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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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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 and Android Phone Fans
Kim-Mai Cutler / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches Local Deal Service for Places — In a move that could bring millions of local and small business advertisers to the social network, Facebook launched a deal service for Places today. The service lets merchants push deals to their existing customers and attract new ones …
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Telegraph, Softpedia News, Scobleizer, PC World, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, SAI, Brian Solis, The Next Web, BetaNews, WebProNews, IntoMobile, Facebook Blog, Computerworld, SheGeeks.net, VatorNews, Mashable!, Black Web 2.0, Gizmodo, Mobile Entertainment, SiliconANGLE, Digital Media Wire, RyanSpoon.com, GeekSugar and The Huffington Post
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Android App Sucked Because “Obnoxious” Google Bought The Developer
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MacStories and Tech Trader Daily
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, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, SAI, GigaOM, All Facebook and Tech Report
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Revamps The Mobile Log-In Process With Single Sign-On
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Mashable!, BGR, Techland, Gadgetell, The Next Web, Chris Pirillo, Local Media Watch, Inside Facebook, TUAW, CNET News and ReadWriteWeb
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Why Facebook Still Doesn't Have An iPad App
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Mashable!, Gadgetell, SAI, SelectStart, TUAW and broadstuff
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, TechFlash, Globe and Mail, Ars Technica, Boston Globe, Bloomberg, msnbc.com, Seattle Times, GameLife and Joystiq
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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.
Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Kinect has problems recognizing dark-skinned users?
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Electronista
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft boosts Kinect sales estimate to 5M units for holidays
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Bloomberg, TheFeed, Softpedia News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Tech Check, Technologizer, The Microsoft Blog, eWeek, SAI, IGN Xbox 360, VG247, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, Product Reviews Net, Winrumors and Crave
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft marks launch of Kinect motion-control system with dance …
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VG247, MTV Multiplayer and Kotaku
Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Kinect doesn't quite connect for me
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Product Reviews Net and VG247
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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ReadWriteWeb
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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I4U News, T-Mobile News …, TechFlash, Sidecut Reports, ThinkMobile, Product Reviews Net, InformationWeek, Android Community and Signal to Noise, Thanks:aharpaz
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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 …
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TechEye, TUAW, AppleInsider, Courthouse News Service, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, RazorianFly, PhoneDog.com, MacNN, Macsimum News, GigaOM, GeekSugar, SAI and MacDailyNews
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 …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Twitter Promoted Tweets Come To Google — In a first ever move, Google is now carrying ads from someone else's ad network — Twitter's, as Google integrates Twitter's new Promoted Tweets into Google Realtime Search. — It's quite a coup for Twitter. Not only did the company get Google …
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The Next Web, Pulse2, WebProNews, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Voices on All Things Digital, Search Engine Watch and SAI, Thanks:hornokplease
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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Softpedia News, Neowin.net, InformationWeek, Macworld, MobileCrunch, The Next Web, WPCentral.com and Winrumors
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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The Next Web and Winrumors
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
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 and StartupNorth
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Dish Exec: Hulu Is Destroying the TV Industry — Hulu users would wait a lot longer to catch up on their favorite shows, if Dish Network VP of Online Content Development and Strategy Bruce Eisen had his way. “If I can watch Glee tomorrow morning and I don't have to pay a pay TV service …
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Neowin.net, DSLreports, Rob Hof's Blog and TechNet Blogs
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple's dead pixel policy revealed — Apple's internal policy on acceptable numbers of pixel anomalies was recently updated, a source told BGR. The policy is used as a guideline for Mac Geniuses addressing customer issues that involve Apple displays. It essentially allows them to quickly …
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MacRumors, RazorianFly, SAI, iPodNN and everythingiCafe
Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric:
SkyFire Browser Gets Pulled From App Store Due to Overwhelming Demand — Just hours after the SkyFire web browser for iOS made its official debut on the Apple App Store, the application has been pulled. No, it's not one of Apple's evil shenanigans. Instead, the browser was pulled by its developers due to extremely high demand.
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Skyfire, Engadget, SAI, ThinkMobile, CNET News, MobileCrunch and Redmond Pie
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!, BGR, pocketnow.com, SlipperyBrick.com, WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS, GigaOM, AfterDawn.com, Ubergizmo and Electronista
