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Nick Cooper / Docs Blog:
Introducing discussions in Google Docs — When we launched the new Google Docs last April, one of the big changes was moving comments to the sidebar and letting people reply to comments. Today, we're updating comments in Google Docs to facilitate rapid and seamless discussions and integrate with email in an intuitive way.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away — Update: See San Francisco Controller Publishes Candid Report On How Badly They Need Twitter — San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% payroll tax. And even more stunning …
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TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile, @arrington, @r0bl0rd, @karaswisher and @tiensoon
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft, RIM expected to unveil new, free hosted Blackberry service — Microsoft and RIM are set to unveil a new offering, possibly as soon as March 16 — a Hosted Blackberry Enterprise Service for customers using Exchange 2010 Online, Microsoft's hosted Exchange e-mail service, according to my sources.
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BGR, Al Sacco's blog, Electronista and Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Visa Unveils PayPal-Like Personal Payments Service For U.S. Consumers — Giant retail electronic payments network operator Visa is giving PayPal a run for its money today, announcing a new service that will allows U.S. consumers to receive and send funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account.
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VentureBeat, BetaNews, Business Wire, ReadWriteWeb, Tech Daily Dose and dailywireless.org
Jared Newman / Technologizer:
Zediva: Streaming New Movies for Cheap Through a Sneaky Workaround — Movie studios are skittish about giving their new releases to bargain rental services like Netflix and Redbox, but that's not a concern for streaming video startup Zediva. — The service, which moves out of beta today …
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Digital Trends, Epicenter, SAI, GigaOM, Reuters, Xconomy and Electronista
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
FTC, White House urge Internet privacy measures — Top federal officials on pushed forward Wednesday on efforts to establish mandates for Internet privacy. — In a Senate hearing on Internet privacy, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission reiterated his push for a Do Not Track tool …
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Jennifer Valentino-Devries / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Administration to Seek ‘Privacy Bill of Rights’
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Digital Trends, GMSV, TechEye, DailyTech, AdExchanger.com, FM Blog, Switched, Voices on All Things Digital and @dannysullivan
Erik Sherman / Wired In Blog| BNET:
New Facebook Patent: the Huge Implications of Curated Search — For some time, Facebook has been interested in semantic search — using its social graph and immense amount of information about its users to deliver search results. Some have dismissed the effort, but that's premature …
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Search Engine Land, SAI, msnbc.com, @taylorbuley and Beyond Search
Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant — Plaxo has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company famously wrestled with spamming allegations and was later the subject of controversy over the screen scraping techniques it used to pull contacts from Facebook.
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GigaOM, CNET News, VentureBeat and NetworkEffect
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Amazon Kindle: Bundled Free In UK, And The iPad Effect — Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now being sold in the UK by Carphone Warehouse and Best Buy UK, an extension of a retailing deal …
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SAI, Brave New World, Fast Company, thinq_ and TeleRead
Jeremy Doig / YouTube Blog:
Steady, as she goes: better video processing with Green Parrot Pictures — At YouTube, we see 35 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute from people all over the world. Some videos are beautifully shot by professionals or aspiring filmmakers using the very latest in HD cameras and equipment.
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CNET News, Digital Trends, Download Squad, Engadget, The Register, Fortune, Marketing Pilgrim, eWeek, Softpedia News, Techland, Guardian, thinq_, SAI, Erictric, fierceonlinevideo.com …, SlashGear, Search Engine Watch, paidContent, Electronista, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb, PC World and TechCrunch
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
TouchPad set for a June release, priced from $499; 7-inch coming in September? — HP was and has remained mum on the pricing and release timeframe (planned for “summer") for their TouchPad tablet, but we've got a few more details on that matter. A major US retailer is getting their employees ready …
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Digital Trends, ZDNet, mocoNews, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Electronista, PhoneArena, X-bit labs, PC Magazine, MobileWhack, SAI, Know Your Cell, GottaBeMobile, Gizmodo and IntoMobile
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Motorola's Wi-Fi XOOM coming to U.S. March 27th, $599 — In a press release just moments ago, Motorola Mobility announced the release of the its Wi-Fi only XOOM tablet in the United States. Available beginning March 27th for $599, the 32GB device will be available at Amazon.com, Best Buy …
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, ZDNet, SAI, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Gearlog, Geek.com, Electronista and Liliputing
Alastair Sharp / Reuters:
Special report: A PlayBook for fighting Apple — (Reuters) - Once upon a time, BlackBerry was king. Then came the iPhone, followed by Android. And BlackBerry seemingly lost its way — if not quite its throne. — Research In Motion is holding on to profit growth and impressive margins.
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MediaFile and Tech Trader Daily
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple rethinks inventory management for iPad 2 — Apple has changed its inventory management policy for iPad 2 deliveries, having its retail stores hold on to new shipments until the next day in an effort to ease the sales process for both customers and employees, AppleInsider has learned.
