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Robin Schriebman / Gmail Blog:
Call phones from Gmail — Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer's microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google Voice Press Gathering
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The Next Web
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google testing voice calling in Gmail
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Computerworld, PC World, ReadWriteWeb, Fortune, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz, Newlaunches.com, Download Squad, SlashGear, TechSpot, The Tech Report, Boy Genius Report, Neowin.net, BlogsDNA, Geek.com, TechCrunch and Erictric
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Is this Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 interface? — Microsoft has delivered four developer previews of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 so far, but has yet to show off the new interface for its next-generation browser. That is expected to happen on September 15, during Microsoft's beta launch event in San Francisco.
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CNET News, Download Squad, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, Web Browsers, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Engadget and Electronista
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
New Apple TV will have ARM processor, App Store access - report — Like the iPhone 4 and iPad, the new Apple TV will run the iOS operating system and be powered by a processor with ARM architecture, and will also have access to the App Store, according to one prominent analyst.
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New York Times, everythingiCafe and Softpedia News
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Dan Provost / The Russians Used a Pencil:
Controlling Apple TV
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Daring Fireball and The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon: New Kindles Selling At Record Rates, U.S. Store Now Has Over 670,000 Books — Amazon has announced today that more “next generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever.”
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
New Kindle is Here, Selling Like an Unspecified Number of Hotcakes — Amazon has announced that it's started shipping its third-generation Kindle e-reader to customers.The new version is thinner and lighter, with a better screen and longer battery life, and it now starts at $139 (for a Wi-Fi version).
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Prepare New 99-Cent TV Show Rental Service — Apple Inc. is in advanced talks with News Corp. to let iTunes users rent TV shows for 99 cents and is in discussions with other media companies about similar deals, said three people familiar with the plan.
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CNN, ZDNet, Fortune, VentureBeat, NewTeeVee, Yahoo! News, VatorNews, Engadget, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Network World, Pocket-lint, DailyTech, Faster Forward, MacRumors, GMSV, Tech Trader Daily, BlogsDNA, Silicon Alley Insider, lalawag, iHackintosh, Erictric, Appletell, Apple Gazette, Wall Street Journal, CrunchGear, paidContent, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, iThinkDifferent, O'Grady's PowerPage, TG Daily, FierceMobileContent, Electricpig.co.uk, everythingiCafe, SlashGear, Obsessable, 9 to 5 Mac, fierceonlinevideo.com …, Electronista, Mashable!, iLounge, VideoNuze, TUAW, Ubergizmo, Epicenter, Gadgetell, App Advice, TechCrunch, CNET News, Boy Genius Report, Neowin.net, Fast Company, MacDailyNews, SFGate, Techland, TiPb, GeekSugar, DSLreports, Gizmodo, Know Your Cell, LOOPRumors, Velocity, The Toybox Blog, USA Today, Crave and Search Engine Land, more at Mediagazer »
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Peter Burrows / BusinessWeek:
Apple's New Video Strategy Coming Into Focus
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Computerworld, Cult of Mac and SlashGear
Adam Vaughan / Guardian:
Apple blocks iPhones from green ranking scheme — Scheme rates handsets on factors such as ecological impact of raw materials, manufacturing process and energy efficiency — • iPhone app pitches climate change science against scepticism — Apple has refused to allow its iPhones …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Hey, Digg — This 17-Year-Old Knows What You Are Thinking — Hard-core Digg users and fans of the link-sharing site — the so-called “Digg Nation” — spend a lot of their time trying to push their favorite links to the front page, competing with each other for the number of “diggs” …
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Arron La:
Android Revenue - Advanced Task Manager — Background — “Advanced Task Manager” is an Android application I created in February 2009. At that time, it was needed mainly to kill running services that a number of applications spawned but never ended. Some of these services would start …
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IntoMobile, Silicon Alley Insider and FierceDeveloper
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Ryan Kim / SFGate:
Advanced Task Manager app maker makes $80,000 with Android app
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Androidheadlines.com
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Loses E-Book Deal — A month after jolting the book industry with a deal to give Amazon.com Inc. exclusive digital access to some of the country's best-known literary works, literary agent Andrew Wylie is largely abandoning the agreement. — The Amazon deal was struck after Mr. Wylie failed …
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NYConvergence and Future Tense
Marc Graser / Variety:
‘Angry Birds’ flies with Hollywood — IPhone game eyes TV shows, movies, toys — The “Angry Birds” are flocking to Hollywood. — Rovio, the Finnish creator of the hit iPhone and iPad game, which has sold more than 6.5 million downloads, wants to turn the property into a major franchise …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Defense official discloses cyberattack — Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. — In an article to be published Wednesday discussing the Pentagon's cyberstrategy …
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New York Times, Network World, Gizmodo, Security Watch and Technology Liberation Front
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
$750K for Flowtown's Social Marketing to Existing Customers — Yes, Flowtown is yet another social media marketing company, but it's not yet another tool for monitoring customer feedback through their tweets. Flowtown takes a list of your existing customers' email addresses and delivers profiles …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat and alarm:clock
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man — Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. — On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated “The Tech Guy” program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif.
