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Jason / Appmodo:
Apple iPhone MMS Delayed, Coming Sept, Tethering $55 Extra — EXCLUSIVE: We originally brought you the story last month stating MMS and tethering would be coming in July. AT&T responded directly to our story and stated it would be delayed. Well those stories are true as MMS and tethering are now coming in September.
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jkOnTheRun, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, MobileCrunch, Techgeist, Edible Apple and Macsimum News
Lingyun Liu / The Official Google Blog:
Seeing the world with improved Google Search results — As an avid traveler, I know how helpful it can be to see a map when searching for a location on Google. Using our Universal Search technology, we have provided maps in our search results for more than two years.
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CNET News, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Watch, ReadWriteWeb, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Mashable!
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context — It has seemed obvious for some time that Google would someday release a PC OS. I became convinced after they released Android: if they're creating and giving away a free OS for phones, why not PCs, too?
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Technologizer, Silicon Alley Insider, Anil Dash, VentureBeat, CrunchGear, The Loop, rc3.org, Search Engine Watch, jamtoday, Slate, WorksWithU, The TNL.net weblog, Computerworld and InformationWeek, Thanks:atul
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Julia Angwin / Digits:
Sun Valley: Schmidt Didn't Want to Build Chrome Initially, He Says — Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday evening that, for six years, he resisted the idea of building what became the Chrome browser and (soon) operating system, before succumbing to the enthusiasm of Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
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Creative Capital, paidContent, Computerworld, Boy Genius Report, Reuters, The Seattle Times, Android Community, Contentinople, Between the Lines, Associated Press, Pocket-lint.com, Los Angeles Times, Fast Company, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Lockergnome Blog Network, Electronista, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, Search Engine Land, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Company Town, VentureBeat, Deep Jive Interests, AppScout, TechFlash and Gawker
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Seesmic's Browser Client Is Like Gmail For Twitter — Seesmic, the Twitter and Facebook desktop client developed by Loic Le Meur, is launching its much talked about browser-based Twitter client today at TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream CrunchUp. We first heard about the plans for the browser client …
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Augmented reality subway app comes to NY, SF — British iPhone application developer Acrossair is bringing its augmented reality app Nearest Tube to New York today and San Francisco on Monday. Now called Nearest Subway, it superimposes directions to the nearest subway stops over the iPhone 3GS' live video feed.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Android Will Live On, Get ‘Sweeter’ and More Social — After Google announced it was working on an operating system based on its Chrome Web browser this week, many wondered: Didn't Google already build an operating system? And isn't it called Android? — Yoichiro Akiyama/Flickr — Andy Rubin
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 Brings Visual Tweaks and Other Enhancements — With the release of the OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 beta yesterday, users have been poring over the new version looking for changes. Among the most obvious changes have been a few visual tweaks, although several other enhancements have also been discovered.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft's Silverlight 3 — Microsoft's “Flash-killer,” Silverlight released the third version of its rich media application platform, Silverlight 3, on the web yesterday. This morning, Microsoft is holding the official launch of Silverlight 3 …
Adam Hartley / TechRadar.com:
Sony to release Vaio P ‘mark 2’ in October — Sony's latest ultra-portable finds its niche — While Sony's Vaio P series - the sexy ultra-portable ‘notbook’ that launched earlier this year - came under fire from critics for its painfully-slow boot-up and its frighteningly ‘premium’ price-tag …
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Obsessable, Liliputing, T3.com News, I4U News, SlashGear, Boing Boing Gadgets, Electronista, Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News, Engadget, CrunchGear, SlipperyBrick.com, TechVi and Gizmodo
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Client Tweetdeck Raises Around $2 Million In Funding — Tweetdeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, has raised $2 million in a previously undisclosed round of funding, according to angel investor John Borthwick. He revealed the funding at TechCrunch's Real-Time Stream CrunchUp …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Microsoft VP says Google's playing defense with Chrome OS — Microsoft founder Bill Gates may not want to comment on Chrome OS, the just-announced operating system from Google. But Walid Abu-Hadba, the software giant's Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism …
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CrunchGear, Between the Lines, AppScout, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Lockergnome Blog Network
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook? Up 10%. Twitter? Up 16%. FriendFeed? Flat — I'm largely seen as FriendFeed's #1 cheerleader and customer #1. — But it isn't catching on. — Rackspace's President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate. He even wrote up his thesis …
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All Facebook, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, Webomatica, Deep Jive Interests and Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Flickr Follow-Up Project Has A Name, Tiny Speck. And They're Hiring. — Back in June of last year, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the husband/wife team that started Flickr, left Yahoo to pursue other interests. We already know what Fake's new project is, the just-launched Hunch.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Power.com Countersues Facebook Over Data Portability — The Data Portability wars just got a little more interesting. Power.com, the service that lets users aggregate their social networks into a single hub, is countersuing Facebook for restricting users' ability to export and move their own data.
David Martin / CNET News:
Apple says cases cause iPhone 3GS discoloration — Summer in Texas this year is hot, but not as hot as the debate over the iPhone 3GS overheating, an issue circulating the Internet for several weeks now. The debate finally came to a head when some users blamed white iPhone 3GS discoloration …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Redfin Turns Profitable, Real Estate Industry Shudders — An interesting tidbit from today's Naked Truth event in Seattle: Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said his company just turned profitable. Since I was sitting next to him on the panel, I asked him off microphone what revenues were.
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm Pre Hacked to Run on Verizon — Cleanser in our Pre forums has successfully hacked a Pre to operate on Verizon's network. Voice and text are a go, but data isn't up and working yet: … Apparently the difficult part is getting Verizon to take the MEID of the device (its unique identifier) …
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Fast Company, Boy Genius Report, IntoMobile, Engadget Mobile, MobileCrunch, all things Pre and GPS Obsessed
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Brizzly: A Twitter Reader From The People Who Brought You Google Reader — Twitter's front-end look and feel on the web has been slowly improving over the past several months. But it's still far from ideal, missing quite a few key elements that users turn to other apps for.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
EBay's Traffic Drops Amid Identity Crisis — It has been a year and a half since Meg Whitman said she would hand the chief executive's office at eBay to John Donahoe, and at least by some measures, the company continues to lose traction with both buyers and sellers.
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Pandora Tunes Into $35 Million — Online radio network Pandora has raised $35 million in new VC funding, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal. — No word yet on who's leading the round, or which existing shareholders re-upped. Pandora had previously raised around $29 million …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
AmazonWireless: shopping the phone instead of the plan — I've said it time and time again. When it comes to buying a wireless phone, my best advice is to shop the service, not the device. It's common sense. The device can be the best in the world but if the service is unreliable …
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NEWSFACTOR, eWeek, GigaOM, the Econsultancy blog, dailywireless.org and MobileContentToday
Douglas Rushkoff / Fast Company:
How the Tech Boom Terminated California's Economy — However comforting it might be to blame Southern California's movie industry for unleashing Governor Terminator on the state's economy, the real seeds of the current crisis were sewn further north, in the seemingly prosperous corporate parks of Silicon Valley.
Trent_reznor / forum.nin.com:
my thoughts on what to do as a new / unknown artist — This was written on a bumpy Euro-bus ride across the wilderness - may ramble a bit but I think the point gets across. — TR — UPDATE 2: — Here's a message from Ian Rogers of TopSpin — UPDATE 1:
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Enterprise Friendly Social Network Dashboard PeopleBrowsr Launches Real-Time Search — PeopleBrowsr, a desktop and web browser-based dashboard for social networks, is adding a real-time search functionality that would let users make filtered searches into conversations on Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed.
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Patrick Smith / paidContent:
AP, Media Standards Trust Propose News Microformat — The Media Standards Trust and the Associated Press news agency want to establish a new industry-wide microformat for online news to increase readership—and therefore revenue—by improving search engine ranking and making content easier to find.