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CNET News, MacNN, TUAW and ITworld.com
Mark Buchanan / New Scientist:
Happier people tweet together — As the old adage goes, “birds of a feather flock together” - and it seems to be true even when tweeting. Scientists who have studied millions of tweets on the micro-blogging service Twitter say they have found that happier people tend to tweet together …
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Fast Company
David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile To Launch T-Mobile Jet 2.0 4G On March 23rd — As expected, the next iteration of the T-Mobile Jet, version 2.0 4G is ready to launch March 23rd. Considered ready for the “busy, value-conscious consumer” the Jet 2.0 will give 4G capability with theoretical speeds up to HSPA+ 21Mbps.
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DSLreports, BGR, Engadget, SlashGear and Electronista
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Adobe updates Photoshop Express for iOS with ‘Camera Pack’ in-app purchase — Adobe's Photoshop Express didn't fare too well in our recent round-up of iOS image enhancement apps. There are simply better options out there. Now Adobe has made a push to make it a little more desirable …
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Deceleration in Foxconn manufacturing seen as a concern for Apple — A “notable” slowdown in manufacturing at Apple's overseas partner Foxconn has been viewed as a potential issue for the iPad maker, and may result in less availability of products. — JMP Securities downgraded its outlook …
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Between the Lines Blog, Tech Trader Daily, BGR, SAI, TUAW, Electronista and O'Grady's PowerPage
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Making Twitter more secure: HTTPS — Today, we're taking an important step to make it easier to manage the security of your Twitter experience - we are adding a user setting that lets you always use HTTPS when accessing Twitter.com. Using HTTPS for your favorite Internet services …
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CNET News, Yahoo! News, PC World, The Register, Engadget, blogs.chron.com, Softpedia News, BlogsDNA, VatorNews, The Mac Security Blog, gHacks Technology News, Help Net Security, Techie Buzz, Tech Report, Inquirer, PC Magazine, eWeek, TechCrunch, ThinkMobile, WebProNews, GeekSugar, The Tech Herald …, Epicenter, Digital Society, The Blog Herald, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, BetaNews, The Next Web and Techland
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
100 Percent Fresh Exclusive!: Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes in Acquisition Talks With Yahoo and Others — Flixster-the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV-is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation.
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VentureBeat
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launching Local Deals Subscription Service — Facebook is showing a special story in the news feed urging users to subscribe to updates about its Deals location-based check-in rewards program, and to invite their friends to subscribe too. A link in the story leads to a new subscription page …
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TechCrunch, All Facebook, PC World and Pulse2
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Study: iPad 2 Screen Is as Good as iPhone's, Despite Lower Specs — Apple's new iPad 2 is thinner, lighter and faster than its predecessor. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com — The iPad 2 doesn't pack a higher-resolution “retina” display yet, but the quality of the screen is just as good as the iPhone 4's, according to a display expert.
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DisplayMate, AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacNN, iOSnoops, MacStories and DisplayBlog
Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Verizon grabs 12% of U.S. iPhone market in just one month — Mobile analytics company Chitika has been keeping a running tally of just how many iPhones are running on both AT&T and Verizon. Using the data flowing across its ad network, the company has calculated that almost 1 out of every 8 iPhones …
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Chitika Insights, PC World, IntoMobile, Electronista, VentureBeat, MacRumors, dailywireless.org, App Advice, MacStories, iOSnoops and Examiner
Bloomberg:
Zillow Is Said to Hire Citigroup to Manage Initial Share Sale — Zillow Inc., an online real-estate information service, has hired Citigroup Inc. to manage its initial public offering, three people with knowledge of the company's plans said. — The exact timing of an IPO filing …
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Venture Capital Dispatch, TechFlash, Xconomy, eMoney and GeekWire
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Meet Silicon Valley's Unofficial Emissary to the Rest of the World — Internet Investor Braigel Travels From Brazil to Tanzania Sharing Startup Knowledge, Advice — It seems like everyone in the tech world wants a piece of Silicon Valley. There's something magical about this geographical area …
Google Mobile Blog:
Google Search app for iPhone—a new name and a new look — If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it's now faster and easier when you use our redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App. If you've been using Google Mobile App for a while, you'll notice that things look different.
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Digital Trends, PC World, Internet2Go, eWeek, CNET News, Ubergizmo, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, The Huffington Post, Mashable!, Fonehome, BlogsDNA, MobileBurn.com, FierceMobileContent, Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Roundtable, IntoMobile, iPhone Buzz, LaptopMemo, Softpedia News, Redmond Pie, Gadgetell, Pocket-lint, WebProNews, TiPb, SlashGear, Search Engine Land, TUAW, Pulse2, MacStories, ThinkMobile, Gizmodo, Phones Review, Electricpig, everythingiCafe, Erictric, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, MacNN and Download Squad
