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Provided by: techmeme.com12010-09-09 10:20:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Dan Goodin / The Register:
Jailbreak hole in iOS 4.1 will be hard to close — All Steve Jobs's horses and all Steve Jobs's men ... Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still …

Provided by: techmeme.com22010-09-09 09:55:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hey iPhone, Meet a Tiny Chip With Superpowers. — I can distinctly remember the day when Intel Corp. launched the Pentium processor. It was the day the desktop computing changed for me and for a lot of others. It was also the day when Intel started to put a gap between itself and all its wannabe processor rivals.

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Dr. Siddharth Shah / Efficient Frontier Insights:
Google Instant: Potential Implications for the Advertiser — Google just unveiled Google Instant, where the search engine adjusts results in real time as the user types in the query. Google claims that Instant Search leads to 2-5 seconds of time savings per query.

Provided by: techmeme.com42010-09-09 08:15:16buzz / techmeme.com /: Dr. Siddharth Shah / Efficient Frontier Insights:
Google Instant: Potential Implications for the Advertiser — Google just unveiled Google Instant, where the search engine adjusts results in real time as the user types in the query. Google claims that Instant Search leads to 2-5 seconds of time savings per query.

Provided by: techmeme.com52010-09-09 05:55:38buzz / techmeme.com /: Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Google Ad That Steve Jobs Will Hate — Google sure knows how to push Steve Jobs' buttons. This advertisement for Google's new instant search system is bound to get under the Apple CEO's skin — and intensify one of the most heated rivalries in tech. — The ad combines a video …

Provided by: techmeme.com62010-09-09 04:45:04buzz / techmeme.com /: Stefan Etienne / LaptopMemo:
T-Mobile G2 Is Official And It's Coming Later This Month — I just hot hit up that the HTC-built T-Mobile's G2 is headed to consumers for pre-sale later this month. The handset, powered by stock Android 2.2 and a Snapdragon MSM7230 CPU clocked at exactly 800Mhz, has a 3.7-inch screen …

Provided by: techmeme.com72010-09-09 03:00:21buzz / techmeme.com /: Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Google Instant: A Mobile App Approach to Search — Google launched today a revision of its core search technology called Google Instant. Instant turns search into an application; on a single page it combines the traditional process of entering a query into a box, hitting return …

Provided by: techmeme.com82010-09-09 02:45:07buzz / techmeme.com /: Rebecca O'Brien / The Daily Beast:
My Classmate Mark Zuckerberg — As the movie The Social Network rolls toward theaters, Rebecca O'Brien writes about Zuckerberg's reputation around Harvard, his fraternity nickname, and why Facebook was such a hit. — Hollywood biopics are often the inverse of political autobiographies …

Provided by: techmeme.com92010-09-09 00:05:10buzz / techmeme.com /: Tomio Geron / Wall Street Journal:
Incubator Coaxes Start-Ups Out of Their Shells — Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator recently held a daylong pitch session that underlined the organization's growing clout in the region. — At the event last month, 36 new companies that completed a start-up program run by Y Combinator pitched …

Provided by: techmeme.com102010-09-08 23:45:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Thoughts on Google Instant — The blogosphere is absorbing today's announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts. — Google's web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well: — We want the most comprehensive index of the web.

Provided by: techmeme.com111970-01-01 00:00:00buzz / techmeme.com /: A new trailer for Gareth Edwards' Monsters has come online and can be watched using the player below. The official description from Magnet (a division of Magnolia Pictures) is as follows: Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures... Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his bossTech Web, page A1
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Check Your iPhone 4's Antenna Reception With Field Test Mode In iOS 4.1 — Now you can put your iPhone into field test mode, which will allow to easily and precisely test your cell signal reception quality. You just need to follow these two easy steps: • First, upgrade your iPhone 4—or any iPhone—to iOS 4.1.

Provided by: techmeme.com122010-09-08 22:55:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Check Your iPhone 4's Antenna Reception With Field Test Mode In iOS 4.1 … 07:05 PM — 14 — By Adam Dachis … How Much Faster is Google Instant? — Google Instant likes to think it's pretty fast, but how fast is it really? We pitted regular old Google against Google Instant …

Provided by: techmeme.com132010-09-08 22:55:00buzz / techmeme.com /: Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Test Your iPhone 4's Antenna Reception With Field Test Mode In iOS 4.1 — Now you can put your iPhone in field test mode, which will allow you to easily test your signal strength. You just need to follow these steps: — First, upgrade your iPhone 4—or any iPhone—to iOS 4.1.

Provided by: techmeme.com142010-09-08 22:35:04buzz / techmeme.com /: Stephen Hood / unique hazards may exist:
Google Instant is an example of how Yahoo could have won in search — Today Google launched Google Instant, and make no mistake: this is big. It's far more than just a new fancy interface. It's a fundamental change to a user interaction model that's been largely unchallenged for years.

Provided by: techmeme.com152010-09-08 21:55:17buzz / techmeme.com /: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
The Google Alphabet — Google's new search feature, Google Instant, predicts what you're going to search for and giving you that information before you even finish typing. In its introduction of Google Instant, the search giant demonstrated that if you type W into the search bar …