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Johanna Wright / Inside Search:
Search by text, voice, or image — During our Inside Search press event in San Francisco today, we discussed how mobile search has inspired new ways to remove barriers to knowledge on the desktop and help you get to your results faster. On a mobile phone, you're not limited to typing - you can search using your voice or a picture.
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Scott Huffman / Google Mobile Blog:
Introducing new features to mobile search — Our thirst for knowledge extends beyond the time we spend in front of our desktop computers. At Google, we are seeing mobile search grow at an exponential rate, increasing five-fold worldwide in just the past two years - a rate comparable to the early days of desktop Google Search.
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Lynn Cowan / Venture Capital Dispatch:
Pandora IPO Prices At $16; Valued At $2.56 Billion — Interactive Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc. continued the trend of hot Internet-related IPOs by pricing its shares at $16 apiece Tuesday night, above expectations. … The company sold 14.7 million initial public offering shares …
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Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Investors Should Pass on Pandora's Radio Flier
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ITworld.com, AllThingsD, Fortune, Deal Journal and hypebot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham — Peter Pham, the president and a cofounder of mobile social startup Color, is no longer with the company, we've heard from multiple sources. The company launched publicly less than three months ago. — Color has been controversial …
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AllThingsD, SAI, @peterpham and StartupLocker
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
More Evidence for 2048x1536 iPad Retina Display — More evidence has emerged to suggest that a future version of the iPad will sport a “Retina” display with a resolution of 2048x1536, or double the horizontal and vertical pixels of the current iPad. — Back in January, a number of images …
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The Apple Core Blog, AppleInsider, TechUnwrapped, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, iGadgetsReport, TiPb and Electronista
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
iPad 3 rumors in 2011 persist — Rumors of an iPad 3 release started early in 2011, even before the iPad 2 was released. Taiwan's Economic Daily continued the speculation on Tuesday. — According to the report, the iPad 3 is scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter of 2011.
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Techie Buzz, Shiny Objects and AllThingsD
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Next-generation Xbox rumored to be unveiled at E3 2012 — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console will likely be shown at E3 2012, according to reports. — The software giant is preparing to announce the successor to the Xbox 360 at E3 2012 according to VideoGamer.com.
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VideoGamer.com, parislemon, Eurogamer, Ubergizmo, Business Wire, IndustryGamers, Neowin.net, VG247, Computerworld, The Seattle Times and CrunchGear
John Cook / GeekWire:
Meet Amazon.com's first employee: Shel Kaphan — Shel Kaphan came from Santa Cruz in a U-Haul before the company was called Amazon. (Photos: Annie Laurie Malarkey) — Amazon.com today is approaching 40,000 employees. Seventeen years ago, Shel Kaphan was No. 1.
Thanks:toddbishop
Economist:
Tech bubble — This house believes that we are in a new tech bubble. — Overview — Rebuttal — Closing — Post-debate — Tuesday — Friday — Wednesday — Friday — June — Opening statements — The bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000 saw the shares …
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ben's blog and BostInnovation.com
Horace Dediu / asymco:
iPhone liquidity: Why an unlocked Phone in the US matters — The iPhone is now available in the US unlocked. Judging by the lack of reaction to the news, one would assume that this is not a significant event. I would argue however that it's a very significant event.
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TUAW, Daring Fireball, DisplayBlog and App Advice
Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Clears Google Bid on Nortel Patents — WASHINGTON—U.S. antitrust enforcers have given Google Inc. the go-ahead to pursue its $900 million opening bid for a trove of high-tech patents being sold next week by Canadian telecommunications-equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp., people familiar with the matter said.
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AppleInsider, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and AllThingsD
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Angry Birds looks to conjure some location-based Magic [Video] — Rovio is looking to take Angry Birds local with location-based integration, which will now enhance the game play for users when they visit real-world locations. The feature, called Magic, builds off a previously announced NFC feature …
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ReadWriteWeb, Technologizer, NBC Bay Area, SocialTimes.com, Inside Mobile Apps, SlashGear, msnbc.com, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys and ReadWriteWeb
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Bloomberg to FCC: Comcast is Violating NBCU Merger Conditions — News giant Bloomberg has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, accusing Comcast of violating conditions it agreed to as part of its merger with NBC Universal, which created a $30 billion entertainment colossus.
