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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Android 2.2 demolishes iOS4 in JavaScript benchmarks — Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo. A high-performance JIT was introduced in Android's Dalvik runtime environment and the browser got some very deep optimizations.
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Tim Partridge / YouTube Blog:
Life in a Day — Every day, 6.7 billion people view the world through their own unique lens. Imagine if there was a way to collect all of these perspectives, to aggregate and mold them into the cohesive story of a single day on earth. — Today, we're excited to announce the launch of …
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Apple MobileMe News:
Preview the New MobileMe Calendar Beta — A completely new version of MobileMe Calendar is now available as a beta on me.com. — To sign up, go to me.com/calendar and click “Request an invitation.” You will receive an email notification when you have been added to the beta …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T identifies Alcatel-Lucent as slow upload culprit, fix in the works — As we'd suspected, AT&T isn't intentionally limiting upload speeds on iPhone 4s in some markets where things suddenly got slow over the weekend. Or that's the company's claim, anyhow — and seeing how they're actually calling …
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Bloomberg:
Nokia Asks Russian Police to Get Smartphone Back From Blogger — By Diana ben-Aaron and Anastasia Ustinova — Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, asked the Russian police to help retrieve a smartphone prototype from a Moscow-based blogger who riled the company by posting information it calls confidential.
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Rachael King / Bloomberg:
Apple's IPad Wins Corporate Converts at Wells Fargo, SAP — Wells Fargo & Co. spent two years studying the iPhone before letting bankers use the device at work. Apple Inc.'s iPad, released in April, took just weeks to get cleared. — This time around, safeguards against security breaches …
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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
The KIN-fusing KIN-clusion to KIN, and FY11 Microsoft Layoff Rumors — Get out of the way Microsoft Bob, you have a replacement that Microsoft's Gen-Y employees can claim for their own! It's spelled K-I-N. — KIN's demise can't surprise anyone. When I looked at the phone's features …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft pruning more jobs
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Simon Mackie / WebWorkerDaily:
This Just In: Firefox is Still Slow — Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 4 yesterday. In addition to offering a spiffy, new interface and a whole host of new features, including enhanced HTML5 and WebM video support, the latest version should be faster.
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Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta 1: Tell us what you think!
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Motorola's New Android Phone Looks Like A BlackBerry (MOT, GOOG, RIMM) — Look out, RIM... Motorola's newest Android phone is going after the mid-to-low-end BlackBerry buyer, which has fueled a lot of RIM's growth in the last few years. — The new Motorola Charm will go on sale at T-Mobile this summer.
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Chris Morrison / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's June 2010 US Traffic by Age and Sex: Users Aged 18-44 Take a Growth Break — [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Please see Inside Facebook Gold …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple looking for ‘iTunes Fraud Prevention Specialist’ [Update: Apple yanks job post] — What a coincidence; just days prior to the July 4th App Store fraud incident, Apple set out to find a specialist to deal with fraud in the iTunes store and its components.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter search queries up 33 percent from April to 800 million per day — Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Xbox Live Sales Probably Topped $1 Billion for the First Time — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox Live online video-game service probably broke the $1 billion revenue mark for the first time in the year that just ended, helped by sales of movies, avatar accessories and extra game levels.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Magazine Walls Off Its Web Site: Will You Pay Up? — Want to read the cover story of this week's Time magazine? Whip out your wallet: You can only get all of Steve Brill's piece on lobbying and financial reform via Time's print edition or its new iPad app.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Facebook Movie Will Not Be Using Facebook to Market the Facebook Movie — You might think a huge target audience and golden marketing opportunity for a high-profile Hollywood movie on Facebook, titled “The Social Network,” might be the 500 million members of Facebook. — Maybe not so much.
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Dominates Third-Party Logins For All But News — More and more, we're logging into websites using our credentials from sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo. But who's leading in the battle of the third-party login? What login do we chose when it comes to entertainment sites like MTV?
Melissa Eddy / Associated Press:
Germany takes legal steps against Facebook — BERLIN — A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the social networking site.
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Google clarifies: More “display ads” doesn't mean annoying animations — AdAge reported on last week's Google press event, where vice president of product management Neal Mohan explained how the company plans to extend its advertising empire beyond search keywords.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Best Buy Connect wireless service is official, offers contract-free plans — We'll admit that we never took Best Buy as the kind of company to sell its own wireless service, but you know what Best Buy does sell? Laptops with unlocked WWAN modems, and to that end, the retailer's Best Buy …
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