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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Microsoft Bails on “Family Guy” Special

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Results 1-10 for Your Search for “Pizza Joint Where Bill Got Food Poisoning”

socialsearch-thumbOn the heels of its deal to incorporate Twitter data into its search results, Google on Monday announced an experimental Labs feature that searches the social Web. Called Google Social Search, the service is intended to make search results more relevant by enhancing them with personalized social data.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Twitter in Microsoft/Google Three-Way, as Search Giant Crashes Data-Mining Party

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How nonexclusive is Microsoft’s deal with Twitter? So nonexclusive that just hours after Microsoft announced it, rival Google lurched forward to say that it has entered into a similar partnership with the microblogging service.

The search giant may be second to this party, but it’s not going to be late.
But make no mistake–this is very clearly a rush job. Microsoft has code running. Google does not.

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

MOTOBLUNDR?

cliqboxThe Cliq, Motorola’s first phone based on Google’s Android operating system, is headed to market and will arrive there Nov. 2. Sales to existing customers will begin Oct. 19 and open to the general public Nov. 4. T-Mobile USA has priced the handset at $199 with a two-year contract, which seems a bit dear considering you can get a 16GB iPhone 3GS for the same price.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

New Twitter Valuation Clearly in Need of Character Limit

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Weekend Update 9.19.09–The Real World, Silicon Valley Edition

Geekfighting may never become its own UFC event, but following tech news this week seemed, in places, like a view to a big, well-funded cage match.

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Friday, September 18, 2009

HP Names Golden Geek to Board of Directors

andreesen_timecovSilicon Valley luminary and Golden Geek cover model Marc Andreessen is adding another gig to his CV: Hewlett-Packard director. Andreessen, who sold his software company, Opsware, to HP two years ago for $1.6 billion, will begin serving on the board immediately, bringing its total number of directors to 11.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Facebook Breaks Even

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Facebook: We’re Big, Independent and Cash-Flow Positive

facebook-godzillaIn August 2008, Facebook claimed 100 million monthly active users worldwide. By April 2009, the social networking outfit doubled that number. In July, it reached 250 million monthly active users. And now, two months later, Facebook has passed 300 million. But more important: Facebook is cash-flow positive.

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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Weekend Update: 9.12.2009–Now in Eight Shiny New Colors

While the highlight jobs-2.0 of the week was undoubtedly Apple’s Rock and Roll event on Wednesday featuring Steve Jobs 2.0, that was only the anodized aluminum, candy-colored, video-shooting cherry on top of another week of tech sector reporting from All Things Digital.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Insert Lame “New Moto Phone CLIQs With Investors” Pun Here

motorocketthumbMotorola is getting a bit of long lost love from Wall Street today, now that it has unveiled the CLIQ–the Android-powered handset with which it hopes to regain market share in the intensely competitive cellphone business. Shares in the company spiked more than seven percent after the CLIQ announcement Thursday, and today they’re up well over six percent.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

And Lo, Jobs Appeared and Said “No, This Is the Best iPod Ever,” and It Was, and There Was Much Rejoicing

stevusWhen Steve Jobs described the iPhone at D5 as “the best iPod we’ve ever made,” he set the bar high for future iterations of the iconic device. Now, in the run-up to tomorrow’s invitation-only Apple event, the question is: Will Apple reach the bar? And with what? The answer, if the latest rumors prove true, depends on your feelings about iPods with cameras.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Sept. 9 Apple Event to be Tablet-Free

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Apple Event Scheduled for Wednesday Sept. 9–Music, NO Tablet

sept9It has happened every September since 2005, and in a few short weeks it will happen once again. Apple is indeed planning a keynote event for the week of Sept. 7. And according to sources close to the company, the date is Wednesday, Sept. 9. Sadly, it will not feature the tablet device the company is rumored to be developing.

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Tell Me Again How Twitter Is a Premier Source of Breaking News?

pearanalytics_thumbAccording to a recent study by Nielsen Online, Twitter’s audience-retention rate is currently about 40 percent. Which means that about 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users end up abandoning the service after a month. Why is Twitter struggling with low retention rates? Perhaps, because so many tweets are utter nonsense.

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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