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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Late Night Froyo Treat! Android 2.2 Goes Live On The Nexus One — Sometimes there are advantages to staying up really late at night. I had just laid down in my bed to try and get some sleep before an early flight to New York tomorrow when I remembered I hadn't charged my Nexus One.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Post-I/O Thoughts — Post-Google I/O, there's not much room left to see iPhone-vs.-Android as anything other than an all-out war. What we've got here is a good old-fashioned epic rivalry. — It's exciting, vicious, fun to watch, and ultimately should prove to be excellent news for consumers.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google, Apple, Jacob, And The Man In Black — ABC's popular television show Lost comes to an end this weekend. This season has been largely about the backstory for why things are the way they are on the island. It's a minor spoiler to say it, but I'm going to anyway — basically …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Regulators Are Watching Google Over Antitrust Concerns — IN the 1990s, Gary Reback, a Silicon Valley lawyer, almost single-handedly brought the antitrust weight of the federal government down on that era's high-tech heavyweight, Microsoft. Now Mr. Reback contends there is a dangerous …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
How the iPad is changing art and music — Now that more and more people are getting iPads we are seeing just how they change everything, especially art and music. Here I meet David Newman, artist, in a parking garage. I was sitting next to him in the Google IO keynotes and was amazed …
John Ribeiro / PC World:
Facebook Page Banned by Pakistan Is Back Online — The Facebook page that led the Pakistan government to ban the entire site was back online Saturday, at least for some users, after it was inaccessible for about two days. — The page was removed Thursday after one of the moderators …
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
First Screenshots of AutoCAD for Mac — Back in April we reported that AutoCAD was probably coming soon to the Mac, considering all the OS X references that were spotted in the SDK. Today we've managed to get the first screenshots of an actual beta, running at 64-bit on Mac OS X.
Bertrand / Erictric:
More Proof of The iPhone 4G's Video Call Capabilities — For those of you still skeptical about the upcoming iPhone 4G's video call capabilities, a couple of screenshot have surfaced today showing off the field test firmware for the new iPhone with references to video conferencing.
Pete Carey / Mercury News:
Silicon Valley unemployment rate falls in April — Silicon Valley's troubled job market turned a corner in April with a sharp drop in unemployment in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, driven in part by an increase in tech hiring. — “The Silicon Valley economy is growing again,” …
Ari David / Yes, But, However!:
Apple Denies Free Political Speech — Rejects Republican Candidate Ari David's iPhone App — LOS ANGELES (YBH.ME) - A few weeks ago I hired a company to create an I Phone application for my congressional campaign. My designers told me when we started that Apple would take about two weeks …
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Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
The Open Gov Initiative: Enabling Techies to Solve Government Problems — While grandma flips through photo albums on her sleek iPad, government agencies (and most corporations) process mission-critical transactions on cumbersome web-based front ends that function by tricking mainframes …
Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Seesmic and Evernote bring social memory to your iPhone (and Android, too) — Twitter and Facebook have fundamentally changed the way we interact and communicate with one another. Sadly, both services have a major shortcoming: it's nearly impossible to save something and find it later.
