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Patrick Altoft / Blogstorm:
Google starts showing full page previews in search results — Google is today testing a major new layout to their search results - full page previews of the target site and blue backgrounds behind the search results when you hover over them. Click the image below for a full size version.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Trouble In Clever Domain Land: Bit.ly And Others Risk Losing Theirs Swift.ly — Bit.ly, HootSuite (with its Ow.ly service), Ad.ly and perhaps even Smel.ly could well be at risk of having their domain names sudden.ly taken away by the Libyan government. — Ben Metcalfe blogs …
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Violet / techyum:
Official: vb.ly Link Shortener Seized by Libyan Government — It's official: the Libyan government has seized vb.ly. This was done with no warning. Despite the fact that vb.ly was a one-page link-shortening service, Nic.ly (the registry for .ly domain reseller registrar Libyan Spider) …
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Domain Name Wire, ReadWriteWeb, Ben Metcalfe Blog and The Next Web
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Fan John Gruber: Windows Phone 7 “Really Nice” And Better Than Android — Hey, maybe Microsoft isn't screwed when it comes to mobile, after all. — Windows Phone 7, its forthcoming mobile phone platform, just got a rave review from Daring Fireball's John Gruber …
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TechFlash, GottaBeMobile, Between the Lines Blog, MobileTechWorld, I4U News, Android Community and Softpedia News
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Sony's Google TV controller outed on ABC's Nightline (video) — Well, this is a bit unexpected. We just happened to catch ABC Nightline's Google TV special, and lo and behold, there's a sneak preview of Sony's Google TV ad blitz... and with it, a never-before-s een controller.
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ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, The Toybox Blog, Guardian, Fortune, Newlaunches.com, Obsessable, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Gadget Lab, TechCrunch, Gearlog, ITworld.com, Geek.com, Android Phone Fans, TiPb, The Brooks Review, Geeky-Gadgets, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Sony Insider, Product Reviews Net, Electronista, Tech Report, Electricpig.co.uk, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
HP to launch new webOS phones in early 2011 — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co will introduce smartphones in early 2011 using the webOS software it acquired through its $1.2 billion Palm buy earlier this year, a senior company official said on Wednesday. — “You will see us coming early next year …
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Twitter is not for sale says new CEO Dick Costolo — Dick Costolo, the newly appointed chief executive of Twitter, has told The Telegraph that he has no plans to sell the site, despite his record of selling start-ups to big players. — Costolo, prior to joining Twitter …
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Hillicon Valley and TechCrunch
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
T-Mobile's Passes prepaid data plans leak out — We've been saying prepaid data plans are going to be the next big wave in mobile, and it looks like T-Mobile's getting on board — we were just sent this employee training sheet detailing the upcoming Passes plans.
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TmoNews, DSLreports, DailyTech, Android Community, WMExperts, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, Liliputing, MobileCrunch, Phone Arena, Boy Genius Report and PhoneNews.com
Milan Broum / Google Mobile Blog:
Open your eyes: Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App — Searching with Google on your mobile phone can be an eye-opening experience. Now your phone's camera can even help to find out more about the world around you. — Back in December we introduced Google Goggles on Android …
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Motorola Droid Pro, first hands-on! (update: video!) — Motorola's BlackBerry? The freshly-announced Moto Droid Pro's keyboard feels like it, to be sure, and after trying it out, we believed the Motorola rep who told us they tested comparable speeds of 37WPM in several focus groups.
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Is your private phone number on Facebook? Probably. And so are your friends' — Uploads from iPhones using the Facebook app will push all your contacts onto Facebook's servers - where they'll be matched against any and everyone. Worried at all? Update: Or how about a random Facebooker's number?
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TechEye and Electricpig.co.uk
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The $4 Million Line — I wrote about two startups today that raised angel-sized financing rounds of around $1 million each: Hipmunk and Alphonso Labs. What caught my eye about both deals is this - neither had involvement from the so called “super angels” (except Hipmunk, which took an investment from SV Angel).
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
A Facebook Redesign Likely Being Unveiled Tomorrow After An Employee “Lockdown” — As you're probably aware by now, Facebook is holding an event at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. The invite we received didn't seem to give any real clues about what would be announced, but that didn't stop everyone from guessing anyway.
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PC World, Techland, Telegraph, MWD Tech News, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Velocity, Geek.com, The Huffington Post, Tech Report, All Facebook and Gizmodo, Thanks:atul
Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Co-CEO Open to Microsoft Software Despite Suit — The head of Motorola Inc.'s mobile-phone business said he is open to developing devices that run Microsoft Corp.'s new mobile operating system, despite the patent-infringement lawsuits the software giant recently filed against his company.
