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Joel Seligstein / Facebook Blog:
See the Messages that Matter — Imagine the kind of family you might see in a modern American sitcom: loving parents trying to maintain a family unit with a teenager engrossed in text messaging, a college-aged child who is always chatting online, and various wacky relatives who spend their days sending “funny” emails to the family.
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Takeshi Numoto / The Microsoft Office Blog:
Office + Facebook = Easily share your ideas and documents with friends — Starting today, from Facebook you can view Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents via Office Web Apps with just one click. Visit the Facebook blog for full details. — It goes without saying that social networks …
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The Blog Herald, Computerworld, 901am, Lifehacker, TechNet Blogs, VentureBeat and SlashGear
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Modern Messaging System: Seamless, History, And A Social Inbox
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Dan Gillmor / Salon:
Facebook's über-communications platform
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GigaOM, PC Magazine, New York Times, gHacks Technology News and Search Engine Land
Kannan Muthukkaruppan / Facebook:
The Underlying Technology of Messages
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TechCrunch, All Facebook, LiewCF.com, Guardian, Inside Facebook and VentureBeat
Lior Ron / Google LatLong:
Discover Yours: Local recommendations powered by you and your friends — There's something so exciting about discovering new places. Nothing beats finding a great new place I've never been—whether it's a new bakery with a special dessert, a hole-in-the-wall Mediterranean place I didn't notice …
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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Google Hotpot: Local Recommendations From Your Friends — Google has just launched Hotpot, a personalized recommendations engine based on what you like and what your friends like. — When Facebook launched Places to compete with Foursquare, we here at Search Engine Land explained …
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The Next Web, Mashable!, Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, SEO and Tech Daily, Agence France Presse and Pulse2
Mat Balez / Google Mobile Blog:
Personally Yours on the Go - Personalized Recommendations in Google Maps 4.7 — Google Maps on Android just got even hotter with Hotpot, our new local recommendation engine that helps you discover places you'll love based on opinions from you and your friends. Here's how to get the benefits of Hotpot on your phone:
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Computerworld, SlashGear, Droid Life, Android and Me, Android Community, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena and Softpedia News
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Eric Schmidt shows off a Nexus S at the Web 2.0 summit, says Gingerbread coming in ‘next few weeks’ — We had a feeling Eric Schmidt would be doing something surprising at the Web 2.0 summit, and the man didn't disappoint — he just showed off the Nexus S running on T-Mobile …
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Schmidt: Android Phones Will Be Credit Cards
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Telegraph and Silicon Republic
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Apple iTunes, at Long Last, Gets Rights to Beatles — Steve Jobs is nearing the end of his long and winding pursuit of the Beatles catalog. — Apple Inc. is preparing to announce that its iTunes Store will soon start carrying music by the Beatles, according to people familiar with the situation …
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Antony Bruno / Billboard:
Best Bet: Apple To Announce Addition of Beatles Catalog to iTunes — Rock and Pop — The smart money on tomorrow's mysterious iTunes announcement is that Apple will finally be adding the Beatles catalog to the digital music store. — That's not fully confirmed, but after a day of phone calls …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Can the internet bring down the TSA's new enhanced pat-down search, also known as “touch my junk”? — Would-be traveler John Tyner has become a cause célèbre on the internet because he refused to subject himself to what he considered to be invasive body searching at the San Diego airport on Saturday.
Microsoft:
Kinect for Xbox 360 Hits Million Mark in Just 10 Days — Early customer demand for controller-free entertainment solidifies biggest year in Xbox history. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has sold 1 million Kinect for Xbox 360 units worldwide in 10 days and is on pace to hit 5 million by the end of the year.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Dell hybrid tablet ‘Duo’ due next week — Dell is expected to roll out its hybrid tablet-laptop next week, as the PC maker takes aim at Apple's iPad with a novel twist on the tablet concept. — Dell is expected to officially announce the 10-inch Inspiron Duo early next week …
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Softpedia News, SlashGear and Engadget
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel Sandy Bridge chip coming January 5 — Intel will launch its next-generation Sandy Bridge chip line on January 5 at the Consumer Electronics Show, the chipmaker confirmed today. — The launch will take place at Venetion Hotel in Las Vegas. Mooly Eden, Intel vice president …
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Softpedia News, Electronista, The Register, AppleInsider and Engadget
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
As Union Square Ventures Looks to Third Fund, Speculation on Size Runs Rampant — Last week in New York, everyone was abuzz about one thing: Union Square Venture's third fund. Multiple sources tell peHUB the New York-based venture firm is in the market, and there's no end to speculation over the amount of money it plans to raise.
Stew Magnuson / National Defense Magazine:
Cyber Experts Have Proof That China Has Hijacked U.S.-Based Internet Traffic — For 18 minutes in April, China's state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world's Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies.
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The Next Web
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google CEO: Android Is for Touch, Chrome OS Is for Keyboards — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has finally made it clear what differentiates Google's Android OS from the soon-to-be-released Chrome OS: keyboards. — That's a rather simplified expression of the bigger picture; but ultimately …
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Engadget and Liliputing
Jinen / Twitter Blog:
More Cities, More Trends, More Understanding — We're happy to announce two improvements that will help people connect and discover what's new — no matter where they are in the world or what languages they speak. — Almost any topic you can imagine is being discussed on Twitter.
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb and Softpedia News
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
iPads showing up at Sam's Club starting at $488 ($609 for the 3Gs) — We've been getting a few tips that Sam'c Clubs are getting their iPads in and selling them at minor discounts. The 16GB Wifi starts at $488 as you can see here. — It looks like Apple is discounting Wifis by $12 and 3Gs by $20.
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The Next Web
Joseph Menn / Insights on the tech industry:
Baidu CEO plans expansion beyond Japan — Baidu chief executive Robin Li said he is planning to expand into new countries and offer more languages to users beyond the dominant Chinese search engine's two-year-old foray in Japan. — Speaking for the first time at a US technology industry conference …
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Bits, TechCrunch, THINQ.co.uk, Search Engine Land, VentureBeat and Mashable!
Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Zynga: 320 Million People Have Played Our Games — On stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Zynga chief Mark Pincus said that 320 million people had played Zynga games to date. He unveiled a number of other interesting figures. — Zynga's games see more than 3 million …
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Tech Trader Daily, VatorNews, VentureBeat, The Next Web and TechCrunch, Thanks:ojchiang
Henrik Ståhl / Henrik on Java:
Moving Java Forward: Open Response from Oracle to Apache — I would like to share with you the official response from Oracle to Apache on the JCP: Oracle nominated Apache for a seat on the Executive Committee in recognition of Apache's continued participation and valued contribution to the community.
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Guardian, The Register and Computerworld
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Sprint Palm Pre gets End-of-Life — Five hundred twenty eight days after first landing in the hands of thousands of eager customers across the world, Sprint is done with the Palm Pre. The launch may not have been the blockbuster iPhone-matching success that Sprint and Palm had hoped it would be …
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VentureBeat, The Next Web and PhoneNews.com
