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HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features
Mashable (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
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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Google Could Unveil Gmail’s Social Features Tomorrow
Mashable (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
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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John Murtha dead at 77
Michelle Malkin (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
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Droid's Android 2.1 Update: Full of Multitouch (and Some Disappointment) [Droid]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
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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Bachmann’s Plan: To Deal With Debt, We Must ‘Wean Everybody’ Off Social Security, Medicare
Think Progress (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
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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Android 2.1 Update for Droid Will Begin Rolling Out This Week [Android]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
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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HTC Legend caught on film
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Technology
Well, well, well, look what we have here: an actual HTC Legend. For those that don’t pay particularly close attention to the world of Android, the Legend can best be thought of (though by no means officially) as the successor… -
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Of Course She's Running For President
The Daily Dish (subscribe) | 02/07/2010 | Politics
It's her divine mission, as she sees it. And it would be a function of "divine intervention" as she explicitly said last night. Ambers, previously a skeptic, comes around. Given the complete lack of talent among GOP ranks and their... -
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Healthcare's PR Battle
kevin drum (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
As regular readers know, I'm skeptical of Barack Obama's continued insistence that the way forward on healthcare is to keep talking with Republicans in the hopes that eventually they'll start cooperating. But hey — maybe his political instincts are the right ones. Maybe he understands better than me that the public needs to see graphically that Democrats did everything they could to work with the... -
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Parisian Oops: A More Realistic Google Ad [Google]
Gizmodo (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
Sure, Google's Superbowl ad was cute and left us giggling, but how would a French romance powered by Google really go? [ UCB — Thanks, Mackenzie! ] -
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Borrowing from Our Children? And Hegemony
The Volokh Conspiracy (subscribe) | 02/07/2010 | Politics
I realized, talking in office hours with a couple of my law students, that they did not really understand what is meant by the phrase “borrowing from our children” — as we often hear it raised or referenced these days in budget, deficit, and other policy debates. These are bright students who have often taken [...] -
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John Murtha Dead at 77
Snowflakes in Hell (subscribe) | yesterday | Politics
PA2010 is reporting on Twitter. No matter what you might have thought of the man on other issues, Murtha was a consistent and reliable vote in favor of the Second Amendment. UPDATE: Fox has coverage now. Murtha first took office in 1974. He’s been in office for as long as I’ve been walking this earth. Also [...] Related posts: Demonsheep is a Sensation So Begins Earth Hour Earth Hour - see all discussions
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Super Bowl XLIV: The Biggest Television Audience Ever
Below The Beltway (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sports
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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HHS investigating Blue Cross of CA for raising rates 39%
AMERICAblog (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Health
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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Boston College beats Boston U. for Beanpot title
Miami Herald (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sports
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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Brewers to unveil statue of Selig
JSOnline (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Sports
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 cuts fee to break Nexus One contract
Seattle Times (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
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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Negligence? Conn. gas blast criminal probe begins
Seattle Times (subscribe) | yesterday | US
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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Ex-Tiger Marcus Thames signs with Yanks
Detroit Free Press (subscribe) | yesterday | Sports
NEW YORK — Marcus Thames agreed today to a minor league contract with the New York Yankees, who also finalized a $1.1-million, one-year deal with Randy Winn to give themselves more leftfield options. -
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Quake shakes southern Mexico, felt in capital
Boston Globe (subscribe) | yesterday | World
A magnitude 5.7-earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Oaxaca coast Monday, setting off evacuation alarms and swaying buildings as far away as Mexico City. -
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Flaw found in chip that does encryption in PCs
Houston Chronicle (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | Technology
Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans. Now a former U.S. Army computer-security specialist has devised a way to break those locks. -
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Angelina Jolie Visits Haiti Earthquake Survivors
Entertainment Tonight (subscribe) | yesterday | Entertainment
Angelina Jolie has reportedly gone to the Dominican Republic to visit with hospitalized victims of the January 12 earthquake in neighboring Haiti. The Associated Press reports that the star toured Dario Contreras Hospital in Santo Domingo. A rep for the hospital told the A P that Jolie "spoke with several children and a Haitian woman who recognized her and requested help." Just yesterday, Jolie was... -
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Shuttle checked on way to space station
CNN (subscribe) | 42 minutes ago | Sciences
As they head toward a rendezvous with the international space station, crew members of the space shuttle Endeavour are checking for any signs of damage after Monday's early morning launch. -
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Shelby Lets Go -- By: Daniel Foster
The Corner (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Politics
Sen. Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) lifted Monday night most of the holds he had on nearly 70 of President Obama's nominees: Last week, Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, called the holds another example of the corrupt nature behind lawmakers’ earmarks for pet projects. In a statement, Mr. Shelby’s spokesman, Jonathan Graffeo, disputed that characterization. The holds, he said, were “to get the White... - see all breaking news









