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Linus Upson / Google Chrome Blog:
An update on Chrome, the Web Store and Chrome OS — On the Chrome team, we're constantly amazed by the speed of innovation on the web. We designed Chrome to make the web shine, and we hope our upcoming efforts will help support this vibrant ecosystem even more.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google Chrome OS Netbook Press Conference — Google has “exciting news to share” about Google Chrome today. That news is widely rumored to be a look at Google Chrome OS-powered netbooks that may soon go on sale for consumers. We'll see, soon enough.
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Mashable!, SAI, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Erictric, LaptopMemo, Search Engine Watch and MacNN
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Shows Off Chrome Web Store, “Always Connected” Chrome Notebook — It's easy to sell premium applications on smartphones; Apple's iTunes App Store has proven that. Is it equally easy to sell them on the Web? We'll soon find out. At an event in San Francisco this morning …
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Sarah Nahm / Chromium Blog:
A New Crankshaft for V8 — Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome's JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of compute-intensive JavaScriptapplications - often by more than a factor of two!
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chrome Browser, Now Used By 120 Million People, Just Cranked Up Its Speed — Google's Chrome browser is now being used by 120 million people on a daily basis, which is up from 70 million the last time the company disclosed internal usage numbers last May. The new figures were disclosed moments ago …
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Google demos Chrome OS, announces partnership with Verizon Wireless — Google held a special event on Tuesday to show off progress made over the course of the last year with its Chrome line of products. Most interestingly, perhaps, are the new Chrome OS features the Internet giant showed off.
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The Next Web, Engadget, SAI, Download Squad and TechCrunch
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Chrome OS launch delayed until mid 2011, but Google starting pilot pro
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Julian Assange / The Australian:
Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths — WIKILEAKS deserves protection, not threats and attacks. — IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook: We're Not Kicking Wikileaks Off Our Site
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Dive Video-Google's Andy Rubin Shows Off Prototype Motorola Tablet — Google's Andy Rubin came to D: Dive Into Mobile packing some serious hardware, and not just the company's newly announced smartphone, the Nexus S. He came with a prototype Motorola Android tablet, running a dual-core Nvidia chip …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google's Andy Rubin on Apple: “Everybody Is Embracing the iPhone”
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Dean Hachamovitch / MSDN Blogs:
IE9 and Privacy: Introducing Tracking Protection — The feedback and conversation on IE9's Platform Previews and Beta to date from many different communities has made the IE9 development process, and product, substantially better than previous releases. The discussions around hardware-accelerated HTML5 …
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Computerworld, CNET News, Seattle Times, All about Microsoft Blog, Softpedia News, The Next Web and TechNet Blogs
DigiTimes:
Foxconn to ship iPad 2 by the end of February 2011 — Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry's) plants in Shenzhen, China have recently been notified they will ship Apple's iPad 2 within the next 100 days with initial shipments to reach 400,000-600,000 units, according to sources from Taiwan-based component makers.
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Sky News:
WikiLeaks: British Police Arrest Assange — Andy Winter, Sky News Online — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police over sexual assault claims in Sweden. … The 39-year-old Australian was detained by Scotland Yard officers at around 9.30am after he voluntarily went …
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Julian Assange refused bail - will stay in custody until 14 Dec. hearing
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
One Database To Rule The Cloud: Salesforce Debuts Database.com For The Enterprise — Oracle has dominated the database market, especially following its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. But today, its “frenemy” Salesforce.com will become more of a competitor with the launch of Database.com …
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Google Maps for Android Now Faster, Smoother, in 3D and Works Offline — Google has just unveiled their new, refreshed Maps 5.0 app for Android, launching soon. What's new about it? Well, it renders buildings in 3D, loads faster, works offline and will automatically rotate the map according to the phone's compass.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Google Nexus S preview — We're here at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco, and we've just had a chance to lay our ever-loving hands all over Google's latest wunderkind, the Nexus S. As you've probably already read and seen, the device is set to be the next flagship phone sporting a pure Google experience.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Work, play on a single phone: LG teams up with VMware to deploy Android handsets with virtualization — VMware has been chatting up seamless, sexy virtualization among multiple operating systems on a single smartphone for some time — and it's finally getting the opportunity to deliver en masse thanks to a new partnership with LG.
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GigaOM, IntoMobile, Know Your Cell, PhoneDog.com, virtualization.info, MobileCrunch and GottaBeMobile
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday — Demo is one day after Google announces eBooks; Battle shapes up between two Internet giants — Computerworld - Amazon plans to demonstrate a new version of Kindle for the Web on Tuesday, one day after Google launched its Google eBooks and eBookstore strategy.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Finance Adds Curated Stock Conversations From StockTwits — StockTwits, which curates conversations about stocks, nailed down another impressive business development deal today. Yahoo is now pulling data from the StockTwits API and adding it to individual stock pages - here's Apple (AAPL) for example.
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Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Playstation Phone controls spotted lurking in the Android Gingerbread SDK — L1. L2. R1. R2. If those aren't ringing any bells, you've really gotta spend some time with a Playstation. As any kid born in the last few decades could tell you without hesitation, those are the names given …
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VentureBeat, Android Central, ReadWriteWeb, Digital Trends, GottaBeMobile, Android News, Rumours …, AndroidGuys and Engadget
James Kendrick / GigaOM:
Google Books for Android — a Review — Google opened its e-book store and released a reader app for Android today. Google Books is a typical no-frills app — common with Google's usual first efforts — but it handles the basic tasks of an e-book reader well.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunchIT:
Salesforce Chatter Goes Freemium — In its attempt to bring social streams into the enterprise, Salesforce is taking its Chatter messaging service and making it freemium. Unlike most freemium services which start out free, and then add on premium features for a price, Salesforce is going in the opposite direction.
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Software as Services Blog and Between the Lines Blog
Jonathan Protzenko / Mozilla Labs:
Announcing Thunderbird Conversations — I remember removing Thunderbird 2.0 from my computer back in 2007. I had been invited to Gmail three years earlier and, slowly, all of my email communication had switched over to Google's service. The last blow came when Gmail finally allowed people to check external accounts within Gmail.
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