Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Arnold Zafra
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Search Engine Journal
Google Adds Personalized Suggestions to Nexus One Maps
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See? Here's one of the many reasons why the Nexus One phone could become a better Google-centric smartphone than the iPhone. Being a Google property, it will always gets the first-hand at various Google mobile services. Take the case of the Google Maps for Mobile for Nexus One which just got a nifty feature - personalized suggestion and ...
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Philipp Lenssen
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Google Blogoscoped
The Wall Street Journal writes: Google Inc. is preparing to launch a store selling online business software that integrates with its Web services, according to people briefed by the company, enlisting software developers in its battle against Microsoft Corp. These people said the store will sell business software designed by outside developers to ...
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Rachel Andersen
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Search Engine Journal
Breadcrumb URL Display: A Review
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Back in November, Google announced that they would be rolling out “site hierarchy display in search results” to be (occasionally) displayed in search results instead of their exact destination URL. The reported purpose for this type of URL display is to offer a better search experience to the user by providing context surrounding a given& ...
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Ann Smarty
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Search Engine Journal
SEJ Tools: Run Keyword Research via Google Adwords Tool
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Being an advanced SEO toolset, SEJ tools unite quite a few useful third-party services. One of such useful tools is Google Adwords keyword research tool that makes it easier for you to: (1) Run keyword research without having to leave the dashboard; (2) Easily add keywords to SERP tracker (to monitor how close to top rankings you are / become).& ...
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Colin Gibbs
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GigaOM
Are Emerging Markets Enough to Fuel Nokia’s Ovi Store?
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Nokia's Ovi Store has overtaken Apple's App Store as the storefront of choice for mobile developers in emerging mobile markets. But can Nokia leverage its traction in developing economies as Apple and Android build on their momentum in Western markets?
Iphoneroot.com
Steve Jobs about Google and Adobe
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On the next day after the iPad presentation Steve Jobs gave a conference at Town Hall. Among others the Google and Adobe subjects were discussed. According to a person, who was not authorized to speak with the press by Apple, but was present on this event, Jobs didn’t mince his words in his speech. This is what he exactly said about Google:
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Video: Android’s New Pinch-To-Zoom Multi-Touch In Action
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As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We've just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1, and have taken a video of the new ...
Dion Almaer
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Ajaxian » Front Page
LunaScript: A new language and platform to take your Web 2.0 apps to the moon?
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A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application. There are a ton of dependencies, and you need to be proficient in multiple languages and tools (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL/NoSQL, backend languages, build tools, etc). Well, they may not have been in a pub.... but [...]
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It’s official: Steve Fambro, co-founder of Aptera, the futuristic three-wheeled electric car company, has officially vacated his post, along with his partner Chris Anthony. Both took publicly took a hiatus starting in November and then failed to return, following disputes with the company’s current management. Could this shakeup delay ...
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Philipp Lenssen
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Google Blogoscoped
Google's YouTube allowed viewers to submit a question for US president Obama. Over 11,000 questions were asked and over 667,000 votes were cast, YouTube writes, saying they "collected the top questions". Now, Toke of the Town however writes that "YouTube Censors Marijuana Question In Obama Interview": Yes, questions about marijuana were the most ...
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The new Sony Ericsson Aspen smartphone made its debut on Feb. 2, which is of note because it's running the Windows Mobile 6.5.3 operating system. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, Windows Mobile 6.5.3 includes the following tweaks:
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Nokia, Pearson to Offer Mobile Education
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK ) and Pearson (NYSE: PSO ) have formed a joint venture, Beijing Mobiledu Technologies, to expand an existing Nokia service that delivers learning materials to mobile phones, Nokia announced February 1. Launched in 2007, Nokia's Mobiledu currently has 20 million subscribers...
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Read about using web analytics to identify possible click fraud
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MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn't clear exactly what was going on. Now they've felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it's fairly interesting. On their Twitter Status blog ( ...
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What the deuce? Twitter changes my password
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This morning I had an email that really looked like it was from Twitter. It suggested that my password had been changed due to "phishing attack that took place off-Twitter". I found myself thinking, "Sly, but not sly enough," followed by "hey, that really does look like Twitter; there's no hidden URL in the password reset".