Arthur Brice / CNN:
3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days — The hit list on Facebook gave the people named three days to leave the town of Puerto Asis, Colombia, or be executed — (CNN) — Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why We Never Talk Anymore — While perusing some Nielsen mobile trends data this morning, I was prompted to check my phone bill, and found that I've been using less than 500 minutes a month for past six months. Wow! We really don't talk anymore! — In the last few decades …
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CNN, Black Web 2.0 and IntoMobile, Thanks:atul
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
CollegeOnly, a Social Network Just for the University Set — When Facebook arrived at my university near the end of my fourth year, I remember feeling a huge wave of relief. — Not because I had an easy way to keep in touch with my friends after college but because the site arrived …
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VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider and paidContent
Justin Houk / ProgrammableWeb:
Transit Score Shows the Power of Open Government Data — Seattle based Front Seat software launched a new service to rank public transit for an area. The service almost perfectly illustrates the value of open government data. The “Transit Score” offers a handy location score that's compelling …
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Andreessen Horowitz Seeks $650 Million for New Fund — When Andreessen Horowitz raised $300 million for its debut fund last year, I suggested that it was too much money. Actually, I said the original $250 million target was too large - particularly for a two-partner firm that said initial investment sizes would average around $500k.
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VentureBeat and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Follow: The Twitter-Eater, The Preemptive Google Me-Killer — Up until a few months ago, I was using Facebook the same way I was using Twitter. That is, I was allowing anyone to follow me. But it was different. With Twitter, anyone can follow me without my approval.
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Inside Facebook and Telegraph
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Third-party iPad clamshell keyboard case revealed in FCC filing — A new third-party iPad peripheral coming soon to the U.S. will turn Apple's touchscreen tablet into more of a traditional laptop form factor, with a clamshell case that provides tactile input via an attached Bluetooth keyboard.
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Computerworld, GottaBeMobile, iLounge, Fast Company, Cult of Mac, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Exclusive: HTC's Windows Phone 7-equipped T8788 breaks cover for AT&T — In case you needed any more evidence that AT&T is going all-in with Windows Phone 7, take a gander at this little beast, a phone known only as the HTC T8788 at this point (rest assured, you'll get a snappy, memorable …
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Inquirer, Phone Arena, Softpedia News, Gadgetell, Boy Genius Report, SlashPhone, WMExperts, MobileWhack.com, pocketnow.com, Know Your Cell, 901am, GeekSmack, eWeek, IntoMobile, WMPoweruser.com, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, MobileCrunch, internetnews.com, Windows Phone Thoughts.com, Gizmodo, Phones Review and VentureBeat
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GameCrush Is Crushing It. Investors Agree. — San Francisco based GameCrush is part happy hour at the local bar, part old school “900 chat line.” Users come to the site to play games with others, and there's a video/audio cam. The only hitch is that you have to pay $.60/minute to do so.
