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The Official Google Blog:
Here comes Google Voice — We've just started to release a preview of Google Voice, an application that helps you better manage your voice communications. Google Voice will be available initially to existing users of GrandCentral, a service we acquired in July of 2007.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
One Number to Ring Them All — If Google search revolutionized the Web, and Gmail revolutionized free e-mail, then one thing's for sure: Google Voice, unveiled Thursday, will revolutionize telephones. — It unifies your phone numbers, transcribes your voice mail, blocks telemarketers …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
GrandCentral To (Finally) Launch As Google Voice. It's Very, Very Good. — GrandCentral, a phone management service that first launched in 2006 and was acquired by Google for $50+ million in 2007, hasn't been in the news much lately. Other than a few good natured jabs at their marketing gimmicks and coverage of outages, that is.
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PC Magazine, Digital Daily, eWeek, Forbes, People Over Process, The Register, CNET News, AppScout, jkOnTheRun, WebWorkerDaily, Google Blogoscoped, Internet Evolution and CloudAve, Thanks:atul
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Google's Free Phone Manager Could Threaten a Variety of Services
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Google Voice Blog:Moving to Google Voice!
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Apple previewing iPhone OS 3.0 at an event March 17 — Well, Apple is having an event in March, but it won't be showing off any hardware. Instead, March 17 will mark a special event to show off a preview of the new iPhone 3.0 software. — This likely means we can expect the software relatively soon …
Darren Gladstone / PC World:
Dell Studio One 19: All-in-One Stunner Takes Japan — There's been a bit of a rebirth in the all-in-one desktop category lately and from the looks of it, Dell is onto something with its Studio One 19. This new machine — starting at $699 — melds together a wish-list of what I'd hoped I'd see in my Kitchen of TomorrowTM.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing; Takes next step in its enterprise evolution — Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web Services-especially when they have tight budgets.
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Announcing Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances — Earlier in my career, I thought that innovation was solely about technology. If you wanted to address a new market or to increase sales, writing more code was always a good option. Having gained some wisdom and experience over the years …
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Jefferson Graham / Technology Live:
Hulu launches social networking — Fast-rising video site Hulu celebrates its one-year anniversary Thursday, and plans to mark the occasion by introducing social networking features to inform your inner circle about TV shows and movies you like to watch. — In the past, you could share Hulu shows …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hoops to Go: CBS Streaming March Madness to iPhone — More catnip for the convergence optimists, who dream about getting to watch anything they want on any device they choose: In addition to streaming all of its March Madness coverage on the Web, CBS is also letting iPhone and iPod touch owners watch …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sirius XM: We're developing an iPhone app for second quarter launch — Sirius XM said Thursday that it is developing an application so its satellite radio service will be streamed to Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The company said it expects to launch the application in the second quarter.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Friend Connect Now Allows Deeper Integration with APIs — Google Friend Connect Is trying to catch up with Facebook Connect, and just now released its first set of APIs, which will let developers integrate Google Friend Connect more deeply into their sites and applications.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring Magic Wand controller for next-gen Apple TV — Apple is exploring the possibility of including a wireless “remote wand” with future versions of its Apple TV media system that would provide users with precise control over a cursor on the Apple TV screen in very much the same …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
So it begins: Klipsch, Scosche unveil VoiceOver-compatible iPod shuffle earbuds — We knew we'd be hearing more about all those third party VoiceOver-compatible headphones today, and sure enough, the flood has begun. In an admittedly cute attempt to be first out of the gate …
David A Nakamura / D.C. Wire:
Breaking: D.C. Tech Official Busted in Federal Bribery Sting — [Note: For complete story, go here.] — An official in the D.C. government's office of the chief technology officer has been arrested in a federal bribery sting, according to law enforcement sources.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone sales grew 245% in 2008 - Gartner — Apple's (AAPL) iPhone was the fastest-growing smartphone of 2008, despite end-of-year sales that failed to maintain the blistering pace set in July with the launch of the iPhone 3G, Gartner researchers reported Wednesday.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Fusion-io touts ‘fastest’ solid-state drive — Fusion-io also claims Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist. — Targeted primarily at business applications such as database servers, capacities range from 160 gigabytes to 640 gigabytes. And by the second half of this year, this will increase to 1.28 terabytes.
Barb Dybwad / Obsessable:
There's a Hotmail down! — Microsoft's web-based email service goes down for the count. — Users of Microsoft's web-based email service Hotmail are reporting a significant service outage over the last hour. A visit to hotmail.com displays only a “Server is too busy” message.
Variety.com / The Cut Scene:
Movies and TV coming to the Wii? — One of Hollywood's top digital distribution executives thinks so. — In an interview I recently conducted with Curt Marvis, president of digital media for Lionsgate, for Variety's technotainment blog, he specifically mentioned the Wii as a huge opportunity …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Spoon feeding: Facebook redesign brings feeds (and ads) to the masses — Facebook began rolling out a new design of its homepage today, with a number of subtle features intended to make feed-based social networking more intuitive to the typical user. When the company first showed off its plans last week …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
Windows 7: The State of the Beta — Ever since Microsoft started to share early versions of Windows 7 with the world last October, the response has been, for the most part, pretty darn enthusiastic. At least when it comes to folks who blog, write for magazines, and otherwise have soapboxes to speak from.
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Sara Schaefer / Late Night with Jimmy Fallon:
KEVIN ROSE & ALEX ALBRECHT ON LATE NIGHT — Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht made their official late night television debut on LNWJF tonight and turned it into a mini episode of Diggnation (if you've never seen Diggnation before, you must check it out). Even Russell Brand got in on the action.
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft's complex Netbook dance — With Windows 7, Microsoft has done the technical work to make the operating system work on Netbooks, but the low-cost laptops still pose a challenge to the way Redmond does business. — As the only fast-growing part of an otherwise sluggish PC market …
Jim Duffy / Network World:
Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing — When Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its New England Development Center in Boxborough, Mass., last fall - a ceremony attended by Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and a representative from Gov. Deval Patrick's office …
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
Embed Videos, Games, and Docs the Easy Way with SearchMonkey — Creating enhanced results just got a lot easier with a new SearchMonkey feature that allows site owners and developers to embed flash video, games, and documents directly in Yahoo! Search results.
Douglas MacMillan / Tech Beat:
Hulu's Greatest Hits — This month, Hulu turns one. And to celebrate, the joint venture of News Corporation and NBC Universal is pulling back the curtains to reveal which video clips and full-length TV shows from its extensive online collection have been the biggest hit with viewers.
