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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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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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Lost Laowai, Guardian, China Journal, Joe Duck, ReadWriteWeb, The Register, PolicyBeta, Softpedia News and Switched
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
Twitter Still Available in China with Seesmic Desktop — Mike Butcher reported earlier on TechCrunch today that China has shut down Twitter and Bing so I rushed this morning on my friend Thomas Crampton Twitter stream, Thomas is based in China and had the pleasure to see that you can still tweet …
Thanks:loic
Alice / Danwei:Twitter blocked in China
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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 …
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Steve Litchfield / All About Symbian:Facebook launches client for S60 5th Edition
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Daniel Emery / BBC:
Microsoft unveils new controller — Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360, at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. — Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors to allow users to play games.
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New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets — Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool?
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Between the Lines, Technologizer, Mashable!, paidContent.org, Softpedia News, Silicon Valley Watcher, Guardian, Contentinople, the Econsultancy blog, Gawker, AppScout, /Message, Silicon Alley Insider, Lockergnome Blog Network, Search Engine Watch, PE Hub Blog, GMSV, broadstuff, VentureBeat, Rev2.org, thepmn.org and Infothought, Thanks:atul
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
PlayStation Motion Controller May Be Best Game Motion Capture Ever — And here it comes: 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.
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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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.
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 …
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Engadget, NEWSFACTOR, LinuxWorld.com, BetaNews, Liliputing, Android Community, DailyTech, Electronista, CrunchGear, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, The Toybox, MobileContentToday and Ubergizmo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Local Lures Small Businesses With Their Own Web Dashboard — Google wants more small businesses to claim their listing profiles on Google Local (which is basically listings that pop up in Google Maps and local search results). To entice them, starting tomorrow it will give local businesses …
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Between the Lines, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Softpedia News and Beyond Search, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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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.
CNNMoney.com:
LinkedIn's startup story: Connecting the business world — Serial entrepreneur Reid Hoffman saw a new way of working - and built a company around that vision. — As told to Ellen Lee — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CNNMoney.com) — In Silicon Valley, it's all about knowing the right people.
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
INQ Mobile to roll out Twitter-phone — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Cell phone maker INQ Mobile plans to introduce a Twitter phone in time for the Christmas sales season, hoping to benefit from surging interest in the micro-blogging service, INQ's head told Reuters on Tuesday.
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.
Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Search is too important to leave to one company - even Google — It may seem as unlikely as a publicly edited encyclopedia, but the internet needs publicly controlled search — Search is the beginning and the end of the internet. Before search, there was the idea of an organised …
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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 …
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.
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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 …
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 …
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 it will have no universal memory disc drive, as its predecessor does.
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PR Newswire, Agence France Presse, CNET News, Reuters, PC Magazine, SlashGear, 1UP.com, GameSpot, Electronista and Engadget
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Obama Administration's Silence on Privacy — The Obama administration is attempting to take the lead on a number of technology issues, including cybersecurity, network neutrality and broadband availability. But one prominent omission is privacy, a topic about which the administration has said very little.
Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:
Ellison: Oracle Will Continue to Invest Heavily in Java — Sharing the stage at the JavaOne conference, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Chairman Scott McNealy chose not to discuss the future of Sun's hardware businesses, which include processors, servers, storage arrays, network switches …
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.
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Google Soups Up Enterprise Search Appliance — The search giant claims Google Search Appliance 6.0 can search billions of documents with options to customize administrative, security and relevancy features. — With an eye to the largest federal agencies, Google introduced …
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 …
Peter Cohen / PC World:
The Sims 3 Launches Simultaneously for Mac, PC, IPhone — Electronic Arts (EA) on Tuesday announced the simultaneous worldwide release of The Sims 3 for Mac and Windows. A version developed to run on the iPhone and iPod touch is also available. — The latest installment …
Matt Burns / CrunchGear:
Nintendo gives us a sneak peek at the Wii Vitality Sensor — Ready for the future as seen by Nintendo? No, it's not full body mapping like Project Natal, it's a little sensor that measures your pulse called the Wii Vitality Sensor. The Nintendo press event didn't reveal anything …
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Wraps Up Push Notification Testing Ahead of WWDC — Several weeks ago, Apple began testing high-volume Push Notifications using a special build of the AP Mobile iPhone application distributed to developers testing beta versions of the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0.
