You can check all the debut deals for the new cities here and sign for the service over at www.google.com/offers.

• First Google Offer: Floyd’s Coffee in Portland – June 1, 2011
• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011
• Video: Worlds Largest Apple Store in Grand Central Station New York – November 21, 2011
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All you need to do is select from these beta clients:

• Windows users download here
• Mac users download here

• Infographic: Smartphone Apps – June 15, 2011
• Windows Phone 7 Numbers: Over 11,500 Apps with 36,000 Developers – March 31, 2011
• How to Build Real-time Apps with Backbone.js Models, Node.js and Socket.io – February 22, 2011
• Make your Applications Portable with Cameyo – September 11, 2010
• Portable Linux Apps – July 23, 2010

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We previously wrote about Apple entering Grand Central about six months ago.

• Apple Grand Central Store Looks Like it is Going to Happen – May 24, 2011
• Apple Talks for Grand Central Retail Store Falls Through – March 22, 2011
• Apple Trying to Open an Apple Store in Grand Central Terminal – February 9, 2011
• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012
• Official Steve Jobs Biography is Out – October 24, 2011

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“We’re thrilled to partner with Microsoft and AOL and bring to market what we believe will be a more efficient, effective and more effortless way to access true premium inventory and formats,” says Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP of the Americas. “There has a been a significant shift in how inventory is bought and sold, and we’re now 100% focused on controlling our own destiny, working directly with marketers and agencies and driving better returns for our advertising partners.”

via – Yahoo

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• Bing Replacing Google on iPhone 4? – June 1, 2010
• Microsoft Changes Look of Hotmail – Thoughts? – May 24, 2010
• Bedrock: Create Your Own Ad Slots, Advertisers Bid To Buy Them – December 19, 2009
• Internet Search Expanded, Online Information Drilldown – November 15, 2009

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Spotify is about to release their own version of Gift cards that will be in store in time for Christmas.

Gift cards will come in £10, £30 and £50 options. You can redeem the cards for Spotify subscriptions or download tracks.

To redeem a card just head over to our ‘Redeem your code‘ page and enter the PIN number on the back of the card. Starting today Morrisons will be the first store to start selling our gift cards. Spotify will be dding many more retail shops in the near future, stay tuned.

• Spotify Gapless Playback – October 17, 2011
• Share and Listen to Music on Facebook with Spotify – September 23, 2011
• Spotify Conversion Rate is at 12.5 Percent in the US: Major Labels Rejoice – August 9, 2011
• 2 Tools to Turn YouTube into a Genre-Based Radio Station – October 3, 2011
• Pandora Launches All New Website – September 21, 2011

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• YouTube Improve Mobile Sites with HTML5 Friendly Videos – July 8, 2010
• 26 New And Awesome Web Apps You Probably Don’t Know About – March 3, 2009
• Watch YouTube Playlists on iPad – November 27, 2011
• Hajj Pilgrimage Live to Watch on YouTube for Free – November 4, 2011
• 2 Tools to Turn YouTube into a Genre-Based Radio Station – October 3, 2011

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Additionally, Gdgt is rumoured to be in talks with Cnet who want to acquire the company. There were no details on the numbers and founders declined to comment.

Gdgt is a great technology product database and its great to see them growing nicely.

p.s. It also helps if your founders also founded Engadget.. the largest gadget site on the web!

• i Life Solutions: Best In Home Personalised Theatre – February 9, 2012
• Nokia’s Windows Phone 7 Mobile Phones Coming Next Week – October 24, 2011
• Wowee One Slim Review – October 17, 2011
• iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Already Over 1 Million – October 10, 2011
• Tesla Coil Playing Music – September 19, 2011

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“WikiLeaks has lost an estimated 95% of donations due to financial blockade,” WikiLeaks spokeswoman Kristinn Hrafnsson said. “It could have received 40 million to 50 million Euros if it weren’t for the blockade,” she added.

Wikileaks has been blocked via Paypal, Visa and more. However, there are other ways to donate. All you need to do is check out their support page for full details.

p.s. not sure if these donations are tax deductable.

