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Amit Singhal / The Official Google Blog:
Search, plus Your World — Google Search has always been about finding the best results for you. Sometimes that means results from the public web, but sometimes it means your personal content or things shared with you by people you care about. These wonderful people and this rich personal content …
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Ars Technica, Google Operating System, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, VentureBeat, VatorNews, CNN, Social Business Blog, Hillicon Valley, Digital Trends, Epicenter, memeburn, Techie Buzz, Fortune, GigaOM, PC Pro, The Sociable, The Next Web, 9to5Google, ReadWriteWeb, AllThingsD, Softpedia News, Screenwerk, Washington Post, paidContent, Telegraph, Xconomy, HubSpot's Inbound …, eWeek, Lifehacker, Mercury News, NBC Bay Area, Social Media, SlashGear, WebProNews, the Econsultancy blog, Bits, Mashable!, silicontap.com and Pulse2
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Results Get More Personal With “Search Plus Your World” — Google's search results are undergoing their most radical transformation ever, as a new “Search Plus Your World” format begins rolling out today. It finds both content that's been shared with you privately along with matches …
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Search Engine Watch, Digits, Inquirer, InfoWorld, @manan, SiliconFilter, Engadget, L.A. Times Tech Blog, CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Marketing Pilgrim, GSMArena Blog, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
MG Siegler / parislemon:
Antitrust+? — Given my post last night, this will probably sound like piling on. But I'm sorry, it's the first thing that comes to mind. I don't see how it can't. — How on Earth is Google going to avoid antitrust inquiries with their new Search+ features announced today?
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The Atlantic Online, BetaNews, AllThingsD, John Battelle's Search Blog, @amac, @grimmelm and @jpbarlow
Mike Isaac / Epicenter:
With Search+, Google Fires Another Shot at Facebook
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All Facebook, Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial … and @miguelrios
Craig Eisler / Kinect for Windows Blog:
Starting February 1, 2012: Use the Power of Kinect for Windows to Change the World — We're thrilled at the sales we've seen for Kinect - 18 million sold in the past year - and we were honored to receive a Guinness World Record for the fastest selling consumer electronics device ever.
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Computerworld, The Official Microsoft Blog, VentureBeat, Gadgetwise, TG Daily, Geek.com, Between the Lines Blog, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MSDN Blogs, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, Newlaunches.com, TechSpot, Forbes, blog.chron.com, Gizmodo UK, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, @dannysullivan, Gamasutra, The Verge, Windows 8 Beta, PC World, TechNet Blogs, Gadget Lab, CNET, The Windows Blog, TechCrunch, Microsoft News, The Next Web, @majornelson, Kotaku and All about Microsoft Blog
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
WATCH: Microsoft's Tweet Choir, The Weirdest CES Keynote Moment Ever — Microsoft must have been jealous of all the press Samsung got last year for the dancers at its CES keynote. — Or maybe this was somebody's strange idea of fun. — Whatever the reason, halfway through Steve Ballmer's CES keynote …
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CNNMoney.com, The Next Web, Pulse2, VentureBeat, istartedsomething and Engadget
Jason Costa / Twitter Developers:
Twitter's new @handle distribution pilot program — @jasoncosta Jason Costa — Today we introduce a new pilot program for distributing Verified Account @handles and public profile metadata to developers, media and content services, and consumer device manufacturers.
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Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Next Web, The Next Web and TUAW
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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Twitter gives developers new access to Verified Accounts
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Guardian and Digital Media Wire
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
Qualcomm Unveils Thinnest, Lightest Mirasol E-reader, The Hanvon C18 — Chinese e-reader maker Hanvon will sell the thinnest and lightest e-reader yet to utilize Qualcomm's energy-efficient mirasol displays, the Hanvon C18. — Hanvon's C18 e-reader is the thinnest and lightest e-reader yet to use Qualcomm's mirasol display.
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Gizmodo, BetaNews, Engadget, ONE37, The Verge, PhoneArena, SlashGear and VentureBeat
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Dan Graziano / BGR:
Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor coming to TVs, notebooks, and smartphones early this year
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LAPTOP Magazine, The Seattle Times and Mobilized
MG Siegler / parislemon:
Why I Hate Android — Why do I hate Android? It's definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don't ask probably assume it's because I'm an iPhone guy. People see negative take after negative take about the operating system and label me as “unreasonable” or “biased” or worse.
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Gizmodo, Technologizer, @mattcutts, @cdixon and @ckindel, Thanks:mattlynley
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Amazon launches new touch-friendly Kindle Store for iPad — Amazon on Tuesday announced a new touch-optimized version of its Kindle online store aimed at the iPad. The touch-friendly shopping experience used to be available only through Amazon's Cloud Reader web-based Kindle reading client …
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The Verge, paidContent, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, Engadget, AllThingsD and TeleRead
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't really make $378 million in 2011 — His salary was $900,017. His 401(K) grew by $14,700. To get the rest he has to stick around Was Tim Cook really the highest-paid CEO of 2011, as the Associated Press and others suggest? Only if you believe a bird in the bush is worth as much as a bird in the hand.
