Techmeme: The top 20 countries on the Internet, and what the future might bring (Royal Pingdom)

7:15 AM ET, July 28, 2010

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Darren Murph / Engadget:

Apple iMac line gets speedbumped, low-end gets a Core i3 — It's not as if we haven't heard the rumors building over the last few months, but Apple's long-standing iMac line is seeing its first real update since the Fall of last year on this fine morning. As predicted, the refreshed iMac line …

Discussion: Delimiter, eWeek, Gearlog, BetaNews, Laptops and Desktops Blog, Product Reviews Net, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Tech Trader Daily and The Huffington Post

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Apple's Magic Trackpad Signals The End Of The Mouse Era — Easily the most interesting thing Apple unveiled today is the new Magic Trackpad. Essentially, it's a larger version of the trackpads that ship with each MacBook and MacBook Pro. But it's a stand-alone product, meant to be used with desktop computers.

Discussion: Scripting News, Electronista, Gadget Lab, Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, 9 to 5 Mac and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog

Phillip Jaenke / Icrontic Tech:

Apple switches to ATI exclusively for iMac — Cupertino has spoken, and NVIDIA is no longer the preferred GPU supplier of One Infinite Loop's polished white and aluminum desktops. Apple's newly introduced 21.5" and 27" iMacs based on the Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 processors will be the exclusive realm of ATI's Radeon family.

Discussion: Appletell, TUAW and eWeek, Thanks:primesuspect

Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Apple's Magic Trackpad Is Here

Discussion: Engadget, Softpedia News, Education IT Blog, design mind, V3.co.uk, PC World, InformationWeek, MacRumors, RazorianFly, BlogsDNA, WebProNews, TiPb, Macworld, Gearlog, The Tech Herald …, The Next Web and The Huffington Post

Marco Arment / Marco.org: iMac or Mac Pro?

Dan Frakes / Macworld:
First look: Apple's Magic Trackpad

Discussion: Apple, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, Erictric and Gizmodo

Apple:
Apple Unveils New Mac Pro With Up to 12 Processing Cores

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Develops a Facebook Rival — Google Inc. is in talks with several makers of popular online games as it seeks to develop a broader social-networking service that could compete with Facebook Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. — Google has been in discussions …

Discussion: Guardian, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac and DailyFinance

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The Google Sewage Factory, In Action: The Chocomize Story — Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has quite famously been on record many times talking about how the web is full of garbage. It's a cesspool out there, he's said. Today, a short fast look at how his own company pollutes the web.

Discussion: Chocomize Blog and CNN

Royal Pingdom:

The top 20 countries on the Internet, and what the future might bring — The world is a big place, but so is the Internet. We know which countries are the largest in the real world, but what about on the Internet? — This article examines which countries are the largest in terms of Internet users …

Discussion: Inquirer, NevilleHobson.com, Softpedia News, Daily Patricia, DSLreports and ResourceShelf

Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:

Dell Streak Update: Where We Are — Based on the strength of the number of pre-sales registrations for Dell Streak, we know there's a lot of you out there in the United States and beyond who are excited about the device. You've made Dell Streak the most successful pre-sale we've ever offered, and we appreciate that.

Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell Streak retailing for $299 with contract, $549 without …

Discussion: MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Direct2Dell, Gizmodo, Electronista, Unwired View, AndroidSPIN, Phones Review, Yahoo! News, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, Boy Genius Report, Daring Fireball and Silicon Alley Insider

Evan Selleck / SlashGear:

Amazon Kindle Sold Out: No Estimated Date of Availability — To our recollection, this actually hasn't happened in quite some time. To be exact, in 2008, when it was the original Kindle. And, even then, Amazon managed to make sure they told customers when the Kindle would be coming back around, or shipping to their doorsteps.

