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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Pre review — The Palm Pre. It's not just a phone, it's a myth, an idea, possibly a legacy... and a really, really long time coming. It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004.
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Gizmodo, PalmAddicts, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Trader Daily, 9 to 5 Mac, Palm WebOS, Gearlog, AppScout, all things Pre and digg.com
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Palm's New Pre Takes On iPhone — In the new era of hand-held computers — super-smart touch-screen phones that run sleek, compelling software — Apple's iPhone has been king. A new, improved iPhone is expected to be announced on June 8. — But on June 6, Apple will get a powerful competitor in this category.
David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: Palm Pre, Elegant Contender — You've seen that movie, right? The one where a pair of lovable sad-sack losers team up to defeat the smug athletic golden boy? — If not, you're about to. It's called “Palm Pre vs. iPhone.” — The star of this summer blockbuster is Palm.
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Edible Apple, Tech Trader Daily, CNET News, Gadget Lab, mocoNews, all things Pre, CrunchGear, PreCentral.net and Daring Fireball
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Pre could pilot Palm to smartphone glory again — The most-lusted-after pocket computer in months is about to go on sale — and it's not even an iPhone. On Saturday, Palm (PALM) and Sprint (S) start selling the Palm Pre, a smartphone that stacks up well against Apple's blockbuster device, and in some ways even surpasses it.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CrunchPad: The Launch Prototype — We've been working hard behind the scenes on the CrunchPad since our last update in April, and have just about nailed down the final design for the device. We're showing the conceptual drawings here today. In another few weeks we'll have the first working prototypes in our office.
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TECH.BLORGE.com, Boing Boing Gadgets, Gizmodo, Incremental Blogger, CloudAve, Liliputing, TheNextWeb.com, Electronista, TeleRead and GottaBeMobile.com
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Squared is Live: Who Knew Structured Data Could Be So Unhelpful? — Three weeks ago Google demonstrated a new product in Labs called Google Squared; it's a search engine that creates structured data from big piles of information and lets users compare various things by their attributes.
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The Official Google Blog:
Square your search results with Google Squared — Some information is easy to find. If you want to learn the rules of golf, you can search Google for [golf rules] and we'll return a list of relevant web sites right at the top. But not all your information needs are that simple.
Mmaser / Digg the Blog:
Ads You Can Digg...or Bury — Today, we're announcing our plans to roll out a new advertising platform — Digg Ads. Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay.
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TheNextWeb.com, Shooting at Bubbles, CNET News, paidContent.org, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, Thanks:wedocreative
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple's next-gen iPhone may add radio tagging, Nike Sport Kit — A new version of Apple's iTunes software released Monday includes code strings that hint at a couple of new features likely to make their debut alongside new iPhone models this month, namely radio tagging capabilities and support for the Nike+ Sport Kit.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ron Conway To Focus On “Real Time Data” Startups: 40-50 New Investments In Next 18 Months — Heavy hitting angel investor Ron Conway, who's been called the “Godfather of Silicon Valley” by Gary Rivlin, is now focusing most of his investment attention on “real-time data,” …
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Critics Rip Proposed Obama Pick from Google — As rumors swirl that President Obama plans to appoint Google Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs Andrew McLaughlin as White House deputy CTO, consumer watchdogs bay over possible ethics violations.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Twitter co-founder: We'll have made it when you shut up about us — NEW YORK—Twitter executive Jack Dorsey says he's looking forward to the day when the world stops talking so much about the company he co-founded. — “I think Twitter's a success for us when people stop talking about it …
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Jeff Bercovici / DailyFinance:
Soon, you'll have to pay for Hulu — Don't get too attached to all that free, high-quality video on Hulu. It just might disappear behind a pay wall before too long. — Speaking last night at an Internet Week event sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Miller …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
At long last, internet's root zone to be secured — VeriSign and ICANN to share DNSSEC duties — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — The US government said Wednesday it plans to digitally sign the internet's root zone by the end of the year, a move that would end years …
Google Mobile Blog:
The importance of being immediate - Google Mobile App now for Nokia S60 smartphones — As a user experience designer I like to take every opportunity to better understand the issues that get in the way of people making the most of their mobile phones. The development of Google Mobile App …
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MobileContentToday, PhoneNews.com, InformationWeek, jkOnTheRun and Phone Scoop, Thanks:atul
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Nation's C.T.O. Lays Out His Priorities — I had a chance to sit down this week with Aneesh Chopra, the newly confirmed chief technology officer of the United States. My first question, of course, was “What does the nation's C.T.O. do?” It's a question that lingered …
Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac:
Updated White MacBooks outperform more expensive Unibody siblings across the board — Zoikes! Macworld labs just got done testing the new white MacBook and apparently it is a real screamer. So much, in fact, that it blew right past the $300 more costly Unibody MacBook.
Joe Wilcox:
First Bing Ad Bombs, Others Are The Bomb — Commentary. Microsoft's first Bing TV spot is scary. It's designed to scare the crap out of you. Every bad thing going on now is because of bad search. The doom and gloom reminds me of the TV commercial from Christmas comedy “Scrooged” (see first clip below).
Ryan J. Donmoyer / Bloomberg:
Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world's largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama's plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies' foreign profits.
Joe Weisenthal / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo's Bartz Still Not Interested In Microsoft Deal, Trashes Bing — Yesterday we heard that shares of Yahoo (YHOO) still had a call option on the possibility of Microsoft (MSFT) takeout in them. — Well, if you're buying Yahoo, don't do it because of some fantasy about a seach deal …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Exclusive: Discussing the Future of Facebook with CEO Mark Zuckerberg — There's a lot happening at Facebook these days. From advertising to payments, search to mobile, platform to privacy, Facebook has teams working on a spectrum of products to serve the company's 200 million active users …
Thanks:atul
Derrick Goold / Bird Land:
Tony La Russa suing Twitter for trademark infringement — TOWER GROVE — Apparently, the Tweets stop with Tony. St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing the micro-blogging and social networking site Twitter, Inc., over what the skipper and his attorney describe as trademark infringement …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tweetree Puts Actual Shared Content In Your Twitter Stream — One large component of the “RSS Is Dead” idea is that services like Twitter offer a faster and more curated way to share content. But the problem is that to do this on Twitter, it involves sharing a link to the content and not the content itself.
Thanks:cwalcott
Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
At Last: thinking outside the jewel case — Last.fm is a great British success story, now boasting 30 million users - so what has the internet radio company got up its sleeve? — It's two years since Last.fm was bought by the US media giant CBS and, with the exception of some quirky antique furniture …
Kevin Newcomb / Search Engine Watch:
Google Changes Course on Nofollow — The nofollow attribute for links has evolved from a way to fight blogspam to a power SEO tool. But its days in that capacity may be numbered, according to Matt Cutts, head of Google's Web Spam team. — When it was first launched in January 2005 …
