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6:30 PM ET, August 30, 2010

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Andy Chu / Search Blog:
Bing for Mobile comes to your Verizon Android  —  Today we are happy to announce the first official Bing for Mobile Android App available to Verizon customers.  You can now download the free Bing App from your Verizon Wireless Android phones' Marketplace.  —  The app homepage features …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:   Bing debuts its Android app, as Microsoft moves onto Google turf
New York Times:
Technology Aside, Most People Still Decline to Be Located  —  Internet companies have appropriated the real estate business's mantra — it's all about location, location, location.  —  But while a home on the beach will always be an easy sell, it may be more difficult to persuade people to start using location-based Web services.
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Sara Jerome / The Hill:   People born after 1981 have lower privacy standards, Loopt CEO says
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Google and Arcade Fire Team for HTML5 ‘Experience’  —  We don't know exactly what to call the online collaboration between Arcade Fire and Google that launched Monday morning, but it sure is neat.  —  This “Chrome Experience,” as Google calls it, unfolds in multiple browser windows to the tune …
John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Digg freezes manual story submissions as user anger mounts  —  Popular social news aggregator Digg prevented individual users and publishers alike from manually submitting new content Monday morning.  —  The site's block on manual submissions has since been lifted, but Digg users I've spoken …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Angry Digg users flood home page with Reddit links
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
Twitter Applications and OAuth  —  If you are like most Twitter users, you have used use a third-party Twitter application to read or send Tweets.  As of August 31, Twitter applications will all use OAuth, an authentication method that lets you use apps without them storing your password.
Discussion: Webmonkey and The Blog Herald
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:   OAuthpocalypse Tomorrow: Twitter Ending Basic Auth Support At 8 AM PT
Dick Craddock / The Windows Blog:
Hotmail now supports push email, calendar, and contacts with Exchange ActiveSync  —  Hotmail is making it easier for you to stay up-to-date and be productive on your phone.  Starting today, you can get your email, calendar, and contacts pushed automatically to your phone using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS).
Chris Morrison / Inside Social Games:
Google Buys Mobile Social Game Developer SocialDeck  —  In its latest social acquisition, Google has bought mobile game developer SocialDeck, according to a letter posted by the company.  SocialDeck is located in Waterloo, Ontario, close to a regional Google office.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
iTunes song samples may double in length  —  Apple's iTunes, the largest music retailer, will boost the amount of time users are allowed to sample a song, sources told CNET on Monday.  —  On Wednesday, when Apple's CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage at the company's annual September media event …
Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook “Like Farms” Are Spamming Up Your News Feed  —  One of the bigger announcements to come out of Facebook's controversial keynote at its developer conference last spring was the introduction of “Like buttons” that can be placed anywhere on the web, allowing people to register their approval …
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bingocardcreator.com:   Facebook “Like” Buttons Sign You Up For Messages
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel's CEO explains his multibillion-dollar acquisition spree  —  Intel chief executive Paul Otellini just appeared on the Fox Business TV Network.  In the interview with Fox's Liz Claman, he explained why Intel is buying the wireless business of Infineon for $1.4 billion and McAfee for $7.68 billion …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Chatroulette Gets It Up: V.2 Is Now Live  —  The transformation is now complete.  Our favorite random video chat site Chatroulette has gone through a redesign over the past week and is now back up, in what founder Andrei Ternovskiy and those who believe in second chances hope will be a more nudity-free i.e. more monetizable version.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
The Decline and Fall of Chatroulette
Discussion: NewTeeVee and SelectStart
Jennifer Ruffner / MySpace:
MySpace Introduces Sync with Facebook  —  By Jennifer Ruffner, Director of Product, Stream  —  Today, we're introducing Sync with Facebook, which allows MySpace users, musicians, and celebrities around the world to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Since October 7, 2005, I've Read 219,651 Stories Via RSS.  You?  —  Google Reader has been my go-to RSS reader since October 7, 2005.  How do I know?  A new update to the service today tells me that and a few other interesting tidbits about my reading habits.
