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James Doran / New York Post:
FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE — SOURCES: SERGEY ORDERS BING STUDY — You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. — But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades …
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Video: Nokia E72 accidentally makes an early appearance on YouTube — Nokia Conversations, a blog officially run by Nokia (NYSE: NOK), accidentally posted a video to YouTube that showcases the Nokia E72. It looks very similar to the E71, but has a 5 megapixel camera.
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SlipperyBrick.com, Mobile Industry Review, ithinkdifferent, Unwired View, Boy Genius Report, Engadget and Phone Scoop, Thanks:s_constantine
Trooper P / Crunchpad Fans:
CrunchPad Prototype Unboxing Caught on Youtube — Straight from the sounds of the tweets, a Youtube video of the CrunchPad prototype unboxing has been spotted. — Loic Le Meur, the Seesmic.com founder who has close ties with Michael Arrington, posted the video of what looks …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability — Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral, is a seriously heavyweight product. When it relaunched in March, just a couple of months ago, we gave Google Voice a glowing review. — Once you've jumped in head first to the product it will straighten out your phone life forever.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran — Note: This post was written at midnight PST last night, at which point CNN.com was hours behind much of the rest of online media in prioritizing the big news in Iran. The site has since focused on Iran but we believe this post remains relevant …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence
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Mashable!, Gawker, Deep Jive Interests, Open Gardens, TECH.BLORGE.com, Intuitive.com and The Huffington Post
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Thomas retrial begins Monday: what to expect — Monday morning, the federal file-sharing trial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset begins, and Ars will be there with gavel-to-gavel coverage. Here's what you need to know to keep up. — Accused file-sharing defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset and the RIAA …
Tomi T Ahonen / Communities Dominate Brands:
A Tale of Two Smartphones: US vs Rest of World compared — It was the best of phones, it was the worst of phones. — After I wrote my Open Letter to Microsoft (urging them to take mobile seriously) I had a lot of discussions and many were curious about why does the US market seem so opposite …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing — Andrew Pariser emails in a surprise finding in Google Calendar (if by any chance you're able to reproduce this - I'm not - please comment): … [Thanks Andrew and Tony!] — Update: As noted in the comments, you can try disable all CSS on the page …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
For TechCrunch, Twitter = Traffic (A Statistical Breakdown) — Some people use Twitter to organize street protests in Tehran. Some people use it to share their daily thoughts and observation. But it is increasingly becoming clear that one of the most common ways people use Twitter …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Do Facebook Vanity URLs Equals Kill Twitter Vol. 2? — This past Friday, Facebook started issuing vanity URLs to its 200 million plus community. It was a big change for the social networking company that has so far used unique numerical identifications to identify its members.
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Starts Seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L14) — It seems there will be at least one more Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) update before we see Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) arrive this fall. Apple has begun seeding Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L14) to Mac developers. — The new version of Mac OS X 10.5.8 offers …
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Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Secret war on web crooks revealed — The people who run the world's internet systems are a rather secretive bunch. — Three times a year, senior technical officers from companies such as Google, Yahoo, AT&T, Comcast and Verizon meet to discuss ways of stopping the internet from being swamped …
Jim Cowie / CircleID:
A Closer Look at Iran's State of Internet, Strange Transit Changes in Wake of Controversial Election — Many media sources have reported outages in Iranian mobile networks and Internet services in the wake of Friday's controversial elections. We took a look at the state of Iranian Internet transit …
