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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google offers JPEG alternative for faster Web — It turns out there was more to Google's WebM technology than just a plan to revolutionize Web-based video. The company also wants to revolutionize still images on the Web with a new format called WebP. — Google plans to announce …
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Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, Technologizer, ClickZ, techrockies.com and silicontap.com
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Chromium Blog:
WebP, a new image format for the Web — As part of Google's initiative to make the web faster, over the past few months we have released a number of tools to help site owners speed up their websites. We launched the Page Speed Firefox extension to evaluate the performance of web pages …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Exclusive: Samsung Continuum for Verizon has double the displays, double the fun — The Fascinate's ride at the top of Sammy's Android lineup for Big Red might be a short one — a very short one. Feast your eyes on this monster, said to be the rumored SCH-i400 Continuum …
HP:
Léo Apotheker Named CEO and President of HP — Ray Lane Joins HP as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board — The Board of Directors of HP today announced the election of Léo Apotheker as Chief Executive Officer and President. Apotheker, who previously served as CEO of SAP, will also join HP's Board of Directors.
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, CNET News, Digital Daily, PreCentral.net and The Next Web
Muthu Muthusrinivasan / Social Web Blog:
Google URL Shortener Gets a Website — We first introduced the Google URL Shortener (goo.gl) last December as part of Google Toolbar and Feedburner. Since our initial release, we've integrated the technology into many other Google products including News, Blogger, Maps, Picasa Web Albums …
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Matt Cutts, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Network World and Techie Buzz, Thanks:atul
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Justice Godel Conder / Singularity Hacker:
The BlackBerry PlayBook Doesn't Exist — I am truly shocked that so many people are being duped by BlackBerry's recent announcement of their tablet, the PlayBook. I have read endless comments from people who are saying they can't wait to get this tablet computer. Well, I think I have some bad news for you folks.
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Between the Lines Blog, GottaBeMobile and Daring Fireball
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Some Android apps caught covertly sending GPS data to advertisers — The results of a study conducted by researchers from Duke University, Penn State University, and Intel Labs have revealed that a significant number of popular Android applications transmit private user data …
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Googling Google Blog, BBC, Gadget Lab, Electronista, jkOnTheRun, PC World, IntoMobile, TechEye, UMBC ebiquity and Voices on All Things Digital
Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog:
Explore the world with Street View, now on all seven continents — Update 12:01PM: To clarify, the Street View imagery for Antarctica includes panoramas of an area called Half Moon Island—such as this view of penguins and this one of the landscape. The blue dots you see throughout …
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The Register, Google Mobile Blog, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Guardian, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, Google Maps Mania, Erictric, The Next Web, The Map Room, Phone Scoop, Engadget and silicontap.com, Thanks:rawmeet
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple shuts flagship Beijing store as iPhone 4 scalpers run amok (Updated) — UPDATE: All four Apple retail stores in China now require customer to show his/her identity card while purchasing the iPhone 4. Every customer could only purchase one iPhone 4. Apple employees will unbox …
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Fortune, M.I.C gadget, Silicon Alley Insider, Cult of Mac, iLounge, SlashGear, CrunchGear, MobileCrunch, Geek.com, everythingiCafe and iClarified
Roger Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft, AT&T Set to Unveil Windows 7 Handsets — Microsoft Corp. will unveil a lineup of smartphones using the revamped version of its mobile operating system on Oct. 11, and AT&T Inc. plans to begin selling them in early November, according to people familiar with the launch plans.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Blame Bing: Why The Google Phone Gallery Doesn't List Verizon's Best Android Phone — Google rolled out a new Google Phone Gallery today, a handy way to see the amazingly huge number of Google-backed Android phones out there. But if you're looking for what Google CEO Eric Schmidt called …
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Google Watch, jkOnTheRun, Google Android News … and Softpedia News
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Ben Serridge / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing the Google Phone Gallery
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The Register, asymco, MobileCrunch, Computerworld, Gearlog, Android and Me, GeekSmack, Download Squad, Widgets Lab, Android Phone Fans, Google Android News …, Droid Life, blogs.chron.com, Geek.com, DroidDog Android Blog, Lifehacker, TmoNews, Electricpig.co.uk, LaptopMemo, AndroidGuys, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, Electronista, Fortune, Android Police, BuzzingUp, Engadget, Mashable!, Pocket-lint, MobileContentToday, Search Engine Land, Ubergizmo, Androinica, Mobile Knots, mocoNews, Phone Arena, Know Your Cell, Gadgetell, Erictric, MediaPost Raw, Go Rumors, TechSpot, Pulse2 and Gizmodo
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Internet Tethering coming to iPad? — Although Steve Jobs told a Swedish DJ that internet tethering (iPhone's connection used for a WiFi iPad, in this case) wouldn't be coming to the iPad, beta 2 of iOS 4.2 for iPad tells a different story. Hidden within the APN network settings on the iPad 3G …
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Mobile Knots, PC World, iLounge, TheAppleBlog, Mobile-Geeks, Obsessable, Gadget Lab, Covering Web, I4U News, Electronista, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iClarified, AppScout and MacStories, Thanks:koenven
James Joaquin / Xmarks Blog:
Xmarks is Dead. Long Live Xmarks? — First off, a big thanks to all of you that sent kudos and “Nooooooo's” in response to our shutdown announcement. We take enormous pride in the sync service we worked so hard to create and it means a lot to hear how much our users love what we've built.
