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Archive for September 1st, 2009

More Evidence That Snow Leopard Is a Touchscreen Operating System (Leander Kahney/Cult of Mac)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
More Evidence That Snow Leopard Is a Touchscreen Operating System  —  The more I play with Snow Leopard, the more it looks like it’s designed to run Apple’s upcoming tablet.  —  Look at Expose in the Dock — the new feature that reveals all an application’s open windows when […]

Microsoft and Intel start acting like Wintel on Windows 7 launch (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft and Intel start acting like Wintel on Windows 7 launch  —  Microsoft and Intel have been collaborating for decades, but for the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, they say that they have collaborated more closely than ever before.  The result is improvements …

More on today’s Gmail issue (Gmail Blog)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Gmail Blog:
More on today’s Gmail issue  —  Posted by Ben Treynor, VP Engineering and Site Reliability Czar  —  Gmail’s web interface had a widespread outage earlier today, lasting about 100 minutes.  We know how many people rely on Gmail for personal and professional communications …

Developers, Be Warned: Apple Has Apparently Trademarked Those Glossy Chat Bubbles (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Developers, Be Warned: Apple Has Apparently Trademarked Those Glossy Chat Bubbles  —  Last night, we wrote about another developer thoroughly bashing the app store for its inane approval policies.  This time it was well known developer Joe Stump, who had an important bug-fix …

Pass the lubricant as we’re getting f**ked by Apple too (Joe/joestump.net)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Joe / joestump.net:
Pass the lubricant as we’re getting f**ked by Apple too  —  Stories of developers being absolutely bent over the barrel and f**ked hard aren’t new, but I’ve got no other recourse so I’m throwing Blunder Move’s story into the ring.  What makes our story different?  I’m lucky enough to personally know people […]

Today’s Gmail problems (Gmail Blog)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Gmail Blog:
Today’s Gmail problems  —  We know many of you are having trouble accessing Gmail right now — we are too, and we definitely feel your pain.  We don’t usually post about minor issues here (the Apps status dashboard and the Gmail Help Center are usually where this kind of information goes).

The News is NowPublic: Cit-J Site Sold To Anschutz’s Examiner.com … (David Kaplan/paidContent)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

David Kaplan / paidContent:
The News is NowPublic: Cit-J Site Sold To Anschutz’s Examiner.com; Price Around $25 Million  —  You’re reading it here first: After several months of trying to get the deal done, Citizen-J site NowPublic is about to be sold to a non-traditional buyer: local news network Examiner.com …

Clearwire Introduces CLEAR(TM) 4G WiMAX Internet Service in 10 New Markets (Clearwire News Room)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Clearwire News Room:
Clearwire Introduces CLEAR(TM) 4G WiMAX Internet Service in 10 New Markets  —  Super Fast Mobile Internet Service is Available Today in Boise, Idaho; Bellingham, Wash.; and Eight Texas Markets, Including Abilene, Amarillo, Corpus Christi, Killeen/Temple, Lubbock, Midland/Odessa, Waco and Wichita Falls

Google, Gmail experiencing downtime around the world (updated - back online) (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten/The Next …)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten / The Next Web Blog:
Google, Gmail experiencing downtime around the world (updated - back online) … *Update: Gmail/Google Apps Email is currently down, more details at the foot of this post*  —  Several users are complaining on Twitter that Google, Gmail and Doubleclick (owned by Google) are down.

Google, Gmail experiencing downtime around the world (Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten/The Next …)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten / The Next Web Blog:
Google, Gmail experiencing downtime around the world  —  *Update: Gmail/Google Apps Email is currently down, more details at the foot of this post*  —  Several users are complaining on Twitter that Google, Gmail and Doubleclick (owned by Google) are down.  —  Dutch news service NU.nl briefly […]