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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.
Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Want a look at Google's instant search results? Here's how. — While we do know that there is a Google event today, and we're positive that it has something to do with some changes in Google's search page, we're not sure of all of the details. However, here's a pretty cool thing …
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Search Engine Roundtable, Download Squad and Techie Buzz
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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SFGate, Guardian and Technologizer
Steve Rubel / The Steve Rubel Stream:
Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant
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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 …
Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg:
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011
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GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, Reuters, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, BloggingStocks, Between the Lines Blog and Associated Press
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Analysis: the H-P Suit Against Mark Hurd
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The Register, TechEye, Wall Street Journal, Inquirer, Salon, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily, DealBook, Techdirt, eWeek, silicontap.com and The Tech Herald …
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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paidContent, GigaOM, alarm:clock, BoomTown, VatorNews, SlashGear, Xconomy and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon Buys Amie Street's Digital Music Store, Shuts It Down — Add another digital music startup 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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Ars Technica, VatorNews, TechCrunch, paidContent, Changing Way, FierceMobileContent, Electronista and p2pnet
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, THINQ.co.uk and Gizmodo
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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.
Nicholas Deleon / TechCrunch:
Facebook Integration Coming To GM's OnStar — It's safe to say we've reached the pinnacle of humanity with this next bit of news: you'll soon be able to update your Facebook status using OnStar. It's the first “entertainment-y” option to be offered by OnStar, perhaps designed to cash …
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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, CNET News, Computerworld, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, eWeek, Enterprise Irregulars and VentureBeat
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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
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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Edible Apple, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric, TUAW, The Next Web, AppleInsider and Electronista
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
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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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Microsoft Needs To Make Office Apps For The iPad — One thing has been consistent since Apple's iPad launched in April: Apple's iWork apps, its versions of Microsoft Office apps — Word ("Pages"), Excel ("Numbers"), and PowerPoint ("Keynote") — are near the top …
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Gadget Lab and Technologizer, Thanks:rawmeet
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia N8 officially for sale last week of September, UK shops October 1st — At last, an official date for Nokia's N8 flagship Symbian^3 handset. This one's been a long time coming, featuring the first of two major Symbian updates meant to bring Nokia's smartphone division in line with the competition.
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The Toybox Blog, Boy Genius Report, Mashable!, Electronista, The Next Web and Softpedia News
Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web — The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users …
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Inquirer, Datamation, Mozilla, Webmonkey, OStatic blogs, Bas Schouten, CNET News, Softpedia News, Download Squad, V3.co.uk, Pluggd.in, Open Source Blog, BetaNews, eWeek, The Register, Erictric, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, Lifehacker, ReadWriteWeb and The Tech Report
Gizmodo:
Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter — Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has “racks of servers dedicated to him. I'm sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more.
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Mashable!, Gearlog, Technologizer, Newlaunches.com, msnbc.com, Go Rumors and CNET News, Thanks:jesusdiaz
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 …
