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2:40 PM ET, May 20, 2010

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Salahuddin Choudhary / The Official Google Blog:
Announcing Google TV: TV meets web.  Web meets TV.  —  If there's one entertainment device that people know and love, it's the television.  In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google TV turns on at I/O: runs Android and Flash, partnered with Sony, Logitech, and Intel  —  As expected, Google just announced Google TV at I/O. There's four billion TV viewers worldwide, making it the biggest market in the world, and Google's after it in a big way — it's a $70 billion ad market in the US alone, after all.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Google Moves to TVs With Help From Intel and Sony  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google wants to bring the Internet to a part of the home that for the most part it has not yet reached: the television set.  —  At Google's annual I/O conference here on Thursday, the search giant announced that it is leading …
Discussion: Sony Insider
Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear:
YouTube Lean Back for Google TV outed, plus auto-translation subtitles
Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Reuters
Peter Yared / VentureBeat:   Google TV is Sony's last stand against the Apple juggernaut
Louis Gray:
While Apple Slept On Their Hobby, Google Executed
Discussion: SlashGear
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Live from the Google I/O 2010 day 2 keynote!  —  Yesterday's Google I/O keynote brought about a number of big newsbits — a Chrome web app store, the open WebM video format, and so forth — but even more tantalizing were Vic Gundotra's not-so-subtle hints at some major announcements coming at today's keynote.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Android 2.2 Froyo officially announced  —  No huge surprises here, but Google just announced Android 2.2 “Froyo” at I/O, and the big addition is a just-in-time compiler, which brings a 2-5x speed boost to the system.  There are also 20 new enterprise features, including better Exchange integration …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Now Activating 100,000 Android Devices A Day — 50,000 Android Apps  —  Today at Google I/O Vic Gundotra made a big revelation.  Last year, Google was activating 30,000 Android phones a day.  The past February, that number jumped to 60,000.  Today, Google is now activating over 100,000 Android phones a day.
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ beta hands-on: Flash 10.1, WiFi hotspots …
Discussion: Daring Fireball
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Buys Simplify Media To Power Music Syncing For New iTunes Competitor  —  Google just announced that it bought Simplify Media, a startup that offers software that lets you share your iTunes music across platforms, including the web.  —  The software lets you share your photos …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Um, Did Google Just Quietly Launch A Web-Based iTunes Competitor?  Yep.  —  Today at Google I/O, Vic Gundotra introduced Froyo, aka Android 2.2.  But he also went a bit beyond Froyo.  Coming soon, is a way to download an app through the Android Market over the web — and have it automatically download on your Android devices too.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, MobileCrunch and Pulse2
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Apple Selling More iPads Than Macs  —  Here's a stunner of a data point: Apple is selling more than 200,000 iPads per week.  Which means, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky, that sales of the company's new device have outpaced those of the Mac in the United States and are closing in on those of the iPhone 3GS.
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
Facebook CEO's latest woe: accusations of securities fraud  —  May has been a bad month for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who just turned 26 last Friday but spent his birthday wrestling with an uproar over Facebook's privacy practices.  The latest unwelcome gift: accusations of securities fraud …
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Dan Fletcher / Time:
The Facebook Phenomenon: Friends Without Borders
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:   Mark Zuckerberg's personal mission: Convince the world to share
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Betaworks Leads $3 Million Series B In Highflyer TweetDeck, New Desktop Goes Live  —  Highflying stream reader TweetDeck just raised a $3 million Series B round led by its biggest investor, betaworks.  That brings the total capital raised by the company to $5.3 million.
Discussion: VentureBeat, GigaOM, mocoNews and MediaMemo
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Adobe unveils Flash for Android  —  After all the debate about whether or not Adobe's Flash is the right technology for smartphones, owners of phones using Google's Android operating system should finally be able to try it out for themselves.  —  Adobe is releasing a test version of Flash …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
This Is Adobe Flash 10.1 on a Phone (It's Not Bad)
Discussion: CNET News, Technologizer and Engadget
Michael Finney / ABC 7:
Apple reverses its no-cash payment policy for iPads  —  Apple stepped up to the plate Wednesday, responding to a 7 On Your Side report about a woman who tried to buy an iPad using her carefully saved up money, only to be told she could not pay with cash.  The story caused outcry all across …
Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald:
Travellers to be searched for porn  —  Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers' laptops and mobile phones for pornography, a spokeswoman for the Australian sex industry says.  Fiona Patten, president of the Australian Sex Party …
Discussion: Ars Technica
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Sprint 4G Phone Hits New Speeds, but Battery Lags  —  The major wireless phone companies have begun building out the next generation of cellular phone systems, called 4G, or fourth-generation, networks.  These networks are designed to offer much faster data speeds than the current speediest networks, which are called 3G.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Nvidia's Android Tablet: Okay, I Could Want This  —  A rounded, plasticky take on the iPad.  That's how Nvidia's latest Android tablet prototype struck me.  It's pretty nice.  But not as nice as the inside.  —  Inside this 8.9-inch tablet, you see, is Nvidia's Tegra 2 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Offers Up A Few More Details About The Chrome Web Store  —  Perhaps the biggest story of day one at Google I/O was the announcement of the Chrome Web Store.  This store is meant to highlight web apps while at the same time, providing a way for developers to better monetize them (if they choose to).
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Electronista:
Only 2% of phone users download music away from computers  —  Direct downloads make up just a sliver of the music actually loaded on phones, comScore discovered today.  About 24 percent of all phones are used to play music, but just two percent actually obtained that music from a store found on the phone itself.
Discussion: redOrbit
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Ed Christman / Billboard.Biz:
DIGITAL DIVIDE  —  Apple Solidifies Its Lead Among U.S. Music Accounts …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Is The Latest To Talk The HTML5 Talk  —  As we all know, the battle between Flash and HTML5 for the future of online video is raging.  But what about that other plugin some sites use for video?  You know, the one made by Microsoft — Silverlight?  A new posting tonight may call …
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Netflix: No Plans For HTML5 Video
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Tony Romm / Hillicon Valley:
FCC wireless competition report triggers debate over role of regulation
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1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple's iPad
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Time For Google to Grow Up: Open Wi-Fi Privacy Mistake Must Be The Last
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
With Android update, Google comes out swinging against Apple
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iPad app store goes live internationally
Casey Johnston / Ars Technica:
Rogue ISP ordered to liquidate, pay FTC $1.08 million
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Sneak Peek: The Obama Administration's Redesigned Data.gov
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Investor Dave McClure: ‘Open is for losers’
 

 
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