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Vik Singh / delicious blog:
Delicious Homepage Gets “Fresh” — Way back in January I released a simple application called TweetNews, which essentially ranks the latest Yahoo! News articles by their number of related Twitter messages to determine relevance for really fresh content. Remarkably, the community responded to it …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Delicious Freshens Up With Twitter, Which Its Founder Hates — Delicious was once one of the hottest social sites on the Internet. That's why Yahoo bought it in 2005. But it's weird now to even think about it as a social site, I get more of the utilitarian vibe from it these days.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Wants To Build A PayPal Killer, Say Wall Street Gossips — Wall Street gossips tell us that Apple (AAPL) executives have dropped hints suggesting the company is considering creating a service that would allow iTunes Store account holders to use those accounts to make purchases …
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Ars Technica, MacRumors, The iPhone Blog, 9 to 5 Mac, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, Edible Apple and LOOPRumors
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple evaluated 4- to 12-inch tablet screens - report — Apple has reportedly purchased a number of screens — ranging from 4 inches to 12 inches in size — over the last few years, as it explores its possible entry into the tablet and sub-notebook market, according to a financial analyst.
Andrew Garcia / eWeek:
Apple's Rejection of Google Voice Points to Just One Thing — Why would Apple deny customers the Google Voice functionality and risk the ire of the FCC? eWEEK Labs' Andrew Garcia suspects it's because Apple is building a similar service for MobileMe. — The flap between Google and Apple …
The Official Google Blog:
Audio care packages for service members with Google Voice — (From time to time we invite guests to blog about initiatives of interest and are pleased to have Sergeant Dale Sweetnam join us here. SGT Sweetnam is working with Google's communications team this year through the U.S. Army's “Training with Industry” Program.
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PC World, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Ironic Sans, Network World, ZDNet Government, ITworld.com, Electronic Frontier Foundation, eWeek, SFGate, WebProNews, AppScout, Etan on Tech and TechVi
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows XP Mode RC Now Available — Back in April, we introduced the Windows XP Mode beta and after a few months of incorporating your enthusiastic feedback, today we are announcing the availability of the Windows XP Mode Release Candidate. — Download: Windows XP Mode Release Candidate
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft delivers near-final test build of Windows 7 XP Mode
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eWeek, Ars Technica, PC World, Hardware 2.0, Computerworld, The Register and The Windows Blog
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The GigaOM Interview: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski on Mobile, Broadband, iPhone & Innovation — Late last week, a day before the Federal Communications Commission started to investigate the Google Voice App fiasco, I spoke with the new FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski.
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eWeek, Dealscape, DSLreports, 9 to 5 Mac, GottaBeMobile.com, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Sidecut Reports and jkOnTheRun, Thanks:atul
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Slide And RockYou Reboot: They're “Distributed Media Companies” Now — As we discussed several weeks ago, Slide and RockYou are doing exactly what all smart, well-funded emerging companies do when their original business models aren't turning out as planned: Switch horses.
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Sponsored Tweets Launches: The End of Twitter As We Know It? — We heard rumblings that IZEA's Sponsored Tweets was about to debut back in June. Today, IZEA's platform launched, and it is what we all expected: a pay per tweet service. — Sponsored Tweets, now live …
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Rivalry Between Apple and Palm Intensifies — The Palm Pre has a large touch screen, slide-out keyboard and fast Web browsing. Palm also likes to point out that another selling point is the smartphone's ability to link to iTunes, Apple's popular software for managing music and other media on a computer.
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InformationWeek, Silicon Alley Insider, MacDailyNews, Network World, /Message, Gadgetell, FierceMobileContent and Seeking Alpha, Thanks:atul
Josh / Cruleword's Lifestream:
New Zune HD Pictures Surface (Now With 20+ Images) — Later Today I am expexting an official announcement. But more pictures of the Zune HD are coming out via a Zune MVP on twitter. The pictures were removed in fear of them still being under NDA, but I was able to grab a few of them before they were deleted.
