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Raj Krishnan / The Official Google Blog:
Beyond Instant results: Instant Previews — With Google Instant you get results as fast as you type, but your search doesn't stop there. Once you get results back, you choose a site to visit based on the information in each result—like the title, a snippet of text and the URL.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Launches Instant Previews — At last, Google has finally gained a page preview feature. Called “Instant Previews,” this is a way for you to see what's on a page that's listed in Google's search results without having to leave Google. — The new feature seems promising …
Bloomberg:
IAC's Barry Diller Surrenders to Google, Ends Ask.com's Search Effort — Ask.com, the Internet search engine that media mogul Barry Diller acquired for $1.85 billion to compete with Google Inc., is cutting 130 engineering jobs and conceding much of its search business to competitors.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling
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MediaPost, NetworkEffect, The Business of Search, Faster Forward, TechCrunch, Tech Trader Daily and SAI
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Google Gives All Employees Surprise $1,000 Cash Bonus And 10% Raise — Google has given all of its employees $1,000 cash “holiday bonuses” and 2011 salary increases of at least 10%, a loyal reader tells us. — The 10% company-wide raise will take effect on January 1, 2011.
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TechFlash, Search Engine Land and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook/Google Slap Fight: “Openness Doesn't Mean Being Open When It's Convenient” — Get your popcorn. I lost track of who's turn it is, but Facebook just slapped Google right back. — Background: — Google To Facebook: You Can't Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity
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Digital Trends, All Facebook, NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, GMSV, GigaOM, Epicenter, Scobleizer, Softpedia News and Guardian
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Facebook: You've No Right To Export Email Addresses (Unless It's To Yahoo & Microsoft) — The Google-Facebook wars have heated up this past week over the ability for people to swap contacts between the services. In the latest round, a Facebook engineer says people have no right to export the email addresses of their contacts.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Response To Facebook's Response To Google's Facebook API Ban
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The Register, Digits, GigaOM, MediaPost, CNET News, Pulse2, SiliconANGLE and PC Magazine
Kuan Yong / YouTube Blog:
Control YouTube on the desktop, or the TV... with the YouTube Remote app for your phone — If you're like me, you love watching YouTube on your smartphone. My phone is always with me, which means my favorite YouTube videos are never more than a few taps away.
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Mashable!, VentureBeat, Engadget, jkkmobile, I4U News, eWeek, TechCrunch, At Your Servers, SlipperyBrick.com, Search Engine Watch, Erictric, Gizmodo, mobiputing, Androinica, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, Electronista and WebProNews
Scott Moritz / The Street:
Microsoft Sells 40K Windows 7 Phones — Stock quotes in this article:MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, T — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — As big-splash debuts go, Microsoft's(MSFT) Windows Phone 7 launch at AT&T(T) and T-Mobile didn't exactly make waves Monday. — Even with a glitzy media intro last month hosted …
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Computerworld, TG Daily, Hardware 2.0 Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Next Web, PC World, ConceivablyTech, AppScout, Electronista, BGR, Erictric, SAI, AfterDawn.com and MSDN Blogs
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Ben Patterson / Yahoo! News:
Mixed picture for Windows Phone 7 after first day of sales
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MobileCrunch and Computerworld
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Company Accused of Firing Over Facebook Post — In what labor officials and lawyers view as a ground-breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labor Relations Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page.
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MediaPost, Washington Post, The Not-So Private Parts, Mashable!, Examiner, All Facebook, Gothamist, Associated Press, PE Hub Blog and Mario Sundar
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Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
Free Speech on Facebook an Employee Right, Federal Agency Says
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CNET News
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iTunes 10.1 and OS X 10.6.5 Coming Tomorrow, iOS 4.2 On Friday at 10 AM PST — An inside source at AT&T told MacStories that Apple is planning to release iOS 4.2, a major OS update for iPhones, iPods and iPads, on Friday November 12th at 10 AM PST. We also learned that updates to iTunes …
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AppleInsider, TUAW, The Next Web, IntoMobile, MacRumors, I4U News, Erictric and Shoutpedia
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Glassgate Hits Case Makers As Apple Suspends Sales of iPhone 4 Slide-Ons [Exclusive] — Mophie's Juice Pack Air is certified by Apple, but Apple won't currently sell the slide-on battery pack in its retail stores because of “Glassgate.” Photo by Kokkie76. Used with permission. http://bit.ly/aZD7on
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AppleInsider, Digital Trends, gdgt, GigaOM, Ars Technica, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, IntoMobile, TiPb, GottaBeMobile, Examiner, Digital Daily, Macsimum News, iClarified, everythingiCafe, Softpedia News and 9 to 5 Mac
Matt Mullenweg:
1.0 Is the Loneliest Number — Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He's such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise! — I like Apple for the opposite reason …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Apple amends internal iPod water damage policy — Apple has made changes to its internal screening process pertaining to iPod liquid damage, a source told BGR. Apple builds a series of Liquid Contact Indicators (LCI) into its iPod line of devices. When these LCIs come in contact with moisture, they become activated.
