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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
A spring metamorphosis — Google's new look — Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today's metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search …
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Telegraph, Digital Daily, Search Engine Land, Google Operating System, Tech Central, Google Mobile Blog, Fortune, Tech Eye, Forbes, ResourceShelf, John Battelle's Searchblog, USA Today, Tnooz and TG Daily, Thanks:addyr
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Google Gives Its Search Results a Facelift — Google is making some very noticeable changes to its familiar search results pages, rolling out the changes gradually on Tuesday and Wednesday. — The search giant is adding a new left-handed navigation panel to most results pages …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Technologizer, The Seattle Times, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, paidContent, CNET News, The Next Web and Mashable!
Electronista:
Adobe shows off Android tablets running Flash and Air — While Adobe does not have any Apple products on the show floor at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, the company is showing off prototypes of upcoming Android-based tablets. The Google Android Tablet, even in a pre-release form …
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Max / Zendomax:
Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Hands-on Review! [Web 2.0 Expo] — Today, I was at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco as soon as it was open (as I blogged about it several hours before). Upon walking around the exhibit floor, I quickly found Adobe. — Oddly, they were displaying …
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch Europe:
Video: Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends' live chats — You've got to hand it to Facebook. They certainly know how to do security — not. — Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks …
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CNET News, Mashable!, Telegraph, All Facebook, Silicon Alley Insider, ZDNet, Security Watch, The Huffington Post, Black Web 2.0, Tech Eye, Neowin.net and SlashGear, Thanks:mikebutcher
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Hot new features uncovered in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 — Here's the thing... We just installed the newly released iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 and found quite a few changes. There are a lot of minor things like how the background of the multitasking interface matches the background in the iPad's browser …
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MacRumors, Gadget Lab, EverythingiCafe, Obsessable, Engadget, SlashGear, TiPb, Recombu, Fonehome.co.uk, Pocket-lint, Electricpig.co.uk, iPhone Buzz, Phones Review, Edible Apple, PhoneDog.com, TUAW and 9 to 5 Mac
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Microsoft Kin One and Two review — Make no mistake: the Kin One and Two are coming into the world as the black sheep of the phone industry, and Microsoft would have it no other way. Straddling the fence somewhere between a dedicated smartphone and high-spec featurephone …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel launches chip for smartphones, tablets — Intel on Tuesday announced its long-awaited Atom chip for smartphones and tablets, a crowded market populated by a host of formidable rivals—unlike the PC market where it dominates. — Previously known by the code name “Moorestown,” …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel's next Atom chips are powerful, but not power hungry
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Intel, TechRadar.com, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, SlashGear, TechSpot, Electricpig, blogs.ft.com and Tech Eye
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Microsoft touts new IE9 test, seeks Web standards — Microsoft released a second “platform preview” version of Internet Explorer 9 on Wednesday with faster JavaScript and better Web standards compliance—plus an argument for how future Web technology should develop.
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Dean Hachamovitch / MSDN Blogs:
HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers
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The Register, The Microsoft Blog, TNW Google, Ajaxian, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, BBC, Channel 9, ZDNet, Webmonkey and PC Pro, Thanks:atul
Stuart Green / Christian Science Monitor:
iPhone, Gizmodo, and moral clarity about crime — Apple is taking flak for taking a hard line on the prototype iPhone that was obtained by Gizmodo. But it shouldn't apologize for trying to protect its property. — Newark, N.J. — For the past couple of weeks, the tech world has been buzzing about the …
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Robert Reich:
Apple Isn't the Problem. Wall Street's Big Banks are the Problem. — Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase …
JR Raphael / PC World:
Google Editions: Bringing E-Books to Your Browser — JR Raphael, PC World — Google wants to bring your digital book reader into the cloud. — The company has just announced plans to launch its own digital bookstore, a Web-based effort called Google Editions.
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The Register, Shelly Palmer, Gear Diary, The Buzz on Ereading, Pocket-lint, eWeek, Phones Review, Go Rumors and Wall Street Journal
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
AT&T dropping more calls than ever — Three times as many as Verizon, according to a consumer survey released Tuesday — Click to enlarge. Source: ChangeWave Research — AT&T (T) announced in January that it was spending $2 billion this year to improve its much maligned cellular network.
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Digital Daily, AppleInsider, InvestorPlace.com, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashPhone, Macsimum News, FierceWireless and blogs.chron.com
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Murdoch: WSJ iPad App Has 64,000 Active Users—And We Keep The Money — It's not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fending Off Microsoft, Google Invests In TV Ad Startup Invidi (GOOG, MSFT) — Update: Invidi just put out a press release confirming the news: — INVIDI Technologies Corporation, the leader in advanced addressable advertising solutions for television, announced today it has secured …
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CNET News, NewTeeVee, TechCrunch, paidContent, Softpedia News, Electronista, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and silicontap.com
Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Six Things You Need to Know About Facebook Connections — “Connections.” It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes. — Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created.
Bill Donahue / Inc.com:
Semper Youngstown Youngstown, Ohio, of all places, is attempting to reinvent itself as a technology center. — There are no hotels in Youngstown, Ohio, population 82,000, and there is no real airport, either. Even before you get there, you have a sense of the place as somehow gutted of commerce.
