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Dylan Casey / The Official Google Blog:
Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools — When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results.
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Telegraph, the Econsultancy blog, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, ReadWriteWeb, FM Blog, InformationWeek, Pluggd.in, Pocket-lint, Ars Technica, 901am, Geek.com, TechSpot, Google Operating System, techeblog.com, MarketingVOX, VentureBeat, Startup Meme, Black Web 2.0, SiliconANGLE, Bits, Techie Buzz, Switched, Silicon Alley Insider, Erictric, The Register, ITworld.com, The Next Web, Between the Lines Blog, Voices on All Things Digital, paidContent, GeekSugar and Neowin.net
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Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Microsoft To Pay More Than Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7 — Editor's note: The following guest post is by Kim-Mai Cutler. — Nearly four years after Apple launched the iPhone and two years after Google open-sourced the code for its Android operating system …
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Electricpig.co.uk, Tech Eye, Gizmodo, Phone Arena, AppleInsider, WMPoweruser.com, InformationWeek, MobileContentToday, asymco, The Microsoft Blog and Phones Review
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?) — When it comes to trademarks, Facebook is proving to be a bully. It is going after Teachbook in court for using a similar name, and already forced Placebook to change its name. But that is only half the story.
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TechStartups.com, Gizmodo, broadstuff, Electricpig.co.uk and Threat Level
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Hey Facebook, Here Are Some Other Companies You Can Bully Or Sue
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Telegraph, CNNMoney.com, WebProNews and VatorNews, Thanks:leenarao
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
YouTube Debuts New Movies Section With 400 Free, Full-Length Films — YouTube has launched a fresh Movies category on its website, gathering about 400 full-length films for your on-demand viewing pleasure, all free of charge. — The renewed section, which is actually more like the next step …
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Guardian, Tech Eye, Geek.com, paidContent:UK and Telegraph
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Gmail users place 1M calls in 24 hours — It looks like Gmail users are already taking advantage of the cheap calling that Google launched yesterday. The company announced via Twitter that there were 1 million calls placed from Gmail in 24 hours. — The feature is particularly attractive …
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Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, Lockergnome Blog Network, eWeek, Erictric, WebProNews, Pulse2 and TechFlash
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Suzanne Choney / Technolog:
Gmail calling takes off, but not without bumps
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Telegraph, Techdows, calliflower.com and Internet Evolution
Carl Sjogreen / Facebook Developer Blog:
Social From the Ground Up — At Facebook, we are huge believers in what a small dedicated team with a unique perspective can accomplish. We've already seen how a group of startups who built social interactions into the core of their product experience have completely changed how people play games online …
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Inside Facebook, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Begin Giving Y Combinator Startups VIP Treatment
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VentureBeat and GigaOM
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Developer of Tablets Loses Apple as Customer — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple severed ties with a small Silicon Valley design firm that for nearly a decade had helped with the development of some of its products, after the firm showcased its own prototype tablet computer.
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9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear and Gizmodo
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Diaspora Three Weeks Away From Unveiling Open-Source Facebook Alternative — Remember Diaspora? You'll be forgiven if you don't. Since they received a lot of hype as the open-source “Facebook Alternative” this past May, they've been quiet. In fact, they hadn't given any updates on their progress since early July.
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Mashable!
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Exchange ActiveSync to arrive on Hotmail on Monday — REDMOND, Wash.—One of the features promised as part of the latest update to Hotmail will arrive next week, CNET has learned. — In an interview here on Thursday, Microsoft's Dharmesh Mehta told CNET that Exchange ActiveSync …
Pete Warden / HubSpot:
The March Of Twitter: Analysis of How And Where Twitter Spread — To answer that question I created a visual history of Twitter's growth, feeding data from Dharmesh Shah (developer of TwitterGrader.com) into OpenHeatMap to produce an animated visualization of the service's growth …
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PeteSearch, Thanks:atul
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Leaked Case Design Suggests iPod Nano May Gain Smaller Square Form Factor — Claimed next-generation iPod nano (top) and iPod touch (bottom) cases — iLounge points to a Chinese site showing cases purportedly for Apple's next-generation iPod nano and iPod touch models.
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iLounge, Gadget Lab, iPodNN, iThinkDifferent and Pocket-lint
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Smaller iPod nano without click wheel could be unveiled at Apple event
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Fortune, iLounge, Electricpig.co.uk, Velocity, CrunchGear, SlashGear, MobileContentToday, Geek.com, Electronista, everythingiCafe and Edible Apple
Peter Kirn / Create Digital Motion:
Apple-Centric Observers Get the Facts Wrong: H.264 Still Ain't Free — CC-BY-NC-SAFrancesco Lodolo. — Addendum to the previous story: an “end user” and an “application” are not the same thing. Watching comments from some users dumping on Firefox and Opera because they don't understand this is painful.
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9 to 5 Mac, PC World, The Register, Ars Technica, TUAW, Macworld, AppleInsider, CNET News, TiPb, Softpedia News, Business Wire, Electronista, VentureBeat and NewTeeVee
foursquare:
Am I mayor yet? — We made a quick yet long-awaited tweak to our apps today. When you're getting close to winning a Mayorship (within 10 check-ins), you'll now see how far away you are from ousting the current Mayor. You'll see the count in the post check-in screen when you check into a place.
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About Foursquare, msnbc.com, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and Electricpig.co.uk
Kelvin Soh / Reuters:
Lenovo to develop game consoles in China: report — (Reuters) - Lenovo, the world's No. 4 PC maker, has set up a unit to develop a video game console for the China market, a newspaper reported on Friday, pitting it against rivals such as Microsoft and Sony.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Charges Settled Over Fake Reviews on iTunes — SAN FRANCISCO — Savvy Internet users know that glowing online reviews of things like books or restaurants can't always be trusted. But federal regulators are giving notice that if you stand to gain financially from the review you are writing, you should be up front about it.
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Andy Beard, 9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, WebProNews and MacNN
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Power Diggers React To New Version of Digg (video) — Yesterday the big news wasn't that Lindsay Lohan is out of rehab. The real news was that the new version of the social news site Digg launched to the public. Alex from Next Web has an overview of the new Digg.
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GigaOM and Andy Beard
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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
What Digg Needs To Change To Keep Its Users Happy
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Redmond Pie and ReadWriteWeb
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Index Ventures Buys Into Etsy, Triples Valuation To Nearly $300 Million — Crafty commerce site Etsy just raised another $20 million in its fifth venture round (that would be the Series E). Index Ventures is the new investor leading the round, with partner Danny Rimer getting an observer's seat on the board.
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Ivaylo Popov / Google Code Blog:
Google Buzz API adds Track and some improvements — Let's say you're really interested in coffee and tea and would like to know every time someone talks about them. You've been able to do that for the web with Google Alerts. Now you will be able to do the same thing for Google Buzz with our latest feature: Track.
Thanks:chrismessina
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Facebook: Actually, there are 44 million active monthly users of our iPhone app, not 104 million — Yesterday, the internet collective noticed that Facebook was claiming some astonishing monthly active user figures on its respective app fan pages. At the time, Facebook was showing …
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TUAW, WMPoweruser.com, Edible Apple, iLounge and Phones Review
