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Gabor Cselle / Gabor hits Send:
reMail Acquired by Google — I'm thrilled to announce that Google has acquired reMail! I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. — Gmail is where my obsession with email started as an engineering intern back in 2004, and I'm thrilled to be coming …
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Introducing — Windows Phone Classic — Microsoft shook things up in the smartphone space by finally unveiling Windows Phone 7 to the geekerati in Barcelona. The updated look for the next version of the phone OS formerly known as Windows Mobile is refreshing, and brings the platform into the new decade with style.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 Series: everything you ever wanted to know — Microsoft just planted a massive flag in the ground with the debut of Windows Phone 7 Series. The company's new mobile operating system is a radical and potent departure from the past, and there's a lot to take in …
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Reuters:
For Apple suppliers, loose lips can sink contracts — LONGHUA, China /TAIPEI (Reuters) - The massive manufacturing complex in the South China city of Longhua resembles an industrial fortress. To enter the facility, workers swipe security cards at the gate.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Reuters Reporter Assaulted While Investigating Apple's Top-Secret China Suppliers (AAPL) — The pressure to keep secrets while working for Apple's supply chain partners in China is so intense that one worker killed himself last year, reportedly over a missing iPhone prototype.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
A First Look At HBO Go: Curb Your Enthusiasm — Today HBO announced it will be making its movies and TV Shows available on the Web to subscribers through HBO Go, which up until now has been in private beta. HBO Go is part of the cable industry's TV Everywhere strategy to make TV content available online to paying subscribers.
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Jalopnik:
3 Tesla Execs Dead In Palo Alto Plane Crash — A twin-engine Cessna piloted by a “high-ranking official at Tesla” crashed into an East Palo Alto neighborhood today killing the pilot and two others on board. A Tesla spokesperson has confirmed three employees were involved in the crash.
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David Diaz / TechCrunch:
Palo Alto Power Outage Affects Up To 240 Startups — The tragic plane crash which killed three Tesla employees flying out of the Palo Alto airport at approximately 8 AM this morning also took out the city's power. The accident has left over 28,000 Palo Alto residents and businesses without power in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Palo Alto Hit By Power Outage; Related To Plane Crash; Tesla …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future and More! — For a man scorned, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch looked awfully calm on my visit to the software company's San Francisco HQ yesterday. — He could, I suppose, be hopping mad. — To add insult to injury …
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Hartmut Neven / Google Translate Blog:
Integrating translation into Google Goggles — Yesterday, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Eric Schmidt and I demonstrated a prototype version of Google Goggles that showcases the potential of integrating Google's machine translation and image recognition technologies.
Microsoft Outlook 2010:
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace — In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. The Outlook Social Connector brings together communications history, contact information, and professional …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Buzzing, Tweeting And Carping — Funny, isn't it? The people who review gadgets generally aren't the people who buy them. — After all, whom would you hire to write your tech column, Average Joe Consumer or someone with advanced technical skills? — Exactly.
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Ramine Darabiha / ReadWriteWeb:How I Became the Robert Scoble of Buzz
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL To Launch “Hundreds” Of Local News Sites In 2010 — According to an internal communication with employees, AOL (AOL) plans to expand Patch, its network of local news blogs, from 30 sites to “hundreds,” by the end of 2010. — The goal: “To be leaders in one of the most promising ‘white spaces’ on the Internet.”
Ray C. He / Facebook Blog:
New Privacy Controls for Your Applications — Facebook is designed to give you control over the information you share, and today we're making available some of our most recent privacy controls to applications on Facebook and websites and services using Facebook Connect.
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Jim Giles / New Scientist:
Typos may earn Google $500m a year — Google may be earning an alleged $500 million a year via companies and individuals who register deceptive website addresses. — The claim centres on a controversial scheme known as “typosquatting”, the practice of registering a misspelled variant of a popular web domain.
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Tech Industry Catches Its Breath — BARCELONA, Spain — The technology industry has sucked in a deep breath and paused for a rare moment of reflection. — Over the last three years, consumers have been peppered with one form of game-changing product after another. First there were the tiny laptops called netbooks.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Google Tightens FT.com's Free-Article Loophole — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) fell under the spotlight in November, when the debate over news sites' value to search engines swirled up in to rumour of a Bing-News Corp (NYSE: NWS) deal. Google responded by offering to limit, for publishers …
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Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Opera Demos Its iPhone Web Browser, It's Damn Fast & Will Be Submitted To Apple — As announced last week, Opera demonstrated yesterday in Barcelona an iPhone version of its mobile web browser, Opera Mini, and it's damn fast. — How fast? Well, about five times faster than your current safari mobile on a 3GS.
Hutch Carpenter / I'm Not Actually a Geek:
PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services — The rise of location-based social media holds a lot of promise and benefit for participants. But a legitimate concern about them is that they make it too easy to track where you are.
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Ben Margolin / Docs Blog:
A web clipboard for Google Docs — We want copying and pasting content within Google Docs to just work. So, today we're launching a new web clipboard that improves copy and paste in Google Docs. This new clipboard temporarily stores items you've copied in the cloud …
Gareth Beavis / TechRadar.com:
Firefox for Android coming ‘late this year’ — Mozilla chats Windows Mobile 7 and MeeGo too — Firefox Mobile for Android is likely to make its debut on the platform later in 2010, according to Mozilla's VP of mobiles. — Jay Sullivan told TechRadar that Android was a ‘great fit’ for Firefox mobile:
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