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Prem Ramaswami / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Public DNS — When you type www.wikipedia.org into your browser's address bar, you expect nothing less than to be taken to Wikipedia. Chances are you're not giving much thought to the work being done in the background by the Domain Name System, or DNS.
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David Ulevitch / OpenDNS Blog:
Some thoughts on Google DNS — Google launched a DNS service today, almost exactly four years after I started OpenDNS. This comes as no surprise as it was only a matter of time before one of the Internet giants realized the strategic importance of DNS. I've received a lot of questions from bloggers …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Gets Into The DNS Business. Here's What That Means — Google just announced Google Public DNS, a new service that lets consumers use Google as their DNS service provider. The benefits to users are a theoretically faster and more stable browsing experience, and some additional security against malware type sites.
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google quietly rolls out Dictionary [Updated] — What does “googling” mean? Google can tell you. — The search giant has quietly rolled out Google Dictionary, which presents definitions and synonyms. Exactly what you'd expect from a dictionary. — In addition to Google's own database …
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Zee / The Next Web:
Google Search has just made it much easier to find information in any language. — Google has just introduced a wonderful way to use Google Search to find information in other regions and languages. — The tool has been available for some time, but today it becomes a fully integrated …
Leland / Twitter Blog:
Takeout dogfood — Hi all, this is @leland, user experience lead on the @twittermobile team. I wanted to share a little bit of what we've been working on and thinking about. — It's probably no secret that Twitter has an active developer community, using our APIs to create fantastically innovative apps.
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Search Blog:
A note about today's outage — Bing.com was down between about 6:30 and 7:00 PM Pacific Time on Dec 3, 2009. During this time, users were either unable to get to the site, or their queries were returning incomplete results page. — The cause of the outage was a configuration change during …
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Bing back online after hour long outage — Microsoft's search and decision engine, Bing, experienced what appears to have been nearly an hour long worldwide outage this evening. — Reports of Bing's unavailability first surfaced on Twitter where hundreds of people commented on the issues.
Patrick Hoge / bizjournals:
CrunchPad partner plans media event — The man whom TechCrunch blog network founder and editor Michael Arrington blamed for killing his CrunchPad hardware project has scheduled a video call with reporters and industry analysts for Monday, according to a Silicon Valley public relations firm.
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Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News:
New Droid ad: iPhone is ‘digitally clueless’ — Perhaps you have already become used to Verizon's Droid tossing names at the iPhone like an 8-year-old boy behind his teacher's back. — However, the latest ill feelings directed at Apple's little cutey seem beyond even anything heard in an elementary school.
Chromium Blog:
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? — Earlier this year, we heard from many of you on how important speed is to your daily activities on the web. We kicked off a series of discussions with the Internet community on ways to make the web faster: from Internet protocols …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Yes, We Can Write Our Opinions Without Contacting The Company We're Writing About First — This happens all too frequently. I recently wrote a short post about something that was apparently happening with YouTube and soon after received an angry email from a PR person at the company …
Frank Watson / Search Engine Watch:
It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas: Changes At Google to Increase Ad Spends — Google announced the launch of extensive changes to their ad formats last week. Interestingly, some are like the methods AdSense publishers used to use to increase CTRs before Google banned them.
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple announces free iTunes Christmas give-aways for Europe — Apple UK has announced the ‘iTunes 12 Days of Christmas’ promotion, offering free songs, music videos, apps, TV episodes and films on a daily basis during the promotion. — The promotion run from December 26 to January 6.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
With Redesign, Reuters.com Goes After Consumer Audience — With the general business magazines that are still in existence trying to keep their heads above water, Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) believes this is a good time for a major overhaul of its consumer-facing website.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Vendors to launch Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010 — Asustek Computer, Acer, Lenovo and even Micro-Star International (MSI), which originally planned to launch in December, are all set to launch their Atom N450-based netbooks on January 11, 2010, complying with their agreement …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Seeking a Symbol for ‘This Ad Knows About You’ — A proposed symbol, the asterisk with a head, is meant to tell people that Internet ads collect and use information about them. It is shown here with the text that appears when users move the mouse over the logo.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook notifies members about Beacon settlement — An e-mail was sent on Thursday to Facebook users who were members at the time that its controversial, now-defunct Beacon advertising program was operated: it's the official notice about the proposed settlement for the class-action lawsuit against Beacon.
iSuppli:
Acer Takes No.-2 PC Rank in Q3; Market Returns to Annual Growth — Marking a major milestone in the history of the computer industry, an Asian OEM has captured the No.-2 position in the global PC market on a quarterly basis for the first time, according to iSuppli Corp.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome For Mac Beta Launch Is Imminent — Sometime in the past few hours, the Mac Detailed Status page on Chromium's website has been changed to the “Mac OS X Roadmap.” Why? Because the team has wiped out the bugs that were blocking a beta release of Chrome for Mac, and it is on the verge of launching.
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
New Motorola Android handset spotted, photographed — Posted up in our comments under our Motorola Sholes Tablet article is supposedly another never-yet-seen Motorola Android handset. This is also apparently a full touchscreen device that features an 8 megapixel camera with autofocus and dual LED flash …
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Friendster to be sold by month's end -source — * To be sold to an Asian buyer end-Dec for at least $100 mln — * More than half of Friendster's 100 mln users from Asia — * Industry blog values Friendster at $210 million (Adds background, details) — Friendster, one of the world's …
Alaska Miller / Silicon Alley Insider:
EBay Founder Invests $1.4 Million Into Emergency Alert System — Omidyar Network — run by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar — is investing $1.4 million in Ushahidi, an open-source emergency alert platform. — Ushahidi works by taking information submited via SMS texts, email, or the Internet …
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Defense Dept. pulls software over privacy issues — The Department of Defense has pulled a parental control product from its online store serving military families after learning that the company collects childrens' data, according to documents the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained from the government agency.
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
YouTube beta testing stripped down “Feather” design — They just put the Google homepage on a diet, and now they're looking at ways to trim the fat from YouTube as well. — Google has introduced an opt-in beta for Feather, a new layout which strips away a lot of the excess from the standard page layout.
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Open source: The money is in the cloud — For those entrepreneurs looking to make a living from open-source software, Index Ventures general partner Bernard Dallé has some advice: get thee to a cloud strategy. — Why? At a time when enterprises may be less willing to spend on software …
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Amit / Digital Inspiration:
“15 Google Users Tried Bing for a Week and 10 of them Switched” — Bing is good and it has definitely helped Microsoft improve its market share in the search engine market this year but most people here would have problems agreeing with the findings of a study that was recently posted on YouTube.
Dan Macsai / Fast Company:
G-Railed: Why Did Google Bury the Web's Oldest Entertainment Publication? [UPDATE] — UPDATE: Roughly two hours after this post went live, Google re-enabled Studio Briefing's ad serving, without explanation. Irwin still wishes he knew, specifically, what he did wrong. But for now, he says, “we're back in business.”
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia says halving smartphone portfolio — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia aims to tackle increasing competition in the smartphone market by halving its portfolio next year, its smartphone unit executives said. — The Finnish firm continues to sell more smartphones than any of its rivals …
