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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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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook
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Elliotshmukler / The LinkedIn Blog:Now Available: Your Professional Network within Microsoft Outlook
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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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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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David Pogue / New York Times:
Google Message Feature Moves Beyond Twitter — 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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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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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 …
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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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.
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.
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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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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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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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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.”
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
HP profit jumps 25 pct, company raises outlook — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s profit swelled 25 percent in the latest quarter because of cost-cutting and a stronger showing from its personal-computer division. — Revenue was up in most of the technology company's major divisions …
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Google News Blog:
Open-sourcing the Living Stories format — For the past two months, small teams of reporters and editors from the New York Times and Washington Post have been experimenting with Living Stories, a new format for covering news on the web. Using this technology platform …
Zee / The Next Web:
Facebook Defeats Yahoo to Become America's Second Most Popular Website — The latest data in from compete.com, shows that Facebook has surpassed Yahoo as Americaâs second most popular website, leaving only Google in wait. This last month saw Facebook reach 133 million unique visitors in the US …
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
U.S. trade body to probe RIM, Apple smartphones — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said it launched an investigation of Research In Motion and Apple mobile telephones that contain digital cameras after receiving a complaint from Eastman Kodak Co.
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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