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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates — Project Pink and the rumored remake of a Microsoft Tablet are back on the rumor treadmill this weekend. — It's been quiet out there lately on both fronts. Here's a recap — plus a couple of small updates — that I've heard recently about these two skunk-works efforts.
Micheal Lopez / The Official Google Blog:
A mysterious series for H.G. Wells — You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, @google, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second ‘o’ and a coded tweet …
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Is Google giving Gmail back to the UK? — Four years ago, in October 2005, Google voluntarily renamed its Gmail service as ‘Google Mail’ in the UK. This was to avoid a trademark dispute with a British company called Independent International Investment Research.
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Boston Globe:
Project ‘Gaydar’ — At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy — It started as a simple term project for an MIT class on ethics and law on the electronic frontier. — Two students partnered up to take on the latest Internet fad …
Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Apple Seeking More Info From iPhone 3.1 Users Reporting Poor Battery Life — An undisclosed number of users who have posted on Apple's discussion boards about poor battery life following the iPhone 3.1 software update are being contacted by AppleCare helpdesk with a hefty list of 11 follow-up questions.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Gets Into Widget Distribution And Advertising With Help From Gigya — Many of the widgets scattered across the Web are made in Flash, but Adobe doesn't participate in the widget economy. Today, it is taking a first tentative step towards changing that with the release …
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Vladimir Vukievi:
WebGL in Firefox Nightly Builds — Last night, I checked in some more work from Mark Steele (who's focusing on the Firefox WebGL implementation), and along with that, enabled WebGL in trunk nightlies. (Finally!) — If you're not familiar with WebGL, it's the evolution of work …
Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson introduces a world first - the Motion Activated Headphones MH907 — Escape the ordinary - listen to your favourite music and receive calls without touching a button with the Motion Activated Headphones MH907. — Sony Ericsson today unveils the world's first ever motion activated headphones that sense the user.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Eric Schmidt's Favorite Google Product? Chrome! — What's Google CEO Eric Schmidt's favorite Google product at the moment? When I asked him that this week, I expected a “I love all my children equally” answer. Instead, Schmidt surprised me answering without hesitation: Google's Chrome browser.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T's 3G MicroCell does unlimited calling, but it ain't cheap — How much would you expect to pay to cover AT&T's dead zone using your own internet bandwidth? We appreciate that these guys can't blanket every nook and cranny with HSPA, but carriers need to understand that femtocells …
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Hybrid Internet-TV Makes Progress in Europe — PARIS — Internet television has become so popular that some European broadcasters want to put it on TV — the one in the living room. — Within several months, viewers in Germany with specially equipped televisions may be able …
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TechCrunch:
What Have VCs Really Done for Innovation? — This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @vwadhwa.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Now, an Invention Inventors Will Like — The world can be a rough place for independent inventors. They can often find themselves in court, battling big corporations, spending piles of money on lawyers and leaving it up to judges and juries to determine the value of their hard-won patents.
