Look — You may have noticed new logos at the top of some of Google's web pages, including Google Labs, Google Moderator, and Google Code. These are the result of a new logo design we are rolling out. We hope this design freshens up our look as well as improves consistency and ease of use across our sites.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple to answer netbook market with $500-$700 tablet - report — With a conventional netbook clearly out of the question, researchers for Piper Jaffray said Thursday there's mounting evidence to suggest Apple next year will introduce its own take on the market in the form of a tablet-based device that will sell for $700 or less.
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Newlaunches.com, bit-tech.net, InformationWeek, Macworld, the Econsultancy blog, Lockergnome Blog Network, Incremental Blogger, TheStreet.com, TUAW, NEWSFACTOR, The Apple Core, Technologizer, eWeek, Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, Gizmodo, Between the Lines, MobileContentToday, ChannelWeb, Tech Trader Daily, The iPhone Blog, MacDailyNews, O'Grady's PowerPage, GMSV, TheNextWeb.com, Computerworld Blogs, MacRumors, Digital Daily, Apple 2.0 and SlashGear
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Inbox preview — Whenever I open up my inbox at work, I'm never surprised to find several new messages waiting to be read. The same thing can't always be said about my personal Gmail account. Sometimes I end up checking my mail only to find nothing new there. — No big deal, really.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Best Buy stores only getting 4 Palm Pres for launch day? — “Whoa, whoa, easy there killer.” That's probably one of the phrases coming out of your mouth at the moment. One of our most-trusty of ninjas just dropped this bomb in our mailbox — it's going to be rough out there on June 6th, folks.
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Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, SlashGear, My Pre, Engadget Mobile, Electronista, WebOS Arena, MobileBurn.com and Palm WebOS
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Easily Create Your Own Feed Bundles Of Joy With Google Reader — Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry to using a feed reader for most people is building up a collection of good feeds. Sure, you can import someone else's OPML file, but most people have no idea what that means, let alone how to do it.
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud: Moving large data sets into Amazon S3 with AWS Import/Export. — Before networks were everywhere the easiest way to transport information from one computer in your machine room was to write the data to a floppy disk, run to the computer and load the data there from that floppy.
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Louis Gray:
Twitter's Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken — Given all the rumors about Google possibly talking to Twitter about search, or the Mountain View giant taking on the world of real-time, you would think that Twitter's dramatic growth and user adoption would see the microblogging company sitting …
Sean Cooper / Engadget:
BlackBerry Storm 2: the official unofficial hands-on — We've been bumping into the new BlackBerry Storm 2 for quite a while now on the so-called “information superhighway,” but we've finally had a chance to escalate those encounters and spend a few sweet moments with a live unit in the flesh.
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
‘Super Angels’ Shake Up Venture Capital — As large VC firms cut back, a hungry bunch of seed-stage investors are helping entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground — Watch the Video... Earlier this year, as the stock market plunged, most bankers and other financiers hoarded capital and throttled back on new deals.
Neil McAllister / Neil McAllister's blog:
MySQL: Forked beyond repair? — One month after Oracle announced its takeover of Sun Microsystems, the future of MySQL remains up in the air. Can the leading lightweight open source database still thrive when it's controlled by the leading proprietary commercial database vendor?
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Will Google Win When Microsoft Kills Office 2000? — Microsoft will stop issuing security updates and patches for Microsoft Office 2000 as of June. It's Microsoft's policy to support its business software products for up to 10 years after their release, according to ComputerWorld …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Data.gov Now Live; Looks Nice But Short on Data — The long awaited catalog of public data from the US government launched this morning at Data.gov. Developers, watchdogs and data nerds around the world rejoiced - but the initial offering is a bit of a let down.
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Wired Science, Sunlight Labs, ProgrammableWeb, FlowingData, Sunlight Foundation, techPresident, The Huffington Post, Government Technology News, VentureBeat and Lockergnome Blog Network, Thanks:atul
blog.montgomerie.net:
Whither Eucalyptus? — If you're wondering why Eucalyptus is not yet available, it's currently in the state of being ‘rejected’ for distribution on the iPhone App Store. This is due to the fact that it's possible, after explicitly searching for them, to find, download from the Internet …
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TechCrunch, Gadget Lab, Daring Fireball, Technologizer, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, TUAW, Boing Boing, Edible Apple, MacNN, iLounge and Slashdot
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:Do iPhone App Store Reviewers Spend Their Time Searching for Porn?
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Reuters:
Capcom to unveil more iPhone titles — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese video game maker Capcom Co Ltd said it plans to launch more than 10 titles for Apple Inc's highly popular iPhone in the year to March, cashing in on growing demand for mobile gaming. — The company, which produces …
Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com:
Oprah's Skypefest draws backlash — The Queen of All Media has embraced Skype and Twitter, but technical glitches and other snags highlight why new media isn't yet ready for prime time. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Oprah Winfrey's tastemaking power is legendary.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google's Rubin: Android ‘a revolution’ — Among all the companies fighting to grab a piece of the brightest star in computing—the smartphone—Google seems the least interested in taking the spoils. — Android, Google's mobile operating system, doesn't generate revenue for the company …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Evernote Stats: One Million Registered Users, 360,000 Active, 13,755 Paid — Reaching one million registered users is an important milestone for any startup. At the very least, it suggests that it is pointed in the right direction. Evernote, the app which helps you remember things you find …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
IBM says now is the time to invest in innovation in Vietnam — IBM is announcing today that it's stepping up its investment in Vietnam as part of a bid to improve the country's innovation and grab a foothold in an emerging territory for technology consumption.
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Xavier Lanier / GottaBeMobile.com:
OQO is Done, But Tech/Team May Live On — OQOTalk posted a note from OQO stating that the company is unable to offer support for its customers because of its financial problems. I happened to run into Bob Rosin, OQO's SVP of sales and marketing, last night in front of my garage and he confirmed that OQO is finished.
Anil Dash:
Flags, Windows, Lucky Numbers and Hidden Mickeys — Another new version of Windows is nearly upon us, as Microsoft will release Windows 7 later this year. Vista was greeted with probably a few too many jeers, which in the tech industry means Windows 7 will probably be greeted with a few too many cheers as compensation.
Paul Bonanos / GigaOM:
Could OpenTable's IPO Lead to More Tech M&A? — OpenTable's stunning performance in its first day of trading is a sign of unexpected warmth in the market for technology IPOs. But while the market success of the restaurant reservations software developer may not be a true bellwether that leads …
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Karun / Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog:
SE phones will read your facial expression to select a playlist! — A recent patent application filed by Sony Ericsson indicates a technology that will enable front-facing cameras to click a user's photo and analyse it to find the user's mood and selec a playlist accordingly.
Devlin Barrett / Associated Press:
Computer virus strikes US Marshals, FBI affected — WASHINGTON - — Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. — The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected …