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Barb Dybwad
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Mashable!
Spotify CEO: Twitter Is One of Our Biggest Traffic Sources
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We’re here at the New Music Seminar in Los Angeles, where Spotify CEO and Co-founder Daniel Ek just gave a keynote about the state of the music industry and his company’s approach to generating revenue for artists in the age of peer-to-peer file-sharing. Although there were no major announcements surrounding the question on everyone&# ...
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Matt Silverman
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Mashable!
10 Fabulous Valentine’s Day Gifts for Your Beloved Geek
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Loving a geek isn’t hard to do, what with the social awkwardness and the over-zealous online gaming. Shopping for one however, can sometimes be a challenge. Throw in that added pressure to be extra thoughtful on Valentine’s Day, and you’ve got quite the conundrum (that’s geek for “problem”). We’ve taken ...
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Live Twitter feed of Prop 8 trial
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Now that the US Supreme Court has put a stay on cameras in the federal courthouse for the Prop 8 trial (including delayed YouTube videos and satellite watching locations) for at least three days, the only way you can keep up to date while it's happening is via Twitter.
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Today, the US Patent and Trademark Office officially published two major granted patents of Apple's covering tablets and advanced touch technologies. The first patent may provide us with a glimpse of a future implementation of an intelligent tablet bezel. The bezel could have invisible or visible touch areas that could be ...
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Apple's iPad -- a broken link?
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It was really exciting to see some of the technologies that Adobe has contributed to, like PDF and ePub support, taking center stage in the launch. Adobe technology is at the center of virtually every print and digital workflow, so undoubtedly a lot of what you¹ll see getting delivered to the iPad will have originated in Adobe creative software.
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Michael Wolf
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GigaOM
IPad Prognostications: What Matters in Web Tablets
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When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]
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Ironically, Flash was originally designed for pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off. Flash exists now only due to its finding an alternate route in its use -- first filling a niche on the Web by enabling low-bandwidth vector graphics in the early days and then rapidly adding new capabilities over the past ...
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Electronic composer BT talks about his new album These Hopeful Machines, about his love for math and his passion for musical technology.
Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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SAN FRANCISCO - (Business Wire) Recurrent Energy, an independent power producer and a leading developer of solar power projects, today announced it has signed agreements with Southern California Edison (SCE). The utility will buy 100 percent of the power from three of Recurrent Energy’s California solar projects.
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Lucas Gonze
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Lucas Gonze
Maybe HTML5 will indeed make the technology stack for iPhone apps obsolete. But Greg points out that there’s nothing to substitute for the business stack : Beyond the technical capacities of native vs. web apps, I think we underestimate the value of the ecosystem of small app business that Apple has created with the store. Sometimes the ...
Philipp Lenssen
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Google Blogoscoped
In A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users, the authors write: In this paper, we introduce a novel de-anonymization attack against users of social networking sites. In particular, we show that information about the group memberships of a user (i.e., the groups of a social network to which a user belongs) is often sufficient to ...
Anonym surfen im Web? Das war einmal. IT-Forschern ist es nach SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Informationen gelungen, Internetsurfer mit einem einfachen Trick namentlich zu identifizieren. Von der Sicherheitslücke sind Millionen Teilnehmer sozialer Netzwerke betroffen - es droht ein Datenschutz-GAU.
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Samuel Axon
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Mashable!
Remember that “ If You Printed Twitter ” image that made the social media rounds two weeks ago? A similarly formatted graphic that describes the state of Internet use and adoption has been published today for your infotainment. The focus is on exactly who uses the Internet, and how often. It breaks things down by gender, age, income ...
Here we take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. At a glance, we can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of income may influence how much time they spend online.
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Ryan Lawler
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NewTeeVee
Move Networks made some personnel reductions yesterday associated with a shift from its legacy streaming business to providing a platform for delivering IPTV services. According to a source, the company reduced headcount by about 10-15 percent, leaving the company with 107 employees total. The personnel cuts come as Move de-emphasizes its ...
Revision3, an Internet television network, today announced some impressive 2009 numbers, including 30% revenue growth and nearly 1.5 billion minutes of viewership engagement.
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