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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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eWeek, GottaBeMobile, Google Voice Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, Boy Genius Report, Gadgetwise, Computerworld, TechCrunch, InformationWeek, The Next Web, PC World, USA Today, Newsome.Org, Techland, BlogsDNA, WMExperts, MobileContentToday, Pulse2, Don Dodge on The Next …, New York Times, Financial Times, Gadgetell, Gawker, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, PhoneDog.com, Erictric, Google Operating System, Go Rumors, Telecom Trends, dailywireless.org, Lifehacker, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Startup Meme, Ars Technica, 901am, Technology Review, Switched, 9 to 5 Mac, Techie Buzz, Geek.com, TiPb, Relevant Results, Softpedia News, V3.co.uk, ReadWriteWeb, TG Daily, The Seattle Times, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, Between the Lines Blog, Crave, SlashGear, Inc.com, Fast Company, ResourceShelf, I4U News, Future Tense, Geekosystem, SFGate, Digital Daily, GeekSugar, ConceivablyTech, DSLreports, The Huffington Post, CNET News and Internet2Go
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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)
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Lockergnome Blog Network, Mashable!, TechCrunch, The Toybox Blog, Newlaunches.com, The Tech Report and Geek.com
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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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
New Kindle is Here, Selling Like an Unspecified Number of Hotcakes
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PC World, eWeek, Gizmodo, WebProNews, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget and MediaMemo
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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Pluggd.in, The Social, VentureBeat, ChasNote, Search Engine Land, lalawag, AppScout, WebProNews, BetaNews and TechCrunch
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Digg Trying Hard — Maybe Too Hard — to Stay Relevant — The new version of Digg finally launched for all users today, although the site had some teething problems for much of the morning. It was unavailable for almost two hours, and remained slow for some time afterward …
Thanks:michaelklurfeld
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Slide's Max Levchin Becomes a VP of Engineering at Google — Max Levchin, who was the chief executive of Slide and a PayPal co-founder, has landed a new title at Google as a vice president of engineering, we've confirmed with the company. It's the latest leadership adjustment since …
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Pulse2
Adam Smith / Adam Smith's Blog:
Thoughts After Y Combinator Demo Day — There's lots of motion in the ocean in the early stage investing world. TechCrunch has a write-up on the companies that presented at Y Combinator's demo day yesterday. I had several of my own thoughts. — Quality — The average company quality is up.
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VentureBeat
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's Biggest Demo Day Yet Draws Throng Of Investors
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VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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, Redmond Pie, TechSpot, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, CrunchGear, Computerworld, Technologizer, The Register, Neowin.net, CNET News, Softpedia News, Erictric, The Microsoft Blog, Seattle Times, Ars Technica, LiveSide.net, Gizmodo, Techie Buzz, Web Browsers, Electronista, Engadget, Download Squad, The Next Web and ConceivablyTech
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
Adobe updates Web-based Photoshop, no longer demands membership — Now approaching its third year online, Adobe's Web-based photo editing suite Photoshop Express underwent a significant redesign which launched Wednesday. Adobe Photoshop Express Editor, Organizer, and Uploader are included in the refresh.
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Pulse2 and Download Squad
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Adobe Photoshop Express for Android taken for a spin, leaves me a little unsatisfied
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CNET News, Macworld, Macsimum News and Imaging Insider
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline — ASPEN, Colo.—Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini offered a depressing set of observations about the economy and the Obama administration Monday evening, coupled with a dark commentary on the future of the technology industry if nothing changes.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Ezra Klein, Tom's Hardware Guide, The Register, TechCrunch, TG Daily, Fudzilla and MacDailyNews
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Cell Towers For the Home Work Best in Worst Sites — If you have lousy cellphone reception in your house, you may have wished you had a cellular tower nearby. Well, now you can buy your own and plant it right inside your home. Verizon (VZ), Sprint (S) and AT&T (T) all have started selling gadgets …
Thanks:rawmeet
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SCVNGR's Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck — Some companies keep a playbook of product tips, tricks and trade secrets. Zynga has an internal playbook, for instance, that is a collection of “concepts, techniques, know-how and best practices for developing successful and distinctive social games”.
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SmoothSpan Blog and Android and Me
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
Mike Prospero / LAPTOP Mag:
Android Battery Test Reveals Droid X Lasts Longest, AMOLED Handsets Trail — Ever since the first Android phone appeared, we've been developing a battery test that would accurately gauge their endurance, and lend some objective data to our anecdotal tests.Finally, we've come up with one …
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IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans and Droid Life
Wall Street Journal:
The ABCs of E-Reading — New Devices Are Changing Habits. People Are Reading More, Even While in a Kayak — People who buy e-readers tend to spend more time than ever with their nose in a book, preliminary research shows. — A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Intuit Squares Off In Mobile Credit, With A Little Help From Apple — Look out, Square — you have a new competitor, and it should go on sale in Apple stores before month's end. — Intuit and mophie have teamed on a credit card-swiping iPhone accessory called Complete Credit Card Solution …
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Bloomberg
Joab Jackson / PC World:
Red Hat Offers Its Cloud APIs as Industry Standard — As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard …
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Datamation, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek and internetnews.com
Caitlin Fitzsimmons / All Facebook:
Now QR Codes Can Generate Likes On Facebook — Technology that brings together the real world and the virtual world of Facebook seems to be becoming the next big thing. Last week Facebook launched its location check-in service Places. Yesterday we wrote about a Coca-Cola festival in Israel …
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SFGate, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
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, Neowin.net and WebProNews
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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Electronista, SlashGear and Obsessable
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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Between the Lines Blog, Fortune, Tech Trader Daily, NBC Bay Area and AppleInsider
Adam Rifkin / GigaOM:
Why Google Has No Game — A few weeks ago, I wrote Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications, a post that dissected why Google doesn't get social. Since then, Google appears to have stepped up its efforts to develop a coherent social strategy.
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
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, VentureBeat, Inside Social Games, SocialTimes.com, Xconomy, mocoNews, TechCrunch, Voices on All Things Digital and GamePolitics News
