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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Google and Verizon Say Two Android Phones, With Google Voice, To Come This Year — Google and Verizon Wireless said that the first results of their just-announced Android partnership will debut in a few weeks and that the carrier's cellphones will allow Google Voice, unlike the iPhone.
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Verizon:
Groundbreaking Agreement Between Verizon Wireless And Google To Leverage High-Speed Network And Open Android Platform For Wireless Innovation — BASKING RIDGE, NJ, and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — Verizon Wireless and Google™ today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Verizon to iPhone Users: “Want Five Times More 3G Coverage? There's a Map for That.” — Want five times more 3G coverage? There's a map for that. — That's the cheeky slogan of a new Verizon ad reportedly set to debut during tonight's “Monday Night Football” game.
John Cook / TechFlash:
New Verizon ad campaign takes a direct swipe at AT&T's network — A new advertising campaign from Verizon Wireless starting tonight during the big Monday Night Football game will take a direct swipe at AT&T's network, playing off the successful Apple iPhone commercials.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
Windows Mobile 6.5 Review: There's No Excuse For This — I really didn't want to beat up on WinMo here, because at this point it just feels tired. But man, come on Microsoft, you're giving me no choice. Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't just a letdown—it barely seems done.
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Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Google targeted in e-mail scam — Google has confirmed to BBC News that it's e-mail system - Gmail - has been targeted as part of an “industry-wide phishing scheme”. — The search giant said that it had taken immediate action to safeguard the affected accounts.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Schmidt: We paid $1 billion premium for YouTube — Since 2006, many observers have scratched their head over what prompted Google to pay $1.65 billion for the video site YouTube. We're now a little closer to the answer. — The blockbuster acquisition for the 18-month-old start-up played …
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Chuq Von Rospach / Palm Developer Network Blog:
What You Need To Know About the Palm App Distribution Program — Following up on the release of the beta app catalog e-commerce program, we're excited to announce that we're opening our app distribution program to the entire Palm® webOS™ developer community by the end of the year.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Palm's Full Monty — Easily the quote of the night at Palm's Developer gathering in San Francisco came from Katie Mitic, Palm's senior vice president of product marketing. “We want to leave it all out there. You know, ‘The Full Monty’,” she emphatically said when noting that Palm's goal was to be more open.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Palm developer program set for December lift-off
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Andrew Mager / The Web Life:
PhotoSketch: better than sliced bread, Photoshop — This is quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen a computer do. — What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage? — Well, it's possible.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Did Viacom find smoking gun in YouTube case? — Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google's YouTube may have uncovered evidence that employees of the video site were among those who uploaded unauthorized content to YouTube.
Tom Sly / The Official Google Blog:
Google PowerMeter's first device partner — Today, we're very excited to announce we have secured our first official device partner. (That means having a smart meter installed by your utility is no longer a prerequisite for using Google PowerMeter!) For the last several months …
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Matt Rosoff / CNET News:
Over-the-air downloads come to BlackBerry — Online music provider 7digital is bringing over-the-air music downloads to recent BlackBerry phones, such as the Storm, Bold, and Tour. The rumors have been circulating for several months now. On Tuesday the company is set to launch its application …
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Cecilia Kang / Post I.T.:
All Eyes on AT&T at CTIA; Will Ma Bell Let Skype Onto Its Networks? — Is AT&T about to announce Skype and Google Voice will run on its mobile network via Apple's iPhone? That's the buzz ahead of a wireless industry conference that begins Wednesday in San Diego.
Josephine Moulds / Telegraph:
Microsoft never recovered from Vista blow says Steve Ballmer — Microsoft's reputation has never recovered from the launch of Vista, Steve Ballmer, chief executive, said as the company gears up for the release of its latest incarnation of Windows. — Mr Ballmer said the economic climate …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
FTC regulates our speech — The Federal Trade Commission just released rules to regulate product endorsements not just in advertisements but also on blogs. (PDF here; the regs don't start until page 55.) — It is a monument to unintended consequence, hidden dangers, and dangerous assumptions.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Yes, new FTC guidelines extend to Facebook fan pages
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google's Experimental Homepage Fades To A Single Word — We all know that Google is a big fan of minimalism, especially when it comes to its famous homepage, where it tries to keep its ‘word count’ down to 28 words (actually, it looks like it might be up to around 30).
Nielsen Wire:
Social Media: The Next Great Gateway for Content Discovery? — In the beginning there were ISPs, which then gave way to portals aggregators of content and links which then led to the rise of “search” as the dominant form of Internet navigation or, how we get to where we we're going on the web.
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Yahoo, Apple, Adobe, others named in Eolas patent lawsuit blitz — It's the same technology that was at the heart of a news-making patent suit against Microsoft: the patent held by Eolas Technologies that defines how a Web browser plug-in can activate functionality.
John Cook / TechFlash:
Startup pinpoints the good, bad and ugly of wireless networks — Fretting about dropped calls in Ballard, missing text messages in Belltown or poor network coverage in Bellevue? If so, a new application from Root Wireless might be for you. — The Bellevue company, which is coming …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A New Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health — The national health care debate right now is all about giving more people affordable access to doctors and hospitals. Yet the vast majority of health care decisions — 80 percent or more, experts say — are really made by individuals …
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Microsoft's Project Pink Might Be Dead In The Water — To say we were unimpressed with the first leaked shots to come out of Microsofts “Project Pink” would be a bit of an understatement. This was Microsoft's first in-house foray into the mobile hardware space, and we'd been hearing tales of it for years …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google Decides to Find Its Creative Side — Internet Giant Seeks to Work Closer With Madison Avenue as It Targets Display Ad Dollars — Google Inc., which has long championed the belief that advertising should be less about art and more about science, is working harder to embrace its inner creative side.
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records — When 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he'd end up with an FBI agent trying to stake out his house.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Ask.com's Latest Ploy: Coupons — IAC-owned Ask.com is now serving up coupons, along with search results. A new service called Ask Deals aggregates coupons and deals from across the web. Users who search for a term like “cheap Halloween costumes” see offers at the top of the search results page …
Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM:
Windows 7 to Usher in Profitless Prosperity — Ultra-low prices on portable computers are nothing new, and in fact have increasingly become the norm since the debut of netbooks — small and light ultraportables that are virtually defined by their low cost. However, there are some strong reasons …
