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Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Re-inventing Windows Live Hotmail - the next generation of personal email — If you've been following this blog, you know that we've spent a lot of time talking about how consumers are using their email and how they manage their inboxes. We've also talked about how we decide what to build based on what we hear from customers.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
New Hotmail takes aim at Gmail's top features — Microsoft presented a sneak peek this morning of a massively overhauled Hotmail — Hotmail Wave 4 in Microsoft jargon — that will go into a public beta test this summer. — Hotmail Wave 4 adds several features that have until now been unique …
Joseph Tartakoff / mocoNews:
Google To Buy VOIP Technology Firm Global IP Solutions For $68.2 Million — Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is offering $68.2 million to buy up publicly-traded Global IP Solutions, a San Francisco-based company which sells technology used to deliver voice and video over IP networks.
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Ben Hardwidge / THINQ:
Exclusive: Seagate confirms 3TB drive — Needs UEFI, 64-bit OS and new partition table. After a few weeks of rumours, Seagate's senior product manager Barbara Craig has confirmed to Thinq that “we are announcing a 3TB drive later this year,” but the move to 3TB of storage space apparently involves …
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Softpedia News, Computerworld, The Tech Report, TechSpot, Engadget, HotHardware.com News, Maximum PC, SlashGear, X-bit labs and Crave
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Kindle For Android Hits This Summer — And You Can Buy Books In It — Easily one of my favorite apps for the iPad is the Kindle app. Weird, I know. But in some ways it's superior to the iPad's own iBooks experience. You can sync it across multiple devices, for example.
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TechFlash, Technologizer, Amazon.com, Google Android Blog, Unwired View, Android Police, SlashGear, BlogsDNA, MobileContentToday, Kindle Review, Engadget and TeleRead
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Visa officially announces their case that turns your iPhone into a credit card (and we've got pics!) — Around two weeks ago, Visa announced that they'd partnered with a company called DeviceFidelity to build the iPhone case of our dreams: one that would allow us to use our iPhone as a credit card …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net — San Francisco - New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.
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TG Daily, ReadWriteWeb, Daily Patricia, CNET News, The Register, MediaMemo, Network World, Lifehacker, BaltTech and p2pnet
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds to Browser (Updated) — Updated at 9:30 PM PST with comment from Google. Google posted an unlisted video to YouTube tonight showing details of a 2.0 version of its Feed API, a simple tool for displaying recent headlines from a syndicated feed on any web page.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
U.S. Mac sales up 39% in April — Based on NPD data, iPods, not Macs, are being cannibalized by the iPad, says an analyst — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster has looked at the NPD Group's data for the month of April and concluded that it's good news for Apple (AAPL). How so?
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Digital Daily, TUAW, Mashable!, Ars Technica, PC World, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Edible Apple, ZDNet, Digits, MacRumors, Tech Trader Daily, Macsimum News and MacStories
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
With a Kindle Hiring Spree, Amazon Gears Up for Battle With Apple — Since Apple announced its plans for the iPad, Amazon has shared few details about how it would respond to the competition for its Kindle. But over the past few weeks, it has offered some more clues.
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Fast Company, Technologizer, Mashable!, Go Rumors, Kindle Review, Electronista and Maximum PC
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kevin Rose Gives A Glimpse Of The New Digg — Yesterday, while he was visiting his father and working beside a Colorado stream, Kevin Rose sent out a seemingly bland, lazy Sunday Tweet: … But the payload of that Tweet, a link to picture showing a glimpse of Rose's computer screen, is much more interesting.
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Bob Warfield / SmoothSpan Blog:
Amazon Stealing the Cloud — I saw a spate of recent articles that had some pretty amazing statistics and news bits on Amazon Web Services and competitors. In no particular order: — A survey of 600 developers by Mashery reported that 69% of respondents said Amazon, Google …
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Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Mayors of Starbucks Now Get Discounts Nationwide with Foursquare — Starbucks, a company that already rewards frequent customers with the Barista badge on social gaming app Foursquare — is officially turning on the rewards side of its experimental Foursquare loyalty program with the first-ever nationwide mayor special.
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Financial Times:
Google set for probes on data harvesting — By Joseph Menn in San Francisco, Daniel Schäfer in Frankfurt and Tim Bradshaw in London — Authorities on both sides of the Atlantic on Monday moved towards investigating Google following the internet group's disclosure …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Goes Down Following Legal Pressure — A few days ago we exclusively revealed that several major Hollywood movie studios had obtained a preliminary injunction against CyberBunker operator CB3ROB Ltd. & Co. KG from the Regional Court of Hamburg.
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PC World, MediaPost, Guardian, BlogsDNA, ZeroPaid.com, DailyTech, Boy Genius Report, NewTeeVee, TechSpot, THINQ.co.uk, TG Daily, Media Maverick, Download Squad, Geekosystem, Erictric, Softpedia News, Maximum PC, Slyck and MediaMemo
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Don't Kid Yourself, Mobile Ad Companies: Apple Really Does Want to Lock Up the App Market — Is Apple really trying to shut out other ad networks from its iPhones and iPad apps? That's what it looked like at first blush last month. — Recently, though, I've talked to some mobile ad companies that are more hopeful.
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valleywag, PC World, The Huffington Post, FM Blog, Digital Trends, Big in Japan, Robert X. Cringely's blog and eWeek
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Fanboy! — Technology, in case you hadn't noticed, is a topic that inspires passion. When people like stuff, they tend to really like it. And many tech enthusiasts have trouble dealing with people whose tastes differ from theirs. Praise a product or company online …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Macbook refresh gets official with 10-hour battery — Weird, but there it is, the leaked MacBook refresh is here, on Tuesday, just as we thought. The 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo refresh with NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics and longer 10-hour battery life (up from 7 hours) is sitting up …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Spotify Halves Subscription Cost As Competitors Gather — Spotify is slashing the cost of its advert-free music streaming in the UK and Europe, in a bid to win more paying customers besides just mobile users. It comes in two new tariffs Spotify's introducing...
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
After 3+ Years, Alex Payne Quits Twitter To Create “A Bank That Doesn't Suck” — A couple years ago when Twitter was having major scaling issues, engineer Alex Payne was able to work through them to help create the Twitter API. That API, of course, is now one of the most important on the web.
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al3x, Ben Metcalfe Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Twittercism, TNW Social Media, WebProNews and VentureBeat
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Prepares To Announce 500 Million Users — Facebook is working on plans for their 500 million user celebration, projected to take place at some point before the end of June. While we'd expect Facebook to make an announcement in the next couple weeks, an announcement should be expected …
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MediaPost, broadstuff, Fortune, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews, Sunbelt Blog and TNW Social Media
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Moot's Investors Revealed: Andreessen, Conway, Dixon, Schachter and Lerer — Last Friday, we wrote about 4chan founder Christopher “Moot” Poole's stealthy startup, Canvas Networks, which just raised $625,000 in funding. Poole has revealed the names of the investors in the round, which are impressive to say the least.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Surprise: Traditional Blogging Platforms Still Reign Supreme — AltHouse, Citizen WElls, Economist's View: These are some of the most popular blogs in the world and their streams of daily posts get hundreds of legitimate comments. They are published on Blogspot, WordPress and Typepad, respectively.
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