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Translate the real world with Google Goggles — Traveling to another country can be an amazing experience. The opportunity to immerse yourself in a different culture can give you a new perspective. However, it can be hard to fully enjoy the experience if you do not understand the local language.
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Ginny Hung / Y! Mobile Blog:
Apple iPad User Analysis — There's no question that the iPad is the latest “it” product, with first-day sales exceeding 300,000 and some analysts projecting as many as 7 million units sold by year's end. Inside Yahoo!, we're just as interested in the iPad phenomenon.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
How the iPad gobbles up netbook sales — Also getting cannibalized: iPod touches, eReaders, desktop PCs and handheld videogames — There's an interesting chart in a report to clients issued early Thursday morning by Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty. — The subject of her report …
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Chuck Hollis / Chuck's Blog:
What iPads Did To My Family — This one is most definitely off-topic, but you might find it interesting. — Last Sunday, I broke down and bought a non-3G iPad. I just was too damn curious. Walked into the Apple Store, played with it for 5 minutes, gave them my credit card, and walked out 15 minutes later.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
FCC outlines new ‘third way’ internet regulatory plan, will split access from content — The FCC's plan to rework how it regulates the internet just got a lot more solid today, as the agency officially announced its “third way” approach to classifying broadband services and opened it up for public comment.
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Julius Genachowski / The National Broadband Plan:
The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework
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Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
The following email was sent to our employees today — This morning we faced the difficult task of reducing our team by about 10%. This was an emotional and rough morning for everyone involved. Laying off dedicated and hard working individuals is extremely difficult …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Kindle 2.5 hands on: social networks, passwords, and more — Amazon is preparing to release an updated version of its Kindle firmware that brings more integration with the rest of the world by adding social networking support and the ability to see the most popular highlights in the book you're reading.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
AT&T extends iPhone exclusive in quid pro quo, says analyst — Part of the deal with Apple for discounting iPad data plans, says BroadPoint's Brian Marshall — Computerworld - AT&T and Apple probably have a quid pro quo in place that has extended the mobile carrier's exclusive deal …
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Emily Bryson York / AdAge:
McDonald's to Use Facebook's Upcoming Location Feature — Brands Eager to Build Apps Once Massive Social Network Launches Its Own Foursquare Competitor — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Facebook is preparing to launch location-based status updates for its users.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Latitude Has 3 Million Active Users, Check-Ins Likely On The Way — “Hey Foursquare and MyTown, suck it.” — Okay, Google's Steve Lee didn't actually say that during the location panel at the Web 2.0 Expo today, but he may as well have. While Foursquare may have just crossed 1 million users …
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Patrick Goss / TechRadar.com:
Opera joins in Jobs v Flash argument — Critical now, but Adobe needs to change fast — Opera has joined in the argument over Flash, with the company telling TechRadar that they will support Flash for the time being, but that the company needs to start embracing web standards if it doesn't want to come under constant attack.
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Jon Wiley / The Official Google Blog:
The Google design, turned up a notch — This week we introduced our latest update to search, and I wanted to share a bit of our thinking on the design team. In short, we tried to take all the things we strive for at Google and make them better: powerful technology, snappy results, simplicity and a fun and quirky personality.
Macworld:
Facebook's new features secretly add apps to your profile — When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it's called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge?
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Web Struggling To Keep Up With The Stock Market Crash/Bounce — In case you haven't been on Twitter in the past 20 minutes, the U.S. stock market is collapsing. Well, it was collapsing (the Dow was down over 1,000 points at one point), but now it's bouncing back.
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Staska / Unwired View:
Apple wants to embed cardiac sensors into an iPhone case to identify you — Adding biometric to sensors to electronic devices for user identification, is not a new thing. — Sometimes they are fingerprint readers, face or iris recognition sensors, voice recognition software, etc …
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Tim Bray / ongoing:
HTML5 and the Web — I am an unabashed partisan of the Web — its architecture, culture, and content. I'm proud to have played a very small part in shaping bits of the machinery and having contributed probably too many words to that content But as for HTML5? It's a good enough thing to the extent it turns out to work.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Samsung No. 1 Among U.S. Mobile Phone Makers, Apple No.6 — The latest metrics on the U.S. mobile market from comScore, published Thursday, are about what you'd expect. Among mobile network operators, Verizon (VZ) ranked highest with 31.1 percent of the market during the three-month period ending March 2010.
Alex Williams / ReadWriteWeb:
VMware Acquires Gemstone in Deal To Fortify New Java Platform with Salesforce.com — VMware is acquiring Gemstone, a Beaverton, Or.-based company that develops real-time caching and distributed database technologies that serves as an in-memory data fabric for masive data processing and transaction environments.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Judge forces more delays in unsealing of iPhone raid documents — An Apple Store in San Francisco. Credit: Russel A. Daniels / AP. — A San Mateo County judge refused to hear arguments from a coalition of media lawyers seeking access to details of a search warrant served by a task force …
James Niccolai / Computerworld:
Microsoft hit on lack of HTML 5 plans for XP — IDG News Service - Microsoft came under fire from some of its rivals on Wednesday for its decision not to offer Internet Explorer 9 — and hence support for the upcoming HTML 5 standard — to users of its older Windows XP operating system.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Why tech giants are putting the silicon back in Silicon Valley — When Apple bought chip design firm PA Semi in 2008, it seemed like a crazy move. Who'd want to go back to the days when giants like IBM did everything themselves, including making software, hardware and chips?
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BBC:
Decision urged on porn web domain — Moves to create a web domain for adult content have intensified with the group which has applied for the .xxx address demanding a decision on its fate. — Net regulator Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) - the body …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Harmonic Acquires Video Storage Company Omneon For $306 Million — The online video world has begun to consolidate. Broadcast and online video delivery giant Harmonic has acquired video storage company Omneon for approximately $306 million in cash and Harmonic stock.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo-MSFT Advertiser Transition To Start This Summer — Yahoo and Microsoft have both shared updates on their plans to transition advertisers as part of the new “search alliance” between the two companies, and the big news appears to be that the transition from Yahoo's ad platform to Microsoft's adCenter will begin this summer.
