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Tomorrow We'll Find Out How Cisco Intends To “Forever Change The Internet" [Internet]

2 days on gizmodo.com

Tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM PST Cisco Systems will be making an announcement which will "forever change the Internet." This means we've got a nearly all night to speculate, make bets, and daydream of life changing technologies....

Cisco shows off Internet super-router

23.1 hours on news.techworld.com

Not game-changer, but still bigHyped as the router that would ‘change forever the face of the Internet', Cisco has launched its new CRS-3 system as the box it predicts will stream video into the Net's darkest...

Cisco ushers in “next-generation internet”, routing platform scales up to 332 Tbps/s [Video]

28.7 hours on slashgear.com

After a momentous announcement yesterday that it would unveil something today that would “forever change the internet”, Cisco has introduced its internet changer, the Cisco CRS-3 Carrier Routing System....

Cisco's New Router To Delivers 322 Terabits per Second on digg.com, 31.1 hours

Cisco touts new core router's 100G Ethernet, energy efficiency on computerworld.com, 36.5 hours

Cisco exec touts new core router's 100G Ethernet, energy efficiency on thestandard.com, 36.5 hours

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50+ ARM Tablets In 2010

18.9 hours on i4u.com

Had enough of tablets yet? If so, I've got some bad news; you ain't seen nothing yet. Yahoo News reports (via Electronista) that ARM's global mobile device manager expects over 50 ARM-based tablet devices to launch in 2010. The first of...

ARM: 50 Tablets Expected This Year

17.8 hours on jkontherun.com

Mobile chipmaker ARM is basking in the attention the iPad is getting. ARM chips are used in all sorts of mobile gadgets, especially in the expected flood of tablets to be released this year. An ARM executive in Taipei has indicated the company expects...

50+ ARM-based tablets coming this year… how many will survive?

19 hours on liliputing.com

There’s absolutely no evidence that consumers desperately want touchscreen tablets that fill the gap we hadn’t really known existed between smartphones and traditional laptops. But PC and electronics makers are desperate for a new...

ARM: Over 50 tablets will launch in 2010 on pocket-lint.com, 19.3 hours

ARM expects over 50 ARM tablets in 2010 alone on electronista.com, 21.3 hours

An Onslaught of Tablets Coming This Year on mashable.com, 22.9 hours

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Google Maps Adds Bike Trails

14.2 hours on blog.searchenginewatch.com

Just in time for spring, Google is helping you enjoy the great outdoors by adding bike trails to Maps.Click to read the rest of this post... ...

New! Get Bike Directions on Google Maps

13 hours on geeksugar.com

When the weather gets nice, I love riding my bike everywhere: to work, to meet friends, around the neighborhood. And I always feel a surge of excitement when I find a new, easier, or faster route to my destination. Now, it's going to get a whole...

Google Maps for mobile will feature biking directions

14.6 hours on unwiredview.com

Google has just announced the availability of biking directions for the desktop version of Google Maps, saying that it plans to add the new feature to the mobile version, too. Google mentions that biking directions has been the most requested addition...

Google Maps Adds Pedal Power with Bicycle Directions on digitaltrends.com, 15.7 hours

Google Maps adds biking routes for the intrepid cyclist on latimesblogs.latimes.com, 16.1 hours

Google adds biking directions to Maps on neowin.net, 16.5 hours

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Rumor: Cisco Prepping New Flip Video Cameras [Cisco]

16.9 hours on gizmodo.com

Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that Cisco is prepping a new line of Flip video cameras to be announced next month at the NAB conference in Vegas. Makes sense! No details on the models themselves,...

LEAKED: Cisco Preparing To Launch New Flip Cameras (CSCO)

17.8 hours on businessinsider.com

Last week someone sent me specs for new Flip cameras Cisco is preparing to launch around the NAB time frame. While I've been able to confirm that new cameras are in fact on the way, I have not been able to verify that the specs I have been sent are...

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Street Fighter IV Goes to the iPhone, Haduken!

23.6 hours on 901am.com

This is it folks! Finally, the iPhone is becoming a rich portable gaming device in the likes of the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. Recently, the classic Final Fantasy I and II games were released. I’m currently finishing FF I and loving every...

