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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Gmail 2.0 Screenshots — Google during the recent Analyst Day announced they want to release an updated version of Gmail that's supposed to be faster than the current one, thanks to a JavaScript back-end rewrite. Also, the new version aims to improve contacts management.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Gmail's New Version Is Now Available — The new version of Gmail I was talking about the other day is already available in some Gmail accounts. If you see a link to a "newer version" at the top of the page, click on it and enjoy the new features: mail prefetching, updated contact manager and other small updates.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
Google Analyst Day Features New Gmail — It's been well-known for a while that Google is readying a version 2.0 of Gmail, designed to update the four-year old email software that has been looking dated lately. At Google's recent Analyst Day, they talked about the new version publicly for the first time …
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Michael Learmonth / Variety:
Zucker says Apple deal rotten — NBC U says iTunes revenues meager — NBC U topper Jeff Zucker warned that new digital business models were turning media revenues "from dollars into pennies" and revealed NBC U booked just $15 million in revenue during the last year of its deal with Apple's iTunes.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Report: NBC wanted a cut of iPod revenue — I will say this: NBC's Jeff Zucker has got serious stones. — According to a report in the venerable entertainment industry trade rag Variety, Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, asked Apple for a cut of iPod revenue as part …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:'Apple Has Destroyed the Music Business'-What Was Left of It, Anyway
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Can a Google Phone Connect With Carriers? — Google Inc. is close to unveiling its long-planned strategy to shake up the wireless market, people familiar with the matter say. The Web giant's ambitious goal: to make applications and services as accessible on cellphones as they are on the Internet.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid — This is a sad time for the web. It's as almost somber as the time just before the last bubble burst in 2000. I was working in PR with dot-com startups at the time and the way I feel now is how I did back then. I wish I didn't, but I do.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Automattic Spurns $200 Million Acquisition Offer — Automattic, the company that created the Wordpress.com blogging platform and oversees the Wordpress.org open source project, has rejected a $200 million acquisition offer, says multiple sources. Half the price was to be paid in cash, half in stock in the buyer.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Meebo Platform Launches With Big San Francisco Party — Sequoia backed Meebo launches Meebo Platform this evening, allowing third party developers to create applications for the Meebo web chat service. They're celebrating the launch with a big party in San Francisco with hundreds of the company's closest friends.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Plentyoffish: 1-Man Company May Be Worth $1Billion — We've written before about PlentyOfFish, a leading online dating site that is run by a single person and is raking in money. Markus Frind is the singular force behind PlentyOfFish. At the time of our last review, June 2006 …
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
BEA Defends Its Rebuff of the Takeover Attempt by Oracle — BEA Systems defended itself yesterday in the face of mounting pressure to strike a deal to sell the company after it allowed Oracle's buyout offer to expire Sunday night. — In a letter to Carl C. Icahn, BEA's largest shareholder …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:BEA's stance on Oracle deal pummeled
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
AdBrite puts spotlight on Facebook application ads — Online advertising firm AdBrite is set to announce on Tuesday a new program to serve ads for third-party Facebook applications. Considering it a niche "channel" alongside existing AdBrite verticals, the company has launched …
Anand Giridharadas / New York Times:
In India, Poverty Inspires Technology Workers to Altruism — BANGALORE, India — Manohar Lakshmipathi does not own a computer. In fact, in India workmen like Mr. Manohar, a house painter, are usually forbidden to touch clients' computers. — So you can imagine Mr. Manohar's wonder …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Messenger for Windows Gets a Tune-Up with v9.0 — Yahoo is releasing version 9.0 of its popular instant messaging software, Yahoo Messenger, for Windows tonight. All in all, the update contains nothing revolutionary but does introduce some useful features.
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Negroponte: Windows key to OLPC philosophy — While the news that Microsoft is developing a version of Windows for the so-called "$100 laptop" has caused some consternation, One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte has said the project could not promote openness if it blocked Windows.
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