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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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Phone Booths To Start Popping Up In Airports, Universities — Google wants to get you hooked on Google Voice, and it's got a new weapon in its arsenal: charming red telephone booths inspired by the sort that litter the UK. Today at a press event where it announced the launch …
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Google introduces Voice in Gmail, free calls to US and Canada (update: impressions) — Rumors have been buzzing about since June, but Google just made it official — the company's baking Google Voice calls right into Gmail today. Like the Google Chat text, voice and video chat integrated …
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Computerworld, Mashable!, The Toybox Blog, ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, The Tech Report and Techie Buzz
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google Voice Press Gathering
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Computerworld, Silicon Alley Insider, ResourceShelf, Download Squad and The Next Web
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Google calls: Not a Skype-killer, but still a viable option.
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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.
Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
Digg Version 4 — I'm excited to announce that today we opened up the newest version of our Digg platform. We've been working hard on this next evolution of Digg (what we've been calling “v4") and everyone here is really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the changes we've made.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
New Version of Digg Goes Live For Everyone This Morning
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ReadWriteWeb, Geekosystem and The Huffington Post
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Issues Invitation For September 1 “Special Event” — Apple (AAPL) has e-mailed invitations to the media for a “special event” to be held September 1 at 10 a.m. at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Previous reports suggested that Apple would be holding an event on September 7 …
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Engadget, Digital Daily, Between the Lines Blog, Technologizer, Ars Technica, App Advice, TechCrunch, Bits, Techie Buzz and Obsessable
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Is Apple Really Going To Announce A TV Gadget At An Event With A Guitar On The Invitation? — Apple has invited reporters to an event in San Francisco on Sept. 1, with this guitar as the invitation art. — This tells us it's obvious that Apple will announce updates to its music lineup at the event …
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Fortune, AppleInsider and MacRumors
Peter Burrows / BusinessWeek:
Apple's New Video Strategy Coming Into Focus — The blogosphere has been buzzing with talk of a radically updated version of the Apple TV set-top box. It turns out Apple plans to unveil the $99 device at an event on Sept. 7, my Bloomberg colleagues and I reported today .
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
New Apple TV will have ARM processor, App Store access - report
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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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MediaPost, Crave, DailyFinance, New York Times, NYConvergence, Future Tense and ResourceShelf, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
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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Ars Technica, New York Times, eWeek, Foreign Affairs, Computerworld, The Register, Gizmodo, CIOInsight, msnbc.com, Security Watch, Switched and Technology Liberation Front
Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal:
Online Coupons Get Smarter — Groupon, Rivals Add Personalized Bargains, Staff as Some Merchants Gripe — When Jennifer London cut a deal with Groupon Inc. to promote her smoothie shop in an email, she wasn't sure how many people would show up for discounted drinks.
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Thanks:chirag_mehta
Mike Luttrell / TG Daily:
Digital Chocolate sues Facebook game giant Zynga over Mafia Wars — Casual gaming company Digital Chocolate has just filed suit against Zynga, the leader in social gaming, because it says it owns the exclusive rights to the name “Mafia Wars.” — Zynga's Facebook game Mafia Wars has become …
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TechCrunch, mocoNews, Inside Social Games, VentureBeat, Xconomy, Gamezebo, SocialTimes.com, Voices on All Things Digital and GamePolitics News
Graeme Wearden / Guardian:
Shareholder trading values Facebook at more than $33bn — With shares selling for up to $76, investors are calculating social networking site is worth nearly twice as much as Yahoo! — Facebook is now being valued at more than $33bn (£21.3bn) as investors try to secure a stake …
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CNET News, broadstuff and DealBook
Emily Glazer / WSJ Blogs - WSJ:
It's Still Too Early to Value Location Services, Businesses Say — Are location-based services going to be the next social-networking step for businesses? — The big debate lately has been whether Facebook's new location-sharing service, Places, will overwhelm pioneers like Foursquare.
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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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Internet Evolution, The Next Web, VentureBeat, paidContent and Silicon Alley Insider
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.
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
IBM Describes Fastest Microprocessor Ever — PALO ALTO—IBM revealed more details of its 5.2-GHz chip on Tuesday, the fastest microprocessor ever announced. Don't bet that you'll ever be able to buy it, though. — At the Hot Chips 2010 conference here, IBM executives described the z196 …
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SlashGear and Electronista
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
WikiLeaks Airs Secret CIA Memo, But Real Message is Unclassified — WikiLeaks on Wednesday dug into its trove of unpublished leaks to release a six-month old classified CIA memo about foreign perception of the U.S., underscoring that the secret-spilling website won't be cowed by Pentagon threats …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Encrypted and obfuscated? Your P2P protocol can still be IDed — Typical Web traffic is easy enough to spot: it uses TCP port 80. But plenty of protocols prefer to remain in the shadows and purposely make themselves difficult to identify—including Skype, BitTorrent, and eMule.
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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PC World, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, TUAW, Cult of Mac, Fast Company, iLounge, Engadget, CrunchGear, Geek.com and Gizmodo
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Qualcomm Services Labs unveils four cool mobile services startups — Qualcomm has formed a new incubator to launch next-generation mobile services and applications. Today, it unveil four such startups at a press event in Palo Alto, Calif. — Isaac Babbs (pictured right) …
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VatorNews, Mashable! and TechCrunch
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
A Search Service that Can Peer into the Future — A Yahoo Research tool mines news archives for meaning—illuminating past, present, and even future events. — Showing news stories on a timeline has been tried before. But Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine created …
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Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Garmin Recalling 1.25 Million Fire-Prone Personal Navigation Units — Garmin today announced that they're recalling five Nuvi models—the 200W, 250W, 260W, 7xx and 7xxT (where xx is a two-digit number)—totaling 1.25 million units in all. 796,000 of those were sold in the united states.
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PC World, pr, Engadget and Boy Genius Report
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foodspotting Investors Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are With $750K Seed Round — People love taking pictures of food. It's just a fact of life. Don't even bother arguing about it. It's just the way it is. Case in point: Foodspotting, the service which asks you to take pictures of your food to share with others.
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ReadWriteWeb, AppScout, VentureBeat and GigaOM