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Forbes, Computerworld, Associated Press, The Register, Between the Lines Blog, The Next Web, paidContent, WebProNews, Wall Street Journal and 9to5Mac
Stephen Wolfram Blog:
A .data Top-Level Internet Domain? — There's been very little change in top-level internet domains (like .com, .org, .us, etc.) for a long time. But a number of years ago I started thinking about the possibility of having a new .data top-level domain (TLD).
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WebProNews
Adrian Goldberg / BBC:
Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads — Google earns millions of pounds from its online advertising service, AdWords — Google is profiting from ads for illegal products generated by its flagship automated advertising system, the BBC has found.
Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
BlueStacks Bringing Android Apps to Windows 8 — Start-up BlueStacks, whose trick is bringing Android apps to Windows, plans to bring its act to Windows 8. — At the Consumer Electronics Show, the company is showing how each Android app can appear as its own Metro-style app in Windows 8′s new start screen.
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Forbes, BGR, BetaNews, Engadget, VentureBeat, Liliputing, The Verge, Neowin.net, SlashGear, IntoMobile, ces.cnet.com and Windows 8 Tablet Forum
Miyoung Kim / Reuters:
Samsung confident of outselling Nokia in 2012 — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co, the world's biggest technology firm by revenue and the world's No.2 handset maker, is confident of its handset shipments overtaking that of Nokia this year, its chief executive said on Monday.
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Digital Trends, IntoMobile, AllThingsD, SlashGear, FierceWireless, CNET, The Register and PhoneArena
Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:
Samsung vs. Google — Android is a huge success. Google bought Andy Rubin's company in 2005 and turned it into a smartphone operating system giant, with more than 50% of the global market and 700,000 activations a day this past December. — Perhaps, as Steve Jobs seemed to think …
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GigaOM, Computerworld and Beyond Search
Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Makerbot Replicator: Bigger, Better and Now Two Color — 3D printing for the masses has always been the mission of Brooklyn-based Makerbot. Today the company unveiled the Makerbot Replicator, a souped up version of its original device. It lets users print way bigger items …
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The Verge
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Corning's Gorilla Glass 2: 20 percent stronger means thinner displays — We're all acquainted with Corning's damage-resistant Gorilla Glass — it's been used in over 600 million devices since it was released. Tonight at Pepcom, Corning is demonstrating its new Gorilla Glass 2 …
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Gizmodo, MacRumors, SlashGear, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Microsoft News, Engadget, Geek.com and Corning Incorporated
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Comcast Begins Rolling Out ‘AnyPlay’ Live TV Streaming for iPad — Back in September, we reported on a leaked document from cable and Internet provider Comcast revealing details on the company's forthcoming “AnyPlay” live television streaming service. While Comcast is not the first cable provider …
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9to5Mac, VentureBeat, The Verge, Technologizer, Comcast Voices and Engadget
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Facebook's newest frontier: inside the car — (Reuters) - At restaurants, at movies and at the office, checking Facebook has become a regular habit for many of the Internet social network's more than 800 million users. — Now that habit has reached a new frontier: the automobile.
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Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, Engadget, WebProNews, CNET and Gizmodo
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Samsung 2012 SmartTVs will access DirecTV without a set top box, minimalists rejoice — Samsung's new range of super-thin, super-powerful Smart TVs got another big fillip at CES: the company's teamed up with DirecTV to offer its service without the use of a set top box.
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CNET and Electronista
Mikael Ricknas / Computerworld:
Visa certifies smartphones for NFC payments — Visa has added smartphones from Samsung Electronics, Research In Motion and LG Electronics to the list of devices it has certified to work with the 185,000 NFC-based payWave payment terminals in Europe. — Visa has added smartphones …
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London Calling Blog, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and Silicon Republic
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
A Year After iPad Launch, News Corp.'s Daily Comes to (Some) Google Tablets — A year after it launched on Apple's iPad (and much longer than All Things Digital had reported), News Corp.'s Daily tablet newspaper is coming to Google's Android. The tabloid-style publication will come pre-loaded …
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Engadget, TechCrunch and paidContent, more at Mediagazer »
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Mozilla to build slow-paced Firefox for conservative users — Mozilla has embarked on its plan to build its Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox, an edition that stands comparatively still while the ordinary version of the browser changes every six weeks.
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The Mozilla Blog
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Oracle rolls out big data play with aggressive price, Cloudera — Summary: Oracle comes out with a big data appliance just north of $500,000, a good $250,000 below expectations. Cloudera goes along for the ride. — Oracle said its big data appliance is now available and an aggressive price point means …
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TechCrunch, The Register and GigaOM
Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
THE RAID ON AOL: How Vox Pillaged Engadget And Founded An Empire — Engadget seemed healthy. — Back at the beginning of February, AOL's marquee technology blog was coming off its most trafficked month in site history. It had survived the reorganization that gutted many of AOL's other verticals …
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