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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Michael Jackson's Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search — An extraordinary day of breaking news on Thursday led to record-breaking traffic spikes as people searched online for information about the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and, especially, Michael Jackson.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Thinks Michael Jackson Died At Age 65 In 2007 — Oops. Bad, Google. Occasionally the service inserts direct answers to searches at the top of its results. It makes guesses at this, and in the case of michael jackson died, it's making the wrong guess.
Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Screenshots of the New TouchFLO 3D v2.5 — When the Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 get the Windows Mobile 6.5 upgrade later this summer, it looks like they are getting a new version of TouchFLO 3D (Manila v2.5) that stretches the interface a bit deeper and makes it more customizable than seen on the current iteration.
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Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, Phone Arena, WMExperts, WMPoweruser.com, SlashPhone and Mobile Tech Addicts
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MagicJack Will Top $100 Million In Sales This Year — Here's a recession winner: MagicJack, the super-cheap Internet phone gadget, is flying off the shelves. And parent company YMax Communications, founded by telecom veteran Daniel Borislow, is raking in big money.
Colin / Pre Insiders:
Palm Pre Mojo SDK Download Leaked To The Web (Links Updated!) — Just around an hour ago, @robovalzuniga sent out a tweet confirming that Palm's Mojo SDK had in fact leaked out. What's better, he included a download link. Yes, you can now download the (beta) SDK for the Pre.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
New in Snow Leopard: Activity Monitor shows you exactly what is killing your CPU — Before, you'd just see that Safari was nailing your CPU. Now there's a more specific breakdown, which shows the true culprit. Plug-in sandboxing is good thing. It is especially helpful when a plug …
Laura June / Engadget:
White iPhone 3GS reportedly overheats, turns a browner shade of white — Right after its launch, we noted the sundry problems reported by new iPhone 3GS owners, but this is the first time we've heard tell of this specific one... and it seems like a doozy. It's unclear exactly what caused this …
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I4U News, iPhone Buzz, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo, pocketnow.com, CrunchGear, 9 to 5 Mac and techeblog.com
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony eyes cellphone/game gear hybrid - Nikkei — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc's highly popular iPod and iPhone, the Nikkei business daily said on Saturday. — The Japanese electronics …
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VentureBeat, Boy Genius Report, Kotaku, Phone Arena, I4U News, VG247 and DigitalBattle.com
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Acer's Everywhere. How Did That Happen? — ABOUT three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control stations. As he pulled out his documents, the passport agent immediately recognized him as the chief executive of Acer.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Video: Introducing Bing. The Better Way To Google. — A lot of us here at TechCrunch quite like Bing, Microsoft's new search, sorry, discovery, no sorry, decision engine. For a number of queries it seems to provide better results than Google. But that doesn't mean the public will start using it.
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BBC:
UK ‘has cyber attack capability’ — The UK has the ability to launch cyber attacks but does not use it for industrial espionage like some other countries, minister Lord West has said. — He refused to be drawn on whether it was used for military purposes.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Apple kills Routesy app, my iPhone gets less useful — The fuss continues over Apple's capricious acceptance policy for its iPhone/iPod Touch App Store, most recently with the rejection of an app called Hottest Girls. But for me and a few other San Franciscans, there's a much bigger cause of outrage …
pavlov.net:
New Fennec Releases — Welcome to the world both Fennec 1.0 Beta 2 for Maemo and Fennec 1.0 Alpha 2 for Windows Mobile. — In addition to Maemo and Windows Mobile builds, you can also download desktop builds for Windows, Mac, and Linux. — For these releases we have worked on improving …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Warner Bros. emerges as sole bidder for Midway Games — All over but the shoutin' for Midway sale? Credit: Togoodtobe4gotton via Flckr. — Times up! The deadline for submitting bids to buy Midway Games passed Wednesday afternoon with just one offer — a $33-million deal from Warner Bros …
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