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Google LatLong:
Introducing Google Building Maker — [Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog] — Some of us here at Google spend almost all of our time thinking about one thing: How do we create a three-dimensional model of every built structure on Earth? How do we make sure it's accurate …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nokia tells all on Booklet 3G: $299 with a 2-year contract on AT&T — Nokia, AT&T, Best Buy and Microsoft are all holding hands and singing the same song about Nokia's Booklet 3G today. The good news is that the device will be subsidized by AT&T, at $299 with a 2-year contract at a $60 a month data plan …
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Got the wrong Bob? — Posted by Ari Leichtberg, Software Engineer and Yossi Matias, Head of Israel Engineering Center — When's the last time you got an email from a stranger asking, “Are you sure you meant to send this to me?” and promptly realized that you didn't?
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Download Squad, Bloomberg, CNET News, VentureBeat, eWeek, PC World, TechCrunch, TechSpot, AppScout, Mashable!, Erictric and Gizmodo, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Jamie Sport / The Daily Quail:
The Carter-Ruck school of viral marketing — How to ensure maximum publicity for your new gagging order — Marketing experts were stunned today at the success of media law firm Carter-Ruck's high profile ‘gagging order’ campaign, designed to generate buzz around their client Trafigura's latest toxic waste product.
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Padraig Reidy / The Great Debate:Internet freedom prevails over Guardian gag order
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
In Latest Deal, Cisco Buys Starent for $2.9 Billion — Another week, another $3 billion acquisition for Cisco Systems. — On Tuesday, Cisco announced that it would pay $35 a share or $2.9 billion for Starent Networks, which makes products that help wireless telecommunications companies ship large volumes …
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage — Additional insiders have stepped forward to shed more light into Microsoft's troubled acquisition of Danger, its beleaguered Pink Project, and what has become one of the most high profile Information Technology disasters in recent memory.
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Royal Pingdom:
Sweden's Internet broken by DNS mistake — Last night, a routine maintenance of Sweden's top-level domain .se went seriously wrong, introducing an error that made DNS lookups for all .se domain names start failing. The entire Swedish Internet effectively stopped working at this point.
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BetaNews, .SE, The Local, TechCrunch Europe, The Register, CNET News, Domain Name News, Mashable!, Network World and DSLreports
The Official Google Blog:
Invite a friend to Google Voice — (Cross-posted from the Google Voice Blog) — Since the debut of Google Voice, our early users have shared lots of feedback that has led to some exciting new features, like the ability to receive SMS messages via email and the option to change your Google Voice number.
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Between the Lines, Google Watch, Download Squad, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and Lifehacker, Thanks:atul
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Disney's Retail Plan Is a Theme Park in Its Stores — LOS ANGELES — The Walt Disney Company, with the help of Steven P. Jobs and his retailing team at Apple, intends to drastically overhaul its approach to the shopping mall. — At a time when many retailers are still cutting …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
ViVu Raises $3 Million For Online Video Conferencing Platform — ViVu, an online video conferencing platform, has raised $3 million in Series A funding led by Inventus Capital Partners, with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Quest Venture Partners and entrepreneur Bill Carrico participating.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
In-house Radio.app in the works for iPhone and iPod touch — We've just received a tip that an iPhone radio.app is being developed in-house by Apple for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. From what we know, the app will be allowed to operate in the background like iPod.app and will offer …
PC World:
Acer's First Windows 7 Netbook: Aspire One D250 — Acer has unveiled a new version of its Aspire One netbook running Windows 7 and plans to put it on sale simultaneously with the new operating system's debut next week. — The Aspire One D250 has a 10.1-inch screen, which is the same size …
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eWeek, All about Microsoft, Softpedia News, Liliputing, I4U News, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, TechSpot and Akihabaranews.com
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Pepsi apologises for ‘sexist’ iPhone app — Pepsi has apologised for releasing an iPhone app that encouraged men to brag about their sexual conquests. — The AMP UP Before You Score app also provided phone users with chat-up lines for “getting lucky” with 24 different types of women …
Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
Apple's iPhone will be available from every UK mobile operator — The Apple iPhone will soon be available from all five of Britain's mobile phone operators. — The hugely popular phone hit the headlines last month when Orange and Vodafone broke into O2's exclusive deal to sell the device in the UK …
Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley Lives — Barney Frank spares venture capital. — Printer — Friendly — In a rare bit of good news from Washington, the investment model that created Intel, Apple and Google will be allowed to exist. According to his draft legislation, Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Skype In Negotiations To Acquire Gizmo5 — Litigation-beleaguered Skype is in negotiations to buy peer-to-peer VoIP startup Gizmo5, say multiple sources. The price tag is said to be in the $50 million range, but the deal is far from consummated. Other potential buyers may be looking at the company as well.
Chris Woodyard / USA Today:
Who needs a key? IPhone app unlocks and starts car — A California company Tuesday will announce an iPhone application and car receiver that will enable users to lock, unlock and remotely start their car with the phone rather than the car's key fob. — The Viper SmartStart is the latest example …
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Gist unveils iPhone app: Managing contacts on the go — Just last month, Gist unveiled a new online service that allows users to peruse emails, Tweets, news stories and other information. Now, the Seattle startup is bringing that power to iPhone users. — Gist today is introducing a free app …
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook Now Has 30,000 Servers — A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility. — How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the company began using in April 2008.
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Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
MySpace replaces all server hard disks with flash drives — MySpace's new SSD servers use about 1% the power of its hard disk drive predecessors — Computerworld - Social networking site MySpace.com announced today that it has switched from using hard disk drives in its servers to using PCI Express …
24/7 Wall St.:
Major Blogs Can Lose 90% Of Their Value If Founders Go: Huffington, TechCrunch, Gawker, Drudge — The author was a member of the board of directors of TheStreet.com from 2000 to 2005. One of the major concerns of the board was what would happen if Jim Cramer left the company …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Next Firefox can detect computer orientation — (Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET — The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you're listing to starboard—and pass that information along to applications running in the browser.
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Download Squad, Gizmodo, Mashable!, Softpedia News, hacks.mozilla.org, TechSpot, The Register, Computerworld, blog.mozbox.org, PC Pro and The Tech Report
Music Week:
Apple denies iTunes LP charges — Apple said today that it does not charge a production fee for iTunes LP, after an independent label in the US claimed that it was being priced out of the market for the new format. — Brian McKinney, who runs Chicago's Chocolate Lab Records …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Sue or Sign: EMI Trades Lawsuit for Deal With Music Start-Up Grooveshark — Well look at that: EMI Music Group, which had been working on a licensing deal with music start-up Grooveshark but ended up suing it instead, now has a licensing deal with Grooveshark after all.
