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New York Times editor Bill Keller says Apple tablet is "impending," Sony PlayStation 3 gets Netflix streaming, Facebook Share adds counter and other new features
Bill Keller is the Executive Editor of The New York Times, so he ought to have some inside information about what the company is up to. And when speaking to an audience of fellow insiders, he named "the impending Apple slate" as one of the devices The New York Times plans to bring its digital content to.Streaming movies and TV episodes from Netflix have been a source of bragging rights for Xbox 360 advocates, but Microsoft's exclusivity deal seems to have ended, as Netflix and Sony just announced that within a few weeks the PlayStation 3 will offer Watch Instantly content as well.
Facebook has revamped its "Share" feature, which folks with websites use to embed a button that helps readers share content with their Facebook friends. Like competing services, Facebook Share now shows a total share count so you can see how popular an item is on Facebook, along with a few back-end improvements.
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Facebook homepage revamp goes live, Netflix streaming-only service launches outside U.S., Amazon plans Mac Kindle software too
Changes to Facebook's home page went live today. The home page is now split into two views — Live Feed and News Feed. The latter uses past traffic and friends' activity to identify and show only the stories it determines you will find most interesting, while the Live Feed shows everything as it happens in real time.
Netflix's CEO said in a conference call that the company will finally offer a streaming-only service without packaging the DVD-by-mail plan. However, that service will at least at first only be available in a foreign market. He didn't say which one.
Amazon just launched Kindle reader software for the PC, but it only works on Windows computers. However, an Amazon rep has just said that the company is working on an application for Macs as well.
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Steve Ballmer says Xbox 360 Blu-ray add-on is coming, Bing Facebook search to go live within two months, Microsoft stores open in Scottsdale and Paris
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Gizmodo in an interview today that the Xbox 360 gaming console will finally get a Blu-ray add-on, though he didn't say when it will arrive or how much it will cost. He backtracked a bit to a "no comment" when Gizmodo pried for more information.Yesterday we found out that Bing will offer live search of public Facebook status updates. Now we have a vague time frame: the feature will go live sometime within the next two months.
Coinciding with the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has finally opened the doors to its retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona (the Phoenix area) and its "Windows cafe" in Paris.
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Google and Bing add Twitter real-time search, Amazon calls Windows 7 "biggest pre-order product of all time," Google joins forces with iLike and LaLa for music search
Google and Bing are now both offering real-time searches of Twitter updates. Bing will also search Facebook statuses in the near future.Amazon UK has announced that Windows 7 has beaten the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the most pre-ordered product to date. The only product that has sold more copies over the past three months is Dan Brown's latest book.
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Apple round-up: New iMacs, MacBook, Mac mini, Magic Mouse, Remote
There was an avalanche of new Apple product announcements today. Here's all our coverage in one place!
Today was a red letter day for members of the cult of Macintosh. Apple announced several long overdue and rumored product updates in an attempt to steal some of Microsoft's Windows 7 thunder. We've covered most of it here at Obsessable. Here's the information you're looking for.
- MacBook refresh with unibody design and LED-backlit display
- iMac with new design, better specs, and eventual quad-core processing
- Mac mini with specs bump and new, optical drive-less server edition with 2 TB of storage
- Magic Mouse with multi-touch surface and gestures
- Remote with new black-and-silver design
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Facebook to get new home page again, Apple sells 7.4 million iPhones, Google offers free Wi-Fi on Virgin holiday flights
Facebook will soon make changes to its home screen again. This time it's adding two new ways of viewing your news feed: "Recent Activity" and "Top News" to help people sort through things they might have missed. It's also reintroducing items that used to be in the feed but aren't anymore, like event RSVPs, friend adds, and relationship changes.
Apple just released its fourth quarter financial report, and it's mostly great news. It was the company's most profitable quarter of all time, and that's due in no small part to the iPhone. The report also revealed that Apple has sold 7.4 million iPhones to date.
Google announced on its blog that it is offering free Wi-Fi on all Virgin Airlines flights between November 10th and January 15th, a welcome boon for holiday travelers and good PR for the company.
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Researcher: YouTube has no bandwidth traffic costs, Microsoft store grand opening rumored to be October 22, Google Street View taking suggestions for off-road trike project
Google spends almost nothing on bandwidth from ISPs, the chief scientist at Arbor Networks says. The company uses up 10% of all bandwidth on the internet — 6% is used by YouTube specifically — and traditional pricing models don't apply. Instead, the company uses something called "dark fiber" and trades bandwidth with providers.
Tipsters have told Engadget that the first Microsoft retail stores will open on October 22nd to coincide with the Windows 7 launch, and that they'll have everything from a Genius Bar-esque help desk to 94-inch displays with attached, playable Xbox 360s.
Google is now using a trike to snap Street View photos of places where the good ol' Street View van can't reach. It's accepting submissions of recommendations as to where it should send that trike next.
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Microsoft says most T-Mobile Sidekick data has been restored, Amazon now offers same-day delivery, new Apple iMacs may not do Blu-ray after all
A Microsoft rep has said that most of the data lost in the T-Mobile Sidekick failure is being recovered, and that users will be able reclaim their personal info.If you place your order between 10 AM and 1 PM, Amazon will now deliver it by the end of that same day in some cities — for a fee, of course. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Seattle are the first cities, and Chicago, Phoenix, and Indianapolis are right around the corner.
AppleInsider's sources say that the rumored plans to add Blu-ray to the company's new line of iMac desktop computers has been canceled. They also say that Intel's quad-core Core i7 processors could make an appearance in the line.
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Google Editions: Kindle-rivaling online book store will go live in 2010
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Google has formally announced its plans to launch an online book store called Google Editions. The service will work over the web, but its books will be readable on a wide variety of devices, including e-readers, cell phones, and of course regular computers. It could be a big challenge to Amazon's Kindle store. Google Editions is expected to launch in the middle of 2010 with between 400,000 and 600,000 titles.Around the web: tech.yahoo.com
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NVIDIA Tegra chosen for new Nintendo DS, Wi-Fi tech upgrade would enable P2P Wi-Fi on any device, Finland declares broadband internet a legal right
NVIDIA's Tegra platform, which includes both a CPU and a GPU, has been selected as the basis for the hardware of the successor to the wildly popular Nintendo DS handheld gaming console.The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced that upgrades to the standard Wi-Fi technology will enable direct connections between Wi-Fi enabled devices without a WLAN router in between, with a maximum radius of 300 feet. The technology is expected to debut in the middle of 2010.
The Finnish government has passed a law that guarantees broadband internet access to all 5.5 million residents of the country. It's the first country to guarantee its citizens broadband — an impressive feat, considering that many other countries are struggling to guarantee much more basic needs.
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