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Robin Schriebman / Gmail Blog:
Call phones from Gmail — Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer's microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time.
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Google Voice Blog, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch, GottaBeMobile, ReadWriteWeb, Google Operating System, The Seattle Times, Technologizer, VentureBeat, Fast Company, 9 to 5 Mac, SFGate, Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, The Next Web, Faster Forward, Softpedia News, Hillicon Valley, PhoneDog.com, Lifehacker, Erictric, Geekosystem, TiPb, 901am, USA Today, Switched, Boy Genius Report, dailywireless.org, SlashGear, DSLreports, GeekSugar and CNET News
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Phone Booths To Start Popping Up In Airports, Universities — Google wants to get you hooked on Google Voice, and it's got a new weapon in its arsenal: charming red telephone booths inspired by the sort that litter the UK. Today at a press event where it announced the launch …
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Download Squad, BetaNews, Black Web 2.0 and Electronista
Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Google introduces Voice in Gmail, free calls to US and Canada (update: video) — Rumors have been buzzing about since June, but Google just made it official — the company's baking Google Voice calls right into Gmail today. Like the Google Chat text, voice and video chat integrated …
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The Toybox Blog, Mashable!, Fortune, TechSpot, Newlaunches.com, The Tech Report and Geek.com
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging The Google Voice Press Gathering — Google's holding a small press gathering today at 9:30am in its San Francisco offices. The topic won't be the heat wave that's gripping the city. But there will be some type of hot news they're staying mum about.
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Silicon Alley Insider and Download Squad
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Is this Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 interface? — Microsoft has delivered four developer previews of Internet Explorer (IE) 9 so far, but has yet to show off the new interface for its next-generation browser. That is expected to happen on September 15, during Microsoft's beta launch event in San Francisco.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
New Apple TV will have ARM processor, App Store access - report — Like the iPhone 4 and iPad, the new Apple TV will run the iOS operating system and be powered by a processor with ARM architecture, and will also have access to the App Store, according to one prominent analyst.
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Peter Burrows / BusinessWeek:
Apple's New Video Strategy Coming Into Focus — The blogosphere has been buzzing with talk of a radically updated version of the Apple TV set-top box. It turns out Apple plans to unveil the $99 device at an event on Sept. 7, my Bloomberg colleagues and I reported today .
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AppleInsider, Silicon Alley Insider, BetaNews, CNN, The Toybox Blog, Fortune, NewTeeVee, MacRumors, NBC Bay Area, MacStories and iPodNN
Dan Provost / The Russians Used a Pencil:
Controlling Apple TV
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Daring Fireball and The Mobile Gadgeteer Blog
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Loses E-Book Deal — A month after jolting the book industry with a deal to give Amazon.com Inc. exclusive digital access to some of the country's best-known literary works, literary agent Andrew Wylie is largely abandoning the agreement. — The Amazon deal was struck after Mr. Wylie failed …
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DailyFinance, New York Times, NYConvergence and Future Tense, more at Mediagazer »
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Amazon: New Kindles Selling At Record Rates, U.S. Store Now Has Over 670,000 Books — Amazon has announced today that more “next generation Kindles were ordered in the first four weeks of availability than in the same timeframe following any other Kindle launch, making the new Kindles the fastest-selling ever.”
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Adam Vaughan / Guardian:
Apple blocks iPhones from green ranking scheme — Scheme rates handsets on factors such as ecological impact of raw materials, manufacturing process and energy efficiency — • iPhone app pitches climate change science against scepticism — Apple has refused to allow its iPhones …
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Podcaster Leo Laporte, the everywhere man — Leo Laporte arrived Thursday at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. — On Friday morning he arrived at the office of KFI AM 640, the radio station that airs his syndicated “The Tech Guy” program. At 3:42 p.m., he was back at the airport, ready to fly home to Petaluma, Calif.
