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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Pals Up With T-Mobile to Push Its “Nexus One” Phone — Google plans to sell its new phone on its own Web site, without getting a wireless carrier to subsidize the handset. — But that doesn't mean it won't also work with a carrier: The search giant intends to launch …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Google Phone / Nexus One makes first Twitter appearance? (update: new pics!) — Look familiar? For a story that broke on Twitter it's only fitting that the first reported picture of the mythical, magical “Google Phone” (AKA, Nexus One) would appear there as well.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Nexus One, The Google Phone, Captured In The Wild (Pictures) — Apparently, Googlers aren't supposed to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off.
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Wall Street Journal:Google to Market Own Phone
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Nine ways of looking at a Google phone
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The End Of Hand Crafted Content — Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impending death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents - the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes guys reading TechCrunch every day, etc. — Speaking broadly, I like what Reuters …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google, DST Make Play For AOL's ICQ — A number of companies are pursuing AOL's ICQ instant messaging product, we're hearing. Russian press is saying DST (a recent Facebook investor) is talking about buying the service. Our sources say they're a relatively new bidder to the process, and others continue to show interest.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes? — Randall Stross is getting a lot of attention for his piece in The New York Times this weekend, titled “AT&T Takes the Blame, Even for the iPhone's Faults”. (In the original headline, still visible in the <title> element, “faults” was “glitches”.)
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
How To: Totally Overhaul Your Phones With Google Voice — Google Voice, which lets users consolidate all their phones under one number, archive your texts and voicemails, and much, much more, is two things to most people: vaguely promising, and totally confusing. Here's how to make the switch, in plain English.
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Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes — For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of a book scanner that could crunch textbooks and spit out digital files he could then read on his PC. — Book scanners, like the ones Google is using in its Google Books project, run into thousands of dollars …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Huffington Post's New Ad Revenue Stream: Twitter Feeds — Marketers Can Pay to Add Tweets, Comments Alongside Readers' Own — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The Huffington Post has started offering marketers the ability to inject their own paid comments among reader comments and place paid Tweets among …
Kdawson / Slashdot:
Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential — theodp writes “In the world envisioned by Microsoft's just-published patent application for Social Marketing, monopolists will maximize revenue by charging prices inversely related to the perceived influence an individual has on others.
Adam Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Online, Offline, No Line — The dot-com bubble might seem like a distant memory after the recent financial crisis, but around the world, the Internet continues to fuel hopes for innovation, wealth and economic expansion. — That's why the Internet has sparked something of an arms race between …
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Google Faces a Different World in Italy — PARIS — One morning in January 2008, Peter Fleischer, the chief privacy counsel at Google, was walking to the University of Milan to deliver a speech at a conference when someone shouted his name from behind. Shortly afterward, he was surrounded by five Italian police officers.
