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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon Kindle To Debut On Monday - Ugly But Impressive — The speculation over Amazon's new ebook gadget, called the Kindle, ends on Monday afternoon during a special Amazon press conference in New York. Newsweek's Steven Levy claims to have had the device for weeks and wrote …
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Steven / StevenLevy.com:Is the Kindle Ugly? — I did this week's Newsweek's cover story …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Magazine? — An interesting patent was granted to Google on November 8, titled "Customization of Content and Advertisements in Publications." — A number of blogs picked it up and speculated that Google may soon begin to offer users the ability to create customized, printed magazines from Internet content.
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Is Apple collecting your iPhone usage data? — It looks like Apple is tracking iPhone users data i ncluding IMEI number, IP address and stock quote preferences (amongst other things) through a hidden string in the Weather.app and Stocks.app iPhone applications.
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Dan / UNEASYsilence:
EXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof) — As I sit here applying a new layer of Reynolds tin foil to my international hat of conspiracy, its been proven that Apple tracks iPhone usage and tracks IEMI numbers of all their iPhones worldwide.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
AMD Spider Platform Is Gaming Supercomputer or So They Say [Spiderpig] — AMD has just announced their Spider platform, which they claim is the best PC gaming platform out there. Spider combines AMD Phenom quad-core processors, up to four ATI Radeon HD 3800 cards and the AMD 7-Series chipset …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Facebook Offers $85 Million To Acquire Chinese Social Networking Site Zhanzuo.com — Facebook is said to have offered $85 million to acquire Zhanzuo.com, a Chinese social networking site with seven million users. — According to The Times, Jack Zhang, Zhanzuo's chief executive …
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Reuters:
Pioneer-backed online TV service launches test — NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new online television service aims to offer what U.S. cable TV companies have resisted for decades — pay for only what you want. — SyncTV, a spin-off from Pioneer Electronics, a division of Pioneer Corp …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:SyncTV tries to sell subscription TV content
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BBC:
Privacy, please — Some campaigners worry about using social sites such as Facebook — Regular columnist Bill Thompson wonders if it is time to create web services that can be trusted. — Like most journalists I know I'm very sloppy about keeping my online communications secure.
David A. Utter / WebProNews:
AOL Rolls Out Video Ticker Ads — AOL's advertising division, Platform-A, developed the video ticker ads as an alternative to conventional pre-roll spots for online video. — Advertisers and networks want to balance the placement of their video marketing with the likelihood such placement …
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Andy McCue / CNET News.com:
Software-licensing costs predicted to fall — Software-licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade, as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. — Research firm Gartner predicts that vendors will find themselves increasingly challenged as IT departments look …
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Charles Knight / Alt Search Engines:
Search Engine Retrevo's Relaunch Blasts Off! — Today, Retrevo launches a new matchmaking service between consumers and electronics. It uses artificial intelligence to enhance the search for the perfect product match. — The Retrevo homepage has an entirely new, beautiful new look.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
PayPal offers secure way to shop non-PayPal sites — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay Inc, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don't accept PayPal directly.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
What Steve Said: "HD" vs. "High Quality" — At NewTeeVee Live last week, Om and I asked YouTube co-founder and CTO Steve Chen whether or not YouTube had plans to improve its video quality. There's been some confusion and finger-pointing over Chen's reply, so I just want to quickly clear up what happened.
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Four controllers, $170, and a dream: a review of Rock Band — I don't want to be a guitar hero, I want to be in a band — Rock Band — Publisher: MTV Games — Platform: Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 — There is something almost brave about the decision to make a game like Rock Band.
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Xbox Live hopes to press more players into service — Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off Xbox Live, its online game service, in 2002 with ambitions of one day seeing millions of players compete online. — Today, more than 8 million people — about 1 in 5 Xbox and Xbox 360 console owners — subscribe.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
A Mobile VoIP Forecast & What's Up With Jajah, Raketu & mig33 — Mobile VoIP is going to become a major force over the next five years, rapidly outpacing voice over Wi-Fi, according to a recently released report by research firm Disruptive Analysis. The report predicts that the number …
John Oates / The Register:
123-Reg takes weekend off — Pipex's hosting service 123-Reg suffered a weekend of downtime thanks to broken hardware. — The Reg received emails from many of those hit. One said: "Nameservers have been down for 48+ hours this weekend, loosing me around £3k across my four more popular domain names.
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Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
17 More Newspapers Join Yahoo Group — NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has added 17 more newspapers to its group of online publishing partners, giving the group added heft as it approaches its one-year anniversary. — Yahoo executives told The Associated Press that The Columbus Dispatch …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Yahoo Adds 17 New Members To Newspaper Consortium
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