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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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Financial Times, TechCrunch, PC World, GottaBeMobile, Computerworld, Google Voice Blog, Boy Genius Report, Silicon Alley Insider, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, Gadgetwise, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Techland, USA Today, Pulse2, Gawker, Google Operating System, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Faster Forward, Lifehacker, The Seattle Times, BlogsDNA, Geekosystem, dailywireless.org, I4U News, Erictric, Startup Meme, PhoneDog.com, Techie Buzz, SFGate, TiPb, Telecom Trends, SlashGear, Digital Daily, 901am, ResourceShelf, Fast Company, Softpedia News, Switched, Technology Review, DSLreports, GeekSugar, Internet2Go and The Huffington Post
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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 Call from 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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Mashable!, TechCrunch, The Toybox Blog, The Tech Report, Newlaunches.com, Geek.com and Fortune
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Google calls: Not a Skype-killer, but still a viable option.
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GigaOM
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Kindle Leaves Rivals Farther Back — Too bad there's not a reality TV show called “America's Most Freaked-Out Tech-Company Meetings,” where you watch classic panicked board meetings. For example, when the Apple employee left an iPhone 4 prototype in a bar.
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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.
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Boy Genius Report, The Register, Seattle Times, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, PC World, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, Computerworld, CNET News, Softpedia News, Web Browsers, The Microsoft Blog, CrunchGear, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, LiveSide.net, Erictric, TechSpot, Ars Technica, Engadget and Electronista
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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Search Engine Land, The Social, TechCrunch, BetaNews, ChasNote, lalawag, WebProNews and AppScout
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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, Velocity, Digital Daily, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, Technologizer, Ars Technica, App Advice, 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 …
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Fortune, NBC Bay Area and AppleInsider
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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The Russians Used a Pencil, Geek.com, DailyTech, CNN, everythingiCafe, Softpedia News, VatorNews and Mashable!
Quora:
Why does the Facebook Places icon so obviously contain a “four” in a “square”? — I've seen many people point this out on Twitter/etc, and all of them have had a (predictably) disparaging tone. Facebook must have been aware of the allusion to Foursquare in their new icon - how do they benefit by this?
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TechCrunch
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, Engadget, DailyFinance, Crave, New York Times, NYConvergence and Future Tense, more at Mediagazer »
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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VatorNews, TechCrunch, Inside Social Games, VentureBeat, mocoNews, Gamezebo, SocialTimes.com, Xconomy, Voices on All Things Digital and GamePolitics News
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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SiliconANGLE
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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The Social, broadstuff and DealBook
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 …
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Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, WebProNews, Electronista, Tech Eye, App Advice, MobileWhack.com, PreCentral.net, PC Pro, Fonehome.co.uk, T3.com News, Softpedia News, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Phones Review, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, Fast Company, THINQ.co.uk, Inquirer, Pocket-lint, The Register and Geek.com
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 …
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
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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Obsessable, Electronista and SlashGear
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, Silicon Alley Insider and paidContent
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.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Bing's Market Share Up 51% In Past 12 Months — Bing's search engine market share has risen 51% in the U.S. over the past 12 months according to Nielsen stats announced today. — According to Nielsen, Bing's market share in July 2010 was up to 13.6%, a 51% jump from its 9% market share in July 2009 …
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Nielsen Wire and WebProNews
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
WikiLeaks Airs Classified CIA Memo, But Real Message Is No Secret — WikiLeaks dug into its trove of unpublished leaks Wednesday to release a six-month-old classified CIA memo about foreign perception of the United States, underscoring that the secret-spilling website won't be cowed by Pentagon threats …
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The Register
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 …
Thanks:albertonardelli
Evan Selleck / SlashGear:
Sharper Image Literati eReader Unveiled, Features Color LCD and $159 Price Tag — Even if tablets are seemingly the focus of the tech industry right now, and even if most of those tablets work just fine as eReaders in of themselves, that's not stopping the eReader market from pumping out more and more of the devices.
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Technologizer, Obsessable and Electronista
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Cisco, Verizon push for 3D video and more — It's not just the TV makers that have a vested interest in pushing video's transformation to 3D TV and beyond. Companies that supply and enable the technology are just as eager to see the next generation of video take hold as the TV makers looking to sell you another big screen.
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DSLreports, Electronista, Engadget and NYConvergence
