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Mia / YouTube Blog:
What's bigger than 1080p? 4K video comes to YouTube — Today at the VidCon 2010 conference, we announced support for videos shot in 4K (a reference resolution of 4096 x 3072), meaning that now we support original video resolution from 360p all the way up to 4096p.
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
Investing in the Future of Video: YouTube Announces Partner Grant Program — The YouTube ecosystem is vibrant and growing fast. We have over 10,000 partners, and 94 of Ad Age's top 100 advertisers have run campaigns on YouTube and the Google Display Network. We've made great progress in the last five years.
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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
YouTube Starts $5 Million Fund to Finance Original Videos — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In a cautious move into the original content business, search titan Google announced that its YouTube property has created a $5 million fund to help finance more original videos.
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Larry Page: Jobs is rewriting history — According to the Google founder, Steve Jobs' assessment of Google's Android entering into the iPhone's market is revisionist history. — In a briefing Thursday at the Allen & Co's Sun Valley conference, Google (GOOG) co-founders Larry Page …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Exclusive: Want More Followers? Twitter May Help You Buy Some. — Want more people reading your tweets? Twitter may offer you a hand-for a price. — People familiar with the company's plans say it has been discussing yet another revenue generator: Think of it as a “Promoted Tweeter” …
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Christina Warren / Mashable!:
An In-Depth Look at How People Are Using the iPad — Resolve Market Research has just completed a comprehensive study that looks at how the iPad is being used, and how the iPad is impacting other technology devices like e-readers, portable gaming consoles and netbooks.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge slams, slashes “unconstitutional” $675,000 P2P award — Judge Nancy Gertner knows that Joel Tenenbaum did it. Tenenbaum, the second US target of the RIAA's five-year litigation campaign to complete a trial, eventually admitted his music-sharing liability on the stand—and Judge Gertner issued a directed verdict against him.
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Google says China has renewed Web page license — (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday that the Chinese authorities had renewed its license to operate a website, averting a potential shutdown of its flagship search page in the world's biggest Internet market.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Cavs Owner Goes Online To Rip LeBron A New One... In Comic Sans — The national distraction is over. NBA star LeBron James has chosen the team he's going to play for: the Miami Heat. Of course, this means that he won't be returning to his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers and owner Dan Gilbert is not too happy about that.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple sues resellers over power adapters — Apple has filed a lawsuit against three companies it alleges are selling knockoff power adapters for MacBooks and MacBook Pros, according to court filings. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Thursday …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others Over Wireless Email Patents
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Smw / Cerulean Studios' Blog:
Droid Does Trillian: Trillian for Android is coming! — Because we can't handle any more blog comments or emails about it, we're tipping our hand - Trillian for Android is on the way! Check out the awesome screenshots and detailed information after the jump, and be sure to tell all your friends so they stop emailing us.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Lawsuit Advances Claiming AT&T iPhone Monopoly — A lawsuit alleging that Apple and AT&T secretly formed monopoly with their exclusive iPhone agreement has received class-action status, meaning the plaintiffs now represent everybody who's bought an iPhone in the United States.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Why Facebook Killed A $100 Million Baby — This evening Facebook announced that they will officially kill the company's gift shop on August 1st of this year. Currently generating tens of millions of dollars for the company a year, one has to wonder why the company would take such dramatic steps.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Former Googler And White House Staffer Katie Jacobs Stanton Heads To Twitter — Twitter has made another key hire today: former Google vet and White House and State Department staffer Katie Jacobs Stanton. According to Stanton's Tweet stream, she will be leaving her role at the State Department for greener pastures at Twitter.
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Google Maps now comes at you at a 45 degree angle — Google Maps has rolled out a feature to the main map that has been previously available to developers and through Google Map Labs - viewing locations at a 45 degree angle. — The new satilitte imagery is available for select US cities …
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Loophole May Have Aided Theft of Classified Data — WASHINGTON — The soldier accused of downloading a huge trove of secret data from military computers in Iraq appears to have exploited a loophole in Defense Department security to copy thousands of files onto compact discs over a six-month period.
Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Fring iPhone App Supports Video Calls Over 3G to Any Fring or Skype User — I just had a videochat over 3G and it was the most amazing thing I've experienced all day. There was some lag, voice quality wasn't perfect, and video was sometimes jittery. But I loved every minute of it.
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Tas Anjarwalla / CNN:
Inventor of cell phone: We knew someday everybody would have one — Cooper and his team at Motorola, the communications company, created maybe the only thing that runs the lives of business professionals and teenagers alike — the cell phone. — It was the size of a brick and wasn't commercially sold for another decade.
Noam Cohen / Bits:
GDANSK, Poland —The foundation that runs the Wikipedia Web site plans to add 44 employees in the next year — roughly doubling the size of its current professional staff — and to raise $20 million to support a much-enhanced vision for the volunteer-created encyclopedia that nearly anyone can edit.
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Arn / MacRumors:
What is Apple Planning on Making with this 3x3cm Touch Screen? — Tw.apple.pro posts a few images of an Apple-branded touch screen that only measures 3x3 centimeters. The site has been a source of early parts for Apple products in the past, including white iPhone 4 parts and MacBook Pro enclosures.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Nearly half of Windows 7 installations are 64-bit — The transition to 64-bit computing has accelerated with the release of Windows 7. Figures published by Microsoft today claim that nearly half of Windows 7 installations—46 percent—are using 64-bit versions of the operating system.
