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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 …
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GigaOM, PC World, BetaNews, Between the Lines Blog, MobileCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, USA Today, Search Engine Land, pocketnow.com, Download Squad, Pulse2, mobiputing, I4U News, Erictric, AndroidGuys, BGR, Know Your Cell, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, Droid Life, The Next Web, Softpedia News and Electronista
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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App Advice, The Download Blog, Computerworld, MobileWhack.com, Pulse2, TiPb, BlogsDNA, Startup Meme, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, mobiputing, SAI, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, MacRumors, The Next Web, Download Squad, MacStories, SlashGear, everythingiCafe, IntoMobile, PadGadget, Erictric, GottaBeMobile, BGR, TUAW, GeekSugar and MobileBurn.com
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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MediaMemo, CenterNetworks, The LinkedIn Blog, SocialTimes.com, Faster Forward, The Next Web, The Firewall and Urlesque, more at Mediagazer »
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Arik Hesseldahl / NewEnterprise:
Gawker Password Mess Spreads to World Of Warcraft, And Apparently to Yahoo
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MediaMemo
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, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Digital Media Wire, iLounge, IntoMobile, MacNN and MacStories, Thanks:kunur
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 …
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Between the Lines Blog and Engadget
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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Mobilized, TomsTechBlog.com, BGR, PC World, Digital Trends, Search Engine Land, Beyond Search, The Register, Erictric, Android Phone Fans, FierceWireless, Google Watch, Gearlog, SAI, Geek.com and ITProPortal
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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Daring Fireball, Erictric, The Next Web, Techie Buzz, SlashGear and AndroidGuys, Thanks:richdemuro
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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ReadWriteWeb, NetworkEffect, TechCrunch and Pulse2
Curt Hopkins / ReadWriteWeb:
Three Hackers Arrested in Wake of DDOS Attacks — One of the more cringe-worthy stories to come out of the Wikileaks-Anonymous-DDOS plotline in the last few weeks is the lack of security practiced by just about everyone involved. Authorities found the name of a designer named Alex Tapanaris embedded …
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Mark Tran / Guardian:
Julian Assange to stay in jail as Sweden fights bail decision
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News: News blog, The Atlantic Online, Urlesque, The Firewall, Threat Level and The Next Web
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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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digits, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, The Register, Switched, Digital Daily, PhoneDog.com, Pulse2, DailyTech, Fudzilla, MobileBurn.com, NBC Bay Area, Electronista and MacDailyNews
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 …
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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Electronista, The Toybox Blog, Android Community, GottaBeMobile, dailywireless.org, AndroidGuys and Softpedia News
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, GigaOM, TechSpot, p2pnet, Tea & Tech, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Business Week and Technologizer
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.
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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Download Squad, internetnews.com, ZDNet, Pulse2, CNET News and WinRumors
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, Pulse2, MobileCrunch, The Next Web, IntoMobile and Electronista
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Reduces Staff By 4 Percent; Hands Out Pink Slips To Over 500 Employees — After weeks of no official response from Yahoo on the rumored layoffs taking place this week, a spokesperson for Yahoo has finally confirmed that Yahoo is issuing pink slips to employees today. Here's the response:
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paidContent, Search Engine Watch, BoomTown and SAI
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.
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 …
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Pulse2
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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MacStories, Techland, MacRumors iPhone Blog, everythingiCafe and The Next Web
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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Pulse2
Brad Linder / mobiputing:
Paramount to release feature films, plus extras for Windows Phone 7 — Once upon a time you had to trek to a movie theater to watch a film, or perhaps wait for it to show up on television. Then came the VCR era, followed by the DVD era, which added the innovation of “extras,” …
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Associated Press, PR Newswire, pocketnow.com, Ubergizmo, Electronista and WPCentral.com
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Comcast Tries Walling Off the Web — Don't expect Comcast to let people access Internet video content like Netflix or YouTube on its set-top boxes anytime soon. While it's true that the cable provider is testing out a new service offering called “Xcalibur” that would add social features …
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