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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Meet +1: Google's Answer To The Facebook Like Button — Nearly a year after Facebook Like buttons spread out across the web, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button. It launches today as part of Google's search engine, allowing you to +1 search results and ads that you like.
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David Byttow / Social Web Blog:
Introducing the +1 Button — We all know what it's like to get a bit of help when you're looking for it. Online, that advice can come from a number of places: a tweet, a shared video, or a blog post, to name a few. With Google Social Search we've been working to show that content when it's useful …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Sure, I Could Join a Google-Based Social Network — But Why? — After much rumor and speculation about a new Google social feature of some kind, the Internet giant finally unveiled what it calls its “+1″ service today. The service — as Om explained in his post on the launch …
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Ars Technica, ClickZ and The Huffington Post
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social — As Do Google Ads
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Mashable!, The Next Web, The Social, Search Engine Land, Social Media & Technology, NetworkEffect, Examiner, Poynter, SAI and Efficient Frontier Insights, Thanks:alexia
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Why Google's +1 Can't Compete With Facebook's Like
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MediaPost, Softpedia News and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Brad Smith / TechNet Blogs:
Adding our Voice to Concerns about Search in Europe — Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation — Microsoft is filing a formal complaint with the European Commission as part of the Commission's ongoing investigation into whether Google has violated European competition law.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Antitrust Cry From Microsoft — The wheel of technology history turns remarkably fast. Microsoft, whose domination of the technology industry provoked a landmark federal antitrust case, is crying foul against Google and urging European Union antitrust officials to go after the search giant.
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Bloomberg, VentureBeat and Reuters
Milo Medin / The Official Google Blog:
Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas — As part of our overall goal to make the web better for users, last year we announced a new project: to provide a community with Internet access more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have today.
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Chris Ziegler:
And away I go — This is my last week at Engadget. — That's a strange thing to write. It's not something I ever really planned for. Then again, I guess you don't ever plan for that when you've got your dream job. — I've told my coworkers in the past that I believe …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Posts A New OS X Lion Build — Developers You'll Want To Try This One Out — Five days ago, we reported that Apple was gearing up to release a new build of the OS X Lion Developer Preview. Sure enough, that's exactly what they did today as build 11A419 has been seeded to developers.
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AppleInsider, The Next Web, MacStories, Softpedia News, 9 to 5 Mac, GeekSmack, MacRumors, MacStories, MacNN, GigaOM, iClarified and Gizmodo
Brandon Watson / The Windows Blog:
A Year Later-The Windows Phone 7 Numbers That Matter — At the MIX10 conference last year the Windows Phone team showed, for the first time, the application platform and tools that developers would use to build applications and games for Windows Phone 7. We announced that the tools were free …
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GeekWire, My Nokia Blog, The Next Web, WMPoweruser.com, Business Week, WPCentral.com, WinRumors and Windows Phone Thoughts.com, Thanks:brandonwatson
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Samsung Investigating Spyware Pre-Installed On Its Computers — If you own a Samsung PC, you may want to search your hard drive for an unassuming program called StarLogger, a piece of commercial spyware capable of recording every keystroke on your machine and sending the data to a third party.
Thanks:nasirudanbaba
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Network World:
Samsung installs keylogger on its laptop computers
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Business Week:
Do Not Anger the Alpha Android — Google cracks down on the chaos of Android Land; some mobile partners aren't happy — Playtime is over in Android Land. Over the last couple of months Google (GOOG) has reached out to the major carriers and device makers backing its mobile operating system …
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SlashGear and netgarden's posterous
Alma Whitten / The Official Google Blog:
An update on Buzz — User trust really matters to Google. That's why we try to be clear about what data we collect and how we use it—and to give people real control over the information they share with us. For example, Google Dashboard lets you view the data that's stored in your Google Account …
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Paul Allen / Vanity Fair:
Microsoft's Odd Couple — It's 1975 and two college dropouts are racing to create software for a new line of “hobbyist” computers. The result? A company called “Micro-Soft”—now the fifth-most-valuable corporation on earth. In an adaptation from his memoir, the author tells the story …
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon in Big Push to Clinch Music Deals — Amazon.com Inc. is aggressively courting the world's biggest music companies, as it seeks licensing deals that would help improve the online music service it launched Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage — A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. — The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty Images, Time …
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mocoNews, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent and Electronista
Electronista:
Adobe demos Photoshop for iPad with real layer support — Adobe Photoshop for iPad to get layers — Adobe at the Photoshop World conference this morning showed off a version of Photoshop for the iPad that could give the tablet real Photoshop image editing.
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Photography Bay, Photography Bay, Technologizer, CrunchGear, The Next Web and MacStories, Thanks:stroughtonsmith
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
Microsoft Top Marketer Mich Mathews to Exit — 22-Year Vet at Tech Giant Oversees More Than $1 Billion in Ad Spending — Microsoft's global marketing leader, Mich Mathews, is prepping to leave the company this summer after more than two decades at the tech giant.
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Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
AT&T CEO Makes Case T-Mobile Deal Will Boost IPhone Service — AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson, making his case for a proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA, said the deal would boost network capacity and improve service for devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.
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BGR, DailyTech, GeekSmack, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW and WebProNews
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Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
AT&T Expects to Let Go of Some Markets, Employees in Merger
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Wall Street Journal and Electronista
Dylan Love / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Finally, Some Photos Of Facebook Investor Yuri Milner's $100 Million Silicon Valley Mansion — Yuri Milner paid $100 million for his new Silicon Valley mansion, significantly more than the previously reported $70 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Bloomberg:
Nokia Rating Cut for First Time by S&P on Smartphone Share — Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, had its debt rating cut for the first time by Standard & Poor's, which cited market share losses and “weaker” operating margins at the Finnish company.
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SAI, BGR and FierceWireless
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Now Allows Personal Profiles To Be Converted Into Business Pages — For the first time, Facebook now allows personal user profiles to be converted into official business Pages, turning all their friends into fans. The “Profile To Business Page Migration” tool will help people …
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The Next Web and All Facebook, Thanks:joshconstine
Electronista:
Google rumored standardizing Android 3.0, ARM chips — Google may be pushing for much more consistency not just in Android 3.0 but also in the ARM processors that power it, notebook makers claimed late Wednesday. Details of the process were vague, but it was implied it would be more than just the decision …
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