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  11/06/09 6:30pm Computing, Home A/V Skype founders keep 14% of company, LinkedIn gets a redesign, Boxee beta to be available December 7

  Skype's founders and eBay have come to an agreement on the terms of the sale of Skype to private investors. The founders will… dig deeper

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  11/05/09 5:30pm Computing, Mobile, Gaming, Home A/V Google Dashboard brings all your Google app data under one roof, PS3 Netflix discs arrive Friday, T-Mobile HSPA 7.2 service rolling out now

  Google just launched a new site called Google Dashboard. It puts all the basic information about your usage of various Google apps… dig deeper

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  11/04/09 6:48pm Mobile, Computing Apple App Store now carries 100,000 apps, Google Friend Connect adds personalization features, Verizon to up early termination fee to $350 on "advanced devices"

  Apple just put out a press release saying that the App Store for the iPhone and the iPod touch now has more than 100,000 apps from… dig deeper

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  10/30/09 7:20pm Mobile, Computing Google Voice has 1.4 million users, Apple execs hint tablet might be for video, Bing mobile launches

  Google handed over Google Voice usage data when it was requested by regulators. It turns out the young service already has around… dig deeper

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  10/29/09 8:20pm Computing, Mobile WordPress for iPhone 2 announced, Twitter Lists goes live, Best Buy offers Motorola Droid presale with instant rebate

  If you've got an iPhone and your blog operates on the WordPress platform, you can manage it on the go; version 2.0 of the… dig deeper

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  10/28/09 8:00pm Computing, Mobile Google Maps GPS-like navigation announced for Android 2.0, Google officially unveils Music Search, UK government says pirates will be forced offline

  Google has announced the features of its Google Maps service for Android 2.0 cell phones. 3D views and turn-by-turn directions are… dig deeper

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  10/27/09 6:30pm Computing, Mobile Apple rumored to be pitching tablet to Australian media, Android 2.0 features now available to app developers, Google Wave to get an app store

  The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Apple has been sending inquiries to Australian media companies asking if they'd consider… dig deeper

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  10/27/09 4:25pm Mobile, Computing Google Voice: Now with your existing phone number and mobile voicemail

  Google just announced two significant improvements to its Voice service. First, you can now choose to use your own phone number.… dig deeper

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  10/26/09 5:35pm Computing, Gaming, Home A/V, Mobile 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… dig deeper

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  10/23/09 6:52pm Computing, Mobile 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… dig deeper

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  10/22/09 5:32pm Computing, Gaming, Mobile 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,… dig deeper

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  10/21/09 7:37pm Computing 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… dig deeper

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  10/19/09 6:30pm Computing, Mobile 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… dig deeper

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  10/16/09 7:10pm Computing, Gaming, Mobile 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… dig deeper

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  10/16/09 5:40pm Mobile, Computing Google Editions: Here's what we know so far

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  10/15/09 7:00pm Computing, Mobile 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… dig deeper

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  10/15/09 5:20pm Computing, Mobile Google Editions: Kindle-rivaling online book store will go live in 2010

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  10/13/09 7:30pm Computing iFrame: new Apple video format added in iMovie update, Best Buy behind 30% of retail computer sales, Gmail Labs adds "Got the Wrong Bob?" feature

  Apple has added support for a new, internally developed video format called iFrame to the 8.0.5 update of its iMovie video editing… dig deeper

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  10/12/09 6:30pm Computing, Mobile Blackra1n jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1.2 launches, T-Mobile Sidekick suffers data-killing hardware failure, Google Docs adds shared folders

  iPhone hacker geohot has already cracked iPhone OS 3.1.2. You can download and install an update per his instructions to jailbreak… dig deeper

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  10/09/09 3:10pm Computing YouTube serves one billion per day

  YouTube Blog: http://bit.ly/2RrXnW dig deeper

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