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Download Squad, Webmonkey and The Next Web
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Is Zynga's head count higher than Facebook's? — Zynga, the social gaming company responsible for sensations like FarmVille, Mafia Wars, and Pet Society, owes a big chunk of its runaway success to Facebook and the network of social connections that its developer platform opened up.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Microsoft: Windows Live Spaces already dead, WordPress.com will only get 1% of 30M users — Windows Live Spaces' shutdown may not be a big win for WordPress.com, after all. According to internal e-mail messages obtained by Betanews, Microsoft expects only about 1 percent of Windows Live Spaces bloggers to move to WordPress.com.
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VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Technologizer, Softpedia News, Black Web 2.0, TechCrunch and Guardian
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Square using social media stats for credit checks and fraud prevention — On stage just now at TechCrunch Disrupt, Keith Rabois, General Manager of Square, the little cube that plugs into an iPhone that can then be used to accept payments from any credit card, just made a very interesting statement.
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New York Times, Thanks:chadcat
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook CTO “Very Confident” Facebook and Apple Will Work Together On Ping — At a dinner with New York media last night, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said he is “very confident” Facebook and Apple will figure out a way to work together on Ping, Apple's music social network.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
comScore: Facebook Passes Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S. — comScore just released its latest online video data in the U.S. for the month of August; showing that viewership remained steady since the previous month. According to comScore, 178 million U.S. Internet …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, comScore, Inc., Beet.TV and Startup Meme
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Vimeo iPhone App On the Way — Online video site Vimeo is working on an iPhone app, which is expected to be released in the fourth quarter. The app is a bit of a departure from Vimeo's existing strategy of making videos available on HTML5 through the iPhone's Safari browser.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
CHART OF THE DAY: Interest In The iPhone Crashes — Android has successfully destroyed Apple's dominance of consumer mindshare in the smartphone world, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research about smartphone preferences. — ChangeWave found only 38% of the people it interviewed want iOS on their next smartphone.
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Macworld and Network World
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Is HDR photo capability waiting to bust out of your iPhone 3GS? (YES!) — We already know Apple has a knack for throwing new features in with updates and today we discovered what looks like to be a future (or dropped?) iPhone 3GS feature. We all know and love that slick HDR photo capability …
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App Advice, Gizmodo, Go Rumors, Electricpig.co.uk, MobileCrunch, I4U News, Softpedia News, Electronista and Phones Review
Maisie Ramsay / Wireless Week:
Sprint Execs Quit Clearwire Board Over Antitrust — Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and two of the company's top executives have resigned from Clearwire's board of directors over concerns the arrangement could violate antitrust law in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.
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TechFlash, CNET News, Computerworld and Sprint Connection
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
IMDb turns 20 with a refreshed, video-full website — LOS ANGELES — IMDb.com, the website you go to in order to find out who acted in what film, no matter how obscure, turns 20 next month. In addition to its extensive and unmatched database, the site was overhauled this week …
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USA Today, Business Wire, MediaPost Raw and FirstShowing.net
Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Global Cyber Scheme Hits Bank Accounts — NEW YORK—Dozens of people have been charged in the U.S. in a global scheme to use malicious computer viruses to steal bank-account information and loot at least $3 million from U.S. accounts, state and federal prosecutors in New York said Thursday.
