Archive for May, 2010

AT&T Announces New Lower-Priced Wireless Data Plans to Make Mobile Internet More Affordable to More People

AT&T, the U.S. smartphone leader, today introduced new wireless data plans that make it more affordable for more people to enjoy the benefits of the mobile Internet. Customers can pick the new data plan that best meets their needs – either a $15 per month entry plan or a $25 per month plan with 10 times more data. Current smartphone customers are not required to switch to the new plans, but can choose to do so without a contract extension.

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Service Members Maintain Ties a World Away

Around the world, countries hold holidays to honor the men and women who defend them. Today is one such holiday in the U.S., Memorial Day, so we’re profiling service members and their families as part of our “Your Stories” series on different ways people use Facebook…

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Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Less Than 60 Days

Apple today announced that iPad sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. “Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

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This week in search 5/30/10

This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. – Ed.

Safety, security and privacy are important parts of the search equation for us at Google, particularly as …

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Weekend Reading: Taking the Cloud to Campus

Universities are under a lot of pressure these days. They need to cut costs, deliver great services to a demanding audience of faculty, students and staff, and provide the reliability and security of a major enterprise. So we were happy to learn this w…

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Learn More: Privacy on Facebook

As you may have seen here earlier in the week, we announced simplified privacy controls in response to your feedback. These new settings are continuing to roll-out and they should be live to everyone in a week or so…

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From Facebook Walls to the Polls in Colombia

On Sunday, millions of people in Colombia will decide their country’s political future by electing a new president. Some, like me, will submit ballots from overseas. If neither candidate gets more than 51 percent of the vote, the winner will be decided by a run-off election…

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Happy 1st birthday, Google Wave!

Last week, we opened sign-ups for Google Wave to everyone as part of Google Labs and made it available for all Google Apps domains. Here is the quick (seven minute) update on the state of the product from this year’s Google IO conference:Today, it’s be…

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Find Images and Videos Buzzing in Yahoo! Search

Wondering what kinds of pictures and videos people are checking out right now? We’ve redesigned the Yahoo! Image and Video search home pages for a visual snapshot of the most popular trending topics that people are looking for in Yahoo! Search.
With both video and image search, we are featuring up to five pages of topics [...]

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WordPress 3.0 Release Candidate

As Matt teased earlier, the first release candidate (RC1) for WordPress 3.0 is now available. What’s an RC? An RC comes after beta and before the final launch. It means we think we’ve got everything done: all features finished, all bug squashed, and all potential issues addressed. But, then, with over 20 million people using [...]

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