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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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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Gmail Phone Calls Are All About Facebook, Not Skype
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Phone Booths To Start Popping Up In Airports, Universities
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PC World, Mashable!, TeleRead, Boy Genius Report, DailyTech, Neowin.net, Pocket-lint, Latest Voice,IMS 2.0 news, Local Media Watch, Phones Review, MediaPost, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal, WebProNews, Electricpig.co.uk, iGeneration Blog, Electronista, Fast Company, BetaNews, Download Squad, silicontap.com, Between the Lines Blog and Black Web 2.0
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 and The Tech Report
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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Technologizer and TechCrunch
Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Netflix App Now Supports iPhone and iPod Touch — As promised, Netflix has finally updated their App Store app [iTunes Link] to support the iPhone and iPod Touch in addition to the iPad. … Netflix originally launched the app for the iPad-only and later revealed that the App would come for all iOS devices.
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PR Newswire, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Macworld, DSLreports, App Advice, Boy Genius Report, Download Squad, Lifehacker, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, Go Rumors, MacNN and Gizmodo
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
Dell Matches HP's $1.6 Billion Bid For 3PAR - 3PAR Accepts — Dell announced this morning that 3PAR has accepted its increased offer to acquire the storage company for $24.30 per share in cash, or approximately $1.6 billion, net of 3PAR's cash. — Dell had previously signed an agreement …
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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Telegraph, Softpedia News, Pluggd.in, the Econsultancy blog, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, lalawag, ChasNote, The Social, AppScout, WebProNews, BetaNews and TechCrunch
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Flood Lite:
Apple's Attention to Detail — In July 2002, Appled filed a patent for a “Breathing Status LED Indicator” (No. US 6,658,577 B2). They described it as a “blinking effect of the sleep-mode indicator in accordance with the present invention mimics the rhythm of breathing which is psychologically appealing.”
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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.
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FM Blog
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
ITunes Music Update: Think Social, Not Streaming — When will Apple launch a cloud-based version of the iTunes music service that lets you stream your songs to wherever you are, whenever you want? — Probably not at Apple's newest product launch next week.
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Mophie and Intuit partner to create Complete Card Solution for iPhone, try to make Square look square — Who knew that credit card processing would be the new hotness for smartphones? The Square mobile payment system has been making waves by letting small businesses receive credit card payment directly on their smartphones.
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Epicenter, Between the Lines Blog, Macworld and Crave
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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9 to 5 Mac, 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
Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
Cisco To Acquire ExtendMedia In Bid To Ramp Up Its IP Video Services — Cisco this morning announced its intent to purchase privately-held and venture-backed ExtendMedia, a provider of software-based Content Management Systems that helps media companies and network operators manage digital video content.
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Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily and silicontap.com
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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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, SlashGear, Google Android News …, Phones Review, Android Phone Fans and Droid Life
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google's Nine Year Shopping Spree, Illustrated — For those that remember when Google Voice was GrandCentral ... Other than missing Like.com's acquisition on August 20th and having the DoubleClick grab plotted when Google revealed its intent to acquire in April 2007 and not when the official acquisition …
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Startup Meme and Beyond Search
Evelyn Rusli / TechCrunch:
Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp? All Signs Point To Yes. — Well, this is curious. — From our checks, it seems like Google has completely omitted Yelp reviews from Google Places. As you may recall, Yelp has been frustrated by Google's recent decision to pump up its Places service with Yelp's content— without Yelp's consent.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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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
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Google's Orkut Tweaks Point To Google Me — Google has made some changes to the features at Orkut, the company's lackluster social network, that could suggest the direction the search giant is going with its overall social efforts, which reportedly include a social network code-named Google …
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Googling Google Blog, Colin Walker, WebProNews, BoomTown and The Register
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 …
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Fast Company, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:itsdae
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
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 …
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
MPEG LA: H.264 Streaming Will Be Free Forever — MPEG LA is announcing today that it will continue to offer a royalty-free license for the H.264 video codec for video sites that offer free video streams to consumers “during the entire life of this (l)icense.”
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