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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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft games executive describes origins of Project Natal game controls — Microsoft threw one of the biggest curve balls at the E3 video game conference on Monday as it announced a new way to control games through your speech, gestures, and your full body.
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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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft Wants Gadgets to Run Windows — Microsoft is not willing to cede the laundry room to Google. — I wrote last week about how Google's Android may be the leading candidate to be the operating system that will drive Internet-connected devices of all sorts, including …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Adobe service puts browsers side by side — Adobe on Tuesday said it is offering a free preview of its BrowserLab service, which allows Web developers to quickly see what their site looks like on a number of browsers. — The technology, previously code-named Meer Meer, was shown last year at the company's Max developer conference.
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Federal Antitrust Probe Targets Tech Giants, Sources Say — The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether some of the nation's largest technology companies violated antitrust laws by negotiating the recruiting and hiring of one another's employees, according to two sources with knowledge of the review.
Arn / MacRumors:
WWDC 2009 Banners: ‘One Year Later, Light-Years Ahead’ — Adam Jackson has posted the first photos (flickr) from WWDC 2009. Apple has started putting up banners 6 days prior to the event. The theme of this year's WWDC appears centered around the App Store. The main banner in Moscone West reads:
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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Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News:
Speedy Opera 10 beta reconfigures as Web suite — Opera 10 enters beta with the unstated goal of becoming more than a mere browser. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, the Norwegian program hopes to become a speedy utility—Turbo-charged, in their words—that handles browsing, e-mail, RSS, and torrents with robust features.
DSLreports:
TiVo Wins Another Echostar Patent Ruling - Gets awarded an additional $103 million in damages... After Echostar was sued in 2004, a jury in 2006 ruled that Dish DVRs infringed upon a TiVo patent, and forced the company to pay TiVo $73.9 million in damages — a ruling that was upheld in federal appeals court in January of 2008.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's Fifth Ave. Store Is A Goldmine — Apple's (AAPL) Fifth Ave. flagship retail store in New York City is a 24-hour zoo, filled to the brim with tourists, shoppers, potheads, and people just looking to cool off. And once a year, it's home to what's possible the longest line in America …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful — Google just opened up to a limited audience its very interesting communications experiment called Wave (news stories). Our hands-on evaluation: There's a lot to like. It really is a more contemporary take on communications.
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Opera passes iPhone to lead mobile-browser market — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Norway's Opera Software overtook Apple's iPhone browser in May as the most popular mobile browser in the world, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Tuesday. — Of all Internet pages that were downloaded …
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.
Marvin Ma / DigiTimes:
Microsoft to use a new term for netbook — Microsoft plans to redefine mini-notebooks that Intel has categorized as netbooks with a new term - low cost small notebook PC, according to Steven Guggenheimer, general manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
The Emerging World of Real-Time Cellphone Data — At ReadWriteWeb we've been following with interest the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab, which is producing some excellent analysis and visualizations of cellphone data in urban centers. MIT refers to this data as “digital footprints …
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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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google's Suggest feature makes for some surprising fill-in-the-blanks — Google's suggested search terms for “Charlies Darwin is.” — Computers can be unintentionally funny. Take the unlikely vein of amusement buried within Google's search suggestion feature.
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.
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YouTube Blog, Music Ally, Google Operating System, paidContent.org, NewTeeVee, Gizmodo, Engadget HD, Bits, CNET News, InformationWeek, Lifehacker, Obsessable, Pulse2 and last100
James Sherwood / The Register:
Triangular buttons key to touchscreen typing success - inventor — A British inventor has submitted a patent application for a wacky touchscreen keyboard design which, he claims, could spell the end for accidental key presses. — David Baker's Crocodile Keyboard is so named because its keys are shaped like the reptile's sharp teeth.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Loses “Backwards Compatibility” On Paid Link Blocking & PageRank Sculpting — Imagine that you fired up your computer and found that a bunch of your programs no longer worked, because behind the scenes, the operating system had been upgraded without any backwards compatibility.
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Outspoken Media, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, SEOgadget, Search Engine Roundtable and Search Marketing Sage, Thanks:atul
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.
Aries Hsieh / Google Mobile Blog:
Places Directory app for Android — As an engineer based in Taipei, I frequently travel to Google headquarters in Mountain View. When I'm there, I'm always looking for local businesses to try out, like coffee shops and restaurants. I also forget where the banks and ATM's are.
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Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, Google Android News …, MobileContentToday, Sexy Widget, Mashable!, Lost Remote and digg.com, Thanks:sinkercat
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
More on Palm's WebOS ‘Media Sync’ — In yesterday's piece on Palm's WebOS “media sync” iTunes integration I mostly avoided the legal aspects. When I say that the WebOS media sync feature is not “legit”, I mean that it is not supported by Apple, not something Apple intends for third-parties to do …
Soumyadip / Cutting the Chai:
Microsoft bars Indians from searching for sex — Microsoft silently made available to the public its new (actually Live Search on energy boosters) search engine Bing.com - they prefer to call it a “decision engine”. And the online world was abuzz with buzz about the new product. So was I.
