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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! — At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people …
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Twitter Blog:
@google Nice! — Our friends down in Mountain View want to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A fast growing amount of information is coursing through Twitter very quickly, and we want there to be many ways to access that information.
Bing / Search Blog:
Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You — One of the most interesting things going on today on the Internet is the notion of the real time web. The idea of accessing data in real time has been an elusive goal in the world of search. Web indexes in search engines update at pretty amazing rates …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Up Close With Bing's Twitter Search Engine
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Web 2.0 Summit: Marissa Mayer Shows Off Social Search, Results From Your Social Networks — At the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco, Google's Marissa Mayer unexpected came on stage to unveil a new product. She first announced that Google has also reached a deal with Twitter …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Google's New Social Search Is A Big Chess Move Against Facebook
Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Windows 7's Big Day Tomorrow + New Offers Announced! — Tomorrow's our big day - Windows 7 officially launches and hits General Availability (or GA as we have acronyms for everything). That means Windows 7 will be available for purchase worldwide! I thought I'd take a moment to highlight …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft releases Windows 7 — It's midnight (Eastern time) on Thursday, October 22, 2009, which can only mean one thing: Windows 7 is now officially released. — Largely seen as a polishing of Microsoft's dud Windows Vista - and a much-awaited polishing - the new operating system …
Andrew Thomas / TG Daily:Amazon: Windows 7 is ‘the biggest pre-order product of all time’
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Will Chen / Facebook Blog:
A New Tune for Facebook Gifts — We're continuing to enhance the Facebook Gift Shop so you have more ways to express your appreciation for the people in your life. A couple months ago, we took a first step by testing new types of gifts created by developers, including e-cards …
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Hot on Heels of Google, Facebook to Take First Step Into Music — Several reports Wednesday indicate that Google is set to roll-out a music service at an event at the iconic Capitol Records building in Hollywood next Wednesday. The service, we've confirmed from three people briefed on the details …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How The iPhone Is Blowing Everyone Else Away (In Charts) — Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker did her annual data dump slide presentation, this year focusing on the growth prospects of the mobile Web. As usual, there were 3 or 4 slides …
Robert MacMillan / MediaFile:
MySpace: A place for musicians... and their friends — It appears to be Music Wednesday on the Internet. On the same day that reports began circulating that Google and Facebook will launch a host of new music features, News Corp's MySpace is turning up the volume on its own music offering.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Verizon CEO slams Net neutrality — CHICAGO—The day before the FCC is expected to start the ball rolling on new regulations to keep the Internet open, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg painted a doomsday picture of what could happen in the industry if stricter rules are imposed.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook shows off new homepage for touchscreen phones — Facebook is testing a new mobile homepage designed for touchscreen phones. You can try it here at http://touch.facebook.com. After launching apps for both the iPhone and Google's Android platform, Facebook still has to work …
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John Furrier / The SiliconANGLE:
Exclusive: Mike Schroepfer on Cloud Collision and Scaling Facebook [Interview] — Mike Schroepfer spoke today at the Web 2.0 Summit, and dropped the now headlined factoid that the site's 300 million users spend a collective 8 billion minutes on the site each day.
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Ballmer Talks Natal, Says Blu-ray Add-On for Xbox Coming — In the first segment of our exclusive Steve Ballmer interview series, the Microsoft CEO and I talk about Natal, the blurring of console generations, and the surprising assertion that “you'll be able to get” Blu-ray add-on drives for Xbox 360.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Music Service: The Screenshots — None of the companies involved will confirm the new Google Music service - we have “no comments” or absolute silence from Google, LaLa, MySpace and iLike. But the new service is all but confirmed. And we have the screenshots showing how the service …
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Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
New Verizon Droid Dates: October 28, November 9 — We've got fresh news today on the Verizon/Motorola Droid front. Verizon Wireless's first (and highly-awaited) Android phone is now tipped to do ... something ... November 9, according to a small postcard I got in the mail from Verizon's PR agency today (shown at left.)
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Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Android-powered HTC Hero smartphones in tight supply, says HTC executive — The HTC Hero smartphones from HTC (High Tech Computer) are currently enjoying brisk sales in the markets in Europe and Asia, causing tight production at HTC, according to Jack Tong, vice president of Asia Pacific at HTC.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Toshiba Dynario fuel-cell: the battery revolution begins October 29th — We can hardly believe it but the day has finally arrived: Toshiba just launched the first Dynario fuel-cell for portable consumer electronics. That's right, the long promised and highly anticipated direct methanol fuel-cell …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's new 27 inch iMac designed to also work as a display — Apple has designed its new 27" iMac model to serve as an external display for DisplayPort devices such as recent MacBook and MacBook Pros. — The new model is the first all-in-one system from Apple that doubles as an external display.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Flickr Adds People Tagging. And It's Better Than Facebook's. — My mother always yells at me when she looks at my pictures on Flickr, saying that I don't take enough pictures of people. The truth is, I do, I just put most of those on Facebook because it's a billion times better for pictures …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Even Star Investors Can't Save DotBlu From The DeadPool — DotBlu, which we first covered in 2007 when it was called BluBet, had some of Silicon Valley's highest profile angel investors backing it. But it wasn't enough, and company hit the deadpool earlier this week.
