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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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Google Mobile Blog:
Google's new look for mobile — When it comes to mobile search, we strive to not only give you the same comprehensiveness and relevance as when searching with Google on your computer, but also a consistent look, feel, and overall user experience. So today, as we roll out a new look …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Google Gives Its Search Results a Facelift
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Facebook patches security hole that exposed users' instant messages — Amid reports of a security breach that permitted some users to see other users' instant messages and pending friend requests, Facebook said Wednesday it had disabled its chat service. — The incident, caused by a software bug …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Next iPhone to Record 1280x720 HD Video? — One of the many new features provided to developers in iPhone OS 4 are new APIs that give developers full access to Video capture data. This could open the door to some interesting apps including Video Capture/Editing and more robust Augmented Reality apps …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Hot new features uncovered in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Scribd CTO: “We Are Scrapping Flash And Betting The Company On HTML5″ (Exclusive Screenshots) — Adobe's much-beleaguered Flash is about to take another hit and online documents are finally going to join the Web on a more equal footing. Today, most documents (PDFs, Word docs …
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Exclusive: Gmail Ditched By Major University — IT executives at the school say Google's commitment to privacy and security doesn't meet their standards. — In a blow to Google's efforts to establish itself as a major player in enterprise software, a leading public university has ended …
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC to Overhaul Regulation of Internet Lines — WASHINGTON-Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has decided to reregulate Internet lines to protect net neutrality, siding with consumer groups and Internet companies worried that Internet providers have too much power.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Scoop: Apple Is Pushing A Secret “VIP” Ad Program For iPhone Apps — For anyone still wondering whether Apple plans to give its new iAds a competitive advantage over other mobile ad networks on the iPhone and iPad, just take a look at the slide above. It was attached to an email sent …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Verizon customers lust for iPhone, says survey — Pent-up demand will add millions more iPhones in 2011, analyst says — Computerworld - Verizon subscribers would jump at the chance to have an iPhone, with more than half of those surveyed saying they would likely switch to an Apple handset, a recently-released poll said.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Intel Will Be a Mobile Loser — Intel, as it's wont to do, overnight made a splashy unveiling of a new family of processors: the Atom Z6xx series, whose chips are much more powerful than current versions but consume less power. Why the hoopla? Apparently these chips, which run at over 1.5 GHz …
Dean Hachamovitch / IEBlog:
HTML5 and Same Markup: Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers — When we started planning IE9, we recognized the need for a better feedback loop with developers. The developer community was clear that they wanted pre-release builds of the browser platform in a consistent rhythm, with a good feedback mechanism.
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Daniel Lyons / Techtonic Shifts:
Apple vs. the Web: The Case for Staying Out of Steve Jobs's Walled Garden — Long before Apple even announced its new iPad, media companies were going nuts about the device, for two reasons. First, they believed they would be able to create apps that would be gorgeous and stunning …
CNET News:
Court fight brews over unsealing iPhone records — An attorney for the 21-year-old Silicon Valley resident who found what appears to be Apple's prototype iPhone in a bar is expected to oppose a request by CNET and other media organizations to unseal court records relating to the investigation.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: We're Going To Make The Best Tools In The World For HTML5 — One of of today's keynote speakers at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco is Adobe exec Kevin Lynch, who serves as the company's CTO and SVP, Experience & Technology Organization.
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Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Launches New Ad Blitz — Campaign Promoting Site as One-Stop Web Destination Makes a Jab at Google — On the heels of a disappointing ad campaign, Yahoo is hoping to increase traffic to its home page and win back share in the Internet-search market with a new ad blitz that takes a shot at larger rival Google.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Google Wants Court To Say That Links To Music Files Don't Mean Google Is Infringing Copyrights — We've noted in the past some of the similarities, from a legal standpoint, of search engines like Google, and music search engines/bittorrent tracker sites — and yet the music search sites keep getting shut down.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
HP Slate killed? Not so fast — Despite glaring headlines last week that the Hewlett-Packard Windows 7-based Slate was canceled, it may not be that cut and dried, according to analysts. — In this HP Slate promotional video made back in January, HP VP Phil McKinney says the Slate running Windows 7 is a “real product.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Former Microsoft Windows exec to lead HP software business — Hewlett-Packard's hiring of former Windows executive Bill Veghte, announced today, is another example of the computer maker's potential to compete with its longtime partner, Microsoft, in the software business.
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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 …
h-online.com:
Canonical clarifies its H.264 licence — With the current controversy over H.264 patent pools and open source codecs, some observers have noted that Canonical is listed as a licensee of H.264 from MPEGLA, the patent pool which licenses out the codec patents, causing some to ask if Ubuntu users were covered by this license.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Clearwire May Dump WiMAX — Clearwire said today it's changed the terms of an agreement it had with Intel, one of its largest investors, that could lead the way for Clearwire to dump WiMAX and switch to LTE. On its first-quarter financial results call today, an executive with Clearwire …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Here It Is: Google's Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video — Yesterday, we noted that with its newest release of Chrome, Google wanted to show us how fast it is rather than just tell us how fast it is. To do that, they made a Rube Goldberg-ian video showing how fast web pages load in Chrome.
