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Wall Street Journal:
Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones — Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that's far from the limit of the Internet giant's wireless ambitions — which could include running its own mobile network.
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Google Ready To Bid For Wireless, Maybe — Lots of stories have swirled over the question of will they or won't they bid in the FCC's 700MHz wireless spectrum auction, but Google now looks like a lock to pony up some cash. — If Google bids for the 700MHz spectrum, they could do so with …
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CNET News.com:
Amazon to debut Kindle e-book reader Monday — Amazon is betting that e-books aren't a total e-bust. — On Monday, the online retail giant will unveil its Kindle e-book reader at a high-profile event in New York, an industry source told CNET News.com Thursday.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Seiko High-Res Super-Thin EBook Reader [E-Ink] — More E-Book News, this one a prototype from Seiko Epson, makers of the cool E-ink watch. The device's form factor is at least as thin as Sony's Reader, but it has a 1200x1600 display. That's a lot of res on that 6.7-inch screen.
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PalmAddicts
Business Week:
Social Networking with the Elite — Tired of the Web masses? Now you can find your own gated communities on the Net—if they'll let you in — Are you on the digital A-list? It's no longer enough to get invited to exclusive conferences or be asked to join professional organizations …
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Collaborative Thinking
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Web Sites Tear Down That Wall — Rupert Murdoch's announcement this week that he expects to stop charging for access to the Wall Street Journal's Web site is the latest example of a publisher giving up on the subscription-based business model — a significant shift in the evolution of online content.
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Carlye Adler / Wired News:
The Man Behind the TheFunded.com's VC Slagfest Reveals Himself to Wired — The door swings open before I have a chance to knock, and I get my first glimpse of the man known to thousands only as Ted. At 6'5" in socks, he is squeezed into the door frame of his midtown Manhattan loft.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft (MSFT) Still Hallucinating About Online Ad Future? — Reuters reports that Microsoft (MSFT) division president Kevin Johnson added more detail to Microsoft's online ad ambitions at a UBS conference yesterday. Specifically, he said that within 3-5 years, Microsoft's goal is to become …
live.psu.edu:
Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters — University Park, Pa. - Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Trends Reveals People's Predictability — Google Trends shows an interesting search popularity graph for the queries "turkey" (as in turkey the food, too) and "diet": — On North-American Thanksgiving day, the searches for a traditional dish for the festivity peak.
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Googling Google
Brendon Chase / CNET News.com:
U2 previews unreleased track on Facebook, snubs MySpace? — Bono has given the creators of Facebook app iLike a sneak preview of U2's upcoming re-release of the Joshua Tree, which will feature previously unreleased tracks. — Wearing his trademark sunglasses Bono, the lead singer of U2 …
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WebProNews, Billboard.Biz, TechBlog, ParisLemon, bub.blicio.us, Valleywag, mathewingram.com/work and Mashable!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:iLike Publishes Unreleased U2 Song
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John Cook's Venture Blog
Business Week:
The Paperless Map Is the Killer App — Forget media downloads. Cell customers really want GPS and navigation features — First, cell phones made the streetcorner pay phone obsolete. Now they're doing away with the need to ask for directions. A surge in phones with built …
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All Points Blog
Mark Ward / Press Association:
Colossus loses code-crack race — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Bletchley's code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months — An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer.
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Web Videos Stealing TV Viewers, and Marketers — WHY are fewer viewers watching the new fall television series? Perhaps because they are too busy watching video online. — As broadband service becomes more available at home, the growing prevalence of video programming on the Internet …
New York Times:
Led by Robots, Roaches Abandon Instincts — Many a mother has said, with a sigh, "If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump, too?" — The answer, for cockroaches at least, may well be yes. Researchers using robotic roaches were able to persuade real cockroaches to do things …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Connecting Data Using Google Spreadsheets — A short video tutorial from Google reminds us that Google Spreadsheets has a lot of functions that pull data from the web: facts, financial information, feeds and other files. You obtain interesting results when you use the result from a function as an input for another function.
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Apple admits to 'misleading' Leopard firewall settings — Apple has fessed up to at least three serious design weaknesses in the new application-based firewall that ships with Mac OS X Leopard. — The acknowledgment from Cupertino comes less than a month after independent researchers threw cold water …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:With one bound, Apple is free of 54 security bugs
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