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Daring Fireball
Jonathan A. Knee / The Atlantic Online:
Why Content Isn't King — How Netflix became America's biggest video service—much to the astonishment of media executives and investors — NETFLIX FAMOUSLY ENGENDERS fierce loyalty from its ever-growing customer base. This year, it even beat out reigning champion Apple, among 528 other brands …
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Verizon adds 19 more cities to its LTE network — Computerworld - Verizon Wireless announced 19 more cities that will get its faster LTE wireless network service starting Thursday, bringing the total to 74 metropolitan areas. — San Francisco and Detroit, already on Verizon LTE since last December …
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Verizon, PC World, O'Grady's PowerPage and Windows Phone Thoughts.com
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
It's All Software — Here's Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, writing about iCloud: … Many — maybe even most — observers share this view of the differences between Apple's and Google's approach to cloud-backed software. I think this view is wrong. Where Gobry writes “for Google …
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The Loop, Mark Sigal's Blog, Fast Company and iPhone Download Blog
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Facebook Hires Former White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart — Joe Lockhart, who served as White House press secretary during President Bill Clinton's eventful second term, will join Facebook as VP of global communications next month. — Lockhart, currently founding partner …
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The Politico, SAI and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Daniel Amitay / amitay.us:
Most Common iPhone Passcodes — In my last update to Big Brother Camera Security (Free), I added some code to record common user passcodes (completely anonymous, of course). Because Big Brother's passcode setup screen and lock screen are nearly identical to those of the actual iPhone passcode lock …
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Examiner, eWeek, PC World, BGR, BetaNews, msnbc.com, Techie Buzz, Ubergizmo, TUAW, Dice Blog Network, GottaBeMobile, Zero Day Blog, iPhone Download Blog, everythingiCafe, Gawker and Naked Security
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Facebook juror guilty of contempt — Juror contacted acquitted defendant online during multimillion-pound drugs trial, causing it to collapse — A juror and acquitted defendant who made contact through Facebook during a multimillion-pound drugs trial, causing it to collapse …
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Digital Trends, Reuters and The Next Web
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
BBC developing new iPhone app for field reporters — The BBC is developing an app that will allow its reporters in the field to file video, stills and audio directly into the BBC system from an iPhone or iPad. — The new app, due to be in use within a month or so, is also intended …
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App Advice, The Next Web, MacNN, MacStories and TUAW
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple feels “harassed” by “copyist” Samsung's demands for early look at iPhone 5 and iPad 3; showdown on Friday — With all that's going on, this is already my third blog post within a few hours. After reporting on The New York Times Company's and OpinionLab's declaratory judgment actions …
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IntoMobile, MobileBurn.com, Shiny Objects, TUAW, Android Phone Fans, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, SlashGear, MacStories, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, iLounge, iGadgetsReport, thinq_, MacRumors and www.pocketgamer.biz
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google launches $280 million residential solar fund with SolarCity — Crossposted on Smart Planet. — Google on Tuesday said that it will create a $280 million fund to help SolarCity, a residential solar project financing company, to ramp up deployments.
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Google Green Blog, CNET News, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Mobile Marketing Watch, WebProNews, SlashGear, Softpedia News, eWeek and ZDNet
Dan Sung / Pocket-lint:
Apple iCloud vs Google vs Amazon Cloud Drive vs Dropbox vs Microsoft SkyDrive — It's been a busy time for cloud storage and music services and Apple's launch onto the scene with Apple iCloud has officially declared it global war. The lines have begun to blur as to what you own …
Thanks:stuartmiles
Ben Berkowitz / Reuters:
Exclusive: Hacking blitz drives cyberinsurance demand — (Reuters) - The recent string of sensational hacker attacks is driving companies to seek “cyberinsurance” worth hundreds of millions of dollars, even though many policies can still leave them exposed to claims.
Greg Lindsay / Fast Company:
China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments — In the latest installment of Butterfly Effect, we examine China's cheap knockoff cell phones. After being forced out of China and India, Chinese counterfeiters brought their product to the Middle East …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Investors Pump $90 Million Into Airbnb Clone Wimdu — Exclusive - TechCrunch has just learned that Wimdu, a recently launched Airbnb clone that has already managed to irk the latter, has raised a whopping $90 million round. — The capital injection comes from European investors Kinnevik …
Thanks:robinwauters