Street Fighter IV: as good as you can expect on the iPhone

16.8 hours on arstechnica.com

Street Fighter IV is now available on Apple's App Store; you can pick it up right now for $10 if you'd like to see what Capcom can do with Apple's hardware. Capcom also threw quite the party at GDC, allowing the press and community...

$9.99: Street Fighter IV for iPhone hits the App Store

19.3 hours on crunchgear.com

We’ve spent three posts covering Street Fighter IV for the iPhone so far, and this fourth one is intended to inform you Capcom’s latest game has finally arrived in the App Store (I checked the US, German and Japanese store). Capcom...

Street Fighter IV iPhone Released on the App Store on intomobile.com, 19.3 hours

TiPb Apps 4.3: Street Fighter IV for iPhone (GDC 2010) on tipb.com, 20.9 hours

Street Fighter IV for iPhone fights its way into App store on pocket-lint.com, 24.1 hours

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Google Opens Apps Marketplace for Business

28.9 hours on searchenginejournal.com

I pretty much remember when talks about Google launching its own store for web apps started circulating before.  But Google remained mum about it until now.  The Google Apps Marketplace has been launched and is now open for business. So...

Google Apps Marketplace opens for business, for business

15.4 hours on engadget.com

Google's certainly made some enterprise inroads with Google Apps, and now it's open the road for other cloud-based service providers to build on that success: it's launching Google Apps Marketplace to sell third-party web apps that...

Google Apps Marketplace Officially Opens

18.8 hours on blogs.wsj.com

Google announced last night that it is officially opening its Google Apps Marketplace — a store for online business software that works with Google’s products but is designed by outside developers. As the Journal’s Jessica...

Google Opens Apps Marketplace, Asks Developers To Help It Kill Microsoft Office (GOOG, MSFT) on businessinsider.com, 19.4 hours

Google Apps Marketplace well stocked, highlights ecosystem on blogs.zdnet.com, 19.5 hours

Google announces a new Apps Marketplace on vator.tv, 20.3 hours

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Two new gestures coming to iPhone OS: long press and three finger tap

13.3 hours on mobilecrunch.com

Tired of all that boring ol’ two finger pinching-and-zooming and swiping on the iPhone? Ready for some fancy new gestures to be thrown into the mix? Wish granted. Soon. Maybe. Last night, Apple released a new beta of iPhone OS 3.2 to...

New Gestures coming to an iPhone/iPad near you: triple tap and long press

16 hours on 9to5mac.com

On the surface, the latest iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK didn't have much new information.  Diving a little deeper however, we find some very exciting news.   In the gestures folder, you'll see two new types of commands (3Tap.plist...

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Is Google Search Coming to Your TV?

3 days on mashable.com

Google is testing a new television programming search service in conjunction with Dish Network, according to The Wall Street Journal.The service, which appears to be very much in a limited testing phase, runs on a special set-top box and apparently...

Google testing TV search with Dish Network

15.6 hours on geek.com

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that Google is not happy to just provide search on your computer or mobile phone. Now it seems to be dipping its toes in the water when it comes to providing search for your television. According to the WSJ...

Google working on Android-powered set-top box with Dish Network

19.3 hours on macdailynews.com

Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network...

Google Tinkers with TV Search Using Custom Set-Top Box on digitaltrends.com, 37.7 hours

Google tests TV set-top search, says report on theregister.co.uk, 38.9 hours

Google Playing with TV Search Service Via Set-top Boxes on eweek.com, 39.7 hours

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OnLive launching in June, starts at $14.95 per month

14.1 hours on techspot.com

It's been almost a year since OnLive first unveiled its ambitious games-on-demand service at the 2009 Game Developers Conference. Now, after going through a rather limited "public" beta stage and facing both praise and skepticism, the...

OnLive launching in June, $15 a month

2.4 hours on techradar.com

Cloud gaming service OnLive is set to launch in the US this coming June with up to 20 titles at launch, it was announced at GDC this week.OnLive CEO Steve Perlman and COO Mike McGarvey detailed the plans for the launch and the developer/publisher...

