Gmail is set to become Google’s next major push into social media. According to The Wall Street Journal , the popular webmail service will soon launch a new feature for sharing content and status updates with friends. As WSJ points out, Gmail users can already update their status – sort of – through Gmail’s chat feature. Currently, this feature is more akin to the traditional IM “away message.” However,...

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We learned earlier today that Google is launching a social status update feature in Gmail . While details are sparse, The Wall Street Journal reports that it is a new Gmail module that will integrate content from YouTube, Picasa, and potentially other social sources. WSJ is unclear as to when it will launch, though. We think that Google’s new social status feature will launch tomorrow. We have just...

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Android 2.1 for the Droid is making its way through the Verizon test gauntlet, and apparently inside is multitouch for the browser (like Maps 3.4), Google Goggles, and fancy news and weather widgets. Not coming over from the Nexus One ? Live backgrounds—those swishy animated wallpapers—and that new 3D grid of app icons aren't part of the package. Instead, the same static backgrounds and the classic...

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This past weekend, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) addressed the right-wing Constitutional Coalition’s annual conference in St. Louis. She had dropped out of the Tea Party Convention occurring on the same day in Nashville to make the appearance. Speaking to a small group of conference attendees and ThinkProgress during lunch on Saturday, Bachmann outlined how the [...]

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We knew that the Droid's Android 2.1 update is on its way, but apparently we won't be waiting long: According to Motorola's official Facebook page, it's "happy to relay the 2.1 upgrade to Droid will start to roll out this week." [ Engadget ]

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Not only did the New Orleans Saints win their first Super Bowl last night, they apparently also helped break a record that many thought would stand forever: NEW YORK – The New Orleans Saints’ victory over Indianapolis in the Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of “M-A-S-H” to [...]

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Shut em down . President Obama's secretary of health and human services fired off a sharply worded letter to a California insurer Monday, demanding to know why it is raising rates for individual policyholders by as much as 39 percent. Anthem Blue Cross of California sent out notices earlier this month to many of its roughly 800,000 holders of individual policies, informing them that the costs of their...

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Barry Almeida scored to give Boston College a three-goal, third-period lead and the Eagles held off a late charge from Boston University to win 4-3 and claim the 58th Beanpot championship Monday night.

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Without the persistence of Bud Selig, the Brewers might still be the Seattle Pilots. That same persistence resulted in the building of Miller Park. On those two counts alone, the Brewers figured Selig deserved to stand - in bronze - with Hank Aaron and Robin Yount outside of the club's retractable-roof facility.

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Google Inc. has lowered by $200 the fee it charges customers who break a standard two-year contract for its new Nexus One phone on the T-Mobile USA Inc. network.

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Authorities in Connecticut have launched a criminal investigation into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they can't rule out negligence.

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