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Daily Tech: Sprint's Samsung Moment Lands in Stores Today
- Sprint has just introduced another Android handset, the Samsung Moment, which goes on sale today for $170 after mail-in rebates — Engadget
- Facebook spammer, Sanford Wallace, has been ordered to pay $711 million in damages to Facebook — CNN Money
- Texting and driving has now been banned in New York state — MobileCrunch
- This Greasemonkey script will help you remove the clutter from your Gmail — Lifehacker
- Gizmodo gets their hands on the BlackBerry Storm2 — Gizmodo
- It's giveaway time on GeekSugar! Log in for your chances to win one of these AT&T Smartphones — GeekSugar
Daily Tech: What You Need to Know About Windows 7
- The Giz team has whipped up a Best Of list for Windows 7 — Gizmodo
- Facebook has just launched a new hub called "Peace on Facebook" — CNET
- Netflix is already testing streaming on the Nintendo Wii — Engadget
- Jerry Seinfeld, who was featured in Microsoft ads, has been spotted with a Mac! — CrunchGear
- Google is starting to block some calls which use Google Voice to satisfy the FCC — The Washington Post
- It's giveaway time on GeekSugar! Log in for your chances to win one of these AT&T Smartphones — GeekSugar
Do You Like Facebook's Reconnect Strategy?
I just read an article about Facebook's "reconnect" strategy — the newly implemented practice of featuring a friend you haven't interacted with in a while. They appear on the right side of the newly redesigned homepage. Facebook's explanation:
Facebook is only useful and relevant if you can connect with friends that matter to you.
Daily Tech: Google Voice Permits Voicemail With Any Number
- You can now keep your phone number while using Google Voice's fantastic features — Lifehacker
- Here's how you can recycle your own gadgets — Engadget
- It's rumored that a new, bigger, Nintendo DSi with a 4-inch screen will be coming out in Japan this year — Kotaku
- Facebook now has a way to memorialize friends who have passed away — Boing Boing
- 10 ways to spot an email scam — Switched
- It's giveaway time on GeekSugar! Log in for your chances to win one of these AT&T Smartphones — GeekSugar
BlackBerry News and Announcements From the Past Week
When RIM wasn't unveiling its latest BlackBerry Bold this week, it was introducing cool new apps for the BlackBerry, unveiling a fancy new watch and sneaking new Storms into some Best Buy stores. If you want to catch up on the latest and greatest from BlackBerry this past week, here's a roundup of what you may have missed.
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Bing and Google to Include Twitter Updates in Search Results
Another day, another huge Twitter announcement. And this time, it involves two of the biggest Internet companies around. Both Microsoft and Google announced today that both companies would start including Twitter posts in search results.
The Face of Facebook Is Changing . . . Again
Facebook isn't for everyone, but most of us like the way it keeps us in contact with friends and family — if you can figure out how to work it to your advantage. After the big hullabaloo over the last Facebook revamp, where users claimed that it was confusing and less efficient to use, you'd think that FB would give the facelifts a rest. Never one to rest on its laurels, Facebook is pulling out another revision for the main page of the site, adding a Top News and Recent Activity stream for you to toggle back and forth between, as well as making birthday reminders more prominent.
Ask a Geek Girl: Dealing With Annoying FB Status Updates
We probably all have one or two in our update feed: a friend whose Facebook status updates — for any reason — drive you nuts. Maybe they update too frequently, are serious oversharers, or post updates about things you just don't find interesting. Reader DefyAllLogic posted this etiquette question in our Ask a Geek Girl group:
"I've already created lists of 'friends' and 'not really friends' and have my homepage set to only show the 'friends' updates.
Website of the Day: Pixable
I've already showed you ways you can make your own photo books on the web in a snap, but what about all those Facebook photos of you that all of your friends have uploaded? Now you can make photo books out of your Facebook photos and content with the help of Pixable. Working just like Inkubook or iPhoto, you can upload your regular pics to make great looking coffee-table books, or you can choose to import your own Facebook photos, or select specific tags to import as well.
Daily Tech: Inside Facebook's Chic New Headquarters
- Take a peek inside Facebook's new headquarters — Unplggd
- Amazon's new same-day delivery could be pretty rough on the lil guys — Channel Web
- Microsoft hopes to open its first retail store on Oct. 22 — Daily Tech
- Texting driver crashes into cop car — Switched
- Judge: cell ringtones are not concerts — Wired
- New Canon iPhone app prints wirelessly to your PIXMA — Gizmodo
- Design and concept blog Yanko Design has launched an online store! — Yanko Design
- The Google e-book store will offer files that aren't device-specific so customers will be able to use any of the e-book readers that will flood the market in 2010 — PC World
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