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Paul Miller / Engadget:
HTC EVO 4G is Sprint's Android-powered knight in superphone armor, we go hands-on — We've been rumoring a WiMAX “HTC Supersonic” for a while now, and Sprint just dropped the hard news: the phone will be dubbed the HTC EVO 4G, will be released this Summer and it's easily the best specced phone we've ever witnessed.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Qik Indeed. Service Comes Built-In To The Sexy HTC EVO 4G Android Phone — A couple of years ago, it seems all anyone wanted was access to Qik, the mobile live-stream video service. At the time, Nokia's N95 was one of the hot devices you needed to run it.
Google Enterprise Blog:
An update for our customers on Google Apps and China — Yesterday, we stopped censoring our search services - Google Search, Google News, and Google Images - on our Chinese domain, www.google.cn. This makes good on our commitment to stop censoring search results in China, and you can read more here.
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Guardian:
Sergey Brin urges US to act over China web censorship — • Obama administration urged to make issue high priority — • Brin says Microsoft co-operation with Beijing ‘disappointing’ — Google co-founder Sergey Brin has called on Washington to take a stand against China's censorship …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
An Interview with David Drummond of Google
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Bloomberg, InformationWeek, mikelgan's blog, Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, Guardian and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
So Now Google Thinks Everyone Should Care About Chinese Censorship?
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Exclusive: Digg's iPhone App Launches Wednesday [SCREENSHOTS] — Digg's much anticipated native application for iPhone is set to make its debut tomorrow, Mashable has learned. We've obtained a few screenshots, which you can check out below. — News of an impending iPhone app leaked back in October …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google AdWords Search Funnels Launched: See All The Keywords That Led To Conversions — Google launched a new AdWords reporting feature named AdWords Search Funnels. AdWords Search Funnel shows you all the keywords that assisted in conversion made through Google AdWords …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Dudes can pay hot girls to play online video games with them — If you're a lonely gamer dude, then GameCrush might be your ticket to meet a hot girl. — That's the basic pitch of this social networking service, where guys scan pay cash to play hardcore video games with attractive females on the GameCrush site.
John Cook / TechFlash:
Clearwire touts wireless router to boost speeds on Apple's iPad — Clearwire today offered a series of announcements at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas about its network, WiMax-powered devices and new markets. The Kirkland provider of high-speed wireless service continues its march across the U.S. …
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Marco Arment / Instapaper Blog:
Preview: Instapaper on iPad — I'm probably supposed to keep this secret and build everyone's anticipation to hype this up. Oh well. Maybe I'll do that for the Instapaper edition for Apple's next revolutionary computing platform. — First: Instapaper is definitely coming to iPad.
Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Jobs on a roll, drops three more emails; expect universal iPhone mailbox — Okay, who hasn't gotten an email from Steve Jobs this week? Yesterday we reported on an email Steve sent to a user regarding Google's Picasa. Also, a MacRumors reader emailed Jobs yesterday about his concern …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Microsoft: Want to Learn About Our Secret Tablet? Read Engadget. — Want to get the latest news on “Courier,” Microsoft's rumored-but-not-confirmed answer to Apple's iPad? Microsoft doesn't want to talk about it. But Redmond does have a suggestion for you: Read the gadget blogs.
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Engadget, WMPoweruser.com, Microsoft JobsBlog, GottaBeMobile.com, ithinkdifferent, Gizmodo and Electronista
Abdur / Twitter Blog:
State of Twitter Spam — If you look “spam” up in the dictionary, you'll find two definitions. There's the “canned meat” and then there's the “unwanted email.” At Twitter, we see spamming as a variety of different behaviors that range from insidious to annoying.
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Lifehacker, Search Engine Journal, Twittercism, AppScout, VentureBeat, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Adobe earnings: Business strong, product cycles boost outlook — Adobe's fiscal first quarter was stronger than expected and the company boosted its outlook for the next quarter amid new versions of its Flash Player and Creative Suite. — The company reported earnings of $127.2 million …
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Facebook Data Team's Notes:
Continuing our Study of Happiness — On October 5, 2009, Data Scientists at Facebook began studying the happiness of English speakers in the United States through the Gross National Happiness Index (GNH). We used anonymous counts of positive and negative word used in people's Facebook updates …
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
First look at Skype for Verizon Wireless, launching March 25th — While making our way through the throng of booths, bloggers, and boisterous crowds at CTIA, we were able to snag a few minutes with the new Skype mobile application running on both a BlackBerry Storm2 and a Motorola DROID.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Skype on Verizon: Coming This Thursday
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Skype Blogs, Skype Journal, Phone Arena, IntoMobile, DSLreports, AppScout, Techland, Electronista, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily and The Tech Herald …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Back on the beat: Owen Thomas joins VentureBeat — Editor's note: VentureBeat is all about startups. And since we're a startup ourselves, when we hit a milestone, it's only right that we report on it. Today, we're announcing a significant hire. Owen Thomas, a veteran of Time Inc. …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Nintendo 3DS to come with ‘3D control stick,’ vibration, and Sharp's parallax barrier 3D LCD? — You had the hard news for breakfast, so how's about some less official, but still pretty robust, fodder for brunch? Asahi in Japan offers the first word on how the 3DS achieves its 3D-ness …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Rolling Out Contributors Feature, Salesforce Activated — Back in December, Twitter noted a new feature it was testing out, Contributors. Basically, this allows multiple people to tweet from one account (with individual attribution below the tweet).
Erik Chang / Shrinkage Is Good:
1.5 Trillion Text Messages Sent in the United States in 2009 — Get this. During 2009, more than 1.5 trillion text messages — that's with a t — were sent on wireless carriers' networks. Along with the massive amount of SMS messages, MMS messages were also being heavily utilized …
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Should Doctors Google Their Patients? — By now, it's well known that almost anyone you meet — from a potential employer to a prospective date — might be searching for information about you online. But would you feel strange knowing that your doctor was Googling you?
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Microsoft data centers go beyond the container — Microsoft's data center of the future will be more like a trailer park. — Only the concrete pad will need to be built on-site, with everything else shipped in as a pre-manufactured unit. That's a step beyond the current approach …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Side-Channel Leaks in Web Applications — Popular online applications may leak your private data to a network eavesdropper, even if you're using secure web connections, according to a new paper by Shuo Chen, Rui Wang, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kehuan Zhang. (Chen is at Microsoft Research; the others are at Indiana.)
Matt Bowman / VentureBeat:
Y Combinator presents 26 new startups — Startup incubator Y Combinator is hosting its semi-annual Demo Day today. Twice a year, the Mountain View, Calif.-based incubator parades its latest batch of companies onstage to present before potential investors. — This afternoon, 26 companies will pitch their business plans.
