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David Marmaros / The Google Apps Blog:
Introducing Google Calendar Labs — It's hard to believe it's been more than three years since we introduced Google Calendar to the world. (It's true, I just checked my calendar.) In that time we've received countless ideas and suggestions, including many from my fellow Googlers …
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Tasks graduates from Gmail Labs — Our little baby's all grown up. — We launched Gmail Labs as a forum for delivering useful (and maybe not so useful) features that might not be quite ready for prime time. The idea was always that the most popular and viable Labs features would graduate …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:Google Eases The Switch From Lotus Notes To Google Apps
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Apple:
Apple's App Store Downloads Top 1.5 Billion in First Year — More Than 65,000 Apps; Over 100,000 Developers — Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
How Did it Get so Popular? Apple's App Store Hits 1.5 Billion Downloads and 65,000 Apps — Earlier today, Apple announced that iPhone and iPod touch users have now downloaded over 1.5 billion applications. According to Apple, there are now also over 100,000 developers in the iPhone Developer Program …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Breaking News Online: How One 19-Year Old Is Shaking Up Online Media — Michael van Poppel used to be like a lot of young people, trawling the internet for interesting news about the world. Just like many others have considered doing, he created a place where he could post the most interesting news he finds, as fast as he can.
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Steve Ballmer Shouts, ‘Microsoft Will Keep On Coming’ — Steve Ballmer's extra-large mocha, triple-shot frap must have kicked in at just the right time. Microsoft's chief executive put on one of his classic, chest-thumping performances on Tuesday for attendees gathered at the company's partner conference in New Orleans.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:Microsoft's Ballmer On Google Chrome OS: ‘Who Knows What This Thing Is?’
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye — Judging by this screenshot taken by an IE6 user who was watching some videos on YouTube, it appears the Google company will be phasing out support for the browser shortly. I don't have Internet Explorer 6 installed on my computer …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Survey Confirms: Bing Will Bomb — Analysts are positively gushing about Microsoft's Bing. Initial Comscore numbers showed a pop in Bing traffic! Some observers (the New York Times, for example) have gone so far as to suggest that Bing will usher in a whole new era in the search war between Google and Microsoft.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft announces Azure pricing, details — Microsoft's Bob Muglia announces Microsoft's Windows Azure plans at last year's professional developer conference. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced how it will charge for the service and what level of guarantees it will provide. — (Credit: Robert Vamosi/CNET News)
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 lets developers work over WiFi — Apple released an update to the iPhone OS 3.1 beta tonight, making the new version of the software available to registered developers. According to several developers speaking to Ars, beta 2 enables them to connect to their devices wirelessly instead …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter's @Ev Confirms Hacker Targeted Personal Accounts; Attack Was “Highly Distressing.” — Back in May, Twitter was hacked by someone who got into the accounts of several Twitter employees and then gained access to high-profile accounts such as those of Britney Spears and Ashton Kutcher.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Do mommy bloggers need to grow up? — How acceptable is it for independent bloggers to accept free products and other giveaways? It's been a heated discussion of late. — Now MomDot, a community site for the ever-expanding corps of “mommy bloggers,” has decided to encourage its followers …
Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:
Get Ready; Windows Marketplace for Mobile Offers Millions of Potential New Customers — My name is Todd Brix and I am the Senior Director for Mobile Platform Services Product Management at Microsoft. I am on site at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans to talk …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Tech Rumor of the Day: Research In Motion — It looks like Verizon (VZ Quote) has a rip-snorting success on its hands with the debut of its BlackBerry Tour from Research In Motion (RIMM Quote). — In the first 24 hours, Verizon and retail outlets sold between 275,000 and 300,000 Tours, according to analysts.
iSuppli:
PC Market to Suffer First Decline in 2009 in Since Dot-Com Bubble — For the first time since the Dot-Com bust of 2001, the global PC market will suffer a contraction in unit shipments in 2009, due to a combination of falling IT spending and plunging sales of desktop computers, iSuppli Corp. predicts.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Best Internet Addresses Will Cost a Cool .Million — One of the characteristics of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been its commitment to create a level playing field between big companies and individuals who use the Internet. Its cumbersome decision-making process is open to input from all sides.
internetnews.com:
Intel Blows Past Wall Street Forecasts — Intel gives the tech sector its first hint of recovery. — Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) late Tuesday posted second-quarter results that were well above Wall Street estimates, providing the first solid hint of economic recovery for the tech sector.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Now Things Get Interesting: CBS Joins Comcast's Web TV Trial — Yet another addition to the growing list of programmers signing on to Comcast's “On Demand Online”: CBS will join the cable provider's trial program, which will allow subscribers to get Web access to shows they get on TV.
Digits:
Does Size Matter When Measuring Online Audience? — From Numbers Guy Carl Bialik: — Nielsen said Monday that it is changing the way it estimates Internet traffic numbers. That announcement promptly embroiled the media-measurement company in a numbers dispute with its chief rival for Web-traffic counts.
George Bevir / ITP:
Etisalat's BlackBerry patch designed for surveillance — Etisalat told its 100,000 BlackBerry subscribers that the — The battery-sapping “performance patch” that Etisalat sent to its BlackBerry subscribers over the last few days was designed to give the UAE operator the ability to read …
Peter Osnos / CJR:
What's a Fair Share In the Age of Google? — How to think about news in the link economy — The buzz inside Google is overwhelmingly positive about what the company does and how we will all benefit from the results—including the embattled denizens of newspapers and magazines who increasingly …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches 3 Powerful New Targeting Features for Facebook Ads — The recent spate of enhancements to Facebook Ads is continuing today with several new ways to target Facebook ad campaigns. Last week, Facebook turned on time scheduling, and this weekend, ad editing.
Bloomberg:
China Risks Apple's Reputation by Letting Factories Ignore Worker Pay Law — Jiang Bo says he drove a cement truck for China's Shenzhen Antuoshan Investment & Development Co. 12 hours every day for seven years without overtime pay. — A national labor contract law implemented Jan. 1 …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook's valuation: The cheat sheet — Seriously, how much is Facebook worth? It's been an enigma in tech gossip for years now, as the social-networking company grows bigger and bigger and yet remains privately held. And some of Facebook's most rapid growth has taken place in the midst …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Justin.tv Redesigns To Make Broadcasting Easier And Chat More Obvious — There's a lot of live video streaming competition out there right now, but Justin.tv remains the biggest (though Ustream says that's up for debate). And it's looking to hold that lead with a redesign launching today, along with some new features.
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Palm Pre Developers Unite — Software developers interested in the new smart phone are organizing meetings across the country. Apps will follow. — Palm's new smart phone, the Pre, frequently gets knocked for its lack of native applications. Palm's App Catalog stocks just a few dozen applications …
Ross Mayfield / Socialtext blog:
Microblogging Appliance Delivers a Twitter for your Intranet — Today we announced the availability of the Socialtext Microblogging Appliance for rapid secure intranet deployment of microblogging and social networking at a low cost. As the popularity of microblogging has increased, IT managers have struggled with its risks.
