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J.B. / Fusible.com:
Google set to launch Photovine? It applied for the trademark, now it owns the matching domain name — Google applied for a trademark on “Photovine” on June 7 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. — As of June 14, it appears Google owns photovine.com.
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Digital Trends, SAI, 9to5 Google, RazorianFly, Electronista and The Next Web
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Google testing yet another redesign, kills 'I'm Feeling Lucky' — Google appears to be testing yet another redesign of its search engine, incorporating a new stylish colour scheme but also moving website links to a new position, underneath the title. — The redesign isn't available to all users …
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PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, Google Operating System, Beyond Search and EverythingAndroid
Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Fake Identities Were Used on Twitter in Effort to Get Information on Weiner — At least three months before the revelation that former Representative Anthony D. Weiner was sending lewd messages and photos to women online, a small group of self-described conservatives was monitoring his exchanges with women on Twitter.
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The Atlantic Wire, Runnin' Scared, Gothamist, Patterico's Pontifications, Gawker and The Daily Beast
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
CBS Shuffles CNET Editors — More management changes at CBS' digital arm: Veteran editor Dan Farber is once again running CNET News, a position he last held in 2008. — CNET editor in chief Scott Ard will stay on at the company, but will focus on CNET's reviews, which he had overseen prior to his promotion in 2009.
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@yulimar
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Real Racing 2 HD wireless, dual-screen gaming with iOS 5 on iPad 2 hands-on (video) — It's just one week after Nintendo unveiled dual-screen gaming on the Wii U at E3, but Apple's iOS 5 beta is already bringing a very similar experience to the living room — many months before Nintendo's latest console is expected to ship.
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App Advice, Redmond Pie, FSMdotCOM, TUAW, eHomeUpgrade, MacRumors and MacStories
Brandon Bailey / Mercury News:
Oracle expert claims Google may owe up to $6 billion — Calling it “breathtaking” and “out of proportion to any meaningful measure,” Google (GOOG) attorneys revealed late Friday that an expert working for Oracle (ORCL) has estimated Google may owe between $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion …
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Reuters and 9to5 Google
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
What Photo Sharing App Should You Use? — Well who isn't building a photo sharing app these days? At this point I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Google came out with its elaborately named attempt like tomorrow. — But seriously, with such a glut in the mobile photo sharing market …
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Appolicious Advisor, Thanks:percival
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The NY Post, the iPad and the web — First, I don't care about the NY Post. It's always been a crap paper. In the old days it was a crap liberal paper, now it's a crap Murdoch paper. — On the other hand, I sometimes click on links that take me to the Post. — Permalink
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@felixsalmon and @mathewi
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
iCloud to Auto-Resolve Sync Conflicts — MobileMe's sync conflict resolver. Via BusySync — When it runs into conflicting data, Apple's upcoming iCloud service will automatically determine which is the correct one without bringing the user into it, according to Daring Fireball's John Gruber.
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RazorianFly, AppleInsider, MacStories and Daring Fireball
Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable Considering Billing Web Customers by Usage, CEO Says — Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC), the second- largest U.S. cable-television operator, is testing technology to measure consumption-based billing for broadband Internet use, said Chief Executive Officer Glenn Britt.
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Neowin.net, Adweek, DSLreports and MediaPost
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Up Close With Google's Search By Image: Hits, Misses & More — Earlier this week at its Inside Search event, Google announced a new way to search the web called Search By Image. Rather than enter a text query, Search By Image lets you begin your search with an image and Google will (try to) …
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creativebits™
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
JavaScript decoder lets MP3s play in Firefox without Flash — The introduction of HTML5 and super-fast JavaScript engines to the latest web browsers has brought with it a wealth of new functionality. The focus seems to have been put on the ability to play video in a browser without Flash, or making games.
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