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AppleInsider:
Apple to move aggressively on FaceTime, camera-equipped iPads — Apple's iPad is unlikely to endure the company's traditional 12-month product cycle for iOS device refreshes before seeing its first major enhancements, AppleInsider has been told. — A version of the tablet device with a built …
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App Advice, Erictric, Redmond Pie, CrunchGear, Thoughts from the Sidelines, TiPb, Go Rumors, MacRumors, Crave, iClarified, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac and Android Community
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Maps, Like YouTube, Get Instantized — So Gmail Instant would actually be useful, but seriously what's next, Google Calendar Instant? Google Image Search Instant? Okay, maybe those would be helpful too. In fact it's really difficult to think of a Google service that wouldn't benefit at least slightly from Instantization.
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TopINews Blog, Fast Company and Engadget
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Amrit / TopINews Blog:
Google Images Instant: Image search gets Instant with Google Images Instant — Google Images Instant: Michael Hart puts together Google Images Instant in less than 2 Hours — Earlier we wrote about the awesome Google Maps Instant Search developed by Michael Hart, that gets you location …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google search index splits with MapReduce — Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ — Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google's worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform …
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Spencer E. Ante / Wall Street Journal:
Phone Giants to Sell Samsung Tablet PC — Samsung Electronics Co. has cut deals with Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. to carry its new Google-powered tablet computer, three people familiar with the matter said, a significant step as Samsung tries to take on Apple Inc.'s hot-selling iPad.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
“YouTube Instant” Dude Can't Go to Work for Chad Hurley, Because He's Already Working For Mark Zuckerberg — There are lots of ways to become famous on the Internet. It took Feross Aboukhadijeh three hours of coding. — When he was done, he had built “YouTube Instant,” a great riff on Google's (GOOG) own Instant search service.
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gHacks Technology News, PaulColligan.com, Gawker and NewTeeVee, Thanks:atul
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Instant Search in Google Chrome — Google Chrome will add support for instant search, the feature released this week by Google. An early implementation is already available in Chrome Dev Channel and in Chrome Canary build. You can enable this feature by adding the following command-line flag …
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Download Squad, Thanks:arpitnext
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mixed messages from Google: is Android ready for tablets? — Google's Android mobile operating system was designed for smartphones, but it is increasingly being adopted by consumer electronics companies to power a range of new devices, including tablets and e-book readers.
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Brad Linder / Liliputing:
Google: Android isn't designed for tablets... yet
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Softpedia News, Guardian, PC World and IntoMobile
Guardian:
The slow death of Dopplr — Once the darlings of the UK startup scene, Dopplr has dwindled inexorably ever since it was bought by Nokia a year ago — Founded in Finland early in 2007, Dopplr was the great white, beautiful hope of the UK startup scene; a well-respected design and development team …
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Guardian, Stowe Boyd, broadstuff and Tnooz, Thanks:atul
MacHackPC:
Cydia Acquired Rock Your Phone [Rock.app] — If you have a iPhone / iPodTouch / iPad and have jailbroken it, you might have heard about Cydia & Rock. For folks who are not aware of Cydia Store & Rock.app Stores, these are two store for 3rd party iPhone apps, tweak, themes …
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9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, The Next Web and Covering Web, Thanks:machackpc
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Where Was Android In Microsoft's iPhone Funeral Procession? Taking The Pictures — Microsoft is a company that doesn't seem to be too concerned with saying outlandish things that may or may not result in the company having to remove a foot from its own mouth. This happens from the top on down.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft workers celebrated Windows Phone 7 RTM with iPhone hearses
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Windows Phone Blog, Cult of Mac, Engadget, AppleInsider, Thoughts from the Sidelines, VentureBeat, DailyTech, TiPb, Smartphones …, Redmond Pie, IntoMobile, Computerworld, WMPoweruser.com, 9 to 5 Mac, SlashGear, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, MobileTechWorld, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, TG Daily and MacDailyNews, Thanks:ajstockdale
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Starts Evicting App Store Name Squatters — As you've probably heard, Apple has been taking steps to make whole iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app development process a bit more orderly. They actually now have some (quirky) guidelines in place to help developers, and they've un-banned the use of some third-party development tools.
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App Advice, AppleInsider and 9 to 5 Mac
Ina Fried / Crave: The gadget blog:
Windows Phone 7 to hit Broadway Oct. 11 — Microsoft plans to hold a consumer press event in New York next month that will serve as, among other things, a formal kick-off for Windows Phone 7, CNET has confirmed. — The October 11 event isn't a pure Windows Phone launch, but rather a consumer-focused …
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App Advice, GottaBeMobile, The Next Web, IntoMobile, CNET News, Phone Arena, Seattle Times, AppScout, Electronista, Mobilized, V3.co.uk and Fonehome.co.uk