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AppleInsider, App Advice, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, MacNN, TUAW and iLounge
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple's Pricing Advantage — Earlier this week I linked to this piece by Larry Dignan on tablet pricing. Dignan wrote: … Linking to it, I wrote: … This is not the case with Macs vs. Windows PCs. The switch to Intel processors has largely made the Mac price competitive with PCs …
Thanks:justin_horn
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Dell Venue Pro plagued by Wi-Fi bug [Update: other phones affected?] — The Dell Venue Pro, which became available on Monday, may be affected by a troublesome bug. According to several BGR readers, the new Windows Phone 7 handset from Dell is unable to connect to protected Wi-Fi networks.
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Electronista, pocketnow.com, The Next Web, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com, AppScout, I4U News, SlipperyBrick.com, Know Your Cell and WMPoweruser.com
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia takes the graphics speed crown — from itself — Nvidia is, yet again, delivering the world's fastest graphics chip. — The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company is announcing the GeForce GTX 580 GPU (graphics processing unit) today as the latest must-have graphics chip for PC gamers who have to have screaming performance.
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HotHardware.com News, Computerworld, PC World, Gizmodo, Electronista, Softpedia News, Inquirer and The Tech Herald …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
AMD ships its first Fusion microprocessor-graphics combo chips
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The Register, Between the Lines Blog and PC World
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon patents bad gift defense system: “gift conversions” — Do you dread getting fruitcake or socks from a certain relative every Christmas? Amazon.com may be working on a solution. The online retailer just received a patent for a bad gift defense system that intercepts gifts …
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Between the Lines Blog, Engadget and ReadWriteWeb
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Throw your business phone away, Google Voice is now enterprise — Google Voice for Enterprise customers could usher in a whole new era of telephony services for business. … Google Voice is a pretty incredible, free service for routing telephone calls to different services and devices.
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GigaOM, The Next Web and ReadWriteWeb, Thanks:llsethj
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Square Now Processing Millions Of Dollars In Mobile Transactions Every Week — After ten months of a private pilot limited to only 50,000 users, Square has finally opened its doors to the public. The brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Square was unveiled last December …
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Macworld and IntoMobile
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Is Quora Mass Creating Twitter Accounts On Mechanical Turk? — Amazon's Mechanical Turk is, among other things, a great place to get cheap labor to perform simple tasks that help black hat SEO efforts and general social network spamming. The problem is growing so large that it's becoming …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
FBI probes 4chan's ‘Anonymous’ DDoS attacks — The FBI has launched an investigation into an online protest that allegedly took down numerous Web sites belonging to antipiracy and entertainment groups, as well as the U.S. Copyright Office, a source with knowledge of the probe told CNET today.
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Slyck, Neowin.net and Techdirt
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With A Nice Website Update, Foursquare Did Just Get More Fun With Friends — Foursquare has always been one of those apps that was mobile-first, with the website existing as an after-thought. Sure, they've made their website significantly nicer over the past year, but the mobile apps are still the key.
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VentureBeat, Foursquare Blog, Mashable! and The Next Web
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twilio Raises $12 Million For Powerful Telephony API — Startup Twilio has raised $12 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, and including Union Square Ventures, 500 Startups, and several prominent angel investors. Twilio previously raised $4 million in Series A and seed funding.
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VatorNews, VentureBeat and GigaOM
Eddie Codel / jibber jabber:
The Current State of Live Video Streaming — As I've got some time on my hands since being laid off from Ustream, I thought I'd take a look at the current state of live video streaming on the web. I will concentrate on the three most popular free services, Ustream, Livestream and Justin.tv.
