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The Official Google Blog:
I scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social! — We launched iGoogle in 2005 as a way for people to quickly and easily personalize their Google experience with all the information on the web that was most useful to them. Now tens of millions of people choose to use their iGoogle homepage …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iGoogle Releases Social Gadgets — iGoogle, a personalized homepage that competes with My Yahoo, My MSN, My AOL, Netvibes and others, will release 19 new in-house and third party iGoogle widgets today that add new social and sharing features to users of the service.
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Judge: Microsoft can't sell Word anymore — A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell one of its flagship products, Word, in the United States because of patent infringement. — You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:Is Microsoft violator or victim in i4i patent dispute?
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Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
FYI: The Pre Reports Your Location to Palm — Joey Hess has taken a closer look at the code inside webOS that reports information back to Palm and found some details on what the Pre is sending back to headquarters. Specifically, it appears that the Pre uploads (at least) the following information to Palm on a daily basis:
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and Nokia Form Global Alliance to Design, Develop and Market Mobile Productivity Solutions — Companies will collaborate to bring Microsoft Office Mobile and related communications and collaboration software and services to Nokia smartphones. — The worldwide leader in software …
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:Microsoft and Nokia do the right thing for the wrong reasons
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Dvorak Raises Doubts About U.S. CIO Kundra. White House Calls the Report “Highly Inaccurate” & “a Lie.” Kundra Speaks up — Updated: Earlier this morning, veteran technology journalist John Dvorak posted an article on his blog with the headline: Is U.S. Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?
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John C Dvorak / Dvorak Uncensored:Special Report: Is US Chief Information Officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra a Phony?
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Mary Kathleen Flynn / Dealscape:
Twitter's Stone: ‘Millions of zombie computers’ — The denial-of-service attacks that resulted in outages of Twitter Inc.'s microblogging service last week and again briefly on Tuesday are “not going away any time soon,” says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to TV talk show host Tavis Smiley.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:Google Helped Twitter Deal With Attacks
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million — Update: Mint.com has raised $14 million in financing, according to a SEC filing. — DAG Ventures led the round; Founder's Fund and existing investors Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and Sherpalo also participated.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
What Facebook Lite Actually Is. Hint: It's Not Twitter Or FriendFeed. — So, the web pretty much exploded tonight over the appearance of something called “Facebook Lite,” a new service that's apparently being beta tested by Facebook. But users who received the message that they were invited …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Facebook Begins Testing Facebook Lite, A Faster Simpler Version Of The Service
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Marketers Are Never Gonna Dance Again, Thanks to Google — and Jessica E. Vascellaro — Some people go to conferences for the networking, others go for the keynote session and still others, apparently, go for the dancing. Not this year. — Larry Chiang
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple To Offer $899 Tablet With OLED Screen? — The rumors of the much-anticipated, yet-to-be-confirmed Apple (AAPL) tablet continued to pile up. — The latest version comes from that old rumormonger, Trip Chowdhry, proprietor of the boutique research firm Global Equities Research.
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Unreleased Apple product sighted in California - no images (yet) — There's definitely an unreleased Apple product looming - and while that bald statement is pretty much an eternal truism, product marketing plans for this one are advanced, a report this morning explains.
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Brian Shih / Official Google Reader Blog:
A flurry of features for feed readers — Since our last big launch, we've been thinking about ways to help our users better share, discover, and consume content in Reader. Today, I'm happy to announce several new features that we hope will further improve the way you use Reader. — Send to...
Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why The Associated Press plans to hold some web content off the wire — In a break with tradition, The Associated Press plans to prevent members and customers from publishing some AP content on their websites. Instead, those news organizations would link to the content on a central AP website …
Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Declined 6 Per Cent and Smartphones Grew 27 Per Cent in Second Quarter of 2009 — Inventory Destocking Continues with 13.9 Million Units Shed by the Channel — Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Grew Twice As Fast As Twitter In July — If it wasn't bad enough that Facebook bought FriendFeed on Monday and turned on real-time search to better compete against Twitter in the Stream Wars, and is playing around with a lite version that resembles Twitter even more, now Twitter really has something to worry about.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
A Data Center Shortage for Silicon Valley? — If Silicon Valley winds up with a shortage of wholesale data center space, it can blame Washington. Data center projects planned for Santa Clara, Calif. are now taking a back seat to the red-hot northern Virginia market, where the Obama …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources detail changes to Snow Leopard installation process — People familiar with Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system are corroborating reports this week that the software has achieved Golden Master status, adding some additional insight on various enhancements …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
The next iTunes challenger: iLike? — Facebook most's popular music application comes from iLike and soon the service will try to turn that social-networking cache into song sales. — Seattle-based iLike, a social music service, is expected to launch a music download store in coming days …
Efficient Frontier Insights:
Is Bing on a Roll? — As the industry comes together this week at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, we thought it was appropriate to take another look at Bing trends to see if they were holding, folding or on the uptick. — We last reported a 13% increase in paid click share for Microsoft.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Another Court Deals Major Blow to DVD Copying — A California appeals court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling that had paved the way for a $10,000 DVD copying system called Kaleidescape and other products from the company with the same name. — The 6th District Court of Appeal in San Jose …
Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:
Elite 360 Dropping In Price, RIP Pro Model — Looks like we have an execution date for the Xbox 360 Pro model, with this shot from a Meijer catalogue due on August 30 indicating the 360 Elite is in line for a Pro-sized price cut. — You'll remember, of course, that the origins of this rumour …
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