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits — WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
U.S. Will Lead in 3G, So What If You Can't Use the 3G Networks? — Thanks to Apple's fast-selling iPhone, 3G-enabled BlackBerry devices and more recently, Google phones, the U.S. will overtake Japan as the country with the largest number of 3G users in the world in 2011.
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Shanan Delp / Flickr Blog:
New Flickr Search — Today we're pleased to announce a redesign of our search results page. The changes we've introduced make it easier to browse through the billions of photos and videos on Flickr, and to connect to the communities that help make sense of all those photos.
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace, Facebook — The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately. — “These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due …
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Between the Lines, BetaNews, Mashable!, Zero Day, Ars Technica, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, SC Magazine US, InformationWeek, Mediaite, Gawker, Boing Boing and threatpost, Thanks:genuine
International Business Times:
Apple execs visit China to push iphone — Beijing - Senior officials from Apple Inc are to visit China to restart the top level negotiations with China Unicom on iPhone's entry into the huge Chinese market, local media Sina.com reported on Tuesday morning (Beijing time).
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Verizon readies Fios TV app store — Verizon Communications is about to open up its new Widget Bazaar to third-party developers to create an “app store” for its Fios TV service in a move that could forever change how people watch TV. — Verizon first announced the Widget Bazaar just a couple of weeks ago.
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
The Tablet That Nobody Really Wants... All of them. — Wired claims 2010 is the year of the tablet. Let's face it, however much they sound dreamy (even I've speculated on wanting one in the past), in practical reality tablets generally suck. They are both a worse laptop than a laptop …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why A Netflix Streaming iPhone App Could Actually Happen — Netflix (NFLX) is reportedly working on an iPhone app for its popular movie streaming service. — If it's true, there are plenty of technical, legal, and behavioral hurdles here: For example, getting the rights to stream movies …
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Andrew Hampp / AdAge:
Creepy? Annoying? Or Creepy and Annoying? — The Thinking Behind Modernista's Baffling Palm Pre Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Gary Koepke, co-founder and executive creative director at Modernista, loves that you're creeped out by his ads for Sprint's Palm Pre.
Jason Roth / Apple:
Apple Launches iTunes Store in Mexico — World's Most Popular Online Music Store Kicks off with All Major Labels & Hundreds of Indies — Apple® today announced the launch of the iTunes® Store in Mexico (www.itunes.com/mexico) with an incredible selection of Mexican and international music …
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TUAW, Macworld, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, Macsimum News, The iPhone Blog, MacDailyNews and MacRumors
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Amazon App for Android released — Online retailer Amazon have released a new version of their free shopping application, this time for Google's Android platform. The Amazon App for Android is a free download and allows users to snap photos of items such as CDs or DVDs, or alternatively of barcodes …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
TweetBlocker: Easily Delete Spammers From Your Twitter Stream — It's no secret that Twitter has become a preferred playground for spammers. Hashrocket's TweetBlocker sets out to change this by giving users a simple tool to easily identify spammers in the group of users they are following.
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Jennifer Martinez / GigaOM:
Despite iPhone's Success, BlackBerry Curve Was on Top in Q2 — In the battle of the smartphones, RIM's Blackberry Curve edged out the competition to take the top spot as the best-selling smartphone model in the U.S. in the second quarter of this year, according to inaugural smartphone market share data from research firm IDC.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Point Man on Search-Satya Nadella-Speaks: “It's a Game of Scale” — Another Microsoft exec BoomTown spoke to-while in Seattle last week-was Satya Nadella, SVP of Research and Development at its Online Services division, also known as the man in charge of search and online advertising technology …
Jack Kim / Reuters:
North Korea frees two U.S. journalists after Clinton visit — SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea on Tuesday released two jailed American journalists after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton in the highest-level U.S. contact with North Korea since Clinton was president nearly a decade ago.
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Apple vs. Google: Tech's Newest Rivalry? — The Valley giants both want to determine how users access the mobile Web. Eric Schmidt's exit from Apple's board may be the shot that starts the race in earnest — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt — Over the past three decades …
