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Bing / Search Blog:
Visual Search - Why type when you can see it? — How many times have you seen a movie trailer and forgotten the name of it the next day? You go online to search for it but you can't seem to find the movie with “what's-his-name” in it anywhere but you can picture the actor in your head.
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Computerworld, Channel 10, The Register, Screenwerk, eWeek, TechFlash, LiveSide, Google Operating System, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Watch, Pocket-lint.com, Search Engine Journal, TG Daily, ChannelWeb, Lifehacker, DailyFinance, MobileTechWorld, The Noisy Channel, The Next Web Blog, AltSearchEngines and Techgeist
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Microsoft launches Bing ‘Visual Search’ — You see that headline? “Visual Search” is in quotation marks because Monday's announcement at the TechCrunch 50 conference about Bing's new search feature is a bit of a canard. — What Microsoft is launching is very cool, mind you.
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Google Watch, Computerworld, All about Microsoft, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, PC World, Bits, VentureBeat, Technologizer, Bloomberg, Seattle Times, Digital Inspiration, The Microsoft Blog, Digital Daily, Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, the Econsultancy blog, Mashable!, The Noisy Channel, AppScout, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and PC Magazine
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Intuit To Acquire (Former TechCrunch50 Winner) Mint For $170 Million — Intuit will acquire the free online personal finance service Mint, we've confirmed from a source close to the deal, for around $170 million. Silicon Alley Insider first reported a rumor on this. The deal should be announced in the next few days.
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Macworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider, Fast Company, Technologizer, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, CNET News, Between the Lines, CloudAve, bub.blicio.us, StartupDunia, Venture Capital Dispatch, Inc.com, BloggingStocks and paidContent, Thanks:atul
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Drops 40GB Apple TV and Discounts 160GB Model to $229 — Apple has quietly discontinued the 40GB Apple TV overnight and reduced the price of the 160GB model down to $229. Previously, the 40GB and 160GB models were priced at $229 and $329, respectively. — Now Apple is offering only a single 160GB model at $229.
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PC World, eWeek, AppleInsider, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, Obsessable, NewTeeVee, The iPhone Blog, Mashable!, I4U News, TheAppleBlog and TechSpot
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's TuneKit iTunes LP format appears aimed at Apple TV — The iTunes LP album and iTunes Extras movie-enriching bonus material bundles Apple introduced as a new feature of iTunes 9 are built using a new TuneKit JavaScript framework and appear aimed to deliver new big screen content to Apple TV.
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BetaNews, cubicgarden.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Roughly Drafted, Electricpig, The iPhone Blog, Fast Company and TUAW
Brian Fitzpatrick / Google Public Policy Blog:
Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data! — Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When you ask your landlord about the terms of your previous lease, he says that you are free to leave at any time; however, you cannot take all of your things with you - not your photos, your keepsakes, or your clothing.
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Data Liberation, Between the Lines, CNET News, Stephen Baker, Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Journal, cubicgarden.com, InformationWeek, AppScout, Webmonkey and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Troy / Inputs & Outputs:
Anatomy of a Malware Ad on NYTimes.com — On Saturday evening, Avast displayed a malware warning as I loaded a nytimes.com article. After some digging, here's the malware I found. — Ad Delivery — nytimes.com article pages include an ad placement with the HTML DOM ID adxBigAd.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
BusinessWeek Staffers “Freak Out” Over Error-Filled New York Times Story — BusinessWeek staffers are upset about “numerous errors” in an unflattering story published on the McGraw-Hill magazine in this morning's New York Times. — None challenge the gist of the Times's story …
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Ian Paul / PC World:
iPhone MMS Shows Up Early — Some lucky iPhone owners are reporting that multimedia messaging has started working on their iPhones. The earliest report about MMS activation came from Mediaite blogger Ash Kalb on Saturday who said select U.S. iPhone customers now have MMS support.
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Technology Live, Ars Technica, Gadget Lab, Switched, IntoMobile, Softpedia News and InfoWorld
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook support for Twitter-like mentions now live — Facebook is now supporting @ symbol for tagging friends in posts and status updates. The company said last week it would move toward adopting the convention, which started on Twitter. — The symbol has been part of Twitter etiquette for a long time.
Jeff / Wolfire Blog:
Preview of WebKit's WebGL / Canvas 3D — Yesterday, I was updating my local checkout of WebKit and I noticed a few tests for “WebGL” scroll by (view commit). Apparently, a big WebGL patch has quietly landed. With a name like “WebGL”, I couldn't help but investigate. — What is WebGL?