New York Times:
Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites  —  The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought.  But Ms. Matlin wasn't ready to buy and left the site.  —  Then the shoes started to follow her everywhere she went online.
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Samsung: 1 million Galaxy S smartphones in 45 days in the US  —  The Android-based smartphones sold across the aisle from the iPhone 4 on AT&T and on T-Mobile, the nation's smallest major carrier.  —  Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone is a blockbuster globally and recent numbers show it is poised for similar success in the US.
Inc.com:
How Google Cost Me $4 Million  —  Being penalized by Google made Ryan Abood's company stronger.  When Ryan Abood looked at the books for his parents' New Hampshire flower shop, one number popped out.  Without a bit of advertising, sales of gift baskets had grown 400 percent.
Discussion: Gawker
Jim / craigslist blog:
For Amber Lyon, CNN  —  I see you've now gotten around to requesting an interview with me or a company spokesperson, 90 days after you ambushed our namesake and founder, Craig Newmark, following his May 20th talk on veteran's affairs and other issues unrelated to craigslist, at a conference in Washington.
Discussion: cnewmark
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cisco May Be Making A Run For Skype  —  Cisco has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO process, says one of our more reliable sources.  We have not been able to confirm this rumor one way or another via other sources, which isn't surprising.
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Wikileaks Servers Move To Underground Nuclear Bunker  —  Internet service providers often tell their clients that they offer “bullet-proof hosting.”  Whistle-blower organization Wikileaks, it seems, will settle for nothing less than “bomb-proof.”  —  Some portion of Wikileaks' servers …
Discussion: The Next Web, Thanks:forbestech
Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:
Farewell to ATI, AMD to Retire the ATI Brand Later this Year  —  Four years ago AMD did the unthinkable: it announced the 5.4 billion dollar acquisition of ATI in a combination of cash and stock.  What followed was a handful of very difficult years for AMD, an upward swing for ATI …
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Clearwire Launches ‘Rover,’ Offering Daily, Weekly Or Monthly Plans  —  Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) has unveiled a new “pay as you go” service, called Rover, that will target the youth-oriented segment.  The unlimited 4G service costs $5 a day, $20 a week or $50 a month.
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Joojoo lawsuit shocker!  Court rules Fusion Garage and TechCrunch were business partners, tosses most everything else  —  It's been a few blissful months since we've thought about or had to interact with the Joojoo, but the court case Michael Arrington and TechCrunch filed against Fusion Garage …
 
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Microsoft: Android Hidden Costs Are Expensive
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Hulu: We Know That Hulu Plus Sucks, But It's Not Our Fault
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Microsoft Picks Virginia for Major Data Center
Discussion: Technology News, Thanks:rawmeet
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
EmotionML: Will computers tap into your feelings?
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Introducing Wikileakileaks.org: Your Source for Wikileaks-Related Leaks
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Rate Limits Continue To Die: Twitter Opens Site Streams Beta
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
DRM company acquires technology from music search engine killed by copyright suits
Discussion: TechCrunch
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
NASA Teams Up With Flickr to Share Historic Image Collection (Photos)
 Earlier Items: 
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Playlist.com Files for Bankruptcy, Owes Millions to Major Record Labels
JC Fletcher / Joystiq:
Xbox Live subscription prices to rise; $60 for 1 year beginning in Nov. [update]
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
Is the U.S. tech industry oiling its own guillotine?
Thanks:jasonhiner
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Invests $86 Million In Low-Income Housing
Discussion: WebProNews
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Exclusive Hands-On With Plex/Nine For Mac OS X & Plex App For iOS Devices
Discussion: TUAW and 9 to 5 Mac
Ross Dawson / Trends in the Living Networks:
Flipboard and Paper.li: Social news curation hits the tipping point
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Apple confirms iPhone 4 proximity sensor glitch still not patched