• Anonymous: Day of Vengence September 24: Expect Huge Cyber Attacks in USA – September 22, 2011
• GigaOM Adds $6 Million in Funding to Push High End Analysis Service – May 26, 2011
• Flipboard Valued at $200 Million? Another Sign of an Upcoming Bubble? – April 15, 2011
• Sequoia Capital Raises New Investment Fund: $1.3 Billion – January 27, 2011
• Digg’s Traffic Slump – December 30, 2009

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The Huffington Post has partnered with Le Monde and Les Nouvelles Editions Indépendantes (LNEI) to launch ‘Le Huffington Post’, a French edition of the news and opinion portal. The new joint venture is currently recruiting editors to prepare for a launch before the end of 2011.

• Huffington Post To Be Leading Independent Online News Source in UK – July 9, 2011
• French Ballet Performs a Tribute to Star Wars – November 7, 2011
• Huffington Post Over One Billion Page Views Per Month – October 3, 2011
• Crenk on the Huffington Post UK – July 22, 2011
• Crenk Weekly 3: Tech News Round Up Including Zuckerberg on The Onion – May 30, 2011

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• Official Steve Jobs Biography is Out – October 24, 2011
• Steve Jobs at His Best – October 6, 2011
• Steve Jobs has Passed Away – October 6, 2011
• Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple: Worlds Largest Public Company – August 25, 2011
• Steve Jobs Presents New Apple Campus to Cupertino City Council – June 8, 2011

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• Official Steve Jobs Biography is Out – October 24, 2011
• Steve Jobs and Next Apple Headquarters – October 7, 2011
• Steve Jobs has Passed Away – October 6, 2011
• Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple: Worlds Largest Public Company – August 25, 2011
• Steve Jobs Presents New Apple Campus to Cupertino City Council – June 8, 2011

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Steve Jobs has passed away.

Apple has also put up the following website in memory. They’re asking for “thoughts, memories, and condolences” to be shared by way of this email address: rememberingsteve@apple.com

Steve Jobs was 56 years old. Rest in peace, Steve.

The release from Apple:

Statement by Apple’s Board of Directors

CUPERTINO, Calif. — We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.

The statement from Jobs’ family:

Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.

In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.

We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.

Tim Cook’s email to Apple employees:

Team,

I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing
human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

We are planning a celebration of Steve’s extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email rememberingsteve@apple.com.

No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve’s death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.

Tim

• Official Steve Jobs Biography is Out – October 24, 2011
• Steve Jobs’ Last Project Was The iPhone 5 – October 16, 2011
• Steve Jobs and Next Apple Headquarters – October 7, 2011
• Steve Jobs at His Best – October 6, 2011
• iPhone 5 Available to Buy on October 7 or 15 – September 12, 2011

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• iPhone 4S Released Not the iPhone 5 – October 4, 2011
• iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Already Over 1 Million – October 10, 2011
• Vodafone Germany List iPhone 4S on Their Website with Pricing – October 3, 2011
• Android vs iPhone [Humor] – May 4, 2010
• Journey from the Phone to the iPhone – October 19, 2011

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Diggnation is being retired by Revision3. Diggnation is just a fun show in which Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht talk about cool stories from Digg.com.

After 340 episodes Diggnation will end even though it seems to be among its five most watched shows, according to the The New York Times.

Goodbye Diggnation.. it was fun!

My blog post on @Revision3 about the retirement of @Diggnation: http://t.co/qaiRkWBv

October 3, 2011 7:42 pm via Twitter for MacReplyRetweetFavorite

@dlprager

David Prager

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• Apple Grand Central Store Looks Like it is Going to Happen – May 24, 2011
• New iMacs are Here: 21.5 inch and 27 inch – May 3, 2011
• Apple Store Down: New iMacs Coming? – May 3, 2011
• Apple Talks for Grand Central Retail Store Falls Through – March 22, 2011
• Cybermart To Start Selling Apple Products in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan – January 31, 2011

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Now, according to Kutcher, CBS didn’t like him promoting companies that didn’t pay for promotion. They let it go for the first episode — but will obscure the stickers on the laptop in any future appearances.

