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Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:
To 100 million and beyond with Google Maps for mobile — Almost five years ago, we launched Google Maps for mobile to help you get where you needed to go from your phone instead of a paper map. Today, more than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps for mobile to get from point A to point B …
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Sid Yadav / VentureBeat:
Google's social czar picks a location fight with Facebook — Google's timing can be peculiar — but rarely coincidental. A day after Facebook launched its first location feature, the search giant revealed in a blog post Thursday that more than 100 million users check Google Maps on mobile devices.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Confusing Stages Of Opting Into Facebook Places — Earlier today we had a bit of a fire-drill at TechCrunch Headquarters. As I checked into TCHQ on Facebook Places, I also tagged a few of my coworkers, fully expecting their checkins to be delayed until they actually opted into the feature …
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Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook Places — Yesterday, Facebook introduced Places, a new location feature that competes with popular services like Foursquare, Google Latitude, Loopt, and Gowalla. Places allows Facebook users to ‘check in’ to real world locations and to tag their friends as present …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
One Big Reason Why Facebook Places Beats Foursquare: Clarity of Identity
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Tries To Steal Facebook's Thunder, Plays Up Impressive Maps Userbase
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Intel Buys Cyber Security Giant McAfee For $7.68 Billion In Cash — Intel has just bought McAfee according to a release issued this morning. The deal is worth $7.68 billion, or $48 per share. See the release below. — According the statement issued by Intel, McAfee will continue operate …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Time Inc. breaks the iPad logjam — This week's People app is free to subscribers. Time, SI and Fortune are expected to follow — Image: Time Inc. — There's more to the iPad issue of People that appeared on the Apple (AAPL) App Store this morning than Sandra Bullock's new joy.
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Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Get Feature Film Treatment — EXCLUSIVE: The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A smartphone retrospective — This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: — Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws. — Then this happened:
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple testing iOS 4.1 alongside next-gen iPod touch, iPad and ‘unknown’ product — Apple is internally testing the first material update to its iOS 4.0 mobile operating system against a handful of new devices, including next-generation iPod touches, an iPad revision, and an “unknown” product, AppleInsider has discovered.
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Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100 — Online video stars The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today. — Billboard uses a number …
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype preview (video) — Christmas came early at Engadget HQ this year, as evidenced by the picture above — you're looking at two Dell Thunder prototype smartphones, each with some surprising quirks, and hints that they might include global HSPA, AWS for T-Mobile, and maybe even a dash of CDMA support.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: OpenDNS Simplifies Life for Web Users — I'm about to make your life better. No need to thank me. — But first, a warning: On the way to understanding how your life will get better, you'll have to read about some technical, fairly arcane topics. Trust me: It'll be worth it.
Chris Tolles / TechCrunch:
When Attorneys General Attack — Earlier this year Topix CEO Chris Tolles got the call no one wants to get - that they are under investigation by a government entity. Two attorneys general, one of which was deep into his senate run, were leveling accusations of abuse at Topix.
James Niccolai / Computerworld:
HP: WebOS tablet coming early next year — Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in “early 2011,” the head of HP's PC division said Thursday. — Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in “early 2011,” the head of HP's PC division said Thursday.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Hurd's last hurrah: HP hits earnings targets
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
What's that phone number? Google disables area code look-up tool — Got a call from a strange number? If you were in front of a computer, you could have used Google to look up where that caller probably was phoning from before you heard the second ring.
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Rogue Apple Exec Trashes Rivals' ‘Mediocre Engineers’ — It's amazing that Phillip Shoemaker still works at Apple. The app store director obsessed with porn and escorts, as we reported yesterday, has also used Twitter to attack execs at rival companies and media critics, we've learned.
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Said to Adopt BMW, Crusher Tank Software for Planned Tablet Computer — Research In Motion Ltd. is turning to technology used in BMW audio systems and the Army's Crusher tank as it tries to distinguish its new tablet computer from Apple Inc.'s iPad, said three people familiar with the plans.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Why Are There So Many Porn Ads on Britney Spears' Facebook Page? — Britney Spears' official Facebook page, which has over four million fans, is rife with links to escort services. — Apologies for the link-bait, but it's true: Britney Spears' Facebook page is overrun with erotic pictures …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Shutting Down Quattro Wireless Network On Sept. 30 To Focus Exclusively On iAd — Apple will shut down the Quattro Wireless ad network it acquired last year for $275 million, and will focus its efforts solely on the iAd mobile advertising product that Quattro's team has led at Apple.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Groupon Having A $4 Million Day Thanks To The Gap — Groupon is having a smashing day, likely generating over $4 million in net revenue, thanks to a deal with the Gap. — Today's Groupon gives users a $25 discount at the Gap if consumers spend over $50 at the store.
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