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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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Engadget, ZDNet, CNN, Ars Technica, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, TechFlash, msnbc.com, GameLife, Globe and Mail, Joystiq and VentureBeat
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Kinect has problems recognizing dark-skinned users? — GameSpot testing suggests facial recognition features of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera system might not work properly for some gamers. — Source: In testing the Kinect, two dark-skinned GameSpot employees had problems getting the system's facial recognition features to work.
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Yahoo! News, PC World, Product Reviews Net, CrunchGear, Geek.com and Electronista
Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
How Motion Detection Works in Xbox Kinect — The prototype for Microsoft's Kinect camera and microphone famously cost $30,000. At midnight Thursday morning, you'll be able to buy it for $150 as an Xbox 360 peripheral. — Microsoft is projecting that it will sell 5 million units between now and Christmas.
Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Kinect doesn't quite connect for me
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SAI, ITworld.com, Product Reviews Net and VG247
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft boosts Kinect sales estimate to 5M units for holidays
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Bloomberg, Gizmodo, TheFeed, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, Technologizer, Tech Check, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Microsoft Blog, IGN Xbox 360, eWeek, SAI and Tech Trader Daily
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, V3.co.uk, Facebook Developer Blog, PC World, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, eWeek, SlipperyBrick.com, Neowin.net, VatorNews, New York Times, Faster Forward, TechSpot, InformationWeek, FM Blog, The Next Web, IntoMobile, WebProNews, ZDNet, GigaOM, Computerworld, Android Tapp, SheGeeks.net, Black Web 2.0, MacRumors, BGR, Gizmodo, Digital Media Wire and Mobile Entertainment
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook Deals: Bargains are enticing to those who've resisted …
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PC World, Fast Company and VentureBeat
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Android App Sucked Because “Obnoxious” Google Bought The Developer
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MacStories and msnbc.com
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Great interview: candid, disruptive Mark Zuckerberg
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The Next Web, Thanks:yarinhochman
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook to Foursquare: You're out — It's obvious …
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TechCrunch, Scobleizer, All Points Blog, WebProNews, SAI, Pulse2 and L.A. Times Tech Blog
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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AppleInsider, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacStories, RazorianFly, THINQ.co.uk, SlashGear and Gizmodo
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 …
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Pew Internet:
4% of online Americans use location-based services — In its first report on the use of “geosocial” or location-based services, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life project finds that 4% of online adults use a service such as Foursquare or Gowalla that allows them to share …
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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Guardian, Laptops and Desktops Blog, MacStories, O'Grady's PowerPage, THINQ.co.uk, AppleInsider, Electronista and Engadget
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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9 to 5 Mac, Silicon Republic, Computerworld, SlashGear, Electronista, Hardware 2.0 Blog and The Next Web
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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Computerworld, Fast Company, Reuters, BBC, iGeneration Blog, Venture Capital Dispatch, The Next Web, Telegraph, TechEye, Bloomberg and AfterDawn.com, Thanks:sachbalag
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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IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Zatz Not Funny!, SlipperyBrick.com, BGR, pocketnow.com, WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS, AfterDawn.com and GigaOM
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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The Atlantic Online, Skeptic Geek and Interactive Marketing
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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The Next Web, Techvibes.com, Mobile Entertainment and StartupNorth
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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eWeek, Mashable!, Gizmodo, Engadget, SlashPhone, Gadgetell, pocketnow.com, PhoneArena, Lifehacker, Product Reviews Net, Android Community, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, Droid Life, Switched, Download Squad and Phones Review
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Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Twitter for Android: Faster, cleaner and now with pull-to-refresh
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ReadWriteWeb
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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MobileCrunch, PC World, Network World, PhoneArena, InformationWeek, Electricpig.co.uk, Neowin.net, Softpedia News, The Next Web and WPCentral.com
Microsoft:
LG Owners to Get Free Access to Popular Windows Phone 7 Applications — LG and Microsoft collaborate on developer program for a new mobile platform. — LG Electronics (LG) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT") announced today that they are teaming up to provide customers with a free selection …
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The Toybox Blog, Download Squad, GigaOM, MobileCrunch, Engadget, Neowin.net, TechRadar.com, Computerworld, The Microsoft Blog, TechConnect Magazine and CNET News
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, LIVEdigitally, Nudgemail, Stage Two, Mark Evans Tech and Crave
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 …
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 …, Product Reviews Net, ThinkMobile, TechFlash, Phones Review and InformationWeek, Thanks:aharpaz
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