OnLive cloud-based game service to launch June 17th at $15 per month

6.3 hours on slashgear.com

Well, what can we say, but it’s finally here.  After almost 8 years of development and millions of lines of code, OnLive, the gaming equivalent of cloud-computing technology is set to take the gaming world by storm on June 17th,...

OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June on slashdot.org, 11.1 hours

OnLive Starts Streaming Games On Demand This June For $15 A Month [Gdc10] on kotaku.com, 12.9 hours

Cloud video game service OnLive to launch in June on reuters.com, 13.7 hours

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Google flips switch on mobile YouTube banner ads

16.3 hours on theregister.co.uk

Phone vid traffic up '160%' Google is now serving ads on the mobile incarnation of YouTube.… Offloading malware protection to the...

YouTube Mobile Now Serving Banner Ads

12 hours on searchenginejournal.com

With the ever growing site traffic of  of  YouTube mobile site, it is not surprising that  Google will take advantage of this to serve advertisements.  In 2009, YouTube mobile’s site traffic increased by 160%. You can just...

Google launches advertising on YouTube mobile

14.4 hours on digg.com

Google today announced that it will now be adding banner dvertising to its YouTube mobile sites. According to the company’s blog, the ads will appear on U.S. and Japanese mobile websites for home, browser and search...

YouTube Steps Cautiously Into Mobile Ads on allthingsd.com, 14.6 hours

Google launches mobile ads on YouTube mobile websites on mobileburn.com, 16.6 hours

YouTube Deploys Ads on Mobile Site on mashable.com, 17 hours

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Once-fading MySpace undergoes youthful reincarnation

35.1 hours on usatoday.com

MySpace thinks it can survive even thrive as a repository for all things music, Avatar and Twilight for the under-35...

MySpace hopes games will emulate music success

14.1 hours on gamesindustry.biz

MySpace has told GamesIndustry.biz that it hopes that its concentrated push into games will emulate the success it's already achieved in the music business. Speaking in an exclusive...

MySpace Revamp, Savior or Scourge?

15.3 hours on bub.blicio.us

MySpace sold its soul to NewsCorp years ago, and both parties may have regretted that ever since. The ongoing overhaul of MySpace’s site and services maintain the company’s hopes towards regaining its world dominance, but...

Interview: MySpace's Mike Jones on gamesindustry.biz, 16.3 hours

New MySpace Co-Presidents Outline Makeover on digitaltrends.com, 17.2 hours

Back to the future at MySpace? on news.cnet.com, 19.4 hours

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Palm: Pre Plus Price Down to $29.99 On Wal-Mart.com

14.7 hours on allthingsd.com

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader Daily The price of Palm (PALM) handsets just keeps dropping. Last time I checked, in late February, you could get yourself a Pre or Pre Plus for just $69.99 with a two-year contract...

Palm: Pre Plus Price Down To $29.99 On Wal-Mart.com

15.8 hours on blogs.barrons.com

The price of Palm (PALM) handsets just keeps dropping. Last time I checked, in late February, you could get yourself a Pre or Pre Plus for just $69.99 with a two-year contract through Wal-Mart (WMT). But that was light years ago in the rapidly eroding...

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iPhone Apps Leap out on to Your Fridge as App Magnets

26.9 hours on chipchick.com

Looking to style your fridge to look like one big iPhone? Well no need to buy the handmade stuff over at Etsy. The App Magnets are the first of its kind that are authentic to the actual iPhone applications. Now you can hold up a piece of paper that says...

Irresistible iPhone Apps Fridge Magnets [IPhone]

10.3 hours on gizmodo.com

$13 dollars. Whole package. Must. Resist. More » ...

Aw, iPhone app fridge magnets

11.2 hours on mobilecrunch.com

Take a break from reading our hard-hitting news coverage and take a look at these cute little things. Perfect stocking stuffer (I know, a little early) for your favorite app developer and/or iPhone fanatic. What with these things, those Android...

iPhone App Magnet Set on gadgetreview.com, 15.4 hours

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RIM working on Twitter, LinkedIn apps for business

9.4 hours on intomobile.com

According to the latest BlackBerry Connection Newsletter, Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) is working on enterprise applications for Twitter and LinkedIn.The LinkedIn one seems like a natural fit and you’ll be able to send messages, check...

