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Bing:
bringing a bit of twitter to bing — There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter. We've been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.
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eWeek, LiveSide, Mark Evans, Silicon Alley Insider, Technologizer, BoomTown, John Battelle's Searchblog, Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, Search Engine Journal, Neowin.net, Mashable!, PC World, Tech Beat, paidContent, CNET News, Digital Daily, Pocket-lint.com and MSDN Blogs, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates — Microsoft is dipping its toes into the hot new area of real-time search. The company said Wednesday that Bing, the search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results.
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TechCrunch, ithinkdifferent, InformationWeek, Epicenter, Scobleizer, Ars Technica and The Tech Report
Arn / MacRumors:
Haptic Feedback, Fingerprint Identification, and RFID Tag Readers in Future iPhones? — Apple has let loose a number of revealing new patent applications that cover some interesting technologies that could be used in future iPhones. — Haptic Tactile Feedback
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Gmail Blog:
Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more — A few months ago Gmail got some new buttons and keyboard shortcuts to make labeling easier, especially for those of you accustomed to that familiar folder feel. Now we're making some more changes to Gmail's labeling toolkit. — 1) New location for labels
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The Register, Google Blogoscoped, Lifehacker, Google Operating System, Enterprise Irregulars, jkOnTheRun, Google Enterprise Blog, Pocket-lint.com, ITworld.com, Download Squad, Technologizer, Google Watch, AppScout, TheNextWeb.com, CNET News, InformationWeek, TechCrunch and Googling Google, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Eric Lai / Computerworld:
No to SQL? Anti-database movement gains steam — But can enterprises take open-source alternatives Hadoop, Voldemort seriously? — Computerworld - The meet-up in San Francisco last month had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium — In two recent posts (Windows 7 versus Snow Leopard: How much do upgrades really cost? and Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium?), I took a closer look at the differences between Windows 7 editions and their counterparts from Apple.
Electronista:
Apple already dropping NVIDIA chips? — Apple and NVIDIA may be engaged in a fierce dispute that could exclude NVIDIA graphics chips from future Macs, according to sources reportedly aware of the talks. They claim to SemiAccurate that Apple views NVIDIA's proposals for renewed deals as …
Chris Kelly / Facebook Blog:
Improving Sharing Through Control, Simplicity and Connection — The power to share is the cornerstone of Facebook. Privacy and the tools for tailoring what information is shared with whom are at the heart of trust. Over the past five years, Facebook has learned that effective privacy is grounded in three basic principles:
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Child Porn Is Apple's Latest iPhone Headache — A photo ostensibly showing a 15-year-old nude girl has appeared in an iPhone app, highlighting Apple's inability to safeguard its application store from prohibited content. — The image appears in the free app BeautyMeter …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GDGT Launches For Non Stop Gadget Action — Last summer we broke the news that Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block would team with former editor-in-chief Peter Rojas to create a new gadget startup. Today that new startup, GDGT, launches. Gadget lovers rejoice - this is a social site …
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InformationWeek, Mobility Site, CrunchGear, Bloggers Blog, Boing Boing Gadgets, Agence France Presse, Silicon Alley Insider, mocoNews, Technologizer, VentureBeat, CNET News, jkOnTheRun, Gizmodo, AppScout, The Blog Herald, MediaMemo, Download Squad, Mashable! and digg.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Joe Hewitt / Facebook:
Facebook for iPhone 3.0 — Facebook for iPhone 3.0 is coming very soon. I can't predict an exact date when I will submit to Apple, but I can say that I am about 98% done. So what's new in this update? — 1. The “new” News Feed — 2. Like — 3. Events (including the ability to RSVP)
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ithinkdifferent, iPhone Buzz, MobileContentToday, Pocket-lint.com, TheNextWeb.com, TechCrunch and Inside Facebook
Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 wins Palm Pre exclusive — Network already has Apple's iPhone and move would strengthen its position in UK smartphone market — American gadget group Palm will next week confirm that it has signed a deal with O2 which will see the mobile phone network become the exclusive UK partner for its eagerly awaited Palm Pre handset.
