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Pretty Boy / Gizmodo:
The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See Yet — Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure. — These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who'll get to share branding with Microsoft.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki — By 2001 web startup Third Voice, which let people annotate websites via a browser plugin, was done. Website owners just didn't like the idea of people “defacing” their websites with comments they couldn't control.
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The Official Google Blog:
Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki — As you browse the web, it's easy to forget how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information. Whether you're researching advice on heart disease prevention or looking for museums to visit in New York City …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Sidewiki Allows Anyone To Comment About Any Site
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WebProNews, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, eWeek, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, MediaPost and ResourceShelf
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One — With the explosion of Twitter mobile apps, web-based clients, and desktop applications, it was only a matter of time before someone launched an actual Twitter-focused app store. Oneforty has built a marketplace to for basically all things Twitter …
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Social Business, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Computerworld, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Nokia To Acquire UK Startup Dopplr — Nokia has been on an acquisition tear lately, albeit mostly small deals (Plum, Cellity and Bit-Side all this year). A source close to the deal says that they've just made one more acquisition: boutique travel social network Dopplr, headquartered in London.
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paidContent, GigaOM, CNET News, metarand, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Internet2Go, Techcraver.com and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Last Has Fallen. The Embargo Is Dead. — Late last year I announced a new policy at TechCrunch - we don't do embargoes. Well, it was a little more complicated than that, and designed to stir up chaos in the PR ranks. We said we'd break every embargo, and we also said we'd honor embargoes …
Wall Street Journal:
Neutering the 'Net — The real agenda of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other status-quo web powers behind the Obama administration's Net Neutrality campaign. — Printer — Friendly — Like Chekhov's gun, “net neutrality” gets dragged down from the mantel for every act of the broadband rollout.
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Reuters:
Google CEO sees one small acquisition a month — PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said acquisitions are “turned on again” at the Internet company and expects to do one small deal a month instead of hiring new staff. — Schmidt also reiterated his view …
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WebProNews, TechCrunch, MediaMemo, NBC Bay Area, PE Hub Blog, TechFlash and paidContent, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Nervous About Smooth iPhone MMS Launch - Source says that 10AM Eastern on Friday is the magic hour... Insiders involved with AT&T's belated launch of iPhone MMS support tell us that everybody's highly anxious about the launch, as the carrier rushes to beef up infrastructure in order …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows 8: More early clues start to emerge — As soon as Microsoft releases the final bits of a new Windows release to manufacturing — and often before — many users' thoughts turn to what's next. — Windows 7 and its server complement, Windows Server 2008 R2, were released to manufacturing in late July.
Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
Details on Twitter's Imminent Geolocation Launch — Twitter's new geolocation support was supposed to launch for developers at today's Twitter Conference in LA (which I'm attending), but it wasn't quite ready yet. Still, Twitter's platform lead Ryan Sarver announced several details about how it will work …
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Scobleizer, Switched, Mashable!, ProgrammableWeb, All Points Blog, GeekSugar and Beyond Search, Thanks:atul
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics) — Microsoft is close to opening retail stores in several major cities across the planet, but in Paris they're doing something special in anticipation of the real shops and the imminent launch of the Windows 7 operating system.
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The Seattle Times, Mobile Roar, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, Neowin.net, geeksmack.net and Seeking Alpha
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A Wi-Fi Alternative When the Network Gets Clogged — Talk about falling short of expectations. — In the last year, millions of people have snapped up new smartphones, filled them with apps and promptly found out that they couldn't actually use them. — The problem?
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VentureBeat
cabel.name:
Windows 7 Party — Good news! Microsoft recently released some very helpful tips for hosting your own Windows 7 party! — Can I just stop here, and can we be honest with each other? Does this kind of acting resonate with anybody? (As Steve noted, it's totally Shovin' Buddies! )
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Gawker, Mashable!, TechFlash, 9 to 5 Mac, Fast Company, kevinbriody.net, Gizmodo, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Marco.org, InformationWeek and MacDailyNews
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Time for Demo to change—a lot — The 13-year reign of Chris Shipley as the Diva of Demo is coming to an end. The writer, consultant, and longtime content chief of the conference series, started in 1991 by Stewart Alsop, is leaving the show. Demo is now coming under the direction of Matt Marshall …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don't build a paywall around a public good — NYU professor and Internet thinker Clay Shirky gave a talk Tuesday at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, our friends just on the other side of Harvard Square.
Reuters:
Palm shares rise on short covering, Nokia talk — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Palm Inc (PALM.O) shares jumped to their highest level in nearly two years on Tuesday, fueled by short covering and renewed speculation that the smartphone maker may be a takeover target.
Julian Dibbell / Wired News:
The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology — In the evening of January 15, 2008, a 31-year-old tech consultant named Gregg Housh sat down at the computer and paid a visit to one of his favorite Web sites, the message board known as 4chan.
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Cisco CEO Optimistic About the Economy — Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers was one of the first tech executives to predict that the recession — then limited to the financial sector — would spread to the rest of the economy. Now he's among the first to say it's on the way back.
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Sadagopan's weblog …
Adobe:
Adobe Releases Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows and Mac — For immediate release — Intelligent Technology and Ease of Use Delivers the Power to Do More with Photos — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe®Photoshop®Elements 8 software available …
Andrey / Inside BlackBerry:
BlackBerry Desktop Software: a Closer Look at the Mac OS Version — BlackBerry® Desktop Software is now compatible with the Mac OS platform, and the upcoming release is just around the corner. We'd like to take this opportunity to share some details about the key features included in v1.0.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
DEMO: Emo Labs and Liaise win $1M media prize — Two companies have been selected as winners of this week's DEMOfall 09 conference and will receive a total of $1 million in free advertising. The winner on the consumer side was Emo Labs, which developed a speaker that delivers great sound …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
DEMO: Pho.to's a basic version of Photoshop on the web — Adobe Photoshop has been a must-have editing tool for almost two decades. But with photos moving to the cloud on sites like Facebook and Flickr, VicMan Software says there's a room for a web-based competitor.
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
WARNING: Twitter Worm Spreading via Direct Messages — We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter. Hacked accounts are sending DMs to users and stealing their login information.
BBC:
‘Tweeting’ medics expose patients — Medics posting messages on networking websites like Facebook and Twitter are breaching patient confidentiality, a leading journal reveals. — Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association found examples of web gossip by trainee doctors sharing private patient stories and details.
