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Carrie Grimes / The Official Google Blog:
Our new search index: Caffeine — Today, we're announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered.
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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Google's New Indexing Infrastructure “Caffeine” Now Live — Google first mentioned their new indexing infrastructure, Caffeine, back in August 2009 in order to solicit feedback, then launched it at one data center in November. Finally, it's live everywhere.
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Sean Garrett / Twitter Blog:
Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn't Matter — Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a Direct Message has been wrapped with a twt.tl URL.
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Google Maps Navigation comes to Canada and mainland Europe, remains free as a bird — Patience has had to be your foremost virtue if you were eager to use Google Maps Navigation outside the US or UK, but you might be in luck today as a sizable new batch of countries is getting the free turn-by-turn nav service activated.
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
HTC EVO 4G sold out across the country — You snooze, you lose. That's exactly what thousands of EVO 4G hopefuls are learning today as the smartphone that smashed Sprint sales records has gone out of stock across the country. So what can we learn from all of this?
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Sprint says it overstated EVO launch day sales — (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said on Tuesday it had inadvertently overstated the launch day sales of the much anticipated EVO 4G phone from HTC Corp, which is touted as a serious competitor to Apple's iPhone 4.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Times Company Objects to News-Reader App — Last week I wrote about the Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad application developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT-The Pulse iPad App Creators Speak! — The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students (pictured here) who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader …
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
How Apple Tricks You — Steve Jobs has already been busted for exaggerating the resolution of a new iPhone screen the Apple CEO unveiled yesterday. It's only the latest in a series of misleading videos, pictures and claims designed to part you and your money.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Jobs has lofty goal for FaceTime video chat with an open standard
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
An Android User's Take On Yesterday's iPhone News
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Apple's “evil/genius” plan to punk the Web and gild the iPad — There were two awkward moments yesterday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference. A few sites have already made much of Steve Jobs' wireless networking difficulties during his demonstration.
Leah Yamshon / PC World:
The Truth About the Faces in Your Facebook Ads — Are those real people in the “Hot Girls Want to Meet You” advertising? Here's the answer. — Recommends — You've undoubtedly seen advertisements running down the right-hand side of your Facebook page (as in the example at left).
Timothy A. Clary / Newsweek:
Drumbeats: The Tech Press Turns on Microsoft's Ballmer — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks in New York to kick off Windows 7 on October 22, 2009 — Microsoft has a problem—a big one. The problem is not just that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, has had a disastrous 10-year run.
Christopher Schanck / Design By Gravity:
AT&T Learns Exactly The Wrong Thing About Data Usage — AT&T says that 65% of its users use less 200 megabytes per month; a whopping 98% use less than 2 gigabytes. (NYT) AT&T looked at these numbers and concluded it was time for tiered pricing; time to soak these “data pigs”. — I am a data pig.
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Josh Teague / Gmail Blog:
Making it easier to video chat, voice chat, and group chat in Gmail — Video chat, voice chat, and group chat have all been available for some time within Gmail, but they've been curiously tucked away. Getting them up and running required fidgeting with a little menu at the bottom of each chat window.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
How Zynga Survived FarmVille — When Zynga launched FarmVille last June, the company thought 200,000 daily active users in the first two months would be a success. Within eight weeks, the game had surpassed Zynga's hits of the previous two years. For the first 26 weeks FarmVille added 1 million net …
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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft: Office 2011 for Mac will be 32-bit only — When Office 2011 for the Mac ships this holiday season, it will be available as a 32-bit product only, Microsoft officials said in a blog post on June 8. — Microsoft is attributing the decision to the fact that it hasn't transitioned …
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Hulu plans to charge, expand to devices: sources — (Reuters) - Free video website Hulu plans to soon begin charging customers and is looking to expand its content to consumer devices like the Xbox and iPad, according to two sources, as the site's media owners experiment with platforms beyond an ad-supported TV model.
Srikanth Srinivasa / International Business Times:
Turkey bans use of Google, services — Turkey has imposed an indefinite ban on Internet search engine Google and many of its services citing “legal” reasons. — In an official statement, Turkey's Telecommunications Presidency said it has banned access to many of Google IP addresses without assigning clear reasons.
Scott Raymond / ZDNet:
Web video showdown: Flash vs. QuickTime vs. Windows Media — There's been a substantial amount of press about web-based video performance lately, specifically aimed at Adobe Flash - and with good reason. Historically, Flash has been buggy, used a great deal of CPU, and consequently drained battery life as a result.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Android's Acne Problem: Or Why You Should Stick to the Google Phone — HTC's Evo might be the last phone running custom software on top of Android that you should even consider buying. Because the whole trend of skinning Android has become a horrible, dividing mess.
