Faster Forward: September 5, 2010 - September 11, 2010
Latest Facebook frontier: Your dashboard?
Facebook will follow you on the road if you buy a GM vehicle equipped with an upcoming version of the automaker's OnStar system. As multiple stories have outlined--see, for instance, those from the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News--OnStar subscribers would be able to update their status by voice...
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September 10, 2010; 11:45 AM ET |
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Apple offers App Store review guidelines (and updates iPhone software)
Apple gives in on two key iPhone-software issues: allows developers to port other smartphone programs to the iPhone, posts App Store review guidelines.
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September 9, 2010; 12:19 PM ET |
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Google debuts 'Instant' search
Google's new Google Instant tries to show search results before you can finish typing them. Is that something you've been waiting for?
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September 8, 2010; 2:56 PM ET |
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Another day, another goofy Google logo
For the second day in a row, Google's home-page logo doesn't just sit there. Today's version changes color from gray to its usual hues as you type a query, one letter at a time. The reason should be apparent at 12:30 Eastern today, when the Web firm has scheduled a news conference in San Francisco to announce something new in search technology.
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September 8, 2010; 9:28 AM ET |
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DirecTV opens NFL Sunday Ticket to non-subscribers
You no longer have to subscribe to DirecTV to watch one of the satellite broadcaster's most-touted exclusives--its NFL Sunday Ticket package. Starting with this season, football fans who pay another company for TV service (or don't pay for TV at all) can sign up for a broadband-only version of Sunday...
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September 8, 2010; 8:30 AM ET |
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Google bouncing-balls logo amuses, bemuses visitors
Google's latest logo--an animated, interactive graphic of bouncing balls that you can chase around the window with your mouse--is entertaining and puzzling Web users this morning.
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September 7, 2010; 9:50 AM ET |
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PostPoints tip: Sites I like: MacInTouch
In a week that featured major news from Apple, it was a safe bet that I'd again consult one of the first tech-news sites I ever read: MacInTouch. This Mac-news site combines updates about software and hardware releases with its own in-depth reviews and readers' reports of their experiences with...
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September 7, 2010; 7:15 AM ET |
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