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Search: now faster than the speed of type — Search as you type. It's a simple and straightforward idea—people can get results as they type their queries. Imagining the future of search, the idea of being able to search for partial queries or provide some interactive feedback while searching has come up more than a few times.
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Steve Rubel / The Steve Rubel Stream:
Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant — Google today launched an ambitious effort to speed up searching. But what they really did is kill SEO. — Google says: … The most important consideration for marketers or anyone who creates content, however, is in the bullets...
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Google announces Google Instant search, available now for desktop, mobile this fall — We're reporting live from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where Google's just taken the wraps off its latest software product. The announcement itself is taking its time right now …
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Google Now Serving 1 Billion Users Each Week — Today at their Google Search event in San Francisco, executive Marissa Mayer kicked things off with a big state: Google is now serving 1 billion users each week. — Mayer noted that they have some big announcements coming up today (likely these) …
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Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, Buleyean String and Technologizer
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Google search becomes psychic with dynamic results, predictions
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch and Techie Buzz
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging Google 'Streaming" Search Event & How To Watch Live
Live Blogging Google 'Streaming" Search Event & How To Watch Live
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Apple release iOS 4.1 with Bluetooth, proximity sensor fixes — Apple on Wednesday released the iOS 4.1 update for recent iPhone and iPod touch models, addressing issues with Bluetooth connectivity and proximity sensor accuracy, and also adding HDR photos the mobile operating system.
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, Gadget Lab and Phones Review
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HP's Bid to Block Hurd's Oracle Move Is Long Shot, Lawyers Say — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s lawsuit seeking to block former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd from working at Oracle Corp. may be hard to win because California's courts favor letting employees move freely, legal experts said.
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Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit
Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit
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Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg:
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011
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Kno Raises $46 Million More To Build “Most Powerful Tablet Anyone Has Ever Made” — Marc Andreessen is normally enthusiastic about the startups he's invested in. Still, when I spoke to him last week about Kno, he surprised me by saying it will be “the most powerful tablet anyone has ever made.”
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon Buys Amie Street's Digital Music Store, Shuts It Down — Add another digital music start-up to the bonfire: Amazon is buying up the retail operations of Amie Street, the online music store it helped fund four years ago, and will then shut it down. Meanwhile, the Amie Street guys …
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iPod touch review (2010) — At Apple's last event, Steve Jobs called the iPod touch the company's “most popular iPod,” and it's easy to understand why. In just a few short years, the iPhone-with-no-phone has kept in lockstep with Cupertino's halo device, benefitting from the same kind …
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Dan Frakes / Macworld:
iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010)
iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010)
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple forecast to sell 28M iPads in 2011, chipping away at PC sales — Apple's competitively priced iPad is expected to reduce sales of low-end notebook PCs in 2011, when consumers are projected to buy at least 28 million of the touchscreen tablet, one analyst believes.
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iTunes app total downloads to overtake songs this year — Last week I posted the iTunes download rate graph that showed how Apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs and revealed an inflection point in the song rate. — Based on the recent updates to iTMS and iTAS on Sept. 1 …
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GM's OnStar Said to Offer Free Services in Challenge to Ford — Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Co.'s OnStar in-car communications unit may offer non-subscription services next year to rival Ford Motor Co.'s Sync music and information system, two people familiar with the plans said.
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Nicholas Deleon / TechCrunch:
Facebook Integration Coming To GM's OnStar
Facebook Integration Coming To GM's OnStar
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Salesforce Takes Chatter Mobile With iPhone, iPad, Android And BlackBerry Apps — As Salesforce's foray into social collaboration, Salesforce Chatter, gains traction amongst enterprise users, it makes sense for the company to launch complimentary mobile apps to the platform.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Alert The Enterprise: Seesmic Integrates With Salesforce Chatter
Alert The Enterprise: Seesmic Integrates With Salesforce Chatter
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ReadWriteEnterprise, Between the Lines Blog, Reuters, The Cloud Blog and Seesmic Blog, Thanks:loic
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Antennagate cost Apple 20% of sales — But for three times as many people, the lack of a Verizon iPhone is a bigger problem — The iPhone 4's widely publicized antenna problems cost Apple (AAPL) some sales this summer, but not nearly as many as its exclusive deal with AT&T (T).
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In Facebook's Crosshairs — It was not an invitation that Dennis Crowley could have been thrilled about. Mark Zuckerberg wanted him to do what, exactly? Fly to California and stand onstage while Facebook unveiled the launch of a new location-sharing check-in feature that tech pundits …
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NYConvergence, more at Mediagazer »
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Xbox 360 250GB plus Kinect bundle priced at $399 in US, £300 in UK — Microsoft has chosen the small hours of the night to announce pricing of its second Kinect bundle, which is set for launch along with the standalone and 4GB options on November 4 in the USA and November 10 across Europe.
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Why iTunes song samples are still only 30 seconds — Apple's plan to extend the length of song samples doesn't appear to be dead. — “We are in active negotiations with Apple,” about the length of song samples, said Hanna Pantle, a spokeswoman for Broadcast Music Inc., (BMI) …
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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Edible Apple, Erictric, The Next Web, TUAW, AppleInsider and Electronista