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Gmail Blog:
Easier event scheduling in Google Calendar — In the next day or so, you'll start to see some changes to the event page in Google Calendar which should make scheduling events easier. We've made the style more consistent with other Google apps, put information that's most commonly used …
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Venture Chronicles, The Next Web, Google Operating System, WebProNews, GeekSugar and Lifehacker
AppleInsider:
Apple's shrunken 6th-gen iPod nano to retain 30-pin dock connector — Apple is poised to introduce a radically redesigned iPod nano next week that will retain its trademark I/O connector despite its drastically reduced form factor, AppleInsider has learned.
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9 to 5 Mac, everythingiCafe, Velocity, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Electricpig.co.uk and iLounge
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple App Store: 250,000 and counting — A nice round number, just in time for Steve Jobs to trot out at next week's special event — Click to enlarge. Source: 148Apps.biz — According to 148Apps.biz, Apple's (AAPL) U.S. App Store passed the quarter million milestone on Friday, two years and 49 days after it opened.
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App Advice, Electronista, PadGadget, The Register and The Next Web, Thanks:atul
Zee / The Next Web:
Reddit's Co-Founder Responds to Cheezburger Founder's Acquisition Approach — You might have missed yesterday's news of Cheezburger Network founder Ben Huh's public offer to buy Reddit from Conde Nast. In a blog post posted just a few moments ago, Alexis Ohanian - in a roundabout way - says it's at least worth talking over.
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Ben Huh / benhuh!:
Condé Nast, I'm publicly offering to buy Reddit.
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Soaring on a Pig …, TechCrunch, Mashable! and The Daily What
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
In protest, Reddit rolls its own pot ads
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Softpedia News, VentureBeat and Runnin' Scared, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
3Par calls HP $30 bid ‘superior’; Dell mulls reply — FREMONT, Calif. - Data storage company 3Par Inc. says its board has determined that Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $2 billion, $30-per-share takeover bid is superior to a rival offer from Dell Inc., but Dell said Saturday it was mulling over a higher bid.
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Mercury News, Associated Press and Associated Press
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Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog:
Big Winners in 3Par Bidding War Are 3 VCs and Quattrone — 3Par must feel like the wall flower who gets crowned prom queen and gets to pick her king. Who knew a data storage company could be so wanted? — The bidding war for 3Par got even crazier today with HP sweetening its offer to $30 a share.
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EE Times, Reuters and Structure Blog, Thanks:rawmeet
Boy Genius Report:
Gorgeous, mysterious, EVO-ish HTC device headed for Verizon — Remember that Verizon Wireless roadmap we leaked? Well, it's all coming together pretty nicely. We have just got our hands on images of one of the upcoming HTC devices we wrote about. Our source describes the phone …
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The Next Web, Phone Arena, IntoMobile, AndroidGuys, MobileTechWorld, BlogsDNA, SlashGear, Phones Review, PhoneDog.com, MobileCrunch, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, AndroidSPIN, Electronista and Engadget
Robert McMillan / Network World:
Research experiment disrupts Internet, for some — An experiment run by RIPE NCC in collaboration with Duke University briefly disrupts about 1 percent of Internet traffic — An experiment run by Duke University and a European group responsible for managing Internet resources went wrong Friday …
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Merit Network
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
USA Today to Remake Itself to Stress Digital Operations — The history of USA Today is full of firsts for the newspaper business: the first general-interest national paper of its kind, the first to use color widely in charts and photographs and once first in the number of copies printed each day.
Wolfgang Gruener / ConceivablyTech:
Google Confirms Chrome 7 GPU Acceleration — With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, we noticed a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites and suggested that Google is improving Chrome's overall graphics performance. Our readers later found that GPU acceleration can already be manually activated in Chrome.
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ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News and Chromium Blog
StockTwits Blog:
Introducing our Partnership with SecondMarket and Private Company Streams — Through a partnership with SecondMarket, the marketplace for illiquid assets, we are excited to deliver to our community at StockTwits the capability to comment on an entire network of private companies.
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A VC, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch
Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
BBC iPlayer going global — American's get ready for Doctor Who, Masterchef and more — The BBC's Mark Thompson has said that the BBC aims to launch an international commercial version of the iPlayer within the year. — “Within a year we aim to launch an international commercial version of the iPlayer …
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paidContent:UK, Thanks:stuartmiles
