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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
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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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging Google 'Streaming" Search Event & How To Watch Live — Google's holding a highly anticipated “can't miss” press event today. The news? Perhaps the new results-as-you-type your search feature that started showing today. Perhaps something else.
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Search Engine Roundtable, Google Operating System, BetaNews, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog, Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch, Digits, Fast Company, Boy Genius Report, Guardian, Faster Forward, Entrepreneur Watch, Fortune, Go Rumors, Rob Hof's Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, Techie Buzz, Scobleizer and CNET News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
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, Technologizer, Buleyean String and Rob Hof's Blog
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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Fortune, Gizmodo, DailyTech, IntoMobile, SiliconANGLE and Pocket-lint
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
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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Gizmodo, Switched, Electronista, Neowin.net, TechCrunch, silicontap.com and Boing Boing
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google search becomes psychic with dynamic results, predictions
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TechCrunch and Techie Buzz
Bloomberg:
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:
Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today issued the following statement: — “Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner,” said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. “By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Gearlog, Digital Trends, Engadget, Digits, TechCrunch, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Tom Foremski, Erictric, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Between the Lines Blog and GigaOM
Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg:
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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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VentureBeat, paidContent, alarm:clock, GigaOM, BoomTown, VatorNews, SlashGear, Xconomy and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
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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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
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)
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AppleInsider:
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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Macworld, MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, Engadget, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo and Phones Review
asymco:
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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App Advice, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Edible Apple, TiPb, I4U News, Inquirer, 9 to 5 Mac and THINQ.co.uk
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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.
Bloomberg:
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
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Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
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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The Diversity Blog, Computerworld, CNET News, PC World, PC Magazine, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, VentureBeat, eWeek and Enterprise Irregulars
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
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
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
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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Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
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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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
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, TUAW, The Next Web, AppleInsider and Electronista
