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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Mobile Goes HTML5, Video Quality Beats Native Apps Hands Down — If you've got a phone with an HTML5 compliant browser, you'll probably want to check out YouTube's new mobile site, which is rolling out over the next few hours at m.youtube.com. It's a major upgrade from the old mobile web app …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Google Makes the iPhone YouTube App Obsolete — What's the difference between the new version of YouTube's mobile Web site and the Apple-created YouTube application that is installed on every iPhone? The Web site is a lot better. At least that's the subtext of a video that YouTube released …
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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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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Rank And File Felt “Embarrassment All Over Campus” From Kin Failure (MSFT) — Microsoft's Kin failure sank morale at the company's Redmond campus according to an employee who emailed us after the news broke. — “Embarrassment all over campus from the rank and file about the Kin announcement,” says this Microsoftie.
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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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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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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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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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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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft job cuts in hundreds, scattered across the company — As expected, Microsoft today is proceeding with job cuts in targeted areas of its global workforce, delivering layoff notices in selected groups as part of the strategic realignment that the company traditionally makes at the beginning of its fiscal year.
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine — What is your search engine of choice? Google? Yahoo? Bing? Try Twitter. — According to cofounder Biz Stone, who spoke yesterday at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Twitter now reaches some 800 million search queries per day.
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Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Twitter search queries up 33 percent from April to 800 million per day
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Console Makers in Talks to Add 3G — TOKYO—Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. is in talks with videogame-device makers about adding 3G network connections to the next generation of hand-held consoles in a push to expand connected-game play. — “Videogame makers know that in order …
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Fast Company, PlayStation LifeStyle, VG247, Electronista, SlashGear, CrunchGear, Gizmodo Australia and Engadget
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 which one is leading in the battle of the third-party login? What login do we chose when it comes to entertainment sites like MTV?
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Mahendra / Skeptic Geek:
Googler's Take on Social Networking Reveals Chinks in Facebook's Armor — Paul Adams, lead for User Research for Social at Google, shared a presentation a few days back that was picked up by Venture Beat among others. I am sharing it here along with my own thoughts as I think it deserves a closer look.
Alex Smith / AndroidSPIN:
T-Mobile's End of the Year Road Map Leaked — Well, Folks, it looks like T-Mobile has some Android devices coming our way! After the launch of the Motorola Charm and the Samsung Vibrant on July 21st, T-Mobile plans on launching 5 more Android devices before the years end.
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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,” would be the 500 million members of Facebook. — Maybe not so much.
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.
TechCrunch:
Foursquare Is Five Times Larger Than Gowalla And Growing 75 Percent Faster Every Day — Editor's note: The following analysis is written by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup.
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 …
Alexia Tsotsis / The Snitch:
Fast Company Influence Project Pisses Off Online Influencers — BECAUSE THAT'S HOW INFLUENCE IS MEASURED. Nowadays. Apparently. By tricking one's friends into pimping generic product. What is this, Amway? — Hope you used protection. — Radian6's Amber Naslund fell for it …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Hulu's Jason Kilar Talks About Plus, IPO, Renovations and More! — This week on BoomTown's grand summer tour of digital Los Angeles, I popped into the Santa Monica, Calif., offices of Hulu, the premium online video distributor that has been one of the few big and innovative hits for Hollywood in the digital sector.
