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Pierre Lebeau / Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice with your existing number — Google Voice is all about enabling choice: which phone you pick up your calls on, where to review your voicemail messages, how to send and reply to text messages, etc. So when it comes to your phone number, it was logical for us to also offer a choice of which number to use with Google Voice.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Can Now Take Control Of Your Mobile Voicemail — Google Voice is a great way to manage phone hell by giving you a single phone number that automatically rings your mobile, home, work and other phones based on your choice of rules and settings (who's calling, when, etc.).
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Maureen Heymans / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend's New York blog! — Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Social Search Launches, Gives Results From Your Trusted “Social Circle” — Google Social Search is rolling out, a new service from Google that allows you to easily find material written by people you know and trust. It's a pretty cool idea, especially in that it's pretty painless to get started using it.
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AWS Evangelist / Amazon Web Services Blog:
Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service — We are always looking for ways to make it faster, simpler, and more fun to develop applications of all types. Every hour that you don't spend fiddling with hardware, tracing cables, installing operating systems or managing databases …
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Krishnan Subramanian / CloudAve:
Amazon Releases Relational Database As A Service - My Initial Thoughts — Here is a breaking news from Amazon. Amazon Web Services is releasing Relational Database as a Service (RDS). The press release is yet to go out but the website is active. They will be announcing the news at 1:00 AM PST tomorrow.
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Michael Schneider / Variety:
MacFarlane special loses Microsoft — Microsoft has yanked its sponsorship off Fox's upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy/variety special. Fox still plans to air “Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show” on Nov. 8, but with another, yet-to-be-named sponsor.
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Interoperability:
Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) Documentation — By Paul Lorimer, Group Manager, Microsoft Office Interoperability — Data portability has become an increasing need for our customers and partners as more information is stored and shared in digital formats.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Microsoft's Outlook Opens Up To an Uncertain Future — While most of us were too engrossed in the somewhat ephemeral news around Google's new attempts at becoming social, something much more profound transpired - something that can have an impact on millions upon millions of people today.
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Michell Bak / se-blog:
What's Next: Sony Ericsson posts Rachael announcement date - now officially confirmed! — Sony Ericsson have just launched the “What's Next?” campaign website and there's no doubt it's about the announcement of Rachael, which according to the site will happen on the 3rd of November. — How can I be so sure?
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome, Not Chromium, For Mac Has That Solid Feel — We've spent the past several months closely tracking the progress of Chrome for Mac. Well over a year after its release for Windows, there hasn't been so much as a beta version for Mac (or Linux, for that matter) yet.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Microsoft's MSN Is in Early Talks With MySpace About Music Tie-Up — Microsoft's MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace about using the social networking site's music service, MySpace Music, to help power music offerings on the giant portal. — While sources at both companies cautioned …
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
Newspapers Across the Country Show Steep Declines in Circulation, in New FAS-FAX — NEW YORK Circulation at many of the country's largest newspapers continued a steep slide as the Audit Bureau of Circulations Monday morning released the latest figures for the six months ending September 2009 …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
HTC Working on Android 2.0 Phones — It looks like Motorola aren't the only people to get a taste of that yummy Eclair - otherwise known as Android 2.0. The Android 2.0 software launch is going very oddly. Google hasn't announced the OS or SDK, but Verizon says the Motorola Droid will be running the OS.
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Engadget, Pocket-lint.com, Android Central, Android Phone Fans, SlashGear and The Unlockr
Rachel Kremen / Technology Review:
Microsoft's Many Multitouch Mice — Apple's Magic Mouse might be slick, but Microsoft is working on five multitouch mouse designs. — Last week Apple released the Magic Mouse, a new computer mouse with a “multitouch” interface that responds to movement of fingertips across its surface …
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Don Reisinger / CNET News:
Google refines Custom Search, delivers Wikipedia skin — To commemorate last week's third anniversary of the launch of Google's Custom Search tool, the search giant has announced a slate of updates to its customizable search service. — Design options — To kick things off …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Old Trick Threatens the Newest Weapons — Despite a six-year effort to build trusted computer chips for military systems, the Pentagon now manufactures in secure facilities run by American companies only about 2 percent of the more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits bought annually for use in military gear.
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Sun's MySQL fork survival theory ripped — GPL does code, not ‘brand’ — If Oracle screws up MySQL, the community will fork and the database will live on under another name - leaving Oracle high and dry. — At least that's the open-source theory. And it's a theory Sun Microsystems' executives past …
Zee / The Next Web:
It's Official. Google Wave to Get Its Own App Store (with potentially more than just apps) — My fellow writer James Glick attended the Google Wave GTUG (Google Technology User Group) meeting in London yesterday and came away with a few interesting nuggets of information regarding the future of Google Wave.
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Facebook and MySpace are engaged in contentsharing talks — Facebook and MySpace are in talks about sharing content across both sites, according to senior figures at the two companies. — The move could potentially see MySpace music and video footage being shared on Facebook via its Connect platform …
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Wall Street Journal:
Tech Firms Make Bet With Ad Blitz — Technology companies are launching big advertising campaigns as they wager on a pickup in business spending and jockey to have their products stand apart in an environment where new customers are hard to find and competition is intensifying.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Facebook tinkering with big changes that may weaken app virality — Facebook is having one-on-one meetings with some of its larger developers detailing a series of changes that could significantly affect the way applications are spread through the social network.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Orkut Slows Hemorrhaging To Facebook By Making Friend Export Tool Nearly Useless — Orkut continues to undermine Google's Data Liberation Front, whose singular goal is to “make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products”. Earlier this month the Orkut friend exporter …
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Kirk Biglione / Medialoper:
Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing? — Last week bookseller Barnes and Noble unveiled the Nook, its long-awaited eReading device. Although ill-named, the Nook is a worthy competitor to the Kindle, offering a number of features not found on the Amazon device, including LendMe …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
inPulse Smartwatch for BlackBerry Smartphones Gets Official; Now Available for Pre-Order! — A week ago we dropped photos and some preliminary specs here on the “BlackBerry Watch” that has been speculated about in the blogosphere since May. And today, the inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry gets official.
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today — We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated “under construction” signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of horns playing taps. — Instead, GeoCities will probably go down with a whimper today.
Max Kelly / Facebook Blog:
Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook — I'm facing an anniversary soon: I will have worked at Facebook for four years. I was originally drawn to the company for the opportunity to help build a technology that enables people to model their social network and interact with it online.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter And Y Combinator Team Up For Startup Stream Access — This past weekend, Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone spoke at Startup School. Before they took the stage, they met up with Y Combinator's Paul Graham and came up with a great idea: A deal to ensure …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform — Mozilla Messaging, the organization behind the Thunderbird e-mail program, has introduced a new open source messaging aggregation platform: Raindrop. The project is at an extremely early stage of development but the code …
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