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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comscore Says It'll Fix Search Share Measurement Now That Yahoo And Microsoft Are Gaming It (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG) — Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing have recently been “gaining” market share in comScore's search engine stats for somewhat sketchy reasons: The companies have increasingly been putting …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Time To End The Bulls**t Search Engine Share Figures? — Yahoo's up again in comScore's latest search rankings. Reason? It seems largely due to non-search “slideshow” activity. Solution? Time to end the bulls**t way search share figures are calculated. Chance of success?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The End Of An Era: Hotmail Ditches The Taglines — “Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.” — When Hotmail launched in 1996 it grew fast. Very fast. It was one of the first free webmail providers, and they had a killer marketing idea - add a tagline at the end …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
World Cup Fever: Internet Has Busiest Day Ever as Tabulated by Akamai — Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers which carry video content, reports that today, opening day of the World Cup, is the busiest day it has tracked, with some 11 million visitor requests to its network …
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App Advice, DSLreports, Techie Buzz, Ryan Stewart, Softpedia News, Macworld, Gizmodo and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
iPhone 4 at Wal-Mart on June 24 — iPhone 4 goes on sale June 24. — If you'd rather avoid the lines at Apple and AT&T stores on iPhone 4 launch day, you have options this year. — Wal-Mart said Friday that it will be one of several retail outlets that will have the iPhone 4 on June 24, its first day of availability anywhere.
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Fast Company, TechFlash, The Register, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MobileCrunch, TiPb, Edible Apple, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report and everythingiCafe
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google morphs Chrome OS into netbook thin client — ‘Chromotes’ legacy PC apps inside browser — Exclusive Google's Chrome OS — the operating system that moves all apps and data into a web browser — will provide remote access to “legacy PC applications” through a mystery process …
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Fortune, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, Erictric, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, I4U News, Engadget, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, Geek.com, Liliputing and Gizmodo
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Exclusive: Twitter's Next Moneymaker-"Promoted Trends" — Twitter is beginning to roll out its ad platform, which allows advertisers to insert messages into users' streams. But the microblogging service already has an idea for a new product: Selling some of the real estate dedicated to its …
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing New Google News Home Page (With Sharing Options) — This never happens to me. Until now. While writing my earlier piece, Google News Tests Editors' Picks, I went to Google News on the off-chance that I'd be able to see the “limited test” of editors' picks. Nope. As expected.
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CNET News, paidContent, The Next Web, Softpedia News, Silicon Alley Insider and BlogsDNA
Sara Jerome / Hillicon Valley:
Google letter to lawmakers: ‘Sorry’ for Wi-Fi breach, downplays harms — Google is determined to “learn all the lessons we can” from a major privacy breach in which it may have collected users' personal information from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, the company said in a letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders on Tuesday.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Google News Gives News Orgs a Chance to Stand Out — Many mainstream news organizations have long viewed Google News as a threat to their interests. — But more recently, Google has been portrayed as sensitive to the health of the news media. Eric Schmidt, its chief executive …
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John Poirier / Reuters:
U.S. steps up Web security focus after iPad breach — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said it would step up scrutiny of online security and privacy issues following recent security breaches involving Apple Inc's iPad and Google Inc's collection of private data by its Street View cars.
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Joel Gurin / Reboot.FCC.gov:
Consumer View: Staying Safe from Cyber Snoops
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The Register, The Next Web, San Francisco Chronicle, Hillicon Valley, Gizmodo and Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Cisco gets into the social network business with Quad — Does the world really need another business social network? Apparently Cisco thinks so, because it plans to release one later this year. The company has been revealing more details of the new product, called Quad …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Motorola And RIM Make Peace, End All Outstanding Litigation Worldwide — Is it Christmas? — Motorola and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion have just jointly announced that they have entered into a settlement and licensing agreement that ends all outstanding worldwide litigation between the two companies.
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PR Newswire, VentureBeat, eWeek, PC World, Digital Trends, Pulse2, Erictric, Agence France Presse, Technology News, Digital Daily, Fone Arena, Tech Eye, Electronista, Reuters and Boy Genius Report
Ben Patterson / Yahoo! News:
Trade-in sites offering up to $320 for old iPhones — Leery of coughing up $200 or even $300 for yet another iPhone? Well, you can always sell your old iPhone on eBay. But there's another, potentially easier option: trading it in for cash. Some online trade-in sites offer up to $320 for iPhone hand-me-downs.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What's Up With Foursquare, Doc? Try a Bridge Investment, Facebook Talks and More! — Memo to Dennis Crowley: BoomTown has not forgotten you! — In fact, I have been tracking the popular social location service he helms the way Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny, since my last update in April.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Expanding Local Tags, Pushing Them Into Mobile — Google announced that it's rolling out its fixed-fee local ad product “Tags” (formerly “enhanced listings") nationally. It also announced that Tags will be showing up in mobile search results. Tags offers local businesses …
Allie Townsend / Techland:
Hey Google Maps, Why Is Randolph, VT In A Lake? — Two months ago, Jessamyn West noticed something about the Google Maps location of her small town, Randolph, VT. Instead of being tucked somewhere in central Vermont, Google had moved the official location of Randolph into the middle of a lake.
Chang Kim / Blogger Buzz:
Blogger Template Designer Now Available To Everyone — When we launched the Blogger Template Designer to Blogger in Draft in March, you gave us a lot of feedback and suggestions. Our blog post received nearly 1,000 comments and many of you shared your blog's new looks on Twitter using #newbloggertemplate.
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
North Korea moves quietly onto the Internet — IDG News Service - North Korea, one of the world's few remaining information black holes, has taken the first step toward a fully fledged connection to the Internet. But a connection, if it comes, is unlikely to mean freedom of information for North Korea's citizens.
