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Doug Aberdeen / Gmail Blog:
Email overload? Try Priority Inbox — People tell us all that time that they're getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by it all. We know what you mean—here at Google we run on email. Our inboxes are slammed with hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day …
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Launches Priority Inbox to Help You Fight Email Overload — Every single day, people send about 294 billion emails and the average knowledge worker spends close 13 hours per week on managing email. Over the last few months, we have seen a number of tools that help users to manage their email in Google's Gmail more effectively.
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Andy Chu / Search Blog:
Bing for Mobile comes to your Verizon Android — Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers. You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones' Marketplace. — The app homepage features …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Verizon-only Bing app shows proprietary side of Android
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Bing debuts its Android app, as Microsoft moves onto Google turf
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
iTunes song samples may double in length — Apple's iTunes, the largest music retailer, will boost the amount of time users are allowed to sample a song, sources told CNET on Monday. — On Wednesday, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the company's annual September media event …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Apple survey hints at iTunes streaming video service coming soon?
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Boy Genius Report:
Samsung Galaxy Tab is Verizon Wireless' tablet — Guess what we have here, folks? Confirmation that the very sexy and very unannounced Samsung tablet device for Verizon Wireless is actually Samsung's Galaxy Tab tablet. It is currently sitting pretty in Verizon's internal systems, and a source of ours has sent in proof.
John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Digg's top user warned of possible backlash months ago — The top Digg user of all time has a surprisingly calm demeanor as he brings up how he warned Digg many months ago about the backlash it's facing. — “Keep in mind, I first voiced my concern about this to the Digg team back in March …
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John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Digg freezes manual story submissions as user anger mounts
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Angry Digg users flood home page with Reddit links
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Is A Hot Mess Right Now — I think I liked Google Voice better back when it was hard to get an invitation. Back then it worked most of the time, and the infrequent outages were tolerable given how useful the service is overall. But over the last week the service has become spotty at best, and unusable at times.
Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Google Buys Mobile Social Game Developer SocialDeck — In its latest social acquisition, Google has bought mobile game developer SocialDeck, according to a letter posted by the company. SocialDeck is located in Waterloo, Ontario, close to a regional Google office.
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Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
AutoCAD coming to iPad, iPhone, returning to Mac — Premier design and engineering software back on Mac OS after 18-year absence; iOS version will allow editing and sharing — Autodesk is bringing its AutoCAD architecture, design, and engineering software back to the Mac OS after an 18-year absence …
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Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Twitter Applications and OAuth — If you are like most Twitter users, you have used use a third-party Twitter application to read or send Tweets. As of August 31, Twitter applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password.
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Jim / craigslist blog:
For Amber Lyon, CNN — I see you've now gotten around to requesting an interview with me or a company spokesperson, 90 days after you ambushed our namesake and founder, Craig Newmark, following his May 20th talk on veteran's affairs and other issues unrelated to craigslist, at a conference in Washington.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
NYTimes.com Connects With Facebook; Users Must Opt In — We're not tracking every site that adds logins using Facebook or Twitter but when the site is a few months away from putting up a paywall—and it's one of the top news sites— it's worth a little attention.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Microsoft: Android Hidden Costs Are Expensive — According to Business Insider, Microsoft says that Android has hidden costs for cellphone manufacturers much higher than their own $15-per-unit Windows Phone 7 license. They have some very good points, but others are not so good. These are their arguments:
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Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Hotmail now supports push email, calendar, and contacts with Exchange ActiveSync — Hotmail is making it easier for you to stay up-to-date and be productive on your phone. Starting today, you can get your email, calendar, and contacts pushed automatically to your phone using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS).
Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Local news rivals doom publisher pay walls — The local news sites being developed by Yahoo, AOL, Huffington Post and a growing number of other online players will dash the hopes of most newspaper publishers of charging for access to their online content. — While newspaper executives …
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Caitlin Fitzsimmons / All Facebook:
Facebook Launches Universities Page For Back to School — With the current “back to school” advertising blitz, it's hard to forget that American schools, universities and colleges are resuming classes for the new academic year right about now - even if you are not a student or a parent of one.
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Chris O'Brien / Mercury News:
Considering The PayPal Mafia's place in Silicon Valley history — Google's purchase of social media company Slide for a reported $182 million earlier this month marked the latest triumph of a remarkable group of entrepreneurs and investors whose impact on Silicon Valley in the Web 2.0 era is unrivaled:
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Jim Louderback / AdAge:
There, I Said It: Screw Viral Videos — Why the Constant Focus on Viral Success Is No Good for the Industry — Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, and that obsession is dragging down the entire industry. Why?
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Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Rixty Solves Credit Problem for Virtual Goods — What the Coin-Op System Means for Online Gamers: No Credit Card? No Bank Account? No Problem — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Founders of virtual-currency company Rixty were working on a virtual world when they ran into a problem …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft Research takes a second look at multi-touch mice interaction — Bringing multi-touch technology to the desktop mice might seem trivial but Microsoft Research doesn't just want to stop at a couple gestures. A group of researchers there have been thinking of new ways to redefine …
Damian Kulash / Washington Post:
OK Go on net neutrality: A lesson from the music industry — On the Internet, when I send my ones and zeros somewhere, they shouldn't have to wait in line behind the ones and zeros of wealthier people or corporations. That's the way the Net was designed, and it's central to a concept called …
Inc.com:
How Google Cost Me $4 Million — Being penalized by Google made Ryan Abood's company stronger. When Ryan Abood looked at the books for his parents' New Hampshire flower shop, one number popped out. Without a bit of advertising, sales of gift baskets had grown 400 percent.
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