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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 …
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Google Adds Personal Gmail Results Into Search — In a major move to integrate personal search and Web search, Google is adding some users' Gmail into their search results as a “limited field trial,” it said today. — So when participating users search for “Amazon,” information … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
| Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal: |
Borrowing from Google, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Begins Makeover — Yahoo Inc.'s rookie chief executive Marissa Mayer has made one thing clear to employees at the outset of her bid to revive the Internet company: Product comes first. — Since taking over Yahoo three weeks ago … | Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS: |
ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 — 1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Price Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. — Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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Zynga's COO John Schappert Steps Down, Effective Immediately — Zynga has announced that the company's COO John Schappert has stepped down from the company and its board of directors, effective immediately. — This comes as perhaps no surprise given that last week it leaked … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet — The truth about Jeff Dean appeared on April Fool's Day 2007. — Somewhere inside Google, a private website served up a list of facts about Dean, one of Google's earliest employees and one of the main reasons the web giant handles … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Burner wants to help you temporarily obfuscate your phone number — “Burning” a communication device has been a mainstay of those interested in privacy, from the IMF (you know, from Mission: Impossible), the corner boys on The Wire, and everyone in between.| Joe Pollicino / Engadget: |
OUYA's Kickstarter funding is complete: over $8.59 million raised, starts shipping in March — It's a wrap! Suffice it to say, it's a been a relatively short, yet astoundingly fruitful — and initially record-breaking — funding run for OUYA, the hackable, Android-based gaming console.
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Digia to acquire Qt business from Nokia, port it to Android and iOS — Up to 125 Qt personnel at Nokia will join Digia to continue Qt development. — Finnish software company Digia announced today that it is acquiring the Qt software business from Nokia.
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Amid Lawsuits From Publishers, Boundless Launches A Free, Open Alternative To Textbooks — Since it first appeared earlier this year, Boston-based educational startup Boundless has been on a mission to ensure that college students have a free alternative to the pricey and bulky world of physical textbooks.
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A breakfast with Square and Starbucks: CEOs Dorsey and Schultz explain their unique partnership — Last night's announced partnership between Square and Starbucks came as a surprise, but after hearing CEOs Jack Dorsey and Howard Schultz discuss how the arrangement came to be … | Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
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Samsung Galaxy S III Usage Growing Significantly Since its Release — Available to consumers for just over a month, the Samsung Galaxy S III has emerged as one of the hottest Android phones on the market, boasting positive reviews along with impressive sales figures.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Finally Ditches Invitations, Now Lets Anyone Sign Up — Calling all chefs, wedding planners, stylists, and crafty-types: Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address.
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| Dalton Caldwell: |
App.net is not vaporware — We shipped an alpha version of App.net. You can browse the global feed at alpha.app.net. This is a webapp that we built in the last two weeks on top of our documented API. Think of this web application as a “proof of concept”.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Akamai: peak internet speeds jumped 25 percent year-to-year in Q1, Germany tops the mobile world — If you thought world internet access speeds were facing a large-scale slowdown, you can stop fretting for now. Data from Akamai suggests that average speeds were just 2.6Mbps …
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U.S. will not challenge computer fraud case to high court — (Reuters) - The government has decided not to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a divided appeals court ruling in a criminal case that drew attention to a 28-year-old computer hacking law that critics argue is being used too broadly.
| 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 … | Yezel Rosales / The Big Blog: |
Introducing new Skype Cards in Mexico — Skype is always working towards more and more ways to bring people together whenever they are apart. At Skype today we are happy to introduce a new payment option for the Mexico market, Skype Cards. — Skype users in Mexico will now have all the benefits …
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40% of top brands use Instagram, love image filters — Today, Seattle-based Simply Measured launched its Instagram analytics tool for both the public, and its enterprise customers. In conjunction with that release, the company made public a study that it executed of the Interbrand 100 firms, concerning their usage of Instagram.
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