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Post the Twitter-based revolution in real-time data mining and serving for trending topics and events, Foursquare is now trying to sell it’s own services as something that shows the trending locations, in real-time. Foursquare co-founder David Crowley gave and exclusive interview to The Telegraph and said that they have approached all players in the search market, including the big three — Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft (Bing!).

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Google has decided that it will no longer use Windows-based machines for its operations. Hence, it has begun a purge of everything Windows and the sound of hearts breaking is echoing a long way from Redmond. Google has stated that this decision is based on low security level that such a mass market operating inevitably ends up suffering form. Despite the ongoing feud with Apple, Google has named Mac as one of the replacement platforms. The other is of course Linux, which they have been using for quite some time now.

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Steve Jobs appeared on News Corp’s D8 conference and answered surprisingly probing questions with relative openness. He talked about burning issues such as flash, app approval, Google’s competition, Siri acquisition, the whole iPhone at the bar incident, AT&T and more. If that topic list doesn’t tell you already, this interview of Steve is definitely one of the most revealing ones of recent times.

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Intel is looking into Google’s newly released WebM format and considering adding hardware acceleration for the format on its specialized Atom chip. WebM is a new video format released by Google, which is based on the VP8 codec. Intel is one of the partners who are working with Google to bring about the Google TV platform to the world and the WebM format is meant especially for that platform.

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Google has decided enter yet another market with their Android platform and this time they will be invading your living space alongside it. Say hello to Google TV. Starting from later this year, Google’s Android will be found on devices from Google’s industry partners that range from TV’s to set top boxes and Blu-Ray players. The idea here is to bring the web to your living room like never before and make it as smooth an experience as possible.

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Looks like Acer might actually pull off what they set out to do in the first place with Google’s Chrome OS. They wanted to be the first out the gate and if the reports are true, they are actually going to make it. And the moment of revelation will come soon because word is that they are going to unveil their Chrome OS product at this year’s Computex, which will start with the start of the next month.

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Yes it is a run for the acquisition these days for the two big Giants of the tech world — Google and Apple. Both of a lot of great ideas and they both lack the patience and the opportunity to  sit down and develop on those ideas. So what they lack in time and resources, they make up in strategic acquisitions. This is not really a new practice in the business world but it is exciting to see how these two companies are thinking regarding their own and the industry’s future through these acquisitions, some of which can be very telling. This time, we talk about Google and their acquisition of ‘BumpTop Computers’.

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Looks like Apple made yet another key acquisition just before April gave way to May. Apple has officially acquired Siri and has officially kept its mouth shut about what the company intends to do with the company. So that leaves us to go through all the possible reasons why Apple did this. And while it may seem like they did it for the obvious reason, i.e. voice, let me begin by tell you that things are never that simple.

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In a video, dug up by the good folks at TechRadar, Google’s Eric Schmidt is seen saying that the netbooks carrying Google’s upcoming Chrome OS might be selling for $400. According to him, that is because there is no software cost associated with these netbooks thanks to Chrome OS being free. The cst will only be the hardware and the margin of the sellers and the manufacturers. But will this work for Google?

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… and he still hates Google. That part has not change and will not change in a hurry. When it comes to one of the largest figures in the US media industry, Rupert Murdoch has probably been the most vocal about how he thinks Google is taking their expensive content and making it free for all to use. He of course wants to put it all behind a paywall and be done with it. But before we get into the old world business model versus new world business model debate (it is inevitable, I know), Mr. Murdoch has his say on the iPad. Video follows.

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