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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What Just Happened? Thursday Was Supposed To Be Bing Day. — Everyone knew today was the day that Microsoft was going to launch their new search engine. Everyone's been talking about it for months, and the press and marketing efforts were carefully tailored to maximize the impact.
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PC World, Zoho Blogs, blogs.ft.com, Maximum PC all, Techgeist, tinyComb, The Forrester Blog …, Channel 9, AppScout, Search Engine Land, All about Microsoft, DailyFinance, Electricpig.co.uk, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, VentureBeat, Screenwerk, the Econsultancy blog, LinuxWorld.com, The Mac Observer, blogs.chron.com, Softpedia News, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Marketing Nirvana, Financial Times, iTnews Australia, I4U News, Silicon Alley Insider, Beet.TV, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Digital Media Buzz, Thanks:shankargan
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
It's Time For Microsoft To Face Reality About Search And The Internet — Steve Ballmer did as good a job as he could have yesterday in balancing optimism about Microsoft's (MSFT) new “Bing” search service with the reality that it doesn't have much of a chance.
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TomsTechBlog.com, New York Times, Traffick, Seeking Alpha, Dealscape and Search Engine Land
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Is Wave Bloatware? — Google has published a video of this morning's demo of Wave-its radically ambitious upcoming service which aims to be what e-mail should be and meld it with IM, allow for real-time document sharing, provide instant photo sharing, revolutionize spell checking …
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GigaOM, Geekword, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, Web Strategy, GMSV, BlogStorm, broadstuff, TechCrunch, Between the Lines and BetaNews
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave
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BizFeed, Mashable!, Lockergnome Blog Network, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Ajaxian, Google Code Blog and digg.com
The White House:
Securing Our Digital Future — Melissa Hathaway, Cybersecurity Chief at the National Security Council, discusses securing our nation's digital future: — The globally-interconnected digital information and communications infrastructure known as cyberspace underpins almost every facet …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google's Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration — Andrew McLaughlin, Google's head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin's plans. — Mr. McLaughlin will be deputy chief technology officer …
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CNET News, TechCrunch, paidContent.org, eWeek, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, iTnews Australia and AppScout
Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:Obama announces creation of “cyber czar” post
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Wall Street Journal
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Palm Pre Review — We know, we know. You wanted the review sooner. Well, you know what? It's here now and we've busted through this handset like a Japanese tourist with an SLR in Times Square. So how does the Pre stack up against the competition? Can it contend with the top …
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eWeek, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, Technologizer, Engadget, BetaNews, Mobile Tech Addicts, Palm WebOS, PreCentral.net, Edible Apple, Electronista, MacDailyNews and Everything Pre, Thanks:sinkercat
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Let's talk about Windows 7 Starter — There has been a lot of talk recently about Windows 7 Starter, so I thought I'd dive a little deeper into what it means to have this edition of Windows 7 running on a small notebook PC (a.k.a. a netbook). — Today, the Starter edition of Windows …
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Download Squad, Silicon Alley Insider, Ars Technica, BetaNews, CNET News, Gizmodo and Liliputing
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition
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Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
New Mac clone maker to open retail store in Calif. — The idea of creating a Mac clone complete with Mac OS X is not a new concept. However, one company is taking its entry into the clone market a step further by opening a retail store in the Los Angeles area.
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VentureBeat, The Mac Observer, PC World, MacNN, Technologizer, CrunchGear, TechSpot, TweakTown News, Macsimum News and Obsessable
AppleInsider:
A glimpse at Snow Leopard's more subtle refinements — While many of the changes present in betas of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard have been discussed at length by Apple followers, one tester has taken to the web with observations on some of the more subtle refinements spread through the most recent build of the next-gen operating system.
Roger Cheng / Dow Jones Newswire:
Sprint Has Palm Pre Exclusive Through 2009 — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp.'s (S) exclusivity agreement with Palm Inc. (PALM) and its Pre smartphone runs through the year, according to a Sprint spokesman. — “We have the Pre through 2009,” said spokesman James Fisher.
