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Google Mobile Blog:
Voice Search gets personal — When we launched Voice Search more than two years ago, we wanted it to “just work” right out of the box, without an initial setup process. And so, we built speech models broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, age, and accents …
Marcus Foster / Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice app now supports iPad & iPod Touch — Since we launched Google Voice for iPhone a few weeks ago, we've been hard at work to add a few improvements that didn't make it into the first release. — At the top of the list was adding support for iPod Touch and iPad.
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Kunur Patel / AdAge:
Apple Launches First IAd for IPad, for Disney's ‘Tron Legacy’ — Initial IAd for Apple's Tablet Is a Preview of What's Coming Next Year — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The first iAd for iPad will launch this afternoon for the upcoming Disney blockbuster “Tron Legacy.”
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CNET News, mocoNews, The Next Web, TechCrunch, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacStories, IntoMobile, MacNN and Geekosystem, Thanks:kunur
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
LinkedIn Protects Users from Gawker's Security Fail — LinkedIn is making a more aggressive response to Gawker Media's massive security breach than Gawker itself did. Whereas Gawker account holders mostly had to learn about the hack from reading news stories about it …
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Zachary M. Seward / Digits:
The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords — Readers of Gizmodo, Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: “123456.” So is the runner-up: “password.”
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Coding Horror, Between the Lines Blog, Techland, The Tech Report, io9, Fast Company, TUAW, Quick Online Tips, eSarcasm, Erictric and Hardware 2.0 Blog
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android — Former Googler, FriendFeed founder and Facebook-er turned investor Paul Buchheit just tweeted this zinger: … Considering his former employer just launched the Chrome OS pilot program last week …
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GigaOM, Mobilized, PC World, Digital Trends, TomsTechBlog.com, BGR, The Register, Search Engine Land, Google Watch, Erictric, Android Phone Fans, FierceWireless, Gearlog, SAI, Geek.com and GigaOM Pro
Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Breaking News on EFF Victory: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment — In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize …
Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
Leaving Mozilla, Starting Massive Health — Firefox is a project you never want to leave, and Mozilla is a company of which dreams are made. No matter where I travel in the world—from Rome to Tokyo—there are engaged Mozillian communities that immediately whirlwind me to a local pub to talk shop.
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NetworkEffect, TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb
Amanda Camp / Gmail Blog:
Restore your contacts — There are many times in life when a do-over can come in handy. Perhaps you clicked “Send” on an email that was better left unsaid, or “Delete” on a contact before realizing you still needed it. Just like Gmail lets you unsend a message, you can now have a second chance with your contacts too.
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Erictric, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, The Next Web and Techie Buzz, Thanks:richdemuro
Lars Backstrom / Facebook Blog:
2010 Memology: Top Status Trends of the Year — Natural disasters and human triumphs made their mark in our 2010 list of top trends in status updates, but more than anything else people wanted to spend time with their friends and family. The fastest growing trend was the use …
USA Today:
Army sees smartphones as important for soldiers — FORT GORDON, Ga. — The Army wants to issue every soldier an iPhone or Android cellphone — it could be a soldier's choice. — And to top it off, the Army wants to pay your monthly phone bill. — To most soldiers, it sounds almost …
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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Microsoft to demo new slate PCs, Windows 8 tablet functionality at CES? — The CES 2010 Ballmernote has become something of a black mark for Microsoft — the company's delivered almost nothing in the year after Steve demoed the HP Slate and talked about future Windows 7 Slate PCs …
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internetnews.com, Download Squad, ZDNet, CNET News, WinRumors, WMPoweruser.com, netbooknews.com and Go Rumors
Paul Butler / Facebook:
Visualizing Friendships — Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. — When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman — New cloud computing OS released by Google is plan to push people into ‘careless computing’, warns free software advocate … Google's new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” …
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Computerworld, p2pnet, TechCrunch, Tea & Tech, SlashGear, Technologizer and Business Week
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to cut about 800 jobs in Finland — (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker by volume, said on Tuesday it planned to cut about 800 jobs in its home Finnish market. — The company said in a statement it concluded negotiations with employee representatives on the planned reductions …
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TechSpot, Electronista, MobileCrunch, The Next Web, IntoMobile and RCR Wireless News
Mark Tran / Guardian:
Julian Assange to stay in jail as Sweden fights bail decision — Founder of WikiLeaks granted bail at Westminster magistrates court after celebrities stood sureties — A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of rape in Sweden.
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Nook Color getting Android 2.2 and Market in January, current hacks could make it blow up? (update) — You had to know the hacking community was going to have a field day with the Nook Color — a $249 Android Tablet hiding behind with a thin e-reader coating.
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The Toybox Blog, GottaBeMobile, Softpedia News, Android Community, dailywireless.org and AndroidGuys
Nick Saint / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
CEO Out At Top Groupon Clone BuyWithMe — Cheryl Rosner, the CEO of BuyWithMe, one of the largest Groupon clones, has stepped down. — Rosner is the former President of Expedia and CEO and President of TicketsNow, which sold to TicketMaster in 2008. She was brought on as CEO of BuyWithMe …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google, These Aren't Really The Best Answers For Users. They Are The Best Answers For You. — Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an article pointing out how Google is increasingly favoring its own properties, in search results over natural results to outside sites which previously commanded the top spots.
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Internet Evolution, The Equity Kicker, Tnooz, TechEye, Understanding Google …, Fair Search, ITProPortal and MediaPost
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Best Buy tells the Nexus S retail story: 8AM online sales, two per customer maximum — Want a Nexus S this Thursday? Yeah, well, welcome to the club, pal — you're not alone, so you're going to want to be armed with the right information to figure out your plan of attack.
Erik Sherman / BNET:
Google's Newest Patent: The Browser Search Highlight Button — You might think that Google (GOOG) has become a favorite punching bag of intellectual property lawyers. Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL) both indirectly targeted the company via patent infringement suits against such Android handset vendors as Motorola (MOT) and HTC.
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Ian Sherr / Digits:
Tech Behind Hit Games Comes to iPhone — The technology behind hit videogames such as “Batman: Arkham Asylum” and “Gears of War 3″ is coming to iPhone and iPad game developers this week, in another sign that mobile gaming is booming on Apple's platforms.
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, Techland, MacStories, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, GamesIndustry.biz, TUAW and Destructoid
John Ciancutti / The Netflix Tech Blog:
Four Reasons We Choose Amazon's Cloud as Our Computing Platform — One year ago, none of Netflix's customer traffic was supported out of AWS, Amazon's cloud services. Today, most of our member traffic is supported by software we've built and deployed in AWS.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Still Silent On Today's Layoffs, But Employees Vent — Yahoo may be tight-lipped about the layoffs that are taking place today within the company, but that's not stopping employees who have been handed pink slips from going down quietly. A Yahoo employee in the Flickr group just Tweeted …
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William McQuillen / Bloomberg:
Google, Microsoft Join Obama to Combat Knockoff Drugs — Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are helping to establish a nonprofit organization targeting illegal Internet pharmacies in support of Obama administration efforts, according to the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Forget Goopon-Why a Groupon-Foursquare Combo Makes More Sense — As major Web players look to make a play in local, Groupon and Foursquare have both walked away from lucrative acquisition deals. — But now, as these young start-ups go it alone, would it make sense for the two to combine …
