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Google Mobile Blog:
Just speak it: introducing Voice Actions for Android — (cross-posted with the Official Google Blog) — Our mobile phones have become modern-day Swiss Army knives. An Android phone is a handheld computer, a music player, a notepad, a GPS navigation unit and more, all rolled into one sleek device that fits in your pocket.
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Dave Burke / Google Mobile Blog:
Instantly zap links, maps and phone numbers to your Android phone with Chrome to Phone! — (Cross-posted from the Google Chrome blog.) — Ever wanted a way to quickly and easily send links and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go?
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VentureBeat, AndroidSPIN, Erictric, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans, mobiputing and EuroDroid
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blog: Google Announces “Voice Actions” & “Chrome-To-Phone” For Android — Google's having an impromptu small press “gathering” today at its offices in San Francisco. Topic? “Cool new mobile features.” Want to know more? Stay tuned, as I'll be live blogging the event that begins at 10am.
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TechCrunch, CNET News, BoomTown, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, YouTube Blog, Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Mashable! and Electronista
Cpen / Twitter Blog:
Pushing Our (Tweet) Button — Twitter is great for sharing interesting things you find on the web. In fact, close to a quarter of all Tweets include a link in them. Despite the high volume of sharing, there is plenty of room to make it easier. Copying and pasting, link shortening …
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Nick Halstead / TweetMeme Blog:
Twitter Tweet Button — Back at the beginning of 2009 we produced a little green web button that counted how many times users shared a link on Twitter. We started out with a simple idea ‘How can we get more people to share content on Twitter’ - and today we return to that simple thought.
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Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, Brian Solis, Yahoo! News and Techie Buzz, Thanks:hornokplease
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Takes Over The Tweet Button From TweetMeme
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Digits, Digital Inspiration …, HEXUS.channel and The Next Web
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
“Twitter track on steroids” announced by TweetMeme founder
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DataSift and The Next Web
Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Can Google Get Social Networking Right? — The company has many social projects, but may struggle to improve on Facebook. — Rumors that Google is building a new social network have persisted since late June, when Kevin Rose, CEO of Digg.com, posted on Twitter that the Web giant was working on a challenger to Facebook.
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MediaPost
Gartner:
Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Device Sales Grew 13.8 Percent in Second Quarter of 2010, But Competition Drove Prices Down — Android Became the World's Third Most Popular Smartphone Operating System and Claimed Top Spot in the U.S — Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Gartner and IDC agree: the Android invasion's accelerating around the world — Last quarter we reported on some pretty stellar growth numbers for Android in the global smartphone marketplace. Back then, Google's OS had a 9.6 percent slice of the pie, but today that's ballooned to a robust 17.2 percent …
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MediaPost and FierceWireless
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype rumbles into the wild (video) — Did it get hot in here all of a sudden or is it just this extremely sexy prototype we're looking at? Yes, the Dell Thunder that boomed onto your internet screens back in April is back, and this time we've got video of it too.
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Tech Trader Daily, PC World, eWeek, Fonehome.co.uk, AndroidGuys, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Android Phone Fans, EuroDroid, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Boy Genius Report, Phone Arena, Erictric, GeekSmack, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, Electricpig.co.uk, MobileTechWorld, AndroidSPIN, Softpedia News, Androinica, Gadgetell, Ubergizmo and Electronista
Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal — Over the past few days there's been a lot of discussion surrounding our announcement of a policy proposal on network neutrality we put together with Verizon. On balance, we believe this proposal represents real progress on what has become …
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MediaMemo, ZDNet, The Precursor Blog, Telecom Trends and The Diversity Blog, Thanks:atul
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Larry Downes / Technology Liberation Front:
Deconstructing the Google-Verizon Framework
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Fortune, Continuations, Mercury News, The eMarketer Blog, Financial Times, DailyTech, The Social, 9 to 5 Mac, Hillicon Valley, Boy Genius Report and New York Times
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Hackers Hijack Gmail in China — Here in the U.S., we've been complaining about Gmail for its new design (Why do we need a “Mail” button and “Inbox” button only an inch apart!?!). In China, they're complaining about Gmail too, but for a very different reason.
