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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Windows 7 to launch October 22 — Microsoft confirmed on Tuesday that it is planning for Windows 7 to hit retail shelves and start showing up on new PCs on Oct. 22. — In order to reach that milestone, Microsoft plans to wrap up development of the operating system by the middle of next month …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Jason Calacanis Tries Turning Mahalo Into a Wikipedia That Pays — Jason Calacanis' Mahalo is getting a two-part makeover. — There's a visual overhaul for the search engine, which involves cramming a lot more stuff on each results page. This is becoming standard operating practice on the Web …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, Tech Beat, TechCrunch, Sample the Web and The Business Insider
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
PC Touch Screens Move Ahead — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The computer industry has a lot riding on your fingers. — For years, companies have dabbled with the touch-screen technology that lets people poke icons on a display to accomplish tasks like picking a seat at an airport check-in kiosk.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
PS3 Motion Controller May Be Best Game Motion Capture Yet — After Xbox 360's Project Natal, Sony is also adding their own motion controller to the PS3, aptly named The PlayStation Motion Controller. It's the best motion control demo that we have ever seen, but it may be arriving a little too late.
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Engadget, Joystiq, NEWSFACTOR, Pulse2, VentureBeat, Obsessable, Electronista, The Register and DVICE
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Ellison Says Oracle Will Continue to Invest Heavily in Java — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy at the JavaOne conference choose not to discuss the future of Sun's hardware businesses, which include processors, servers, storage arrays, network switches and thin-client terminals.
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TechCrunchIT, Reuters, Tech Beat, Between the Lines, The Register, blogs.ft.com, Digital Daily and Engadget
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube XL Brings The World's Most Popular Video Portal To Your TV — This morning YouTube invited a small group of press to unveil the latest evolution of the site's viewing experience. It's called YouTube XL, and it's going to bring the vast majority of YouTube's content to your TV or large-screen computer monitor.
Jeff Bakalar / CNET News:
Nintendo announces New Super Mario Bros. for Wii — At the Nintendo E3 2009 press conference, the company has just announced a brand-new Mario title, New Super Mario Bros. for the Niintendo Wii. The 2D side-scrolling game will feature four-player co-op along with new gameplay features and power-ups.
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Digits, The Technology Chronicles, Reuters, Technologizer, Crave, VentureBeat, PC World, Gearlog and SlashGear
Amer Shahnawaz / Google LatLong:
Bringing the power of Google's data to local businesses — Today the Local Business Center team is rolling out a new feature: a dashboard that will provide you with information on how Google users are interacting with your local listing in Google Maps and Google Search. — We're pretty excited about this new feature.
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Corynne / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, Claims Parody Content Is Objectionable — Last month, EFF got an email from software developer Duane Fields of Exact Magic, asking if he could use our logo on an iPhone application that exclusively displays content from EFF's RSS feed.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
China shuts down Twitter and Bing in lead up to Tiananmen anniversary — It's widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship - to put it mildly - on what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which exists outside of China. YouTube has been blocked for some time and although Wikipedia …
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Agence France Presse, China Journal, Danwei, TECH.BLORGE.com, Guardian, Joe Duck, PolicyBeta, RConversation, Switched, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and The Register
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Hulu Content Headed to Roku? — I can't say I'm a regular reader of Playboy but, after coming across this juicy nugget, I did indeed pick up the current issue (June 2009)... for the articles. Well, just one little blurb in particular. After talking to Roku, Playboy has concluded “Hulu support is coming” to the $99 set-top box.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
DigiLife DDV-JF1 pocket cam shoots HD, packs its own projector — Another wild one from the surreal landscape of Computex. DigiLife's new DDV-JF1 camera bears much resemblance to most mini camcorders, but while it's perfectly content to shoot 720p footage and show it off on its 2.5-inch LCD …
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Coolest Gadgets, I4U News, News at About Projectors, SlashGear, dailywireless.org, Gizmodo, Obsessable and Ubergizmo
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome For Mac “Coming Along Fine” — There have been a bunch of Google events recently, covering a range of products, but the same question seems to rise above all others at each of them: When is Chrome coming for the Mac? Even Sergey Brin is asking it. Google has committed to getting …
Reuters:
Court Awards TiVo $190 Million in EchoStar Patent Case — A federal judge in Texas awarded set-top box maker TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) Inc <TIVO.O> about $190 million in damages on Tuesday in a long-running patent infringement dispute with DISH Network Corp and EchoStar Corp .
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider — It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained that since Bing launched, the search provided went from Google (which they set manually) to Bing.
Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Thousands of Web sites stung by mass hacking attack — Hackers redirect unwitting victims to a Web site that tries to infect PCs with malicious software — IDG News Service - As many as 40,000 Web sites have been hacked to redirect unwitting victims to another Web site that tries to infect PCs …
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Marianne Schultz / AppleInsider:
Documents offer glimpse into Apple's early days — The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California has put on display a pair documents from Apple's early years, outlining the company's strategic planning, optimism, and doubts as it embarked on a mission to forever change the world with its line of Macintosh computers.
SFGOV:
Mayor Newsom Announces Innovative New Tool to Access City Services with a ‘Tweet’ — In an effort to foster more civic collaboration and connectivity with constituents, Mayor Newsom today announced a first of its kind application that allows citizens to access the City's 311 Call Center through Twitter, a social networking service.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple sued over methods for repeat iTunes, App Store sales — Apple, along with more than a dozen other firms conducting e-commerce, have been hit with a lawsuit from a patent trolling claiming first rights to technology that simplifies the re-billing process for repeat customers making purchases through online stores.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony launching PSP Go handheld in October — Sony confirmed its worst kept secret of the E3 video game trade show. It announced today its PlayStation Portable handheld, the PSP Go, will launch in October. — The device will sell for $249 in North America and will have no universal memory disc drive, as its predecessor does.
Charbax / techvideoblog.com:
Pixel Qi screen demo Live from Taipei — This is it, the revolutionary LCD screen by Pixel Qi that turns your netbook into a Kindle by the flip of a switch. As you can see in this video, thanks to Pixel Qi technology, your next LCD screens can now be very usable outdoors as well under the sunlight …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study — When asked about online privacy, most people say they want more information about how they are being tracked and more control over how their personal information is used. Those consumer expectations are rarely in line with the data collection practices …
PE Hub Blog:
Intuit Buying PayCycle for $170 Million — Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) has agreed to acquire PayCycle Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of online payroll services, for approximately $170 million in cash. PayCycle had raised nearly $30 million in VC funding since 2000 …
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Asa Dotzler:
historical view of browser usage — Since I happen to have the data handy, I thought I'd update the historical chart. This is chart represents the monthly trends as recorded by Net Applications over the last 56 months.
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
In Legal First, Data-Breach Suit Targets Auditor — When CardSystems Solutions was hacked in 2004 in one of the largest credit card data breaches at the time, it reached for its security auditor's report. — In theory, CardSystems should have been safe. The industry's primary security standard …
Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Acer to sell Android netbook PCs in Q3 — * First company to launch netbooks using Google's Android — * Move could threaten Microsoft's market dominance — * No prices yet, but analysts say Windows XP costs about $25 (Adds details, quotes) — Acer Inc (2353.TW), the world's No. 3 PC brand …
Johnny Chung Lee / Procrastineering:
Project Natal — If you've been wondering why my project blog has been pretty quiet, I can finally say it is because I have been helping Xbox with Project Natal. If you haven't seen the vision video, it is definitely worth checking out: — Now, I should preface by saying I don't deserve credit for anything that you saw at E3.
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Daring Fireball, CNET News, Things That, The Microsoft Blog, SlashGear, I4U News, p2pnet and Digital Joystick
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Palm Pre stock levels for launch day at Best Buy leaked? — We don't want to incite panic in big box parking lots from coast to coast or anything (or do we?), but from the looks of things, Best Buy's Pre stock for launch day is meager at best — and distribution is a little weird.
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IntoMobile, Everything Pre, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, SlipperyBrick.com, PreCentral.net and InformationWeek
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
T-Mobile USA's CTO Cole Brodman: Second Android Phone Details Coming in ‘Next Few Weeks’ — T-Mobile USA is getting ready to roll out its second Google (NSDQ: GOOG) phone, according to T-Mobile's CTO Cole Brodman, who confirmed the timing in an interview with mocoNews.
Derek Slater / Google Public Policy Blog:
Google Book Search settlement and access to out of print books — A few weeks ago we blogged about how the Google Book Search settlement agreement will expand access to books for readers in the United States. We recently took another important step forward, when the University of Michigan announced …
Nokia:
Nokia N97 mobile computer to begin selling worldwide in June — Espoo, Finland - The highly anticipated Nokia N97, Nokia's flagship mobile computer, will begin selling in June in more than 75 countries. Along with a tilting 3.5" touch display, QWERTY keyboard and a fully customizable home screen …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
From Terrible To Terrifying: Newspaper Ad Sales Plummet $2.6 Billion In Q1 2009 — Nothing like a telling graphic to illustrate what most have been expecting, albeit probably not in this order of magnitude. Veteran media exec Alan Mutter discovered some horrid statistics about the state …