RIM Planning LinkedIN and Twitter Business Applications

17.6 hours on slashphone.com

We’ll just go ahead and say it: Twitter is a business application. That’s right, you’re not seeing a question mark there. We understand that a lot of companies, businesses, and everything in between (us included) use...

Twitter For BlackBerry And Linked In Apps Coming Soon According To RIM Newsletter

18.8 hours on crackberry.com

I guess I could kind of take this as some kind acknowledgement of the article I wrote the other day in one way or another. The most recent BlackBerry Connection Newsletter which was sent out yesterday makes note of two new apps coming for Business...

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FCC Battles Telecoms to Deliver Cheap National Broadband to Citizens

20.3 hours on dailytech.com

Telecoms are refusing to sell their wireless airwaves to the...

Ask FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski About The Internet On YouTube

15.3 hours on techcrunch.com

In the second installment of a series of open interviews with government leaders, YouTube is going to field questions to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, following the launch of the National Broadband Plan next Tuesday (The...

YouTube To Host FCC Chief

17.8 hours on techdailydose.nationaljournal.com

After last month's session with President Obama, YouTube will be hosting its second in-person interview later this month with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, YouTube announced Wednesday. The session will take place next Tuesday, the day the FCC...

FCC Will Release Broadband Plan One Day Early - Next Tuesday, March 16, at 10:30 EST on dslreports.com, 20.8 hours

FCC considering national wireless broadband network on teleread.org, 21 hours

The Internet in America: A YouTube Interview with the FCC on youtube-global.blogspot.com, 21.3 hours

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LG LX9900 LED TV Hitting Stores in May

15.2 hours on slashgear.com

And with it, will come 3D. That’s right, we bet you didn’t see that coming, right? LG is expanding their current 3D TV portfolio, and hoping that the competition doesn’t bog down the selection too much. There are plenty to...

LG LX9900 LED TV to bring 3D TV to your lounge in May

17.3 hours on pocket-lint.com

Combined with 3D Blu-ray player should make perfect package LG has confirmed that its 3D TV?portfolio will spring into action in May going up against the barrage of other sets from Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and Philips. Although the...

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The Asus Cine5 speaker brings surround sound to your bedroom, desk

15.8 hours on crunchgear.com

Surround sound bars are generally about the width of a 42-inch flat panel, which is perfect if you have a large TV. But Asus now has a solution for smaller sets and computers with the Cine5 PC speaker that claims to accurately recreate the surround...

ASUS Cine5 Surround Sound Bar

13 hours on gadgetreview.com

Praise the gods of ASUS!  Having never wanted to say that, ASUS brings us their new surround sound bar named the Cine5.  Boasting an accurate surround sound experience, the Cine5 speaker is just under 15 inches long and packs 5 speakers with...

Asus Cine5 Speaker Brings Surround Sound to a Small Package

14.1 hours on slashgear.com

We can still remember the days when you needed a whole bunch of wires, strung up along the wall or hidden beneath the carpet, and speakers placed methodically throughout a living room or bedroom, to recreate that beautiful surround sound experience we...

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Newegg IDs source of counterfeit Intel Core i7 CPUs

41.2 hours on blogs.zdnet.com

Retailer Newegg has identified the source of the counterfeit Core i7 processors that entered its supply chain and has issued the following...

Unboxing the fake Intel Core i7 that NewEgg was shipping

19.1 hours on digg.com

By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. We have one in the...

Newegg drops supplier over counterfeit Intel processors

43.3 hours on techspot.com

Newegg has issued an official update on the Intel Core i7 processor fiasco that came to light over the weekend. Turns out that IPEX, not D&H Distributing as initially believed, was responsible for supplying the bogus chips and as a result its...

Fake Intel chips sold in US on news.techworld.com, 45.5 hours

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Potential console killer OnLive to go live June 17

15.9 hours on news.cnet.com

The company said it will launch with partners like Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and THQ, and will begin unveiling its games lineup before E3. But will it...