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Techie Buzz and Rewrite Tech
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Exclusive: Sony Ericsson to introduce Android 3.0 gaming platform and PSP Go-like smartphone — There's no question that gaming on the Android platform has heretofore been relatively underwhelming, but that looks like it's all about to change. It seems that Sony Ericsson …
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Technologizer, eWeek, Fortune, Ars Technica, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, Computerworld, WMPoweruser.com, Download Squad, CNET News, Appolicious Advisor, Sony Insider, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Black Web 2.0, Pocket-lint, Gadget Lab, Startup Meme, Newlaunches.com, HEXUS.channel, Electricpig.co.uk, Inquirer, Phones Review, Know Your Cell, Obsessable, Erictric, Phone Arena, Fudzilla, Destructoid, FierceWireless, Techie Buzz, Android and Me, I4U News, Crave, MobileTechWorld, www.pocketgamer.biz, Go Rumors, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Unwired View, mocoNews, Edge Magazine and VG247, Thanks:rawmeet
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Notion Ink Adam: Pricing and more — In part one of our Notion Ink feature, we looked at the reasons for the delay in production of the Adam slate. Happily the company didn't rest on their laurels while investor and ODM issues were ironed out. After the cut, details of hardware and software changes …
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The Toybox Blog, GottaBeMobile, Engadget, Techie Buzz, Go Rumors, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, Liliputing, Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Pulls Camera+ From The App Store After Its Developers Reveal A Contraband Feature — The fun's over, folks*. About a week and a half ago, iPhone developers TapTapTap pushed an updated version of their Camera+ photography app to the App Store, and all seemed well.
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9 to 5 Mac, The APPera, Gizmodo, TiPb and App Advice
Richard Barley / TweetDeck's posterous:
TweetDeck on Android - Come And Get It! — You begged. You pleaded. You offered us all manner of enticements, some of which we think may be illegal in some countries. We took this to mean that you really wanted TweetDeck on your Android device, and we agreed!
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Download Squad, EuroDroid, mobiputing and Android and Me
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Attack reads smudges to retrieve Android password patterns — Oily residue ‘surprisingly persistent’ — Smudges left on Android touch screens leave tell-tale signs that can often be used to recover password pattens used to lock the phones, according to research presented earlier this week.
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Apple iAd partners say they're happy with early results — Apple's iAd mobile advertising platform is getting favorable reviews from the companies whose advertisements were the first to run on the new system, including Dove soap-maker Unilever and Nissan. App makers like Dictionary.com …
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Silicon Alley Insider, MacRumors, MacStories and iLounge
John Flowers / McSweeney's:
AFTER A THOROUGH BATTERY OF TESTS WE CAN NOW RECOMMEND “THE NEWSPAPER” AS THE BEST E-READER ON THE MARKET. — For the past three weeks our team of engineers has analyzed the most popular e-readers on the market in order to confer our annual “Editor's Choice” Award.
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The Digital Reader
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Sprint Epic 4G Android Slider Phone Engages on August 31 for $250 — Sprint's second 4G Android phone, the Samsung Epic 4G, is going to be available August 31 with a $100 rebate to make it $250. … The phone is based off the same core as the other Samsung Galaxy S devices …
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Quick Change in Strategy for a Bookseller — In the movie “You've Got Mail,” Tom Hanks played the aggressive big-box retailer Joe Fox driving the little bookshop owner played by Meg Ryan out of business. — Twelve years later, it may be Joe Fox's turn to worry.
Paul Graham:
What Happened to Yahoo — When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing. It was supposed to be what Google turned out to be. — What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time …
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GigaOM, Venture Chronicles, Don Dodge on The Next …, Daring Fireball, Lockergnome Blog Network and SmoothSpan Blog, Thanks:zee