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WebOS Arena, T3.com News, My Pre, Palm WebOS, Techgeist, The Register, blogs.ft.com, Electronista, Pat Phelan, Engadget, Pocket-lint.com, Ubergizmo, all things Pre and PreCentral.net
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Coke, Pepsi Make Nice on Twitter — Amnesia Razorfish Promotes ‘Public Hug’ — Yes, even hardcore rivals can be social-media friends (or followers, at least). Earlier today Amnesia Razorfish launched an experiment to see if it could get the cola brands to follow each other on Twitter.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents — Microsoft's recent lawsuit against TomTom, alleging infringement of filesystem patents, has left many questions unanswered about the legal implications of distributing open source implementations of Microsoft's FAT filesystem.
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Lockergnome Blog Network
Monica Hesse / Washington Post:
Facebook Activism: Lots of Clicks, but Little Sticks — ‘Click-Through Activism’ Broad but Fleeting — Facebook activism, the trendy process by which we do good by clicking often, was in its full glory last week after the death of Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan, killed by gunfire in the streets of Tehran.
Biz / Twitter Blog:
May The Tweets Be With You — The ecosystem growing around Twitter is something we very much believe in nourishing and supporting. There are lots of really awesome services and applications out there like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tweetie, BackTweets, Tweetboard, and others that we absolutely love as do many users.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Craigslist Sued For Trademark Based On Listing — In what appears to be a first, listings site Craigslist has been sued for trademark infringement based on ads posted by users. — The lawsuit was brought by Texas real estate company First Call Properties, which alleges that it began advertising …
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Google Enterprise Blog:
Improvements to Google Apps contacts — Today, we're happy to announce updates to contacts in Google Apps: new features that many of our enterprise customers have been asking for. — For starters, we've launched a new API that, when combined with the existing shared contacts API …
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ReadWriteWeb
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Once Again, Twitter Trending Topics Polluted By Spam (Or Not) — Really curious to find out how this is done exactly, but someone somewhere has managed to change a real trending topic on Twitter - #MrsSlocombe - into something childish, as you can tell from the screenshot above.
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Google Enterprise Blog:
Q2 2009 Spam Trends — Editor's Note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the network of Google email security and archiving services, powered by Postini, which provide email security to more than 50,000 organizations, including businesses of all sizes, government agencies, and educational institutions.
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eWeek Security Watch, the Econsultancy blog, internetnews.com, InformationWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, The Official Google Blog, PC World and Security Fix, Thanks:atul
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
comScore: Russians Spend More Time On Social Networks Than The Rest Of World — comScore has aggregated some data based on its World Metrix audience measurement service and put together a study on social networking worldwide. Surprisingly, it appears that the Russians are more engaged …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Bling Nation raises $8M for cell phone payment system — There's something cool about buying stuff in stores with your cell phone. They do it in Europe and Asia, so why not here? Bling Nation has come up with a way to introduce pay-by-cellphone transactions in the U.S. for the purchase of physical goods at stores.
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Paul Boutin / New York Times:
A Day With 400 Tweets Starts With Simplicity — Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam. — Ms. Smalley, it turns out, is a 100 percent human customer service representative for Comcast.
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Tom Cook / Facebook:
Hammering Usernames — Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Facebook is always under pressure to keep the site and all the moving pieces behind the scenes running while still delivering an excellent user experience. The recent launch of usernames to our 200 million active users on a single night …
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Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Upgrading the Computer History Museum — The Silicon Valley institution is beginning an ambitious effort to improve the way it tells the story of computing and of such tech pioneers as HP, Apple, and Google — The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., is a geek's paradise.
David Coursey / PC World:
AT&T Problems Can Delay iPhone Voicemail — Ever feel like your iPhone is holding out on you? Not delivering voice mail in a timely manner? Well, I have and now I know why—sometimes AT&T doesn't deliver visual voicemail for days. — That's according to Glenn Tenney …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's Popular Facebook App Has Been Broken Or Exploited For Days. — Twitter has long had an official Facebook application that allows users to update their Facebook status with tweets. It's quite useful for those of us who don't want to have to spend all day updating multiple services with the same messages.
Brad Ideas:
Design for a universal plug — I've written before about both the desire for universal dc power and more simply universal laptop power at meeting room desks. This week saw the announcement that all the companies selling cell phones in Europe will standardize on a single charging connector, based on micro-USB.
Deborah Yao / Associated Press:
Companies pledge more openness about Web tracking — Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed. — It's unclear how much of an effect the new policies will have.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Starts Officially Tweeting — It's Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially using Twitter today. — To be clear, Microsoft …