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Accounting rule change in Apple's favor — A change in accounting rules for which Apple (AAPL) — among other high-tech companies — lobbied heavily won tentative approval last Thursday. The change could significantly affect both the company's reported earnings and its stock price.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
LG officially announces GW620, its first Android phone — Though it already broke cover at IFA out in Germany a few days ago, LG's just sealed the deal on its very first Android phone — the GW620 landscape QWERTY slider. Interestingly, the “Etna” name seen at IFA is missing …
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Wall Street Journal, LG, Macworld, Obsessable, mocoNews, jkOnTheRun, Techgeist, Fast Company, MobileTechWorld, Android Phone Fans, Gearlog, Boy Genius Report, InformationWeek, AndroidGuys and eWeek
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
TC50: Spawn Labs Is Slingbox For Video Games — Slingbox owners love their devices. They allow you to watch your home television content anywhere you are in the world with an Internet connection. A new startup, Spawn Labs, launching today at TechCrunch50 wants to extend that concept to video games.
WMPoweruser.com:
First real pictures of HTC Leo - All rumours confirmed — PDA.Pl has been lucky enough to have the very first real pictures of HTC Leo (Via PDAClub.pl forums), and the device is a stonker! Present is the massive screen, the gigahertz processor, the amazing thinness, the dual flash and even the words at the back.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, Electronista, Gadgetell, SlashGear, MobileTechWorld, WMExperts, Mobilewhack.com and I4U News
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft to businesses: Enough with the Windows XP already — Microsoft has been haunted for years by the ghost of Windows XP — the 8-year-old operating system that many big businesses still view as good enough for their purposes and far less painful than upgrading to its successor, Windows Vista.
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All about Microsoft
Heather Champ / Flickr Blog:
Galleries: Unleash your inner curator — There's a long list of features that we've wanted to develop for our members. Giving our members a way to celebrate the creativity of their fellow members has always been high on that list. Today, we're thrilled to launch our newest feature: galleries.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
TC50: Clicker Wants To Be TV Guide For The Web — More and more television content is making its way online. But because of different deals by various networks, it's all over the place. Even the huge sites like Hulu, only skim the surface in showing what is out there.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge: Safe Harbor applies to Veoh; UMG lawsuit eviscerated — Universal Music Group's copyright infringement lawsuit against Veoh Networks is all but over after a judge issued a summary judgment in favor of the user-generated video site, saying it qualified for protection under the DMCA's Safe Harbor provision.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
TC50: Penn & Teller Show Off Their iPhone Magic Trick — The magicians Penn & Teller have this card trick. Except it's not really a card trick, it's an iPhone app. You tell a friend that you know Penn & Teller and that they can guess cards remotely. To prove it you ask them to name a card …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
App Watch: Finding Pot With the iPhone — Medical marijuana, meet location-based mobile marketing. … Seeing an untapped opportunity in the growing number of legal California dispensaries and limited advertising outlets, app developer NexStudios launched iPot, an application for Apple's iPhone that lists nearby stores.
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I4U News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yammer Shows Some Microsoft Love, Launches Plug-In For Outlook And Windows Mobile App — At the start of this year's TechCrunch50 conference, last year's TechCrunch50 winner, Yammer, is making a significant announcement about a partnership with Microsoft. Yammer, a micro-messaging tool for enterprises …
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Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
iPhone gets .Net app development — Novell technology lets developers use .Net and C# instead of C or Objective-C to build applications for Apple's handheld — Novell on Monday will offer a kit for developers to build Apple iPhone and iPod Touch business applications using Microsoft's …
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Only 51% of pubs think pay walls will fly — A bare 51% of the newspaper publishers in the United States believe they can charge successfully for access to their interactive content, according to a survey released today. The other 49% of publishers either fear that pay walls will fail or just aren't sure.
Sam Gustin / DailyFinance:
Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein on the Pre, the Pixi, and Apple's sense of taste — Jon Rubinstein, CEO of resurgent smartphone-maker Palm (PALM), didn't want to talk about the iPhone when I caught up with him after an event in New York City on Sunday. “I don't focus on the competition,” he told me.
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Edible Apple
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
The TechCrunch50 List: the presenting startups — TechCrunch50, which showcases 50 yet-unlaunched startups, kicks off today. Here's a partial list of the companies that are demoing throughout today and tomorrow. There are a few ones that are still unreleased: — Story Something — Clasemovil
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Sells $150 Million Worth Of Alibaba.com Shares As Tensions Lurk — Yahoo is about to raise approximately $150 million by selling 57.48 million Alibaba.com shares, according to a term sheet obtained by Reuters earlier on Monday. The Internet giant is selling the large chunk of shares …
