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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability — Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral, is a seriously heavyweight product. When it relaunched in March, just a couple of months ago, we gave Google Voice a glowing review. — Once you've jumped in head first to the product it will straighten out your phone life forever.
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BBC:
Internet brings events in Iran to life — Police on motorbikes charge protesters (Courtesy Corriere della Sera TV) - events like these are being filmed on mobile phones and uploaded online — All over the world people are monitoring unfolding events in Iran via the internet …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About That New CrunchPad Video — It seems like I've heard that title somewhere before. Oh yeah, almost exactly. So this time a guest at our party last week decided to corner Chandra Rathakrishnan, the CEO of our CrunchPad partner Fusion Garage, and talk him into doing this ridiculous “unboxing” of the CrunchPad.
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James Doran / New York Post:
FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE — SOURCES: SERGEY ORDERS BING STUDY — You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. — But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades …
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Between the Lines, CNET News, Bob Caswell, Pulse2, Mashable! and Deep Jive Interests, Thanks:brij
JBC / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia E72 unveiled - pics and video — SINGAPORE, Malaysia - The all new Nokia E72 boasts a host of new features including optical scrolling and a five-megapixel camera. Building on the success of the E71, the E72 takes the very best of Nokia's most successful QWERTY device and makes it even better.
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Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:Video: Nokia E72 accidentally makes an early appearance on YouTube
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Mobile Industry Review, ithinkdifferent, Unwired View, Boy Genius Report, SlipperyBrick.com, Engadget Mobile and Phone Scoop, Thanks:s_constantine
Arn / MacRumors:
13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface — As first described in our forums, Apple seems to have quietly downgraded the SATA Interface from 3.0Gbit to 1.5Gbit speeds in some of the new MacBook Pros introduced last week. Readers are reporting that both the new 13" and 15" …
Percy Cabello / Mozilla Links:
Firefox.next peek: profiling yourself — One of the features planned for the next version of Firefox (tentatively named Firefox 3.6, but most accurately referred as Firefox.next) is about:me, a specially crafted web page that will let you see your browsing habits profile including most visited sites …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing — Andrew Pariser emails in a surprise finding in Google Calendar (if by any chance you're able to reproduce this - I'm not - please comment): … [Thanks Andrew and Tony!] — Update: As noted in the comments, you can try disable all CSS on the page …
Jay Hathaway / Download Squad:
Greasemonkey script decodes an impressive list of TinyURLs — It's trendy to use the latest and greatest URL shortening services in IMs and Twitter postings, but clicking on a TinyURL is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get. To avoid any nasty surprises …
New York Times:
The Tweet Smell of Success — Mr. Rogers had many neighbors, but was always looking to add more. On Facebook, people who have hundreds of “friends” still collect them avidly: “Will you be my friend, we already have 15 in common?” — Twitter, the social-networking site of the moment …
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Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Secret war on web crooks revealed — The people who run the world's internet systems are a rather secretive bunch. — Three times a year, senior technical officers from companies such as Google, Yahoo, AT&T, Comcast and Verizon meet to discuss ways of stopping the internet from being swamped …
Tomi T Ahonen / Communities Dominate Brands:
A Tale of Two Smartphones: US vs Rest of World compared — It was the best of phones, it was the worst of phones. — After I wrote my Open Letter to Microsoft (urging them to take mobile seriously) I had a lot of discussions and many were curious about why does the US market seem so opposite …
