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The Official Google Blog:
Google Voice invites on their way — A couple of months ago we announced Google Voice, a service that gives you one phone number to link all your phones and makes voicemail as easy as email. We are happy to share that Google Voice is beginning to open up beyond former GrandCentral users.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Announcing the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program & Windows 7 Pricing - Bring on GA! — Today we have some news to share around Windows 7 including answering what may be some of the “hottest” questions people have as we head toward General Availability (GA) on October 22nd.
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
Windows 7 pricing announced: cheaper than Vista (Updated) — Microsoft today announced Windows 7 retail pricing, upgrade information, launch details, and a preorder deal. The software giant has reduced the price on its most popular retail Windows product, the Home Premium upgrade version …
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AppleInsider, PC World, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, eWeek, Lifehacker, Neowin.net, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, AppScout, Macworld, internetnews.com and TechFlash
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Web Collapses Under The Weight Of Michael Jackson's Death — In terms of well-known celebrities, few are bigger than Michael Jackson. Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone on the planet knows him. And that caused big problems for a lot of huge websites today with the news of his passing.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Confirms That People Can't Spell ‘Michael Jackson’ — Michael Jackson, the king of pop, is dead, TMZ reports. We can't imagine what strain the AOL-owned site's servers are going under right now. — But Twitter's “trending topics” have proven once again what every Michael knows: People can't spell your name.
Matthew Flamm / Crain's New York Business:
WSJ publisher calls Google ‘digital vampire’ — The Internet search giant is “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper business, Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton complains, before hinting he's working on a cure. — The gloves are coming off in the intensifying battle between newspaper publishers and Google.
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Techdirt, Patricia Handschiegel, Guardian, Elias Bizannes, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, paidContent, Techgeist and Gawker
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Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam — With less than a week until July 1 - the deadline for PC makers to start intalling the spyware called Green Dam Youth Escort - China appears to be cutting off access to Google after a bitter campaign accusing the American company of spreading porn.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
There May Be 50,000 Apps For The iPhone, But Only A Select Few Become Popular — AdMob has released its metrics report for May 2009 (PDF download link), and looked closely at the actual distribution of users of the iPhone apps in their network this time. The main take-away?
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update — Kayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing's new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it's confusing Kayak users. The travel search company sent Microsoft a legal letter last week telling them to cut it out, Wired.com has learned.
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The Register, CNET News, Telegraph, Search Engine Land, Geekword, LiveSide, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent and TechFlash
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
iPhone Porn App Not Pulled By Apple, Just “Sold Out.” Other Porn Apps Available. — The drama in iPhone porn world continues. Yesterday, Hottest Girls, the first app with nudity was accepted into the App Store. But early this morning it was made unavailable, and everyone presumed Apple was behind it.
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YouTube Blog:
Mobile Uploads to YouTube Increase Exponentially — In the last six months, we've seen uploads from mobile phones to YouTube jump 1700%; just since last Friday, when the iPhone 3GS came out, uploads increased by 400% a day. — This growth represents three things coming together …
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PC Magazine, NewTeeVee, Macworld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, mocoNews, InformationWeek, AppAdvice, TechCrunch, Podcasting News and AppScout
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Video: Apple's Awesomely Improved iPhone Remote App — I like the Apple TV as a device, but it's remote is awful. It's the same little dinky white one that used to come with all Apple computers a few years ago. While it's pretty good for using the FrontRow feature on a computer …
Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
The book that Facebook doesn't want you to read — Accidental Billionaires's author Ben Mezrich explains how he put together the tawdry tale that has Silicon Valley buzzing. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Best-selling author Ben Mezrich is the first to concede he doesn't know exactly …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
New Yahoo Homepage Spotted In The Wild — With all the chatter about Yahoo's impending roll-out of a completely overhauled brand - see Techmeme for more - this particular tip that landed in our inbox last night definitely caught our attention. — TechCrunch reader Bradley Scott Shoemaker checks …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Judge Not Biased, No Retrial — A few days after the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial was made public, judge Tomas Norström was heavily criticized for his involvement with pro-copyright lobby groups. To everyone's surprise, Norström never declared these activities before he took on the case.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Upgrade fee sees few iPod touch users updating to 3.0 software — Nearly half of all iPhone users have already jumped at the opportunity to enhance the functionality of their handsets by installing the free iPhone Software 3.0 update, but the same can't be said for iPod touch users, who …
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Founders Fund: Eyeing Life Beyond Consumer Web Startups — I recently grabbed coffee with Justin Fishner-Wolfson, a personable principal at Founders Fund in San Francisco. He had some interesting things to say, about the new media scene in San Francisco (there may be up to 20 startups …
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Always Innovating's Touch Book in production, finally pictured in non-render form — Always Innovating has stopped innovating for a moment and started production. Its transformer of a netbook/tablet called the Touch Book is now rolling off manufacturing lines on track for shipments starting next month.
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Gizmodo, SlashGear, jkOnTheRun, GottaBeMobile.com, Liliputing, Obsessable and Electronista
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Takes On Tourism With City Tours Experiment — City Tours is a new addition to Google Labs that puts Google squarely in the tourism business: Give it a city name, and Google not only suggests sites to see, but it also maps out a multi-day itinerary and proposes a minute-by-minute travel schedule for you to follow.
Scott Spanbauer / Windows Secrets Newsletter:
Windows may install updates without asking — Windows XP and Vista have started installing updates at shutdown, in certain cases, without displaying a warning or requesting permission, according to reports by several readers. — The forced-install behavior has been witnessed at least three times …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Palm shares up after reported loss; upbeat about future with Pre, WebOS — Palm appeared to perform better in the fourth quarter than Wall Street expected and that seems to be good news for investors, especially considering that the results don't include the new Palm Pre …
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
There's now a Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3 — Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3 for Windows from Fileforum now. — Early Betanews tests indicate some noticeable changes in the performance profile of a Release Candidate for Mozilla Firefox 3.5 that was posted to the organization's servers this morning.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Does Google Need to Start Bulking Up Again? — When the economy cratered last fall, even mighty Google was forced to pull back on spending: The company stopped growing its workforce and put several big expensive projects on hold. — But that's likely to change, predicts Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay.
Gus Sentementes / BaltTech:
Maryland Tech: Protecting your computer screen from the “shoulder surfers” — Every once in a while, I get to see — and sometimes write about — a fascinating new product before the consumer masses get to it. It's one of the cool perks of being a journalist, really.
