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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Search: now faster than the speed of type — Search as you type. It's a simple and straightforward idea—people can get results as they type their queries. Imagining the future of search, the idea of being able to search for partial queries or provide some interactive feedback while searching has come up more than a few times.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Google announces Google Instant search, available now for desktop, mobile this fall — We're reporting live from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where Google's just taken the wraps off its latest software product. The announcement itself is taking its time right now …
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SFGate, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, PhoneDog.com, Digits, TechSpot, IntoMobile, Pocket-lint, Electronista and silicontap.com
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Now Serving 1 Billion Users Each Week — Today at their Google Search event in San Francisco, executive Marissa Mayer kicked things off with a big state: Google is now serving 1 billion users each week. — Mayer noted that they have some big announcements coming up today (likely these) …
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blogs.ft.com, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, Search Engine Land, Local Media Watch, Rob Hof's Blog and Buleyean String
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Just Killed The “I'm Feeling Lucky Button” — Google just effectively offed one of it's oldest, quirkiest features - the “I'm Feeling Lucky” button. — The good news is that in the process, Google added at least another hundred million dollars in revenue.
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TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Steve Rubel / The Steve Rubel Stream:
Google Instant Makes SEO Irrelevant — Google today launched an ambitious effort to speed up searching. But what they really did is kill SEO. — Google says: … The most important consideration for marketers or anyone who creates content, however, is in the bullets...
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Thoughts on Google Instant — The blogosphere is absorbing today's announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts. — Google's web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well: — We want the most comprehensive index of the web.
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AdExchanger.com, Google and Search Engine Land, Thanks:atul
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google search becomes psychic with dynamic results, predictions
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TechCrunch, Guardian and Techie Buzz
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Instant Will Save 350 Million Hours Of User Time Per Year
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Faster Forward, SFGate and CNET News
AppleInsider:
Apple release iOS 4.1 with Bluetooth, proximity sensor fixes — Apple on Wednesday released the iOS 4.1 update for recent iPhone and iPod touch models, addressing issues with Bluetooth connectivity and proximity sensor accuracy, and also adding HDR photos the mobile operating system.
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ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, TUAW, Engadget, TechSpot, TiPb, Redmond Pie, Silicon Alley Insider, Gadget Lab and Phones Review
Bloomberg:
HP's Bid to Block Hurd's Oracle Move Is Long Shot, Lawyers Say — Hewlett-Packard Co.'s lawsuit seeking to block former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd from working at Oracle Corp. may be hard to win because California's courts favor letting employees move freely, legal experts said.
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Wall Street Journal, DailyTech, Network World, Engadget, Salon and DailyFinance
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
HP's interim CEO: Board likes CEO candidates; We'll make up with Oracle
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eWeek, BoomTown, Fast Company, GigaOM and deal architect
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kno Raises $46 Million More To Build “Most Powerful Tablet Anyone Has Ever Made” — Marc Andreessen is normally enthusiastic about the startups he's invested in. Still, when I spoke to him last week about Kno, he surprised me by saying it will be “the most powerful tablet anyone has ever made.”
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Liliputing, paidContent, Electronista, SiliconANGLE, BoomTown, SlashGear, alarm:clock, Xconomy, GottaBeMobile and silicontap.com, Thanks:srikardhanakoti
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple forecast to sell 28M iPads in 2011, chipping away at PC sales — Apple's competitively priced iPad is expected to reduce sales of low-end notebook PCs in 2011, when consumers are projected to buy at least 28 million of the touchscreen tablet, one analyst believes.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon Buys Amie Street's Digital Music Store, Shuts It Down — Add another digital music start-up to the bonfire: Amazon is buying up the retail operations of Amie Street, the online music store it helped fund four years ago, and will then shut it down. Meanwhile, the Amie Street guys …
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TechCrunch, CNET News, Ars Technica, paidContent, VatorNews, Changing Way, FierceMobileContent, Electronista, Pulse2, WebProNews and p2pnet
David Pogue / New York Times:
In Season 9, iPods Still Get High Ratings — CUPERTINO, Calif.—At a special press event today, Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, unveiled a new lineup of iPod models, just in time for the holiday season. The diminutive iPod Shuffle still has no screen and is still made of brushed aluminum …
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Gabe Rivera / The Atlantic Wire:
MEDIA DIET: Gabe Rivera: What I Read — How do people deal with the torrent of information that rains down on us all? What's the secret to staying on top of the news without surrendering to the chaos of it? In this series, we ask people who seem well-informed to describe their media diets.
Robert McMillan / PC World:
After Google Incident, Wi-Fi Data Collection Goes on — Four months ago, amidst a backlash from government regulators and privacy advocates, Google stopped collecting Wi-Fi data with its Street View cars. But that doesn't mean Google has stopped collecting wireless data altogether, and neither have other companies such as Apple.
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Wi-Fi Networking News
Jane Wells / Tech Check:
Apple Pulls Back the Curtain for One Company — Apple is famous, or infamous, for not working well with others. It would rather make its own digital music player than let iTunes play on a different device. Ping doesn't connect to Facebook. Flash won't play on iPads. — That just changed.
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MacRumors
asymco:
iTunes app total downloads to overtake songs this year — Last week I posted the iTunes download rate graph that showed how Apps are being downloaded much more rapidly than songs and revealed an inflection point in the song rate. — Based on the recent updates to iTMS and iTAS on Sept. 1 …
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TechCrunch, App Advice, ReadWriteWeb, 9 to 5 Mac, Edible Apple, TiPb, MacRumors, I4U News, Inquirer, THINQ.co.uk and Gizmodo
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Antennagate cost Apple 20% of sales — But for three times as many people, the lack of a Verizon iPhone is a bigger problem — The iPhone 4's widely publicized antenna problems cost Apple (AAPL) some sales this summer, but not nearly as many as its exclusive deal with AT&T (T).
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AppleInsider, Internet2Go, Tech Trader Daily, TheAppleBlog, InformationWeek, Macsimum News, MacDailyNews, MacNN and Phones Review
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Old iPhone 3GS Coming To T-Mobile This Year, Wired Editor Says — Wired's editor in chief Chris Anderson, fired off a slightly unusual tweet last night: “A T-Mobile manager casually mentioned to me that they're going to get the iPhone 3GS (but not 4, oddly) later this year. Common knowledge?”
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IntoMobile, Cult of Mac, Erictric, AppleInsider, Geek.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Know Your Cell, iLounge and FierceWireless
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Alert The Enterprise: Seesmic Integrates With Salesforce Chatter — How businesses and brands deal with social media has become one of the defining issues of the recent web era. Today a pretty big leap is taking place which may define the next phase. Two of the biggest players …
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Macworld, ReadWriteEnterprise, FierceCIO News, The Cloud Blog, Reuters, Between the Lines Blog, Seesmic Blog and Andrew Lark, Thanks:loic
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Nicholas Deleon / TechCrunch:
Facebook Integration Coming To GM's OnStar — It's safe to say we've reached the pinnacle of humanity with this next bit of news: you'll soon be able to update your Facebook status using OnStar. It's the first “entertainment-y” option to be offered by OnStar, perhaps designed to cash …
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CrunchGear, Bloomberg and Boy Genius Report
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