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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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Business Week, blogs.ft.com, Computerworld, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Epicenter, New York Times, Beyond Search, Rob Hof's Blog, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Guardian, PC World, BetaNews, GigaOM, Socialmedia.biz, Redmond Pie, The Register, GeekBrief.TV, Android and Me, pluGGd.in, DVICE, SEO and Tech Daily, ResourceShelf, ChannelWeb, WebWorkerDaily, Lifehacker, mocoNews, All Facebook, Laughing Squid, The Microsoft Blog, Download Squad, TechFlash, Google Operating System, Neowin.net, eWeek, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Got Kit?, Thanks:atul
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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.
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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SlashGear, 901am, CNET News, PC World, Gadget Lab, eHomeUpgrade and MAKE Magazine, Thanks:mgcreed
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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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Gizmodo, Engadget, Electronista, jkOnTheRun, The Next Web Network, InformationWeek, The SiliconANGLE, MediaFile, Gadgetsteria, All about Microsoft, Hardware 2.0, TechStartups.com, Technology Live, Between the Lines, Pulse2, DVICE, Maximum PC, Gearlog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Marco.org, Electricpig.co.uk, Technologizer, Digital Trends and GottaBeMobile.com
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
LaLa Was Bought By Apple For $17 Million, Not $80 Million — Sometimes you have to apply the smell test to what your sources are telling you, and the rumors we're hearing about Apple's purchase of music service LaLa are definitely smelling a little off. $80 million for LaLa? That isn't what we're hearing.
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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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Erictric, AppleInsider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET News, Ars Technica, MacRumors and Mashable!
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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VentureBeat, Boxee Blog, Technologizer, blogs.ft.com, New York Times, L.A. Times Tech Blog, NewTeeVee, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and CNET News
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Mark Hachman / Gearlog:$200 Boxee Box Based on D-Link
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Engadget, Seth Weintraub's blog, PC World, paidContent, Macworld, CrunchGear, Gadgetsteria, Electronista and Mashable!
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Seagate finally makes move from hard drives to flash storage — Seagate makes about $10 billion a year in revenues from its 30-year-old hard drive business. But today, after two years of study, the company is launching a new flash memory storage business.
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Computerworld, The Register, Financial Times, CNET News, Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo
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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Elliot Schwartz / Google LatLong:Find what's nearby and try Labs features with Google Maps for Android
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Google Watch, TechCrunch, Android Central, TechRadar.com and Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul
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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The Apple Core, Gizmodo, appfreak, GottaBeMobile.com, Mashable!, EverythingiCafe and The iPhoneography Blog
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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 …
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Wall Street Journal, HyperlocalBlogger, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web Network and Local Onliner
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
5 New Features from Google Analytics — Yesterday at SES Chicago, Google announced the following updates to Analytics: — Annotations — If you share Google Analytics information with multiple people, then this will be particularly useful. Just make a note about a spike or dip …
Mel Martin / TUAW:
Dragon Dictation comes to the iPhone. Wow. — Put this into the 'I didn't think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone' category. — I'm talking about Dragon Dictation [iTunes link] from Nuance, the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC.
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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Gizmodo, Mashable!, Lifehacker, CrunchGear, PC World, Christian Science Monitor, iLounge, Digital Daily, Computerworld, Etan on Tech, Appletell, Life On the Wicked Stage, 9 to 5 Mac, Mobility Site and Neowin.net, Thanks:onebeat
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Follow the money: The ROI Scareware, Spyware, click fraud, pharma spam — Massive banking exploits and easy to deploy threats will be more prevalent in 2010, but the real cash cows will remain scareware, spyware, click fraud, advance-fee fraud and pharma, according to Cisco's annual security report.
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.
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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.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
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.
DigiTimes:
Flextronics lands 2 million netbook order from HP for 2010, says paper — Flextronics has recently landed orders for two million netbooks from Hewlett-Packard (HP) for 2010 through the vendor's e-bidding system with a manufacturing quote of US$45 for each unit, according …
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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 …
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.
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 …
Jamey Heary / Network World:
Cisco Completes Acquisition of Cloud Based ScanSafe — Scansafe web security technology to be integrated into Cisco SSL client — ScanSafe is a best of breed software as a service “cloud” web security player. Given that most threats are now propagated via port 80/443 this technology is in high demand.
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.
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.
