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What ChromeOS Means For Netbooks And Why Microsoft Needs To Be Scared
While you won't be able to sense it at first, expect to feel a high frequency buzz from the direction of Redmond in the next few months. That's the Windows 7 and Office group fearing the rise of a new juggernaut on low-cost computing hardware, ChromeOS. ChromeOS may not be powerful, it may not play …
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BigDeal.com Reinvents And Legitimizes Swoopo’s Controversial Auction Bidding Model
We recently wrote about stealth startup Project Fair Bid, which aimed to reinvent and legitimize a controversial bidding model pioneered by Swoopo. Today, Project Fair Bid is emerging from its cocoon as BigDeal.com, an auction-based e-commerce site which takes a different twist on the questionable p …
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Video: Google Chrome OS’s Interface, 7 Second Boot Time, And More
This morning Google unveiled its much-anticipated new operating system, Google Chrome OS. We were there to liveblog the event, and we also captured a portion of the live video stream that Google was broadcasting. This clip below includes a look at Chromes incredibly short boot time (clocking in at …
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Video: Chrome OS For Dummies
Still not sure why Google is building its own operating system? It created this animated video to try to explain why the Web needs a new OS, and why that OS should be Chrome. Google just showed the video at its Chrome OS press event which MG is liveblogging. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Ga …
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Twitter Now Asks “What’s Happening”
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isnt such a huge deal but its definitely worth mention. Twitters prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been What are you doing since the microblogging platform launched. Today, its …
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Live From Google’s Chrome OS Event
Were here today in Mountain View, CA at the Googleplex for an event during which Google is promising to give a lot of details about Chrome OS. This includes a full product rundown and details about the formal launch, which is expected to occur early next year. Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product M …
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iPhone Ad Network Greystripe Rolls Out Guaranteed Download Program
There continue to be conflicting views as to whether iPhone developers actually make money from ads on the iPhone. One issue is that free app developers who advertise in games end up paying on a CPC basis, in which the click takes the visitor to the App Store. But often times the actual download do …
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Say Hello To Chromium OS, The Open Source Chrome OS (Source Code)
Ahead of its press event to talk about the new Chrome OS Google has just posted the source code for Chrome OS on the Chromium site. As you can see in the file structure, Google is doing the same thing it does with Chrome, which is based off of Chromium, the open-source component. So yes, it does app …
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More Details On SimpleGeo, The AWS For Location
This morning at Under the Radar, former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan are taking the stage to unveil SimpleGeo, their new infrastructure for location based services. Weve been following the company over the last few months and uncovered some basic details ear …
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As AOL Heads For An IPO, It Leaves 2500 Employees Behind
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this morning informed staff that the company will be looking for 2,500 people to voluntarily hand in their resignations, which would represent about one third of the company’s payroll. The news comes a mere week after AOL, which is preparing to spin off Time Warner and go publ …
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Livescribe’s Pulse Smartpen Gets An App Store
In the end, everything will have an app store. Take the Pulse smartpen from Livescribe, for example. The company, whose pen is quite cool (it records what you write and can "remember" things on page, allowing for paper-based calculators and control panels), has just launched an app store for its 2- …
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TheFind Launches Comparison Shopping Feature
In time for the holiday shopping season, TheFind, a technology-heavy shopping search engine, has launched a nifty comparison shopping feature thats worth a spin. When you do a search for a product on the find, you can now choose to see the best price view. For now, the feature is only available for …
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Jolicloud Steps Up Its Game As Pre-Launch Excitement For Chrome OS Builds
In a couple of hours, Google is going to share more details about its upcoming operating system Chrome OS at an event in Mountain View that will most likely be covered from start to finish by TechCrunch writers (and then some) as well as a slew of other media outlets. Jolicloud, that other OS for ne …
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Review: eMotion Social-Connect Digital Photo Frame Plus A Giveaway
I've suffered much when it comes to digital photo frames. I purchased a number of frames from multiple manufacturers for multiple members of my family with the expectation that I would, for time immemorial, be able to email said frames images, thus allowing family members the opportunity to see new …
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Entrepreneurs: Start. This. Company. Now.
BANGALORE, INDIA It’s almost as if Russian cell phone carrier MTS has bought the naming rights to Bangalore. I half expected my immigration stamp to read “BANGALORE! ™ BROUGHT TO YOU BY MTS.” The carrier recently launched service in the uber-competitive Indian telecom market and has erected billboa …
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Twitter’s New Retweets Work Via SMS Too
First of all, yes, everyone on Twitter now should have access to the new Retweet functionality. Currently, only Twitter.com and a handful of clients support the new mechanism. But did you know that you can also trigger the new Retweets via SMS? As the Twitter mobile account noted earlier tonight, if …
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Yammer Continues To Push Features I Want On Twitter
Yammer, a twitter-like service for closed groups, continues to add new features that I wish Twitter would implement as well. In the last day or so they added a simple notification for unread messages that syncs across the many ways users can access the service (mobile, AIR, browser). The notificatio …
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Engadget’s Secret New Redesign Revealed!
Okay, weve uncovered Engadgets big secret: Surprise, redesign! (No, sadly, its not a golden heffer or starchild or iPhone-killer.) The new look is quite magazine-like. Look for it to go live shortly. Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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Engadget Teases. Techmeme Responds. TechCrunch Ridicules.
This message currently graces every page on Engadget. Were not sure what theyre up to [Update: Yes we are.], but its promised to be awesome awesome stuff, editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky tweets. In fact, beyond the in your face teaser promising that, Whats next is coming now. Stay close., Topolsky h …
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CrunchGear Gift Guide 2009: Portable Media Players
The common portable media player has a tough existence. It's expected to handle many tasks well, while being rugged enough to withstand daily (ab)use. It's expected to look nice, it's expected to provide more-than-decent battery life, and it's expected to provide a simple enough interface that it ca …
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