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Defense official discloses cyberattack — Now it is official: The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008. — In an article to be published Wednesday discussing the Pentagon's cyberstrategy …
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New York Times, Computerworld, Security Watch, Gizmodo and Technology Liberation Front
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Hey, Digg — This 17-Year-Old Knows What You Are Thinking — Hard-core Digg users and fans of the link-sharing site — the so-called “Digg Nation” — spend a lot of their time trying to push their favorite links to the front page, competing with each other for the number of “diggs” …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
New Version of Digg Goes Live For Everyone This Morning
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Issues Invitation For September 1 “Special Event” — Apple (AAPL) has e-mailed invitations to the media for a “special event” to be held September 1 at 10 a.m. at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. Previous reports suggested that Apple would be holding an event on September 7 …
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TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Digital Daily and Engadget
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Motorola Bought 280 North — Andy Rubin (Google) and Dr. Sanjay K. Jha (Motorola) join Om Malik on stage at Mobilize 2009 in San Francisco. — Motorola is buying 280 North, a tiny software and web applications start-up started by ex-Apple employees, for $20 million.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Motorola Snaps Up 280 North For $20 Million
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mocoNews, VatorNews, AndroidSPIN, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, Tech Trader Daily and Ajaxian, Thanks:atul
Jay Baer / Convince and Convert Blog:
Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? — Today's post is a collaboration with Clinton Bonner, community connectivity expert, futurist, and blogger at Everything to Everything. — Starbucks is not only offering free Wi-Fi in all stores come this fall …
Arron La:
Android Revenue - Advanced Task Manager — Background — “Advanced Task Manager” is an Android application I created in February 2009. At that time, it was needed mainly to kill running services that a number of applications spawned but never ended. Some of these services would start …
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IntoMobile, Silicon Alley Insider and FierceDeveloper
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Ryan Kim / SFGate:
Advanced Task Manager app maker makes $80,000 with Android app
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
$750K for Flowtown's Social Marketing to Existing Customers — Yes, Flowtown is yet another social media marketing company, but it's not just another tool for monitoring customer feedback through their tweets. Flowtown takes a list of your existing customers' email addresses and delivers profiles …
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alarm:clock, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Arthur Brice / CNN:
3 Colombian teens on Facebook hit list killed in past 10 days — The hit list on Facebook gave the people named three days to leave the town of Puerto Asis, Colombia, or be executed — (CNN) — Three teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Third-party iPad clamshell keyboard case revealed in FCC filing — A new third-party iPad peripheral coming soon to the U.S. will turn Apple's touchscreen tablet into more of a traditional laptop form factor, with a clamshell case that provides tactile input via an attached Bluetooth keyboard.
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Computerworld, I4U News, GottaBeMobile, iLounge, Fast Company, Cult of Mac, Engadget, CrunchGear and Gizmodo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why We Never Talk Anymore — While perusing some Nielsen mobile trends data this morning, I was prompted to check my phone bill, and found that I've been using less than 500 minutes a month for past six months. Wow! We really don't talk anymore! — In the last few decades …
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CNN, IntoMobile and Black Web 2.0, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google's Gaming Advocate Leaves After Only 4 Months On The Job — In April of this year, signs started pointing to Google getting serious about gaming. That was when they hired gaming industry vet Mark DeLoura (formerly of Ubisoft, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Nintendo and others) to be their developer advocate for games.
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Satori, ReadWriteWeb and Android Phone Fans
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
CollegeOnly, a Social Network Just for the University Set — When Facebook arrived at my university near the end of my fourth year, I remember feeling a huge wave of relief. — Not because I had an easy way to keep in touch with my friends after college but because the site arrived …
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Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent and VentureBeat
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Mobile Maps Are Moving Indoors To Pinpoint Specific Items On Store Shelves — One of the biggest limitations to GPS is that it doesn't work indoors. Your phone might be able to navigate you to the front door of the mall, but finding the store, much less the box of Rice-A-Roni on the shelf—forget about it.
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ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM and Google Maps Mania, Thanks:atul
Graeme Wearden / Guardian:
Shareholder trading values Facebook at more than $33bn — With shares selling for up to $76, investors are calculating social networking site is worth nearly twice as much as Yahoo! — Facebook is now being valued at more than $33bn (£21.3bn) as investors try to secure a stake …
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