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Gmail Labs graduation and retirement — We launched Gmail Labs over a year and a half ago as a playground where engineers can come up with new features and let your input help decide which are good ideas and which don't quite work out. Any engineer at Google can come up with feature …
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case — ROME — Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company's executives criminally responsible for the content posted on its system. — The verdict, though subject to appeal …
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Lee Gomes / Forbes:
Google And The Law — Not every Web ruling will be this silly. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — The criminal convictions of Google executives by an Italian court on account of a video posted by a Google user are every bit as inane as commentators all around the world are saying they are.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
iPad purchase plans sluggish, AdMob survey finds — Only one in six iPhone owners surveyed by mobile ad network AdMob said that they “intend to purchase” an Apple iPad tablet computer. Among Android phone owners, the ratio dropped to one in seventeen. — The results, from an opt-in survey …
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Harsh / AdMob Metrics:
January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report — For this month's feature section, we ran an opt-in survey of consumers on iPhone, iPod touch, Android and webOS devices to learn more about how they are engaging and interacting with applications. The behavioral and demographic insights taken …
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Jason Goldberg / fabulis:
citibank is so not fabulis — Hi everyone. Jason Goldberg here, founder and ceo of fabulis. — In a bit of strange and disturbing news, fabulis discovered today that someone(s) at Citibank had decided arbitrarily to block fabulis' bank account due to what was described to us on the phone as “objectionable content” on our blog.
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Steven Musil / CNET News:
Report: Teen gets 15 years for Facebook blackmail — A Wisconsin teenager convicted of using Facebook to blackmail classmates into sex was sentenced to 15 years in prison, according to an Associated Press report. — Anthony Stancl, 19, plead no contest in December to two felonies …
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Apple Removes Explicit Option From iTunes — The joy didn't last long. According to an iPhone developer, the new “Explicit” option available this morning on the App Store submission software is now gone. He just got off the telephone with Apple, who confirmed the removal.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
LG's first Windows Phone 7 handset shipping as early as September — Our buds over at Engadget Chinese are just reporting back from a sitdown it had with LG Mobile in Hong Kong at a Chinese New Year event. The most tantalizing bit of truth is confirmation of that September launch date rumor …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Time to Start Looking for a Buyer, Palm? — So much for Palm's (PALM) big recovery. This morning the company lowered its fiscal-year revenue forecast and warned of an ugly 30 percent shortfall in its current quarter. Palm expects third quarter revenue to be between $285 million and $310 million …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Palm Says Revenue Will Be Lower Than Expected, Cites Slow Sales
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
The titanium iPhone is real, really real (video) — You came, you saw, some of you were not convinced. So what's a gadget blog to do when picture evidence isn't enough? Why get those pictures moving, of course, right up to 30 frames a second. The stunning titanium iPhone 3GS from this morning is back …
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Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Dell's Tablet Aims to Stick It to Apple's iPad — Say the words “tablet computer” and ten bucks says it's Apple's iPad that springs to mind. But that doesn't mean other companies aren't busy building their own version of a touch-enabled, multimedia-sporting, slab of portable computing goodness.
Tim Beyers / Motley Fool:
Google's Secret Plan, Revealed! — If Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) going to take the battle to Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), it may as well strike where the Mac maker is most vulnerable: the living room. — The first sortie? Supply the power that lights up your electronic life.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare's First Television Commercial Airs Tonight On Bravo [Video] — First Google, now Foursquare. Hot on the heels of Google's first Search television ad (run during the Super Bowl, no less), the location-based social network Foursquare is gearing up to do the same thing tonight.
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Matt Peckham / PC World:
Enter Nintendo's DSi XL versus Apple's iPad? — Pretend for a moment that the Nintendo DSi was a third larger with bigger LCD screens and a blizzard of new apps, including one that let you read eBooks. Would you consider it an iPad contender? — Neither would I, but you have to admit …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway shows off the large-screen DSi XL (video)
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Google real-time search adds status updates from Facebook Pages — Facebook status updates from Pages will start showing up in Google's real-time search results today. — It's the first time the search giant has indexed content from the world's largest social network in its real-time results.
Claudine Beaumont / Telegraph:
Virgin to roll out 100mbps broadband service — Next-generation web connection will provide internet access at more than 24 times the current average speed — Virgin Media said it would start rolling out the 100 megabits per second broadband service to its 3.8 million cable broadband customers by the end of the year.
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Mac Quicken Gets Deductions for Iffy Upgrade — Despite all of the success Apple (AAPL) has had with its Macintosh computers, the Mac has lagged behind Windows in personal-finance software. — The most popular program in the category, Intuit's Quicken, comes in a Mac version.
Dave Kellogg / Kellblog:
The Database Tea Party: The NoSQL Movement — Adam Smith's invisible hand never rests. Just five years ago, the database market looked like a static, three-player $10B/year oligopoly where the primary forces were inertia and profit-taking. Today, we have two major forces disrupting …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Facebook Glitch Sends Messages to the Wrong People — Last night, in an embarrassing glitch for Facebook that raises questions about privacy on the site, some users of the social-networking site began getting hundreds of personal messages that weren't intended for them.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Awarded Patent For Measuring Use Affinity Toward Applications — This morning Facebook was awarded a patent for the “resource management of social network applications”. The patent describes a method in which resources are allocated to applications based on the affinity toward …
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Marc Benioff / TechCrunch:
The Facebook Imperative — Editor's note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he explains why enterprise software should take its cues from Facebook and become more social. I quit my job at Oracle in 1999 because I couldn't stop thinking …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Checks-In On Loopt — Facebook has been doing background checks, known as due diligence, on the location-based social network Loopt, a source with knowledge of the talks tells us. Generally speaking, due diligence of this kind is only performed when a company is in acquisition or fundraising talks.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Lady Gaga generates 25 percent of Vevo's traffic — It's hard to measure just how big a cultural force singer Lady Gaga has become but Vevo, the start-up music-video site took a stab at it on Wednesday. — Ted Mico, executive vice president of digital for Interscop, Geffen …
Help Net Security:
Hackers follow the money, IBM research shows — Existing threats such as phishing and document format vulnerabilities have continued to expand, even as users improve security, according to a new IBM report. The X-Force report reveals three main threats that demonstrate …
