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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Kindle sells out in 5.5 hours — Amazon isn't disclosing how many Kindles it actually had ready to go, but apparently the idea of a tiny e-book reader with free EV-DO and the visual flair of an Apple IIc hit home for quite a few people, because they sold out in just five and a half hours.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fantasy Of The Day: The Kindle Will Save Papers — Did you know that in addition to its odd pay-per-blog scheme, Amazon's Kindle also offers readers a chance to pay to read online newspapers? We haven't spent time talking about it, because it's so clearly a non-starter.
Reuters:
T-Mobile says to sell iPhone without contract — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile will allow customers in Germany to buy Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone without having to sign a T-Mobile contract after rival Vodafone (VOD.L) obtained a court injunction against it.
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BBC:
T-Mobile to open up iPhone sales — T-Mobile is to start allowing German customers to buy Apple's iPhone without a contract to its network, as it moves to comply with a court injunction. — Its announcement comes after rival Vodafone went to a German count to challenge T-Mobile's exclusive tie-up with the iPhone in Germany.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook's "Beacon" Infuriate Users, MoveOn — Facebook's "social ads" so far appear to be a flop. Not only was the "once in a hundred years" announcement largely a yawn, the complaints of Facebook users and MoveOn about the primal annoying-ness of "Beacon" are right on the money.
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Songs included in Guitar Hero 3 see a dramatic leap in digital sales — Playing music on plastic guitars is big business. Guitar Hero 3 has become quite the runaway hit at retail, and with Rock Band now released, we have two big-name rhythm games on the market.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Feedster Quietly Dies... So Which Blog Search Engine Do You Use? — Blog search engine Feedster has had the following notice on its frontpage for at least a few weeks now: — There is no sign of life on the site and the Feedster blog has already been killed off (the big 404 in the sky).
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Where in the world is Ray Ozzie? — Ray Ozzie is Microsoft's chief software architect-that's Bill Gates' old job. He is charged with building a bidirectional bridge between Microsoft's lucrative rich-client past and its cloud-computing future. — Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in March of 2005, is keeping a low profile lately.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
MacBook, MacBook Pro owners suffer keyboard freezing with Leopard — Some users of Apple's Intel-based portables are reporting that their keyboards are periodically seizing up during use, especially after upgrading to Mac OS X Leopard. — Numerous posts in Apple's support forums for the MacBook …
Lester Haines / The Register:
Wii grasses up cheating wife — US soldier discovers incriminating 'Mii' — A US soldier discovered his missus had been playing away at home after spotting a suspicious "Mii" on his Nintendo Wii, the Evening Standard reports. — The man, known only as Tony, returned from a year in Iraq …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies — FOR decades, Nabisco has sold cookies called Social Tea and crackers called Sociables. Now a competitor, Pepperidge Farm, is going all social, too, by entering the increasingly popular field known as social media with a Web site devoted to social networking.
Arn / MacRumors:
'Don't Give Up on Vista' Web Ad — Several readers have noted a new web-only advertisement from Apple that has appeared on a number of sites, including News.com, Engadget.com, and PCMag.com. — The Apple advertisement features "Mac" and "PC" as played by Justin Long and John Hodgman in a web ad composed of two separate components.
Search Engine Watch:
How to Integrate PPC and Display Advertising — Large brands can benefit from adjusting their online advertising spending on a cyclical basis between display advertising — designed to build impressions and awareness — and PPC (define) campaigns that focus on conversion and ROI (define).
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Renee Boucher Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
TomorrowNow Shuts Down Customer Support Program — The beleaguered SAP subsidiary is creating a new program, but clients without an interim plan may lose service. — Embattled SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow is ending its current customer support program as of Nov. 21, a move that could mean …
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Computerworld:
Alleged Cisco hacker convicted in Sweden, bewails fate — 19-year-old admits he built the tools but says he didn't crack the boxes — Linus Larsson Today's Top Stories or Other Security Stories — A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts …
