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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, CNET News, Droid Life, 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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CNET News, TechCrunch, BoomTown, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, YouTube Blog, Mashable!, Engadget, Boy Genius Report and Electronista
Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Google, the Cloud Is Its Mobile Future
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BetaNews and Search Engine Land
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, Brian Solis, Techie Buzz and Yahoo! News, Thanks:hornokplease
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Takes Over The Tweet Button From TweetMeme
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Digits, Digital Inspiration …, creativebits and HEXUS.channel
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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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
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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Larry Downes / Technology Liberation Front:
Deconstructing the Google-Verizon Framework
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Mercury News, Post Tech, CNET News, Continuations, Fortune, A VC, Financial Times, DailyTech, 9 to 5 Mac, Hillicon Valley, The eMarketer Blog and New York Times
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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Computerworld, AndroidSPIN, Fonehome.co.uk, Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, eWeek, Android Phone Fans, EuroDroid, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, Boy Genius Report, Phone Arena, Erictric, Pocket-lint, GeekSmack, MobileCrunch, Electricpig.co.uk, AndroidGuys, MobileTechWorld, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, Androinica, Gadgetell and T3.com News
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, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, Techie Buzz, Android Phone Fans, Liliputing, Electronista, Gizmodo, Go Rumors and CrunchGear
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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Rewrite Tech and Techie Buzz
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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Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, The APPera, TiPb and App Advice
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
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, Droid Life, Startup Meme, EuroDroid, mobiputing, GeekSugar 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.
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
Kermit Pattison / Fast Company:
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz: “I'm Just a Manager” — Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out.
Adam DuVander / ProgrammableWeb:
Twitter Search History Dwindling, Now at Four Days — Developers looking for trends in Twitter search are finding it more difficult now that the micro-blogging site has decreased the search history to four days. Previously going back weeks and months, the backlog has steadily decreased, now too short for some types of applications.
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Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg:
Andreessen's Social-Networking Startup Ning Gets Users to Pay for Service — Ning Inc., the social-networking site co-founded by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, did what many young Web companies only dream of: It got customers weaned on free services to start paying.