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Engadget, MobileTechWorld, Inquirer, AppScout, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, MobileCrunch and TechEye
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Foursquare Blog:
So, that was a bummer. — Yesterday, we experienced a very long downtime. All told, we were down for about 11 hours, which is unacceptably long. It sucked for everyone (including our team - we all check in everyday, too). We know how frustrating this was for all of you because many of you told us …
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CNN, louisgray.com, Mashable!, Erictric, VentureBeat, About Foursquare, TechCrunch, CenterNetworks, ReadWriteWeb and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Foursquare Explains 11-Hour Outage, Then Site Crashes Again
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Nice Hobby! Apple TV Reportedly Selling Out In Many Stores — It's nice if you can make a little money with your hobby, don't you think? — Apple (AAPL) seems to have a modest hit on its hands with the new Apple TV box. JMP Research analyst Alex Gauna writes this morning that the device …
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MacRumors, Silicon Alley Insider, SlashGear, MacStories, Edible Apple, Electricpig.co.uk and MacNN
Jason Magder / Montreal Gazette:
Quebec spammer must pay Facebook $1 billion — $200 U.S. each for 4,366,386 spam emails — More Images » — Montrealer Adam Guerbuez, dubbed The Facebook spammer, has been order to pay to pay $1,068,928,721,46, in Canadian funds which amounts to $100 U.S. in damages …
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Techdirt, CANOE, PC World, The Register, Gizmodo, TechEye and Softpedia News
Philip Winston / kmeme:
The Future of Google's Street View — The Need for Speed racing game franchise has been around for 16 years, sold over 100 million copies and generated more than $2.7B in revenue. People love to drive fast and they love to race, and it's much safer to do this in a video game than in the carpool lane.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile G2 Auto-Reinstalls Stock Android After a Jailbreak — If you were hoping to make any modifications to your T-Mobile G2, my apologies. Because the phone apparently ships with a rootkit that will override any changes you make to Android and reinstall the original firmware. That ain't right.
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MobileCrunch, DSLreports, NewAmerica.net and Droid Life
Doogie Horner / Fast Company:
A Graphic Guide to Facebook Portraits — As a new strain of Social Network fever infects the nation, and you finally decide to share your face with the world, get the lay of the virtual land with our own open graph of portrait types. — Everyone is aware of how significantly Facebook …
Thanks:noahr
Jim Wolf / Reuters:
Special report: The Pentagon's new cyber warriors — (Reuters) - Guarding water wells and granaries from enemy raids is as old as war itself. In the Middle Ages, vital resources were hoarded behind castle walls, protected by moats, drawbridges and knights with double-edged swords.
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Hillicon Valley, Thanks:marcusschuler
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Apple TV and Roku Go Head-To-Head, Here's The Winner — What's better, the new Apple TV or the newly announced lineup of Roku boxes? That's the question I keep getting asked now that both devices are in the market. Over the past week, I've had the chance to use both the Apple TV …
Thanks:danrayburn
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
T-Mobile adding Android WiFi calling support with DEFY and myTouch — T-Mobile USA has announced that it will be bringing WiFi calling to Android, with the VoIP functionality rolling out over the coming months. Powered by Kineto's Smart Wi-Fi app, the feature will allow for voice calls …
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Smartphones …, GigaOM, Android Community, Gearlog, Geeky-Gadgets and Electronista
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
KISS frontman on P2P: “Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars.” — The bassist and businessman behind the legendary rock band KISS was on hand at the MIPCOM convention in Cannes, France on Tuesday. And Gene Simmons had a message for aspiring entertainers everywhere: sue first, think later.
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:
Credit Cards Will Go Electronic, Then Disappear Into iPhone 5 — Two bits of news chart the evolution and demise of that dumb piece of plastic in your wallet. First, it will get very intelligent. Second, it will disappear. — Push-button Dual Function Credit Cards
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IntoMobile, Internet2Go, VentureBeat, The Equity Kicker and UMBC ebiquity
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Google responds to Oracle's Android patent lawsuit, we break it down — It's been just over a month and a half since Oracle first sued Google for infringing various Java-related patents in Android, and the big G's just filed its official response to the lawsuit after calling it “baseless.”
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Dow Jones Newswires, Techdirt, Wall Street Journal, The Register, Softpedia News, TechEye, FierceMobileContent, OSNews, GMSV, Electronista, WebProNews and GigaOM, Thanks:rawmeet
Robert Lemos / PC World:
Microsoft Wants ‘Sick’ PCs Banned From the Internet — The software giant is calling for a collective health policy to certify a computer's health and restrict the Internet access of PCs infected with malware. — Recommends — The problem with PCs infected with bots …
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