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Filtering the web so you don’t have to for November 7th 2010 through November 8th 2010:

• CSIRO introduces Wi-Fi to your TV antenna – If you have a TV antenna, in the near future you may be able to use it to connect to the internet. The Australian firm CSIRO has developed technology allowing a data transfer rate of 12 megabits per second (Mbps) using a television channel.
• Google Voice and FaceTime – Why the Carriers Are Losing Their Voice –
  techcrunch.com
  

  Lately it seems like there is endless news around messaging, VoIP and video calling. Apple recently announced they’d added FaceTime support for the Mac, and had shipped 19 million FaceTime-enabled iOS devices since June. Google Voice also made headlines last week for an outage, but I think the bigger news associated with that downtime is how fast they’ve been growing. And there’s been a flurry of startup activity around messaging and communication as well, such as th..   show all text
• RockMelt – Your Browser. Re-imagined. Connect for an invitation. –
  rockmelt.com
• Behold RockMelt, Browser For The Social Set: Tech News « –
  gigaom.com
  

  Does the world need yet another browser? Tim Howes and Eric Vishria think that it does, and that is one of the reasons why two years ago they started Mountain View, Calif.-based RockMelt, raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz (and scores of technology luminaries such VMWare co-founder Dianne Greene, Intuit’s Bill Campbell and Josh Kopelman) and hired away some of the best design and browser talent. Their socially aware browser will finally see the light of day t..   show all text
• Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn –
  nytimes.com
  A new browser from RockMelt integrates sites like Twitter and Facebook and makes it simple to keep in touch with friends also logged in.