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Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Search: now faster than the speed of type — Search as you type. It's a simple and straightforward idea—people can get results as they type their queries. Imagining the future of search, the idea of being able to search for partial queries or provide some interactive feedback while searching has come up more than a few times.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Thoughts on Google Instant — The blogosphere is absorbing today's announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts. — Google's web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well: — We want the most comprehensive index of the web.
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Stephen Hood / unique hazards may exist:
Google Instant is an example of how Yahoo could have won in search — Today Google launched Google Instant, and make no mistake: this is big. It's far more than just a new fancy interface. It's a fundamental change to a user interaction model that's been largely unchallenged for years.
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Search Engine Land, CNET News and TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Dr. Siddharth Shah / Efficient Frontier Insights:
Google Instant: Potential Implications for the Advertiser
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
The Google Alphabet — Google's new search feature …
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TechEye, SFWeekly Tech, Digital Inspiration …, AdAge, Mashable!, PC Magazine, Pocket-lint, Silicon Alley Insider and Search Engine Land
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Instant Search: The Complete User's Guide
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BetaNews, Understanding Google …, Boy Genius Report, Gawker and ResourceShelf, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
No, Google Didn't Just Kill “I'm Feeling Lucky” — They Just Moved It
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Silicon Alley Insider and VentureBeat
Apple:
Statement by Apple on App Store Review Guidelines — The App Store℠ has revolutionized the way mobile applications are developed and distributed. With over 250,000 apps and 6.5 billion downloads, the App Store has become the world's largest mobile application platform and App Store developers …
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AppleInsider, Boy Genius Report and 9 to 5 Mac
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Gizmodo:
Apple to Allow Other iPhone Development Tools, Publishes App Review Guidelines — In a surprising announcement, and after receiving countless criticisms by developers and users, Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.”
Thanks:chathuraw
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hey iPhone, Meet a Tiny Chip With Superpowers. — I can distinctly remember the day when Intel Corp. launched the Pentium processor. It was the day the desktop computing changed for me and for a lot of others. It was also the day when Intel started to put a gap between itself and all its wannabe processor rivals.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
Jailbreak hole in iOS 4.1 will be hard to close — All Steve Jobs's horses and all Steve Jobs's men ... Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still …
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Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
iOS 4.1 Jailbreak Using New Bootrom Based Exploit Confirmed !
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Download Squad, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, Engadget, Thoughts from the Sidelines and everythingiCafe, Thanks:mattyribbo
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Check Your iPhone 4's Antenna Reception With Field Test Mode In iOS 4.1 — Now you can put your iPhone into field test mode, which will allow to easily and precisely test your cell signal reception quality. You just need to follow these two easy steps: • First, upgrade your iPhone 4—or any iPhone—to iOS 4.1.
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Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, TiPb, MacRumors, MobileContentToday, Erictric, Covering Web, App Advice, iClarified and TUAW, Thanks:gizmodo
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AppleInsider:
Apple release iOS 4.1 with Bluetooth, proximity sensor fixes
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
When Does A Company Deserve A Fresh Ethical Start? — Zynga has been taking it on the chin from the SF Weekly the last few weeks. First there was a four part series about some stickers that Zynga's ad agency put on the streets of San Francisco - lame but not exactly Third Reicht territory.
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Peter Jamison / SFWeekly:
FarmVillains — Steal someone else's game. Change its name.
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Joystiq, GamePolitics News and Gizmodo, Thanks:ceelew
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Google Ad That Steve Jobs Will Hate — Google sure knows how to push Steve Jobs' buttons. This advertisement for Google's new instant search system is bound to get under the Apple CEO's skin — and intensify one of the most heated rivalries in tech. — The ad combines a video …
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Imaging Insider and Kotaku, Thanks:courtenaybird
Rebecca O'Brien / The Daily Beast:
My Classmate Mark Zuckerberg — As the movie The Social Network rolls toward theaters, Rebecca O'Brien writes about Zuckerberg's reputation around Harvard, his fraternity nickname, and why Facebook was such a hit. — Hollywood biopics are often the inverse of political autobiographies …
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile officially announces G2, pre-orders begin “later this month” — Early this morning, T-Mobile officially announced their first HSPA+ device, the G2. The G2 will pair “a large 3.7-inch screen with a unique hinge design that opens to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard.”
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eWeek, Gizmodo, Engadget, Electronista, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SlashPhone and Mashable!
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
QuickPay announces ROAMpay credit card swiper for Android, BlackBerry, iOS — We've seen our fair share iPhone-based credit card payment systems, but we both know that those aren't the only handsets people do business with. ROAMpay from QuickPay Merchant Services is a device agnostic card swiper …
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Android Community, SlashPhone, Go Rumors and Ubergizmo
Ranjit Devraj / AlterNet.org:
Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants — Fears about loss of privacy and government abuse abound as India gears up to biometrically identify and number its 1.2 billion inhabitants. — Fears about loss of privacy are being voiced as India gears up to launch …
The Droid Guy / Android Phones, Android Tips …:
EXCLUSIVE: Verizon Dropping Google Search From All Future Androids? — We've been working on this story since yesterday in regards to the Verizon Samsung Fascinate, A Galaxy S Phone. After the Samsung Galaxy release event in late June we discovered, as the rest of you did, that Bing would be the search on the fascinate.
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Computerworld, IntoMobile, His and Hers Android, PhoneDog.com, AndroidGuys and Phones Review
Venture Capital Dispatch:
Want to Create Jobs? Certainly Don't Rely on the USPTO — The following guest column comes from venture capitalists Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld, who are managing directors at Boulder, Colo.-based Foundry Group, and Paul Kedrosky, a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and author of the financial blog Infectious Greed.
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Nokia Mobile TV Headset acts as a TV antenna for your unreleased Symbian^3 device — Okay, so Symbian^3 is still just a glint in our eyes, but that launch date is fast approaching and here's a neat little accessory to keep up excitement for the platform: the Mobile TV Headset.
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Gautham Nagesh / Hillicon Valley:
California testing iPads as algebra textbooks — A pilot project in four California school districts will replace 400 students' eighth-grade algebra textbooks with Apple iPads in an attempt to prove the advantages of interactive digital technologies over traditional teaching methods.
Thanks:gnagesh
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Boxee Embraces HTML5, Switches to Webkit — Boxee is going to switch its integrated web browser from Mozilla's Gecko to Webkit with its next major update, I was told by Boxee Lead Apps Developer and Community Evangelist Rob Spectre. The switch is an attempt to make full use of HTML5 within Boxee …
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eHomeUpgrade and Electronista
