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Dean Hachamovitch / IEBlog:
Putting sites at the center of the browsing experience, using the whole PC: IE9 Beta Available for Download — Our approach to building a faster web browsing platform, as seen in the Platform Previews, involves using everything the PC and its hardware have to offer.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Internet Explorer 9 beta review: Microsoft reinvents the browser — Today in San Francisco, Microsoft will officially unveil Internet Explorer 9 and make it available to the general public. It is, without question, the most ambitious browser release Microsoft has ever undertaken …
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Internet Explorer 9 Brings Apps to Microsoft Windows 7 — What are apps, other than tiny colorful icons that provide rich, interactive experiences on mobile devices? Think about your iPhone's New York Times or Facebook app. They don't feel like an installed program—they're much less clunky …
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Guardian, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, Computerworld, Redmond Pie, ReadWriteWeb, Download Squad, The Next Web, Covering Web and The Huffington Post
Brian MacDonald / Search Blog:
Bing Previews a More Beautiful Search Experience in IE9 — We are very excited about the IE9 beta launch today in San Francisco. The team has put a lot of work into building a browser that helps to unlock the beauty of the web. Bing was one of several publishers to preview some new possibilities …
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: Inside Internet Explorer 9: Redmond gets back in the game
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istartedsomething, PC World, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, BetaNews, The Microsoft Blog and Download Squad
Apple:
Apple's AirPrint Wireless Printing for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch Coming to Users in November — Available First on HP ePrint Printers — Apple® today announced that it is releasing a beta version of its AirPrint wireless printing for iPad™, iPhone® and iPod touch® …
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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
iOS 4.2 turns iPad's screen lock into volume switch — Among the tweaks found in the iOS 4.2 software for the iPad, which became available to developers on Wednesday, is a return of the volume silencer switch. — Not the hardware, mind you, which remains the same.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iOS 4.2 on iPad preview (video) (updated)
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9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, MacRumors, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Covering Web, Redmond Pie, TUAW and The Huffington Post
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iOS 4.2 beta hits Apple's developer portal, wireless printing dubbed ‘AirPrint’
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AppleInsider, CNET News, Gizmodo, Boy Genius Report, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Erictric, TiPb, IntoMobile, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
iPod touch 4G speed, camera, display measured against iPhone 4
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Computerworld, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TUAW, Covering Web and Gizmodo
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Apple to announce subscription plan for newspapers — Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profit as media companies struggle with declining print circulation and advertising revenue.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Best Subtle Things About New Twitter — So, the new version of Twitter.com is upon us — well, some of us anyway (it's in the process of a gradual roll-out right now that will likely last over the next couple of weeks). Everyone at Twitter I spoke with today agreed …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The New Twitter & Search, An Illustrated Guide
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Gina Trapani / Fast Company:
How the New Twitter.com Gives Your Favorite App a Run for Its Money
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PC World, ReadWriteWeb, MediaMemo, The Huffington Post, PC Magazine, Yahoo! News, PopWatch, Mashable!, Electricpig.co.uk and Black Web 2.0, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:noahr
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: To Ward Off Android Threat, It Needs A Verizon iPhone — Android is turning into a bigger threat to Apple (AAPL) in the smart phone market than some of the iPhone fanboys on the Street had expected. And the time has come for Apple to do something about it.
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Apple Continued To Lose U.S. Marketshare Despite Spike From iPhone 4 Sales
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Ed Christman / Billboard.Biz:
Exclusive: Sources Detail Google's Proposal For A Music Service — Google is circulating a proposal among major record labels for a long-anticipated music service that would include an a la carte digital download store and a subscription-based cloud-based locker, according to industry sources.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Facebook and Microsoft Deep in Talks About Deepening Search Ties — Facebook and Microsoft are discussing an agreement that would significantly expand the search relationship the pair have shared for many years, said several people with knowledge of the situation.
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Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News, eWeek, Neowin.net, Skeptic Geek, MediaPost, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE and Microsoft Watch
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
What's Next for Nokia? — Here's the situation facing Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop: — Nokia needs to settle on one software platform for mobile devices, very soon. — None of their Symbian-based stuff should be the choice. — The only other thing they have in-house is MeeGo.
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Ionut Arghire / Softpedia News:
Windows Phone 7 Showcased in Bing Ad
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Peter Kasting / Google Chrome Blog:
Tip: Just the text, please! — Has this ever happened to you? You're writing an email online and you try to copy some text from a webpage. But when you paste it in, you get all the original fonts, colors, and spacing. “Wait!” you say, “I just wanted the text!”
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Status Of CrunchPad Litigation — Late last year, on the eve of launch, I announced the end of the CrunchPad project, sadly ending a very exciting one and a half year effort to create a very inexpensive touch screen tablet computer. — Our partner, Fusion Garage, had inexplicably decided …
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Josh Kosman / New York Post:
Novell Inc. reaches two-part sale deal: sources — Novell Inc. has reached a deal in principle to sell itself in two parts, and is three to four weeks away from signing a deal, according to people close to the process. A strategic buyer will buy the piece of the software provider that develops …
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Aza Raskin / Aza on Design:
Firefox Panorama: Search proof-of-concept — There are two modes people use for finding information: browsing and searching. Browsing is for when you don't know exactly what you want to find, and search is for when you know exactly for what you are looking.
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Jasmine France / CNET News:
Slacker Premium Radio to offer on-demand music — Slacker Radio first launched in 2007 as an intuitive online music player that let you stream a variety of preprogrammed and custom-made radio stations based on your favorite artists and songs. Since then, the service has added a continuous array …
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ReadWriteWeb and Technologizer
Glenn Kelman / Redfin Corporate Blog:
Bill Gates, Hero — It's a simple argument: Bill Gates is, by far, our industry's greatest hero. It's hard to believe we once saw Bill as the pie-splattered villain, and others as the idealists. And it's hard to understand why, even now, the entrepreneur whom our youth admire far …
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TechFlash, The Raw Feed and The Microsoft Blog
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
The Seven Best Startups At DEMO — After watching SAP CEO Bill McDermott, HP CTO Phil McKinney, and Square Co-founder Jack Dorsey give their conference spiel today, I took a stroll into the DEMO pit in order to find the seven best startups at DEMO. — While the presentation junkets split …
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Computerworld, VentureBeat and down the avenue
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Skyhook Sues Google in a Location Battle Royale — Updated: Skyhook Wireless, the company that provides software and a database for determining location using nearby Wi-Fi signals, has sued Google for interfering with its business and for patent infringement.
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