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Steve Block / Google LatLong:
The blue circle comes to your desktop — If you've used Google Maps for mobile, you'll be familiar with My Location. With single click of a button, your approximate location is shown on the map with a blue circle. Wouldn't it be great if that same feature was available in Google Maps on your desktop or laptop computer?
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The Official Google Blog:
Find Creative Commons images with Image Search — Let's say you're a blogger. You've just returned from a trip to New York City, and you're writing a post on New York landmarks. You want to illustrate your travel guide with an image — as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Speeding Up RSS — I'm sorry, but RSS feeds are way too slow. I know this first-hand. As part of my job here at TechCrunch, I monitor a lot of RSS feeds for breaking news. We also produce our own feed and I can see how quickly it propagates to various feed readers and feed-powered news aggregation services.
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Staska / Unwired View:
Next in your iPhone OS: live object identification, face recognition, text filtering, smarter messaging, voice alteration — Apple guys do keep themselves busy thinking up new ways how to improve their iPhone OS software. And Apple's patent applications give us a glimpse of how they may go about it.
Julia Angwin / Digits:
Sun Valley: Gates and Schmidt Do Lunch But Don't Comment on Google OS — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Google CEO Eric Schmidt had an awkward encounter this morning at the Sun Valley mogulfest this morning — and after Google detailed plans Tuesday to create software it hopes …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hitwise: Bing Both Grows & Drops In June; Google Still Tops — Just in from Hitwise, the first month-to-month figures since the launch of Bing. And the figures show Bing has both gained and dropped in the same month. Confusing? Yes it is! — Here are the month-to-month figures:
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The Longest Tweet In History — The short tale of a Forbesian technological breakthrough. — BURLINGAME, Calif. — On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound. On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister became the first man to run a four-minute mile.
Amazon.com:
Introducing AmazonWireless - A New Amazon Web Site Offering Cell Phones and Service Plans — Easy-to-Use Web Site Guides Customers Through the Purchase Process; Rebate-Free Shopping and FREE Two-Day Shipping on All Phones — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the beta launch of AmazonWireless …
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Greg Bensinger / Bloomberg:
New York Times Considers $5 Monthly Web-Access Fee — New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it's considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newspaper's Web site. — In the survey, Times Co. also asked whether subscribers would be willing to pay a discounted fee of $2.50 a month for Web access.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Technologizer, Mediaite, Gawker, Mashable!, DailyFinance, Epicenter, AppScout and MediaMemo
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Long Live 3.5mm: HTC Makes The Switch — Dongles. In-line adapters. Proprietary headset ports. If it's an audio port on a mobile handset and it's not 3.5mm, it's junk. As we declared back in May, we're done with all of it. Now HTC, sire of the T-Mobile G1, myTouch …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Real-Time Startup CoTweet Raises Real Money — It's the latest sign of Silicon Valley's zeal for startups that exploit Twitter: CoTweet, a company that offers software to help business send and receive messages from multiple Twitter accounts, is announcing a $1.1 million round of financing Thursday and opening to the public.
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CoTweet, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Venture Capital Dispatch and mocoNews, Thanks:atul
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft is planning an Office party on Monday — Microsoft is planning to announce Office Web Applications and the Office 2010 beta at the company's annual Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans next Monday. — Neowin hinted at the announcements yesterday but insider sources …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Facebook Sued For Click Fraud — Sports site RootZoo has sued Facebook for click fraud, alleging that the social networking site charged for more clicks than actually occurred. The lawsuit comes several weeks after Facebook users began flooding message boards with complaints about overcharging.
Brad Stone / Bits:
New York Attorney General Sues Tagged.com — Turns out our recent story on the spammy social network Tagged.com had a fan — Andrew Cuomo, New York's attorney general. — Mr. Cuomo has announced he intends to sue the company “for deceptive e-mail marketing practices and invasion of privacy …
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OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK …, paidContent, Associated Press, PE Hub Blog, ABCNEWS and Mercury News
Glenn Fleishman / Macworld:
iPhone 3GS limited to 384 Kbps upstream — When the iPhone 3GS arrived last month, I explained the ins and outs of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), the rubric that covers AT&T's two highest-speed cellular data standards: HSDPA for downstream and HSUPA for upstream.
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MacRumors iPhone Blog, The iPhone Blog, Daring Fireball, Network World, Gizmodo and LOOPRumors
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple filings detail ID app, other potential iPhone enhancements — A half dozen new patent filings published this week from Apple detail various advancements that could find their way into future iPhones, such as a new “ID App” for identifying objects in a user's surroundings …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Clippy stars in new Office 2010 promo video — I'm not sure “spell check this” has the same ring as “I'll be back,” but I have enjoyed the series of promo videos for Office 2010 that try to cast the software as the plot of an action movie. — The latest installment shows the grave of Clippy …
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CrunchGear, Seattle Times, Download Squad, TheNextWeb.com, Engadget, The Microsoft Blog and techeblog.com
Bloomberg:
Amazon.com $9.99 Kindle Books Have Publishers Nervous About Price Squeeze — Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle, which accelerated the adoption of electronic books, may shrink publishers' profit margins if the online retailer gets tougher about prices it pays for digital titles.
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Techgeist, CrunchGear, Electronista, E-Commerce Times, TeleRead, Contentinople and Silicon Alley Insider
Tameka Kee / paidContent:
Oodle + Twitter = Another Jab At Craigslist — Oodle continues to chip away at Craigslist's domination of the online classifieds market by partnering with much larger sites like AOL and powering their listings—but with a new Twitter integration, the startup is making the battle about more than just scale …
Scott Gulbransen / The Quicken Blog:
Quicken for Mac Coming in February 2010 — Recent media and blogger coverage has led to some speculation that Quicken may not release a new Quicken desktop product for the Mac. — We'd like to clear the air: Intuit will release a new version of Quicken for the Mac platform in February 2010.
Jin Hyun-joo / The Korea Herald:
Apple agrees to recall iPod MP3 players — U.S. computer giant Apple succumbed to Seoul's pressure to recall its first-generation iPod Nano following a series of reports of alleged battery explosion of the popular MP3 players, the government said yesterday.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Gnip Launches Push API To Create Real-Time Stream Of Business Data — The Web is speeding up and Gnip wants to help push it along. Today, the API aggregation platform is releasing its own Push API which lets any site patch together its own version of Friendfeed or Twitter-like data stream.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
TokBox Fires 50% Of Engineering Team, All Founders Gone — It was only seven months ago that video chat startup TokBox sent a taco truck to meet newly laid-off Yahoo employees in an effort to cheer up and recruit a few of them (the startup was kind enough to send the truck over to our office afterwards to let us in on the action).
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eMarketer:
Is Social Network Advertising Ready for Primetime? — Mapping the social graph. — Let's get the bad news out of the way. — As a result of the poor economy and various difficulties at MySpace, paid advertising on online social networks in the US is expected to fall 3% in 2009.
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PR2.0, Total Telecom, ClickZ, MediaPost, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Watch and Mashable!
Electronista:
Pre owners complain of lack of onscreen keys — Palm Pre owners are ironically complaining that their smartphones don't have onscreen keyboards, a study by Strategy Analytics found today. Despite Palm having added the QWERTY keyboard in response to gripes about touch-only devices like the iPhone …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Hoberman and Birch launch PRO Founders Capital — Well it appeared to be signed and sealed when news leaked back in April that two icons of the UK's tech startup world were joining forces to create a new fund to address the so-called ‘equity gap’ in Europe.
