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David Pogue / New York Times:
Kinect Pushes Users Into a Sweaty New Dimension — With the money Microsoft has spent on failed efforts to design hardware, you could finance a trip to Mars. — Its failures make up quite a flop parade: WebTV. Spot Watch. Ultimate TV. Ultra Mobile PC. Tablet PC. Smart Display.
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ZDNet, CNN, Engadget, Ars Technica, Boston Globe, TechFlash, Seattle Times, msnbc.com, GameLife, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg and Joystiq
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Kinect has problems recognizing dark-skinned users?
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CrunchGear and Electronista
Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Kinect doesn't quite connect for me
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ITworld.com, SAI, Product Reviews Net and VG247
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft marks launch of Kinect motion-control system with dance …
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VG247
Rob Jackson / Phandroid:
How Facebook is Pulling an Android... and Why — If you think Facebook's announcements of Single Sign-On, Places API and Deals Platform were a disappointment, you and I disagree, and I'll tell you why. Grab a few Red Bulls, blast some Ronald Jenkees, and turn off your phone - I can't be interrupted and I have some explaining to do.
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Product Reviews Net, Phones Review and Android Phone Fans
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Erick Tseng / Facebook Blog:
Making Mobile More Social — Life happens in real time, and so should sharing. Today's mobile phones allow people to connect on the go and to share interesting moments as they happen all around them. — Earlier this week, when the Giants won the World Series, revelling baseball fans took to the streets of San Francisco.
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Engadget, Softpedia News, VatorNews, Facebook Developer Blog, Neowin.net, New York Times, eWeek, Faster Forward, SlipperyBrick.com, InformationWeek, TechSpot, FM Blog, ZDNet, Inside Facebook, GigaOM, WebProNews, MacRumors, Android Tapp, Black Web 2.0, VentureBeat, Switched, BGR, IntoMobile, Product Reviews Net, Download Squad and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook Deals: Bargains are enticing to those who've resisted …
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Fast Company and VentureBeat
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Local Deal Service for Places
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Telegraph, PC World, Scobleizer, HEXUS.channel, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, SAI, WebProNews, The Next Web, BetaNews, Brian Solis, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, Computerworld, SheGeeks.net, VatorNews, Mashable!, Facebook Blog, Gizmodo, Black Web 2.0, SiliconANGLE, Mobile Entertainment, Digital Media Wire and RyanSpoon.com
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook to Foursquare: You're out — It's obvious …
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TechCrunch, All Points Blog, WebProNews, SAI, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, The Register, Electronista and Tech Report
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Great interview: candid, disruptive Mark Zuckerberg
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The Next Web, Thanks:yarinhochman
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Finally, someone at Microsoft says tablets are cannibalizing netbooks — I finally got someone at Microsoft to admit that tablets are cannibalizing netbooks, something research and financial firms have been starting to report in recent months. On Monday I spoke to Gavriella Schuster …
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Computerworld, Silicon Republic, 9 to 5 Mac, Hardware 2.0 Blog and The Next Web
Leland / Twitter Blog:
Twitter for Android: Update available — Today we're releasing an updated version of Twitter for Android, which includes some awesome enhancements and introduces a more consistent experience across our mobile clients. — Tweet details page. We changed the layout of the timeline …
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter for Android: Faster, cleaner and now with pull-to-refresh
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel Light Peak tech coming—will Apple follow? — A technology developed by Intel and backed by Apple is expected to appear earlier than previously thought, paving the way for very-high-speed connections on both PCs and Macs. — Light Peak is now on track to appear in products in the first half of 2011 …
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Laptops and Desktops Blog, O'Grady's PowerPage, THINQ.co.uk, AppleInsider, Electronista and Engadget
Joshua Brustein / Bits:
Location Services Have Not Caught On, Report Says — Checking in at Monique's Chocolates in Palo Alto, Calif. — Tech companies, venture capitalists and retailers have expressed no small amount of enthusiasm for location-based Web services, which allow users to “check into” locations …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Lawsuit: Apple turned iPhone 3Gs into “iBricks” to boost iPhone 4 — We all saw this one coming a mile away: Apple is finally being taken to task over iOS 4 performance on the iPhone 3G. In a lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of California for San Diego, plaintiff Biana Wofford alleges …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Kik Messenger sees explosive start — a mobile chat better than SMS? — Kik, a new chat application for smartphones that is quicker and more social than SMS, is showing impressive viral uptake. The company says it has registered 450,000 downloads in the first 10 days since going live.
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Mobile Entertainment, The Next Web, Techvibes.com and StartupNorth
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
UK government plans East London tech cluster, Startup Visa, review of IP law, £200 million in finance. What? — The British Prime Minister is expected to announce today that the East of London, which in the last three years has seen a 700% growth in tech companies starting up there …
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Fast Company, iGeneration Blog, Reuters, BBC, TechEye, The Next Web, Telegraph, Bloomberg and AfterDawn.com, Thanks:sachbalag
Stewart Mitchell / PC Pro:
Microsoft details Windows Phone 7 kill switch — Microsoft has outlined how it might use the little publicised “kill switch” in Windows Phone 7 handsets. — A kill switch is a tool that allows software controllers to remove certain apps or software from handsets if they pose a security or privacy risk …
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Network World, Electricpig.co.uk, InformationWeek, Macworld, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, MobileCrunch, The Next Web and WPCentral.com
Erica Swallow / Mashable!:
A Glimpse at the Future of Foursquare — Foursquare CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley spoke on how the location-based service plans to dominate “what happens after the checkin” at Wednesday's ad:tech conference. Crowley delivered his remarks on the same day Facebook made several major announcements about its Places product.
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Skeptic Geek and Interactive Marketing
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Nudge an E-Mail to Come Back Later — Do you ever feel as if there are e-mails in your inbox that are just staring at you? Taunting you as you click on newer messages? If they could speak, they would probably rudely say, “Hey buddy, look at me, you haven't responded to me yet!
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Geek.com, Techvibes.com, Nudgemail, LIVEdigitally, Stage Two, Mark Evans Tech and Crave
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy S first smartphone to be Wi-Fi Direct certified — Samsung has generally been on the cutting edge when it comes to giving its smartphones the latest and greatest in terms of compatibility, with the Omnia being the first DivX certified handset in America this month two years ago.
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Zatz Not Funny!, Softpedia News, BGR, pocketnow.com, SlipperyBrick.com, WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS, AfterDawn.com, GigaOM and Ubergizmo
Zach Epstein / BGR:
The 4G forgery — T-Mobile does not have a 4G network. Sprint, which first launched WiMAX in June of 2009, does not have a 4G network. Verizon Wireless will flip the switch on LTE later this year and when it does, it will not have a 4G network. AT&T is taking its time with LTE and it won't fire anything up until next year.
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MobileCrunch, Phone Scoop, GottaBeMobile, I4U News, Sidecut Reports, T-Mobile News …, TechFlash, ThinkMobile, Phones Review, Product Reviews Net and InformationWeek, Thanks:aharpaz
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Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple confirms MacBook Air bugs internally — The sleek new MacBook Air models unveiled late last month are the slimmest computers Apple has ever produced — but the manufacturer still managed to find the space to pack in a few troublesome bugs. Early MacBook Air adopters have taken …
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9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, RazorianFly, SlashGear and Gizmodo
Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Why Andreessen Horowitz Just Raised $650,000,000 … Andreessen Horowitz just raised $650,000,000 for our second fund. Through the process, people asked us three questions consistently and I will answer them here. — Why raise $650M? — Isn't smaller better?
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InformationWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Information Arbitrage, Pulse2, BoomTown and EngageDigital
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