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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google Search app for iPad and iPhone adds voice-based answers, available in the ‘next couple of days’ — Google has updated its search app for iOS to include voice-based questions and answers. You can “ask for the weather in a natural way” and it will provide results.
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Los Angeles Times, Search Engine Land, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Pocketables, PadGadget, everythingiCafe, The Next Web, TodaysiPhone.com, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and PhoneArena. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Gmail emails to appear in Google search results in exclusive “field trial” — Sagar Kamdar, Director of Product Management, Universal Search at Google, talked about how travel isn't the best experience, and the company could help you with that. — Google discusses “Universal Search” …
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PC World, Gizmodo, The Verge, AllThingsD, gHacks Technology News, Mashable!, TechCrunch and Softpedia News. Tweets: @ryan. Thanks:@zee
| The Official Google Blog: |
Building the search engine of the future, one baby step at a time — Larry Page once described the perfect search engine as understanding exactly what you mean and giving you back exactly what you want. It's very much like the computer I dreamt about as a child growing up in India … | Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
Let's Clear Up Some Details About Square's Big Partnership With Starbucks — Last night, Square announced that it would take over credit-card processing for Starbucks stores and that Starbucks would now accept Square as a payment tool. It's a big deal, but it left more questions than answers.
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| Peter Ha / TechCrunch: |
Square Partners With Starbucks Raises $25M For Series D; Howard Schultz Joins The Board — It might not be the funding announcement we've been hearing rumors about but today Square announced that they've partnered with Starbucks. But there's more! — Square will soon begin processing …
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CNET, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Starbucks Newsroom, SplatF, GigaOM, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, everythingiCafe, VatorNews, BBC, internetretailer.com and Macgasm
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
The New York Times Is About to Say Goodbye to About.com — The New York Times' time with About.com may be coming to an end. The paper has been looking to get rid of the struggling Web site, which produces high-volume, low-cost content, and has a deal in place to sell it to Answers.com.
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Guardian, The New York Times Company, paidContent, VentureBeat, Poynter, Pulse2 Technology …, Forbes and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @cnbc. See also Mediagazer
| Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat: |
NYPD Unveils Creepy New Surveillance System Developed with Microsoft — “Wait, can't I just Google the address?” — Just last week, news broke that the NYPD would soon begin rolling out new tech that brings together information streams like CCTV footage and criminal databases.
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| Wendy Ruderman / New York Times: |
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SCO Files for Chapter 7: “There is no reasonable chance of ‘rehabilitation’” — SCO Group has now filed [PDF] for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. They are in Chapter 11 now. What is the difference? Chapter 11 means you are trying to reorganize and survive as a corporate entity.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
IDC: Android and iOS now power record 85% of all smartphones shipped, as RIM hits 3-year low — If you own a smartphone, the chances are it is an iPhone or powered by Google's Android operating system. That observation has rung true for some time but the two platforms have taken their domination … | Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
HP incurs $8 billion Q3 impairment charge, as it tries to limit damage from 27,000 job cuts — As part of its ongoing restructuring plans, HP announced today that it has appointed Mike Nefkens to lead its Enterprise Services division, also appointing Jean-Jacques (JJ) Charhon as the new COO … | TechCrunch: |
Realtime Gets $100 Million To Build “Whole New Era Of The Internet,” AKA The Real-Time Web — Realtime, a technology developed by a company which has been around since the Internet's earliest days with the practically un-Googleable name “Internet Business Technologies,” …
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| Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD: |
Zynga's COO John Schappert Steps Down, Effective Immediately — Zynga has anounced that the compnay's COO John Schappert has stepped down from the company effective immediately. — This comes as perhaps no surprise given that last week it leaked out that the social game company's Founder …
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| Michael McWhertor / The Verge: |
Valve to sell non-gaming software on Steam starting September 5th — Valve is opening up Steam to non-gaming software, the company announced today, bringing applications ranging from “creativity to productivity” to the digital distribution platform. The first software titles will be released on September 5th.
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CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Steam, Ars Technica, Engadget, Joystiq, SlashGear, WebProNews and 9to5Mac
| Mary Branscombe / TechRadar.com: |
Microsoft is already working on Surface 2 tablets — Exclusive A dozen job adverts for “the next generation” posted online — Microsoft Surface: great design but there's more to come — The Surface tablets that Microsoft will start selling on 26 October at Microsoft Stores …
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Pulse2 Technology …, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, I4U News, Liliputing, IntoMobile and Gizmodo. Thanks:@marypcbuk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
YC-Backed Grid Reinvents The Spreadsheet For The Tablet Age — Popular wisdom has it that tablets are great for consuming content but aren't that useful for creating it. Don't tell that to Josh Leong, though. His Y Combinator-backed startup, Grid, is based around the idea that a tablet should be a great place for spreadsheets.
Tweets: @scobleizer
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Nikon rumored to launch Android-based Coolpix S800 with Google Play access on August 22nd — If you've been waiting for something new from the compact camera market, Nikon might have a doozy coming soon — if the latest rumors are to be believed. Nikon Rumors is reporting that the company …
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WebProNews, gsmdome.com, Android News, Rumours …, Nikon Rumors, PhoneArena and 9to5Google
| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Microsoft's Massive Metro Mistake — Don't call it Metro. Call it overkill. — There's an old saw that Windows users adopt every other version of Microsoft's OS, and Microsoft seems to be trying to make this “new every two” legend come true, if we believe Microsoft guru Mary Jo Foley's recent story …
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Computerworld, Good E-Reader, TechSpot, digitaltrends.com, The Tech Report and ZDNet
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Netflix Brings ‘Just For Kids’ User Interface To The Xbox 360 — Netflix is making it even easier for kids to bypass channel surfing and search for their favorite shows and characters, with an updated app for the Xbox 360. The latest version of Netflix's Xbox 360 app, which went live this morning …
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VatorNews, GigaOM, The Official Netflix Blog, Seattle Times, PC Magazine, The Verge, CNET and AllThingsD
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Samsung's 2010 Report Says Its Galaxy Would Be Better if It Were Just More Like the iPhone — As part of its case against Samsung, Apple has shown snippets of an internal Samsung document comparing the original Galaxy S phone with the iPhone. — On Tuesday, Apple managed to get the whole 132-page document admitted into evidence.
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| Christina Farr / VentureBeat: |
A brainchild of ex-Googlers, Upstart lets you invest in people — Would you fork over a small portion of your income for the next decade in exchange for funding? — The team behind Upstart, (pictured, above) a new crowdfunding platform, is willing to bet that this will be a viable option …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft holiday pop-up stores coming to NYC, San Francisco, Vancouver — Summary: Microsoft is prepping for a busy holiday 2012 season by opening temporary pop-up brick-and-mortar stores in about a dozen cities in North America. — Microsoft officials said earlier this summer that they planned … | Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Boingo Wireless Scoops Up Cloud Nine Media as It Seeks to Offer More Ad-Supported Wi-Fi — Boingo Wireless said on Wednesday that it had purchased Cloud Nine Media, a small start-up focused on selling advertisements to pay for the cost of Wi-Fi in public places such as airports and restaurants.
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