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Urs Holzle / The Official Google Blog:
Update on Google Wave — We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users' lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Eric Schmidt on the demise of Google Wave — LAKE TAHOE, Calif.—Eric Schmidt tried to paint the failure of Google Wave as a sign that the company's innovative culture continues to take risks and aim big. — “Our policy is we try things,” the Google CEO said, hours after the company announced …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wave Goodbye To Google Wave — Maybe it was just ahead of its time. Or maybe there were just too many features to ever allow it to be defined properly, but Google is saying today that they are going to stop any further development of Google Wave. — Wave, a real time messaging platform …
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Machmeter / HardMac.com:
Pictures of the iPod Touch 4... well, almost — As you may know, Apple provides some case manufacturers with the size and shape of the new iPhones and iPods so they can start making the new cases before the devices come out. This doesn't allow us to know what materials Apple will use …
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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Leaked Details On 2010-2011 iPods, iPhone 5, Bumper 2 + iPad mini — Take this report with the requisite grains of salt, but here's what we've heard about the upcoming late 2010/early 2011 iPod, iPhone, and iPad lineups from a highly reliable source. If you remember our exclusive first details …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Google and Verizon in Talks on Web Priority — WASHINGTON — Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content, are nearing an agreement that could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Did Net Neutrality Just Get Knifed in The Back?
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Google, Verizon Said to Have Reached Deal on Web Traffic Rules
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Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Google Buys Slide for $182 Million, Getting More Serious about Social Games — We've just learned that Google has agreed to buy Slide for $182 million, in a deal to be announced Friday. And sources also tell us that this is not the last move Google is going to be making to cobble together …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Slide, Vic Gundotra & The Un-Social Reality of Google — It was a nearly a decade and a half ago that I fell in love with America's pastime, baseball. I loved the sound of the ball hitting the bat. I loved the juxtaposition of green grass and red clay on the baseball diamond.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft's mystery hardware? Arc Touch Mouse, launching in September — Microsoft has been teasing a new mystery hardware device over the past week. According to company insiders the software giant plans to unveil a new Arc Touch Mouse in September. — Details of the Arc Touch Mouse …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Apple readies fix for iPhone browser security hole — Apple says that it has a fix for the browser security flaw discovered earlier this week on its iOS-powered devices. — After the iPhone Dev Team released the latest jailbreak software hack for the iPhone over the weekend …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google CEO Schmidt: “People Aren't Ready for the Technology Revolution” — Eric Schmidt spoke at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe today and dropped some serious rhetorical bombs. “There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003,” Schmidt said …
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Dean Hachamovitch / MSDN Blogs:
HTML5, Modernized: Fourth IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers — IE9 started from the premise that the modern web will deliver HTML5 experiences that feel more like native applications than sites. Building on hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, video, audio, and text …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Microsoft releases final IE9 preview, beta due in September
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Schmidt: Google Now Activating 200,000 Android Units A Day [Video] — Remember back in the day when Google was only activating 100,000 Android units a day? You should — it was May. By June, that number had jumped to 160,000 units a day. And today it now stands at 200,000 Android units activated a day.
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Reuters:
Lebanon Is Latest Country With BlackBerry Concerns — BEIRUT (Reuters) — Lebanon will assess security concerns relating to the use of BlackBerry phones in the country, the acting head of the Telecoms Regulatory Authority said on Thursday, the latest country to raise questions about the devices.
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John Ribeiro / PC World:
Indonesia Presses RIM Over Its BlackBerry Service
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Facebook Buys Friendster Patents for $40M — Facebook bought the entire Friendster portfolio of social networking patents earlier this year. The seven patents and eleven patent applications had been transferred to MOL Global when it bought Friendster for about $39.5 million late last year.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
BlackBerry's New Torch Makes a Leap From Drab — Millions of people love the BlackBerry, relying on it especially for email and text messaging. But this classic smartphone, while still dominant in the U.S., has been slipping in popularity as consumers, and even some corporations …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Deep Inside Xbox 360 Kinect: The Interface of Microsoft's Dreams — Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it's the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It's the beginning of Microsoft's plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you're staring at right now.
Wall Street Journal:
BlackBerry Chief Fires Back — Research In Motion Ltd. co-CEO Michael Lazaridis lashed out at governments seeking to ban his company's BlackBerry phones, saying they risk undermining the growth of electronic commerce by demanding access to secure communications and transactions.
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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures — Today's issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is... an online gaming community. — Scientists have turned to games for a variety …
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Nature, PC World, New York Times and The Register, Thanks:atul
