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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Arrogance? I've Never Seen Them So Humble — Mike Elgan criticizes Google for being condescending in a recent column on one of the dead tree IT rags. His first point is that Google PR exec Gabriel Stricker started off a recent press conference with a quip about how fast paced Google innovation is:
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Mike Elgan / mikelgan's blog:
Why is Google so condescending? — Recent comments by Google's top PR guy and even its CEO make me wonder whether the company understands how such comments do far more harm than good. — I like it! — Google's Gabriel Stricker, director of Global Communications and Public Affairs, opened the Google Instant launch this week.
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StartupMuse, Thanks:rawmeet
Matthew Miller / Smartphones and Cell Phones Blog:
Is there really any value to 3-year smartphone forecasts? — We get quarterly reports from different analysts for past smartphone performance and then every once in a while we see reports predicting smartphone performance in the future. After looking more closely at and thinking further …
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asymco:
Gartner: Windows Mobile attracts far more developers than any rival mobile operating system — Gartner in 2006 predicting mobile OS future. … via Gartner Says WM Can Empower Your Developers. — A piece by Gartner that has a typical Gartner conclusion: WM 5 is going to grow …
Guy Grimland / Haaretz:
Google buying second Israeli startup: Quiksee — Google is buying its second Israeli startup: Quiksee, based in Or Yehuda. The deal is estimated at $10 million. — Both Google Israel and Quiksee refused to comment. — Quiksee, also known as MentorWave Technologies …
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TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Michael Gartenberg / Engadget:
Entelligence: Will carriers destroy the Android vision? — Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech.
Marco.org:
Most common words unique to 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews — I wrote a script to crawl U.S. App Store customer reviews for the top 100 apps from every category (minus duplicates) and compute the most common words in 1-star and 5-star reviews, excluding words that were also common in 3-star reviews.
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TiPb and Daring Fireball
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
H.P.'s Blundering Board — There they go again. — The Hewlett-Packard board is back to doing what it does best: shooting itself in the foot. By filing an embarrassing lawsuit against the company's former chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, this week — a suit that unwittingly highlights …
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Stupid California Police Warn Parents of Pedobear, the ‘Pedophile Mascot’ (Updated) — Pedobear is a meme featuring a cute cartoon bear who pops up wherever people are being creepy about kids on the Internet. Cops in California don't understand this, and have issued a hilarious warning about Pedobear.
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Boing Boing
Scott Gilbertson / Webmonkey:
Microdata: HTML5's Best-Kept Secret — Given the amount of industry noise about native video and scripted animations, you'd be forgiven if you had never heard of the new microdata specification included in HTML5. — Similar to outside efforts like Microformats, HTML5's microdata offers …
Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:
Using Microsoft, Russia Suppresses Dissent — IRKUTSK, Russia — It was late one afternoon in January when a squad of plainclothes police officers arrived at the headquarters of a prominent environmental group here. They brushed past the staff with barely a word and instead set upon the computers before carting them away.
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Engadget, Computerworld, TechFlash, OSNews and open
Alex Gasparski / TechReviewSource News Blog:
Leaked: Acer Laptop with Dual Touchscreens — From one of our sources, we have received pictures of a laptop from Acer that is currently in development. It has two touch screens, one as the laptop's display and one as the keyboard/trackpad. In other words, it has no physical keyboard …
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Liliputing, CrunchGear, Electronista, Thoughts from the Sidelines and Engadget
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
As “Instant” Services Proliferate, Instantise Gives Them All A Home — Yesterday I wrote about how all web services could possibly be more useful with some “Instantization”; Scottish engineer Tam Denholm had the very same idea, and built Instantise to house the recent outcrop …
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Feross Aboukhadijeh / Feross.org:
YouTube Instant. The last two days...
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ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Quick Online Tips and TopINews Blog, Thanks:atul