• Crenk Weekly 3: Tech News Round Up Including Zuckerberg on The Onion – May 30, 2011
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• Kevin Rose Leaves Digg to Pursue Other Startups – March 21, 2011
• 26 New And Awesome Web Apps You Probably Don’t Know About – March 3, 2009
• Yahoo’s LaunchCast To Crash and Burn? – December 3, 2008

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• Zuckerberg Worth More than Google Founders Brin and Page – September 23, 2011
• Larry Pages Doesnt Even Use Google Plus – September 19, 2011
• Cool Google Ad During the Super Bowl – February 8, 2010
• Google’s CEO leaves Apple – August 4, 2009
• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012

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Forbes has just released their annual “Richest People in America” list. First of all 8 of the top 20 are related to the internet and computer industries!

However, the main news this year is that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is up from 35th previous year to 14th this year. Zuckerberg is worth $17.5 billion and is now above Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Very impressive for a punked up kid from the valley.

• Larry Page Lacks Eric Schmidt’s Personality and Public Speaking Skills – September 28, 2011
• Larry Pages Doesnt Even Use Google Plus – September 19, 2011
• Crenk Weekly 3: Tech News Round Up Including Zuckerberg on The Onion – May 30, 2011
• Google Offers Available in Charlotte, Kansas City, Milwaukee, San Antonio and Tampa – January 25, 2012
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The full press release:

Wednesday – September 21, 2011

On September 17, 2011 approximately 15,000 peaceful demonstrators
in dozens of cities around the USA gathered, marched – and occupied
public space to protest the unjust policies of the US government
and the corruption in our financial institutions. The central
protest site was in the financial district of New York City, where
peaceful protesters faced phalanxes of heavily armed paramilitary
police officers from local and federal jurisdictions. The arrests
began almost immediately, many for violating the 1845 so called
“mask” laws.

Later that day, and according to plan – many of these protests
ended with a peaceful occupation of public space. Again, the
central occupation occurred in NYC. More arrests continued to take
place. All of this was expected, it is part of progressive
activism. Anonymous was content to challenge these stupid “mask”
laws in court. Not only is the Guy Fawlkes mask covered under
freedom expression as a symbol of our movement, but we believe that
everyone has a right to protest anonymously using bandanas, masks -
etc.

But then on Tuesday – September 20, 2011 everything changed in a
flash of police instigated violence. As rain began to fall on the
NYC encampment, heavily armed police moved in; Removing tarps used
to cover media equipment, arresting independent journalists,
confiscating media equipment – and using excessive force against
and arresting innocent peaceful protesters, several of whom were
abused and injured.

http://youtu.be/dyvbI6Eq-qA

This year, we heard President Barack Obama and Secretary Hillary
Clinton say over and over in country after country from the Balkans
through the mid-east to Africa that the right to peacefully protest
and occupy public space is a right that MUST be respected in every
instance. And they are correct, and this also applies to the USA.
In fact, even more so. In the USA of all countries in the world,
the police should have been deployed to PROTECT the protesters -
not a giant brass bull that is the ultimate symbol of greed and
corruption in America. And yet we were treated to the grotesque
picture of dozens of armored police surrounding this brass bull,
while thousands more police were deployed solely to harass, arrest -
and abuse peaceful protesters.

http://bit.ly/qdvYAj

Anonymous & the other cyber liberation groups around the world
together with all the freedom loving people in the USA will NOT
stand for this. We will peacefully yet forcefully resist the abuses
of the NYC Police Department. And so Anonymous announces a
nationwide “Day Of Vengence” to take place in dozens of cities
across the USA on Saturday – September 24, 2011 at High Noon.

Poster – http://t.co/BSuXCdRR

Video – http://youtu.be/2svRa-VSaOU

In coordination with these protests across the USA on September
24th, Anonymous and other cyber liberation groups will launch a
series of cyber attacks against various targets including Wall
Street, Corrupt Banking Institutions – and the NYC Police
Department. We encourage the media to follow the Twitter feed
@PLF2012 for ongoing reports throughout the day.