OnLive game service to launch on June 17 in the US for $15 a month

6.8 hours on neowin.net

Speaking in an interview with MCV, OnLive Chief Operating Officer Mike McGarvey has confirmed a launch date of June 17 in the United States, with PC and Mac support included day one. Subscriptions for the cloud-based service will cost $14.95 per...

Streaming Games Console-Killer OnLive Set To Launch June 17

14 hours on businessinsider.com

OnLive, a streaming video game platform, will be released on June 17, the company announced today. Read the rest of this story »See Also:The Wii Has Already Won This Generation's Console WarWebTV Founder Pitches New Game Console To Take...

OnLive Game Service to launch on June 17 in the US for $15 a month on engadget.com, 14.1 hours

OnLive Streams Video Games to Your Desktop Starting June 17 on digitaltrends.com, 14.1 hours

OnLive to go live June 17 on vator.tv, 14.3 hours

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hi5 CEO: Facebook’s game strategy is schizophrenic

13.2 hours on thestandard.com

As social network hi5 refocuses on gaming, chief executive Alex St. John has been happy to criticize his giant competitor, Facebook. He elaborated on that criticism today at our GamesBeat@GDC event, where he shared the stage with Facebook platform...

Social network hi5 launches program to court game developers

16.3 hours on venturebeat.com

Social network hi5 is unveiling a program today that it hopes will snare more social game developers who will make exclusive games for its 50 million users. The San Francisco company has been ramping up its strategic shift into games for a while. It...

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The MySpace Exodus Continues: Three Key Employees Go To Gravity (NWS)

22.1 hours on businessinsider.com

From TechCrunch: More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto. Continue reading at...

More Talent Walks Out The Door At MySpace: Three Key Employees Go To Gravity

27.1 hours on techcrunch.com

More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto. We covered Gravity’s launch...

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Eerste ervaring met de LG Cookie Music, Cookie Plus en Cookie Fresh

18.3 hours on allaboutphones.nl

Tijdens een persbijeenkomst in Nederland liet LG haar nieuwe Cookie-familie zien. Het nieuwe trio draagt de namen Cookie Music, Cookie Fresh en tot slot de Cookie Plus. All About Phones mocht er alvast even mee...

LG Cookie Music, Pure, GT405, KS365 and Jacquar 5 unveiled

13.5 hours on unwiredview.com

Not long after officially announcing the LG Cookie Fresh GS290, LG has showcased several other new phones in the Netherlands. The phones are: LG Cookie Music KM570, LG Pure, LG GT405, LG KS365 and LG Jacquar 5. LG Cookie Music looks a lot like the...

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Razer Plans Future Mac Support, Also Adding Existing Products

13.6 hours on slashgear.com

It’s only been a couple days since the official announcement heard ’round the world: Valve is releasing Steam for Mac. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, one of the biggest reasons Mac users were running BootCamp on their...

Razer plans Mac support for all future peripherals

15.6 hours on electronista.com

Today at the currently ongoing Game Developer's Conference, gaming peripherals maker Razer said that it will release drivers that will give Mac users the ability to play with all upcoming Razer products. The company will also backtrack and release...

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China Mobile invests $5.8 billion in Chinese bank to develop mobile banking

19.9 hours on mobileburn.com

China Mobile today said that it plans to invest 39.8 billion yuan ($5.8 billion) in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank as a means to help spur mobile phone banking and services such as mobile bank cards, payments, and money transfers. Read the full story...

China Mobile investing $5.8B in Chinese bank

22.4 hours on tech.yahoo.com

AP - China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Wednesday it was investing $5.8 billion in a Chinese bank as part of a plan to develop mobile phone banking and business...

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Study: 79% of Twitter Accounts Are Not Actively Used

17.9 hours on marketingpilgrim.com

Lots of cool Twitter statistics coming out of Barracuda Networks new study (pdf). Where do I start? 21% of Twitter users are actually using the service–meaning that have at least 10 followers, follow at least 10 people, and...

Twitter's Wallflowers Get a Little Less Timid. But It's Still a Service For Watchers, Not Talkers

19.1 hours on allthingsd.com

Twitter gets described as a conversation or a cocktail party, but it’s really more like a stage play. A few people do all the talking, and everyone else watches and listens. But that’s changing, a bit, as the service grows. Barracuda...

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