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bit.ly blog:
Announcing bit.ly Pro — Today we're pleased to announce a new service: bit.ly Pro. The Pro service provides custom short URLs powered by bit.ly. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use their own short domain names to point to pages on their sites. — As part of our initial beta program …
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The Official Google Blog:Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner
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Robin Wauters / MobileCrunch:
Android Market grows up, hits 20,000 apps milestone — Rest assured that 2010 is going to be a big year for the Android operating system, with many new handsets finding their way to stores around the world (including Google's own phone) and an increasing number of developers building tools …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Chrome Mac, Linux betas push browser into No. 3 spot — Passes Safari, may beat Firefox at its own game on Linux — Computerworld - The release last week of betas of Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux pushed the Google browser's share past Apple's Safari and into the No. 3 spot, a Web measurement company said today.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Comcast Launches Its “TV Everywhere” Plan Nationwide, with An Awful Name: Say Hello to “Xfinity” — As promised, Comcast (CMCSA) is opening up the trial of its “TV Everywhere” program, which gives its subscribers — but only its subscribers — access to extra TV programming, streamed via the Web.
New York Times:
Author Grants Exclusive E-Book Rights to Amazon — Ever since electronic books emerged as a major growth market, New York's largest publishing houses have worried that big-name authors might sign deals directly with e-book retailers or other new ventures, bypassing traditional publishers entirely.
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HardMac.com:
Details concerning the Xeon processors with 6 cores — New information shown by Intel lets us learn some more on the future Intel processors in 6 cores engraved in 32 nm that we soon expect to see equipping the Mac Pro. To start, contrary to the forecasts, these processors will keep the name of Core i7 and will not be called Core i9.
Jesse Engle / CoTweet:
A Word About Twitter Commercial Accounts — Many people have asked us about Twitter's planned commercial account offering and what it means for CoTweet. Twitter has been planning for commercial accounts for a long time. Today Anamitra Banerji from Twitter's Product Team posted to their blog …
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Liam Cassidy / TheAppleBlog:
The Nexus One: A Non-Story — Over the weekend the rumors of a Google Phone were confirmed in the guise of the whimsically named Nexus One. It's an unbranded HTC-made carrier-unlocked handset running Android 2.0, and it looks lovely. And already articles have popped-up examining its various …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Toshiba announces 64GB NAND packages: Apple winks, gives a nudge — Outside of the occasional leaked roadmap, one of the best ways to predict the future of consumer electronics is by looking at the evolution of the components within. Take this Toshiba NAND package for instance.
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Esteban Kozak / The LinkedIn Blog:
Find people faster with LinkedIn's new faceted search — Here at LinkedIn, we believe that people search is one of the most valuable new areas of search technology. Late last year, we announced the launch of the new people search platform, rebuilt from the ground up.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Wall Opens A Bit More: Facebook To Publish User Updates To Twitter This Week — A lot has been said recently about Facebook's decision to re-write its privacy rulebook to encourage users to be more open about what they share. Privacy implications aside, at least it appears that Facebook is eating its own dogfood.
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Scott Sayare / New York Times:
France to Digitize Its Own Literary Works — PARIS — President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged nearly $1.1 billion on Monday toward the computer scanning of French literary works, audiovisual archives and historical documents, an announcement that underscored his government's desire to maintain control …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Is Bandwidth.com the Future of VoIP and Voice? — Bandwidth.com, despite having a name only a late '90s investor could love, has built a profitable all-IP network and expects to bring in $85 million in sales this year. Today it also is announcing that it's opening up its network as a platform …
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, others sued for patent infringement — BetaNet on Monday filed a lawsuit against 18 companies, including Apple, Adobe and Microsoft. — Filed in the Eastern District of Texas, Marshall Division, the lawsuit claims the companies violate the '134 patent, entitled …
PR Newswire:
Cherrypal Launches World's First $99 Laptop — New 7-inch Netbook Helps Bridge the Digital Divide; Redesigned Intel N280 Bing laptop features 13.3-inch wide screen; New Cherrypal Open Store Launched — Cherrypal, the company that brought the world's “greenest” desktop computer to market last year …
Google Code Blog:
Google Fusion Tables API — Today I'm excited to announce that Google Fusion Tables is releasing its own API. — What is Fusion Tables? A product launched recently in Google Labs, Fusion Tables is a free service for sharing and visualizing data online.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
JS-Kit Finally Ditches Its Name, Rebrands As Echo With Some Big Partners In Tow — Last July, we covered the initial debut of JS-Kit's Echo, a real-time commenting system.This morning during a media conference call, the CEO Khris Loux announced that in light of the success of the product …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Google's reCAPTCHA busted by new attack — Significant success rate — A security researcher has devised a successful attack on a Google-owned system for blocking malicious scripts on web-based email services and other types of sites. — The attack, described in a paper released Saturday …
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
AlikeList Raises $5 Million For Local Business Reviews Site — A new local business reviews site has raised $5 million in a funding round from Syncom Venture Partners. The startup, AlikeList, is trying to distinguish itself from existing competitors by making its recommendations more personal.
Randolph J. May / Washington Times:
Voiding the Constitution — FCC rules could counter freedom of speech — The Federal Communications Commission has proposed new regulations to force broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) like Time Warner and Verizon to adhere to “net neutrality” mandates.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Chinese mobile Internet firm buys game maker for $80M — Beijing-based mobile Internet company KongZhong said today it is buying Shanghai Dacheng Network for $80 million. — Shanghai Dacheng Network is a developer of 3-D massively multiplayer online (MMO) games where thousands of people play together in online virtual worlds.
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Julie Haviv / Reuters:
Zillow launches rental listings and search service — Real estate website Zillow.com, one of the most popular vehicles for U.S. home sales searches, on Tuesday said it expanded its services to include the rental market. — Zillow.com added a rental listings and search to its home shopping service …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ebooks For Dummies: Wiley Joins 150 Publishers In The Scribd Store — Book publishers are increasingly embracing digital books, and not just on Amazon's Kindle. Today, John Wiley and Sons, Barnes and Noble imprint Sterling Publishing, Chronicle Books, and the University of Chicago Press announced …
Ars Technica:
iPhone and Snow Leopard Server's failure to communicate — Imagine if the iPod worked with a Windows machine but not on a Mac. Would make zero sense, right? Amazingly, this scenario describes the current reality with the iPhone and Apple's server edition of its Mac OS X operating system.
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David Diaz / TechCrunch:
DEMO Winner Liaise Opens Doors, Debuts Mobile And Team Services — The winner of DEMO's enterprise category and people's choice award, Liaise, is moving from private to open beta by launching their much anticipated mobile calendar integration and introducing their Team Services platform.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Best Buy delivers solid quarter as home office, electronics sales rise — Best Buy delivered a better than expected fiscal third quarter as consumer electronics and home office sales gained on a same store basis. — The large retailer, a good barometer of consumer tech spending …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft's server chief talks cloud (Q&A) — It's been a busy year for Bob Muglia. — Microsoft's server and tools boss shipped an update to Windows Server, got promoted to division president, and prepared Microsoft's operating system in the clouds—Windows Azure—for its commercial launch.
