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10:25 AM ET, October 24, 2007

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Gmail gets IMAP — It appears that Google is working on integrating IMAP into Gmail. Download Squad reader eD! Thomas sent in a tip letting us know he came across the new IMAP setting while snooping around Gmail. However, it is only appearing in select few Gmail and Google Apps for domains accounts at the moment.

Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Gmail Supports IMAP — One of the most requested Gmail features was the addition of IMAP support. POP is nice, but IMAP is a much better option. Among the advantages, you're always connected to the server, more clients can connect to the same account, you can obtain the text …

Discussion: VentureBeat and Gadgetell

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:

Gmail IMAP Support — Gmail seems to be rolling out IMAP support. IMAP is short for Internet Message Access Protocol and allows you to access your Gmail emails from other clients, like Outlook or Thunderbird. Wait, wasn't that already possible for some time using POP (Post Office Protocol)?

Discussion: blognation and GottaBeMobile.com

Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:

Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP — There are two online petitions I've signed in my life. One was for a "Xena: Warrior Princess" movie. The other, which I signed a few months before starting at Google, was for Gmail IMAP. As some of you know, IMAP is the best way to access …

Discussion: Official Google Blog

Peter Lauria / New York Post:

ONLINE FACEOFF — M'SOFT AND GOOGLE DUKE IT OUT OVER HOT SITE — Google is threatening to once again beat rival Microsoft to the deal punch, this time in the white-hot Facebook investment sweepstakes. — Microsoft and Google are each vying to take a stake of between 5 percent and 10 percent …

Discussion: Screenwerk, Search Engine Land, All Facebook, MediaBytes with Shelly …, ParisLemon, paidContent.org and Mashable!

Jemima Kiss / PDA:

Is Facebook about to be bought? — The gossip mills are working overtime in the Valley, with rumours that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have all been battling to negotiate acquisition deals with Facebook. — Citing three sources - and picking up on Valleywag's post last week …

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, Microsoft, Google Has Already Won Facebook War

Discussion: Joe Duck

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

In Foray Into TV, Google Is to Track Ad Audiences — Google, which dominates the market for advertising on the Internet, seems to be hoping to do the same thing on television. — The company is set to announce a partnership today with the Nielsen Company, the voice of authority …

Discussion: Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews, p2pnet, Beet.TV and Mashable!

nielsenmedia.com:

The Nielsen Company and Google Establish Strategic Relationship — Nielsen to Provide Demographic Data for Google TV Ads — Gary Holmes at The Nielsen Company: +1 646 654 8975 — The Nielsen Company and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that the companies have established a multi-year, strategic relationship.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Screenwerk, Podcasting News and Business Week

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Google to buy Nielsen data — SAN FRANCISCO - Determined to sell more television ads, Internet search leader Google Inc. is sharpening its focus on the medium with demographic data from the influential Nielsen Co. — Under an agreement to be announced Wednesday, Google will pay Nielsen …

Discussion: CrunchGear, Search Engine Journal and Liquidmatrix Security Digest

InfoWorld:

Google to use Nielsen TV audience data — Google, the new kid on the block in TV advertising, has signed up with The Nielsen Co., the venerable TV audience measurement company, in a deal that will increase the data available to participants in the Google TV Ads program.

Discussion: Google Blogoscoped

cabel.name:

Panic + Leopard — Hooray! Leopard is almost upon us! It's the next great update to Mac OS X, which, to be honest, I'm genuinely excited about, and that you will be probably installing onto your very Mac sometime around exactly 6:04 PM on Friday. Am I rite? — Of course, Panic is all about these things.

Discussion: MacUser, The Iconfactory and The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:

Porn Set Free: Age Record Keeping Deemed Unconstitutional — Creators of porn websites have been set free of onerous confirmation of age record keeping laws, after the Unites States Court of Appeals found that the law requiring the keeping of these records was unconstitutional.

Discussion: Techdirt and Slashdot

Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:

Tidbits from Steve Ballmer's CTIA keynote — Ballmer talks up mobile enterprise computing — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took a little swipe at Google's possible plans to buy up the available 700 MHz spectrum that's up for auction in January. When asked at the end of his keynote …

Discussion: Don Dodge on The Next …, The Register, eWEEK.com, Insider Chatter, Digital Trends and Network World

Microsoft:
Microsoft Introduces New Technology and Collaboration to Accelerate …

Discussion: Mobilewhack, All Points Blog, IntoMobile and The Mobile Gadgeteer

Dow Jones / Associated Press:

Verizon Wireless Ends F.C.C. Fight — Verizon Wireless on Tuesday abandoned its legal challenge of the Federal Communications Commission's rules for its auction of radio spectrum, removing a potential obstacle to the much-anticipated sale. — The company, jointly owned by Verizon Communications …

Discussion: CNET News.com

Reuters: Verizon Wireless Reaches Settlement on Internet Plan Marketing

BBC:

Anti file-sharing laws considered — The UK government could legislate to crack down on illegal file-sharers, a senior official has told the BBC's interactive PM show and blog. — Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would not be tolerated.

Discussion: The Register

Jess Lee / Official Google Blog:

Southern California fire maps — The devastating wildfires in Southern California have burned more than 373,000 acres of land; 350,000 homes have been evacuated. Lots of people have pulled together to make maps with information about the fires, including the burn zones, evacuation alerts …

Discussion: Lost Remote, Switched, Recovering Journalist, Read/WriteWeb, Google Earth Blog and WebProNews

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