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Dean Hachamovitch / IEBlog:
Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the whole PC: IE9 Beta Available for Download — Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves using everything the PC and its hardware have to offer.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Internet Explorer 9 beta review: Microsoft reinvents the browser — Today in San Francisco, Microsoft will officially unveil Internet Explorer 9 and make it available to the general public. It is, without question, the most ambitious browser release Microsoft has ever undertaken …
Brian MacDonald / Search Blog:
Bing Previews a More Beautiful Search Experience in IE9
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TechCrunch, webpronews.com, InformationWeek, Gizmodo, Seattle Times, PC Magazine, PC Pro, MSDN Blogs, The Next Web and Search Engine Land
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
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istartedsomething, PC World, The Windows Blog, Channel 10, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews and Download Squad
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Internet Explorer 9 Brings Apps to Microsoft Windows 7
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MSDN Blogs, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, Guardian, The Next Web, Redmond Pie, Covering Web, Gadgetell, ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad and The Huffington Post
Apple:
Apple's AirPrint Wireless Printing for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch Coming to Users in November — Available First on HP ePrint Printers — Apple® today announced that it is releasing a beta version of its AirPrint wireless printing for iPad™, iPhone® and iPod touch® …
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eWeek, Macworld, MacRumors, Covering Web, AppleInsider, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, PC World, PadGadget, Computerworld, DailyTech, Geek.com, Redmond Pie, The Apple Press, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, Spirit, Obsessable, TUAW, Data Central, Engadget, everythingiCafe, GeekSugar, iLounge, The Toybox Blog, Geekosystem and The Next Web
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iOS 4.2 on iPad preview (video) (updated)
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9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, iLounge, Gizmodo, MacRumors, TUAW, AppleInsider, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Redmond Pie, Spirit, Computerworld, Covering Web, The Huffington Post and everythingiCafe
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
iOS 4.2 turns iPad's screen lock into volume switch
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The Next Web
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Apple to announce subscription plan for newspapers — Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profit as media companies struggle with declining print circulation and advertising revenue.
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AppleInsider, Boy Genius Report, Yahoo! News, PC World, DailyFinance, IntoMobile, CNET News, VentureBeat, TheAppleBlog, Fast Company, ChasNote, MacRumors, Obsessable, FierceMobileContent, 9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, Erictric, Lost Remote, TUAW, GeekSugar, SlashGear, MediaPost, Digital Trends, iLounge, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo Australia and [H]ardOCP News/Article Feed, more at Mediagazer »
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Skyhook Sues Google in a Location Battle Royale — Updated: Skyhook Wireless, the company that provides software and a database for determining location using nearby Wi-Fi signals, has sued Google for interfering with its business and for patent infringement.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Skyhook Is Suing Google: Google Basically Forced Motorola To Ditch Skyhook To Pass Compliance Tests — Boston-area wireless startup Skyhook Wireless is suing Google for interfering with its business and for patent infringement, seeking an injunction and “millions of dollars” in damages. — Why?
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Alex Payne / Online Writing:
The Very Last Thing I'll Write About Twitter — I have an odd mental relationship with my former employer. Clearly, I wouldn't have worked there for three and a half years if I didn't care about the product and the community. But then, I wouldn't have left if I really wanted to see that commitment through.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Gadgetell and PC Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter's New Mini Platform: The Right-Side Pane
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USA Today, ReveNews and Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The New Twitter & Search, An Illustrated Guide
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eWeek, Brian Solis, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, Technology Review and ResourceShelf
Ed Christman / Billboard.Biz:
Exclusive: Sources Detail Google's Proposal For A Music Service — Google is circulating a proposal among major record labels for a long-anticipated music service that would include an a la carte digital download store and a subscription-based cloud-based locker, according to industry sources.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Finding the Best Way to Read Books on an iPad — Though it's just five months old, Apple's iPad is a certifiable hit, having already sold millions of units and spawning tens of thousands of apps tailored for its 10-inch screen. The tablet has prompted many of its owners to use it instead …
Peter Kasting / Google Chrome Blog:
Tip: Just the text, please! — Has this ever happened to you? You're writing an email online and you try to copy some text from a webpage. But when you paste it in, you get all the original fonts, colors, and spacing. “Wait!” you say, “I just wanted the text!”
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Download Squad
Join Diaspora Blog:
Developer Release — Today we are releasing the source code for Diaspora. This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control. From now on we will be working closely …
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The Next Web, TechCrunch and YOYODYNE, Thanks:hornokplease
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Status Of CrunchPad Litigation — Late last year, on the eve of launch, I announced the end of the CrunchPad project, sadly ending a very exciting one and a half year effort to create a very inexpensive touch screen tablet computer. — Our partner, Fusion Garage, had inexplicably decided …
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Electronista
Colin Gibbs / GigaOM:
T-Mobile to Implement a Twitter Tax on Texts? — In a move that could impact text messaging offerings like tweets, bank alerts and sports scores, T-Mobile USA is planning to charge an additional toll to businesses that send texts over its network. Beginning Oct. 1, the carrier reportedly …
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Public Knowledge, ITworld.com, DSLreports, MobileContentToday and Mobile Marketing Watch
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Apple Continued To Lose U.S. Marketshare Despite Spike From iPhone 4 Sales — Apple's iPhone 4 did not give the company the bump in sales it needed to put Android's momentum in check. Instead, Apple's smartphone marketshare in the U.S. dropped by 1.3 percent in the three months ended in July …
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Network World, comScore, Inc. and IntoMobile
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: To Ward Off Android Threat, It Needs A Verizon iPhone
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Electronista, Macsimum News, Digital Daily, Cult of Mac, MediaPost and Between the Lines Blog
Tom Simonite / Technology Review:
License Plates Used for Public Messaging — Apps that read license plates can send notes to their owners, and help businesses track customers. — Next time you're stuck in traffic, take a look at the license plates on the cars around you. To a user of bump.com—which launches today …
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PC Magazine and PogoWasRight.org
Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
Firefox Panorama: Search proof-of-concept — There are two modes people use for finding information: browsing and searching. Browsing is for when you don't know exactly what you want to find, and search is for when you know exactly for what you are looking.
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Lifehacker and Download Squad, Thanks:atul
Mike / Understanding Google Maps & Local Search:
Google Adds Slideshow Option to Place's Photos — Google has just announced on the Lat-Long Blog that images on a Places Page, whether uploaded by the owner or included via Panoramio, are now viewable in a slide show mode. From the Lat-Long blog: — Today, we're offering you a better, more streamlined way to view these photos.
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ReadWriteWeb, Google LatLong and The Next Web
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook and Microsoft Deep in Talks About Deepening Search Ties — Facebook and Microsoft are discussing an agreement that would significantly expand the search relationship the pair have shared for many years, said several people with knowledge of the situation.
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Ars Technica, Mashable!, CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, webpronews.com, SiliconANGLE, Neowin.net, Silicon Alley Insider, Softpedia News and Skeptic Geek