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Silicon Alley Insider, mocoNews, PreCentral.net, Gizmodo, InformationWeek, Crave, dailywireless.org, PhoneNews.com and CNET News
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Sprint responds to Verizon CEO's comments concerning Palm Pre — Following some comments yesterday from Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam, the Internet exploded. The highlight of course was the un-revalation that Verizon would be adding the Palm Pre to it's portfolio once Sprint's exclusivity expires.
Joe / joestump.net:
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter — It was bound to happen sooner or later. Spam-based viral applications, first made popular on Facebook's platform, have come to Twitter in the form of Spymaster. The #spymaster tag is trending on Twitter's search right now and, judging by my own stream, a bunch of people are playing it.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time
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Arn / MacRumors:
New Comparison Photo of Matte iPhone Enclosure? — In February, the first images depicting the back casing of an unreleased iPhone began circulating around the Internet. The images showed a matte finish to the casing, but looked otherwise identical to the current iPhone enclosure.
Darren Gladstone / PC World:
Dell Exits Gaming, Alienware Invades with New M17x Notebook — The PC game machine maker lifts the lid on a sleek new design and talks about the next level in the Alienware-Dell relationship. — Recommends — Ever since Dell bought a stake in Alienware, people have been wondering: What becomes of Dell's gaming-friendly XPS line?
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DailyTech, Notebooks.com, SlipperyBrick.com, The Toybox, Fast Company, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Electronista and Hardware 2.0
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AppleInsider:
Apple briefs staff on wireless iPhone movie and TV downloads — The iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content from the iTunes Store, according to people familiar with Apple's internal training materials.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Walking Dead: Yahoo 360 Officially Closes, Again — Yahoo 360, which was supposed to close early last year, is finally officially shutting its doors on July 13, according to a blog post written on the site today. The social network/blogging service that nobody really used (except in Vietnam) …
PC World:
Bye-bye Kindle, E-reader Screens Coming for Netbooks — Netbook makers will soon play a larger role in the e-reader market if start-up Pixel Qi has anything to say about it. — The company, founded by former One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) CTO Mary Lou Jepsen, will show off engineering samples …
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Engadget, DisplayBlog, Gizmodo, TechSpot, CloudAve, SlashGear, TeleRead, Liliputing, Gadget Lab, GottaBeMobile.com, dailywireless.org and What's Happening at Pixel Qi
Vincent Vanhoucke / Google Mobile Blog:
Nearby Intersections on GOOG-411 — It is amazing how much information can be displayed on even the smallest map, yet we sometimes forget that geographic content is not always available visually. — If you're out and about, you can call GOOG-411 and get local information about businesses.
Mike Snider / USA Today:
Jay-Z and Eminem spin a musical game out of ‘DJ Hero’ — The upcoming DJ Hero video game just landed two heavy hitters as MCs: Jay-Z and Eminem. — Both rappers are bringing their music to the newest offshoot of Activision's successful $2 billion Guitar Hero franchise.
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Electronista, Engadget, Joystiq, Electricpig.co.uk, VG247, ChicagoNow, Ubergizmo and GoNintendo
Agence France Presse:
Color Kindle ‘multiple’ years away: Amazon CEO — WASHINGTON (AFP) — Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Thursday that the online retail giant may never reveal sales figures for the Kindle and a color version of the electronic reader is “multiple” years away.
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Technologizer, GottaBeMobile.com, SlipperyBrick.com, Electricpig.co.uk, MobileContentToday, Crave and Gizmodo
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
So Much For Twitter's Trending Topics To Indicate Breaking News — Twitter's near real-time search capabilities and the ability for them and third parties to mine the collective data from user messages for indicators of what's buzzing online is the intrinsic core value of the company …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
MTV's ‘Alexa Chung’ tunes in to Facebook, Twitter — Can you really take everything that's going on with movies, TV shows, music, Internet memes, and social media, and wrangle it all into an hour of live television? MTV believes it can—with some help from Twitter, Facebook …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
New BlackBerry Storm OS coming to Verizon on May 31st — So let it be written, so let it be done. Rejoice, Verizon Storm owners, because the OS update you've been literally dying for has finally arrived. We just received official word from our pals at VZW that a new Storm OS, 4.7.0.148, will be released on Sunday, May 31st at 3pm.