Discussion: Engadget, The Toybox Blog, Technologizer, The Next Web, Amazon.com, Tech Trader Daily and Product Reviews Net

Dan Nystedt / PC World: Kindle Screen Maker Will Increase Capacity to Meet Demand

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Amazon Now Taps Into Facebook For Social Product Recommendations — It appears that Amazon has rolled out a new social feature integrating Facebook into your recommendations. If you go your recommendations, Using Facebook Connect, Amazon will now serve you social recommendations based on information in your Facebook profile.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, GigaOM, All Facebook, Shelly Palmer, Bits, The Web Life Blog, Digits, Fast Company, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Facebook and WebProNews

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Leaked Facebook Movie Script Paints Zuckerberg as Vindictive and Naive — The origin of Facebook, as Mark Zuckerberg now tells it, came out of long talks in his dorm room with his college friends about how to make the world more open. Given there are records from Zuckerberg's sophomoric blog at the time …

Discussion: Sony Insider, Thanks:atul

Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:

Walt Disney Buys Playdom For Up To $763.2 Million — As had been widely expected, Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) is making a big move into social games, with the purchase of social game developer Playdom for up to $763.2 million. The deal includes a “total consideration” of $563.2 million …

Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:

Google Ripe for a Stock Buyback or Dividend — A growing cash pile makes the Web search leader a prime candidate for issuing a dividend or buying back stock, investors say — Google (GOOG) is a prime candidate to return some of its $30.1 billion in cash to investors through a stock buyback or dividend …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Turn Your Blog Into An iPad Native With PadPressed — Created by Jason Baptiste, PadPressed is a WordPress plugin that makes any WordPress blog look like a native iPad app when accessed from iPad. PadPressed bestows upon your humble blog the iPad features we've come to know and love such as …

Thanks:jasonlbaptiste

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

iOS 4.1 Beta 2 fixes iPhone 4 proximity sensor? — It's known that some iPhone 4 users are experiencing issues with its proximity sensor, including myself. People find themselves inadvertently ending and muting calls, punching in keys, and sending FaceTime requests.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, AppleInsider, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile and MobileCrunch

Matt Hamblen / PC World:

AT&T to Be ‘Premier’ Windows Phone 7 Vendor — Say all you want about whether Windows Phone 7 (WP7) will succeed, but AT&T continues to back the platform wholeheartedly after endorsing it — and Microsoft 's mobile efforts — repeatedly over the last year. — “We'll be the premier carrier …

Discussion: Tech Eye, Softpedia News, WMExperts, Computerworld, Engadget and Windows Phone Thoughts.com

Marin Perez / IntoMobile:

37signals buys Apple iPhone app for Campfire; makes it free — 37signals has purchased the Apple iPhone app Ember and the company has retooled the Campfire-chatting app and made it free. — If you've never used Campfire, it's a private chat room that can be used by businesses for collaboration and coordination.

Discussion: 37signals Product Blog, App Advice, TechCrunch and PC World

Ari Levy / Bloomberg:

Tiger Global Said to Invest in LinkedIn at $2 Billion Valuation — Tiger Global Management LLC, a hedge fund founded by Chase Coleman, paid $20 million for a stake in LinkedIn Corp., valuing the professional-networking website at more than $2 billion, said two people familiar with the matter.

Discussion: Mashable!, Thanks:atul

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Adobe buys Day Software for $240 million; Bolsters enterprise lineup — Adobe said Wednesday that it has acquired Day Software, which makes enterprise content management software, for $240 million. — The acquisition of Day, based in Switzerland, is designed to bolster Adobe's enterprise lineup, according to Adobe.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Tech Eye and Computerworld

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Apple Sued Over Claims IPad Tablet Overheats in Sunlight, Warm Conditions — Apple Inc., the world's most valuable technology company, was sued over claims its iPad tablet overheats and fails to operate properly in warm conditions. The complaint, filed July 23 in federal court in Oakland …

Discussion: The Register, Ars Technica, Digital Society, CNET News, App Advice, MacRumors, MacNN, everythingiCafe and RazorianFly

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