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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Relevance meets the real-time web — Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content on the multitude of devices you use to access it.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Aims To Push The Speed Of Light With Realtime Results. Seriously. — Today, at its Search Event in Mountain View, Google Fellow Amit Singhal took the stage to announce a big new feature for the search giant: Realtime. “It's Google's relevance technology meeting the realtime web,” is how Singhal described it.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Facebook Will Be Google-able (If Your Profile is Set to Public)
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Rafe Needleman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Hands-on with the JooJoo — CNET snagged the first journalists' demo of the new JooJoo (formerly CrunchPad) Web slate on Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan's San Francisco media tour. Quick impressions: yeah, this is a really cool device. Everyone reading a tech site like CNET will want one.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Crunchpad manufacturer renames product JooJoo, promises launch this Friday at $499 — A year and a half ago, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington set out to build and sell a “dead-simple Web tablet for $200.” — His reasoning: There's a giant hole in the market for a computer bigger than an iPhone …
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Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Fusion Garage fires back at TechCrunch's Arrington, alleging broken promises — Fusion Garage this morning fired back at Michael Arrington, a blogger who last week accused the startup of treachery and theft of intellectual property. — Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan, the chief executive of Fusion Garage …
Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:
Mobile Search for a New Era: Voice, Location and Sight — Editor's note: today Google held a launch event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Fresh off the stage, we've invited Vic to highlight the mobile team's announcements, and the unique set of technologies that make them possible.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Lala's Fire Sale That Wasn't: What Apple Really Paid — On Friday, I reported that Apple was buying Lala at a fire-sale price, which meant that investors in the music service wouldn't get their money back. I was wrong. — Apple ended up paying around $80 million for the company, according to multiple sources.
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Almost 1% Of The App Store Pulled Over A Rating Scam — Glyn Evans over at iphoneography brought a very interesting story to the public's attention this weekend. A friend of his, SCW, was looking into some photography apps by the developer Molinker (the apps actually look curiously similar …
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Christopher Breen / Macworld:
Boxee shows off beta version with improved interface — At an event in Brooklyn on Monday, Boxee showed off the upcoming beta version of its media center application for OS X, Windows, Linux, and Apple TV. The Boxee software, based on the open-source XBMC, lets you watch and listen …
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The Official Google Blog:
Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone — What if you could decide where to shop, eat or hang out, with a little help from local Google users? — It might take you a while to ask them all, so to make it easier we've launched a new effort to send window decals …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Hyperlocal Aggregator Outside.in Raises $7 Million From CNN, Others — Time Warner's CNN is taking a stake in hyperlocal aggregator Outside.in—the latest example of a big media organization making a play in the hyperlocal space. CNN is getting a share of Outside.in as part …
Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
If You Can Draw It on a Whiteboard, You Can Send It to a Kindle — As a “type A” student, I routinely tried to write down nearly everything my teachers wrote on the chalkboard. Aside from blisters and far too many trips to the pencil sharpener, I'm not sure my approach yielded much.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Assistly Comes Out Of Stealth, Adds Mark Cuban And David Liu As Advisors — We've just gotten our first look at Assistly, a new startup that's looking to provide businesses with a robust platform for engaging customers on everything from Email to Facebook and Twitter.
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T releases Mark the Spot, a network failure reporting tool — Poor AT&T, it must be tired of being tied to the whipping post and constantly flogged in the media for its abysmal network performance. To address its network woes, AT&T has released a new iPhone application called Mark …
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Tim Lohman / Computerworld:
VMware developing dual OS smartphone virtualisation — Work and home phones apps and calls will run on the same handset at the same time via virtualisation — VMware has flagged smartphones as the next platform in the evolution of virtualisation, but at least one major competitor …
Reuters:
EBay and Craigslist square off in Delaware court — GEORGETOWN, Delaware (Reuters) - EBay has put its former chief executive, Meg Whitman, on the witness stand on Monday to make the case that Craigslist unfairly denied the Internet giant a seat on its board.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Online Sample Sale Site Ideeli Raises A Whopping $20 Million — We've written about the rapid growth of online sample sales; with the latest news coming from the rumored acquisition of European sample sale site Vente-Privee by Amazon for an estimated $3.01 billion .
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James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google - from friend to foe? — Two bright young men transformed an idea into the era's dominant technology company by outmaneuvering lumbering giants in the field. As the upstart blossomed into a titan in its own right, its behavior sparked allegations of monopolistic practices and drew the eye of the Justice Department.
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Judge Finalizes $675,000 RIAA Piracy Verdict, Won't Gag Defendant — A federal judge on Monday finalized a $675,000 jury verdict against a defendant who went to trial after the Recording Industry Association of America sued him for file sharing. — U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner presided …
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
Verizon Promises LTE Speeds of 5-12 Mbps — Verizon Wireless has finally disclosed expected speeds for its upcoming LTE network, saying the technology will support average data rates per user of 5-12 Mbps on download and 2-5 Mbps on uploads. LTE latency will be roughly one-fourth …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hold On, MySpace/Imeem Deal Ain't Done Yet, Being Renegotiated — Last month we broke the news that MySpace was acquiring music service iMeem, and that an agreement had been signed between the two companies. — All of that was accurate, including the $1 million fire sale price.
Rupert Murdoch / Wall Street Journal:
Journalism and Freedom — Government assistance is a greater threat to the press than any new technology. — Printer — Friendly — We are at a time when many news enterprises are shutting down or scaling back. No doubt you will hear some tell you that journalism is in dire shape, and the triumph of digital is to blame.
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Maple Leafs / Toronto Star:
Geist: Record industry faces liability over ‘infringement’ — Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
FTC Will Review Google's Proposed Acquisition of AdMob — The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — The development at this stage appears procedural …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Personalized Results: The “New Normal” That Deserves Extraordinary Attention — On Friday afternoon, Google made the biggest change that has ever happened in search engines, and the world largely yawned. Maybe Google timed its announcement that it was personalizing everyone's search results just right, so few would notice.
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Peter Farago / blog.flurry.com:
Flurry Smartphone Industry Pulse, November 2009 — The data in this report is computed from a sample size of over 3,000 applications, 45 million consumers and 4 platforms: Apple (iPhone and iPod Touch), Blackberry, JavaME and Google Android. Each day, Flurry tracks over 15 million end user …
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Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Stations Turn Apps Into Cash — Merely extending news brand to handhelds not enough for some — If 2009 was the year when stations launched their iPhone applications, 2010 will be when many outlets aim to turn those apps—downloads offering real-time local news on various mobile devices—into real profit.
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