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TechMeme's Robots Are Now Compiling Media News
Valley Wag &bull Mar 8, 2010
Since 2005, semi-automatic news aggregator TechMeme has become a front page for Silicon Valley and its leaderboard rankings a status obsession for writers. Now comes Mediagazer, the similarly cyborg compilation of media news. Egos are already trembling. Yes, Mediagazer founding… Full Story »
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Mediagazer launches as the Techmeme of media
Venture Beat &bull Mar 8, 2010
Today Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera launched Mediagazer, his latest news aggregator. The site will cover the latest media news, from the production side, to distribution and new technologies. Mediagazer features the same hybrid approach of automatic and manual editing for… Full Story »
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New Vertical Coming From News Aggregator Techmeme: Mediagazer
Paid Content Yahoo &bull Mar 8, 2010
It took just two years for Gabe Rivera to have four verticals, including tech "front page" Techmeme, running off his algorithm for discovering and highlighting news. The fourth site, BallBug, launched for opening day in 2006. It took four years… Full Story »
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Vook, Maker of Multimedia E-Books, Raises $2.5 Million (Brad Stone/Bits)
Techmeme &bull Feb 19, 2010
Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store? Apple may have just made a major change to the App Store that could render many developers' applications worthless. Apple plans dual graphics enhancements on future MacBook Pros One of the advances Apple plans for future MacBook Pro models is an improvement to the handling of the notebooks' dual graphics chips, AppleInsider has learned. The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Over the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin offering a Web browser choice screen to… Full Story »
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Will You Pay for Hulu on the iPad? It May Be Your Only Choice. (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)
Techmeme &bull Feb 19, 2010
Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store? Apple may have just made a major change to the App Store that could render many developers' applications worthless. A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. The Browser Choice Screen for Europe: What to Expect, When to Expect It Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Over the next few weeks, Microsoft will begin offering a Web browser… Full Story »
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Apple plans dual graphics enhancements on future MacBook Pros (Kasper Jade/AppleInsider)
Techmeme &bull Feb 19, 2010
Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store? Apple may have just made a major change to the App Store that could render many developers' applications worthless. A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. Sprint Says First 4G Handset Will Launch By Summer Elizabeth Woyke is a technology writer for Forbes How useful is a super-fast wireless broadband network if there are no super-speedy… Full Story »
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Sprint Says First 4G Handset Will Launch By Summer (Elizabeth Woyke/Forbes)
Techmeme &bull Feb 19, 2010
Did Apple Just Ban Sexual Content From The App Store? Apple may have just made a major change to the App Store that could render many developers' applications worthless. A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation. LMSD response to invasion of privacy allegation Last year, our district became one of the first school systems in the United States to provide laptop computers to all high school students. This… Full Story »
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Google Rumored to Be Eyeing Possible iTunes Competitor
Jatin Mahindra &bull Feb 18, 2010Rumor has it that Google is eyeing Beverly Hills-based CatchMedia as another possibility in a string of acquisitions. CatchMedia is a company that is focused on creating a "Play Anywhere" system, which lets consumers use their music/media content collection and… Full Story »
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Sony Ericsson CEO: Google asked us to build the Nexus One, we refused (Vladislav Savov/Engadget)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. Windows Phone 7 development docs leaked Click for larger versions. We can always count on XDA-Developers to bring us the news early. In this case it is some snippets of the developer documentation for Windows Phone 7. The above bit confirms the… Full Story »
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Local class action complaint filed over Google Buzz (James Temple/SFGate)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator Name a Web company that can have its employees leave, create new products, and then the company buys them out when they realize those employees were on to something. Google, that's who! Apple's Prices for E-Books May Be… Full Story »
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PC Makers Ready iPad Rivals (Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator Name a Web company that can have its employees leave, create new products, and then the company buys them out when they realize those employees were on to something. Google, that's who! Windows Mobile 6.5 to be redubbed Windows Phone… Full Story »
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Broad New Hacking Attack Detected (Siobhan Gorman/Wall Street Journal)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator Name a Web company that can have its employees leave, create new products, and then the company buys them out when they realize those employees were on to something. Google, that's who! While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. Windows Mobile 6.5 to be redubbed Windows… Full Story »
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Android-powered Motorola Backflip headed to ATT on March 7 for $100 on contract (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator Name a Web company that can have its employees leave, create new products, and then the company buys them out when they realize those employees were on to something. Google, that's who! While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. Windows Mobile 6.5 to be redubbed Windows Phone Classic? What, you didn't think Microsoft would really… Full Story »
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How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator (Clint Boulton/Google Watch)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator Name a Web company that can have its employees leave, create new products, and then the company buys them out when they realize those employees were on to something. Google, that's who! While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. Windows Mobile 6.5 to be redubbed Windows Phone Classic? What, you didn't… Full Story »
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Windows Mobile 6.5 to be redubbed Windows Phone Classic? (Ross Miller/Engadget)
Techmeme &bull Feb 18, 2010
I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team. Google Buys Mobile E-Mail Search Startup reMail Google's latest acquisition: reMail, a startup that sells an iPhone app that downloads users' e-mail to their phones, so that they can search it quickly. Windows Mobile 6.5 to be redubbed Windows Phone Classic? What, you didn't think Microsoft would really keep up with the non-parallel syntax of Windows Phone 7 Series and Windows Mobile 6.x, did you? Windows Phone Classic Microsoft shook… Full Story »
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AOL To Launch "Hundreds" Of Local News Sites In 2010 (Nicholas Carlson/Silicon Alley Insider)
Techmeme &bull Feb 17, 2010
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. A First Look At HBO Go: Curb Your Enthusiasm Today HBO announced it will be making its movies and TV Shows available on the Web to subscribers through HBO Go, which up until now has been in private beta. HBO Go is part of the cable industry's TV Everywhere strategy to make TV content available online to paying subscribers. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future… Full Story »
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Google Message Feature Moves Beyond Twitter (David Pogue/New York Times)
Techmeme &bull Feb 17, 2010
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook Buzz up! SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future and More! For a man scorned, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch looked awfully calm on my visit to the software company's San Francisco… Full Story »
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Typos may earn Google $500m a year (Jim Giles/New Scientist)
Techmeme &bull Feb 17, 2010
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook Buzz up! SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future and More! For a man scorned, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch looked awfully calm on my visit to the software company's San Francisco… Full Story »
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Integrating translation into Google Goggles (Hartmut Neven/Google Translate Blog)
Techmeme &bull Feb 17, 2010
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook Buzz up! SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. A Tesla spokesperson has confirmed three employees were involved in the crash. Palo Alto Hit By Power Outage; Related To Plane Crash; Report 3 Tesla Execs Killed (Updated) Palo Alto appears to be suffering… Full Story »
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For Apple suppliers, loose lips can sink contracts (Reuters)
Techmeme &bull Feb 17, 2010
Outlook Gets Social with LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace In November 2009, we announced both the beta of Microsoft Office 2010 as well as the Outlook Social Connector. Microsoft to pull Facebook, MySpace into Outlook Buzz up! SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is taking another step toward turning Outlook, its desktop e-mail program, into a hub for information from popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. A Tesla spokesperson has confirmed three employees were involved in the crash. Palo Alto Hit By Power Outage; Related To Plane Crash; Report 3 Tesla Execs Killed (Updated) Palo Alto appears to be suffering… Full Story »