We Are Anonymous – We Are Everywhere – We Are Legion – We Never
Forget – We Never Forgive

EXPECT US — Anonymous

• WikiLeaks Needs Your Help To Take Down Corrupt Banks – October 24, 2011

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Siemens built all 17 of Germany’s nuclear power plants, but they plan on setting 35% of their electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020.

Siemens, the largest engineering conglomerate in Europe, announced Sunday that following the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022, it would stop building nuclear power plants anywhere in the world. “The chapter for us is closed,” Peter Löscher, the chief executive of the Munich-based conglomerate, said in an interview with Der Spiegel, the weekly news magazine. He emphasized the company’s commitment to the rapidly growing renewable energy sector.

He said the decision was also “an answer” to political and social opposition to nuclear power in Germany.

via – Treehugger

• Full Scale and Electric Tron Lightcycle – September 29, 2011
• Scooterdillo: Solar Powered Electric Scooter – September 6, 2011

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• Official Google Social Network: Google+: Facebook Competitor – June 29, 2011
• First Google+ TV Advertising: Sharing, but like real life – November 25, 2011
• Larry Page Lacks Eric Schmidt’s Personality and Public Speaking Skills – September 28, 2011
• Zuckerberg Worth More than Google Founders Brin and Page – September 23, 2011
• Superman Struggling with Google Plus – September 3, 2011

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In discussions with a small group of French reports, Stéphane mentioned:

“If we believe what we have been told, the iPhone 5 will be released on 15 October”

Im sure that the iPhone 5 will have a different launch date in different regions, so dont rely on this. However, it seems like there are a lot of rumours now about the same date, October 15th.

• iPhone 4S Released Not the iPhone 5 – October 4, 2011
• iPhone 5 to Have an A5 Processor and Larger Battery – September 20, 2011
• iPhone 5 Available to Buy on October 7 or 15 – September 12, 2011
• Official iPhone 5 Website – September 9, 2011
• Foxconn Producing Over 30 million iPhone 5 Handsets in 2011 – September 9, 2011

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It seems like HTC are now shopping around for their own mobile operating system. HTC has made a huge amount of money from Android based smartphones, but they feel that this is just simply not enough. After all, Google’s free operating system is getting expensive.

“We have given it thought and we have discussed it internally, but we will not do it on impulse,” Wang said in an interview with the Economic Observer of China, noting that HTC’s Sense UI would allow the company to offer distinctive products using any operating system. HP’s webOS is an obvious candidate, and although Wang did not refer to the platform specifically, the report notes that HTC and Samsung have both been in talks with HP. ”We can use any OS we want. We are able to make things different from our rivals on the second or third layer of a platform,” Wang said. “Our strength lies in understanding an OS, but it does not mean that we have to produce an OS.”

• Jolicloud Reaching Final Version this Week – July 13, 2010
• App Inventor for Android – July 12, 2010
• HTC – Over Half of Phones Will Be Android in 2010 – July 26, 2009
• Gdgt Sign Deal with Engadget and in Acquisition Talks with Cnet – October 25, 2011
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Dropbox is a web based file hosting service which keeps all of the files in perfect sync across numerous operating systems and devices. Dropbox has already received around $7.2 million in funding and is expected to have $100 million in revenues in 2011.

It seems a shock that Dropbox investors didnt jump at that price, but Im guessing they are holding out for over a billion dollar valuation.

• Microsoft Buying Adobe? – October 9, 2010
• Your Files Everywhere with DropBox – July 9, 2009
• Video: Worlds Largest Apple Store in Grand Central Station New York – November 21, 2011
• Gdgt Sign Deal with Engadget and in Acquisition Talks with Cnet – October 25, 2011
• Official Steve Jobs Biography is Out – October 24, 2011

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Theme park creates real-life Angry Birds game by Zoomin_UK

• Angry Birds Addiction: Infographic – September 12, 2011
• Angry Birds Is Like Your Sex Life – August 15, 2011
• Free Angry Birds Windows 7 Theme – July 2, 2011
• GEAR4 Produce Angry Birds Speakers – June 7, 2011
• Play Angry Birds on Any PC for Free – May 12, 2011

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