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Arn / MacRumors:
German iPhones Unlocked by iTunes — MacNotes.de (German) provides early notes and experiences from customers who have bought unlocked iPhones in Germany. — The first SIM-unlocked iPhones went on sale in Germany on November 21st with a considerable (600 euro) premium over the usual SIM-locked iPhones.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Zoho Writer now lets you edit documents offline — Zoho releases tomorrow (Monday) an online word processor that lets multiple users work on the document online and offline at the same time. — When offline users go back online, the changes they made offline sync with the online document.
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Read/WriteWeb, Techlog, Download Squad, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, CenterNetworks, GigaOM, jkOnTheRun, /Message, Compiler and WinBeta
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Marina Strauss / Globe and Mail:
Molson pulls plug on Facebook photo contest — In response to growing criticism from universities, Molson has pulled a controversial photo contest on Facebook, underlining the challenges that companies face in trying to pitch their products on new social media.
ABCNEWS:
ABC News Joins Forces With Facebook — New Facebook Application Includes 2008 Presidential Campaign Reporting, Forums — With just under a year until the 2008 presidential election, ABC News and Facebook have partnered to launch an online political initiative that will combine the latest news …
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Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Torvalds On Where Linux Is Headed In 2008 — The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
J.A. Watson / ZDNet:
What's Going on at Skype? — What in the world is really going on at Skype? Have they just decided that they have too many toes, and are trying to shoot them off one at a time? The list of gaffes and blunders is impressive: — They are taking away SkypeIn numbers from paying customers …
Leo Lewis / Times of London:
The R4 chip is only small - but it looks like a giant pirate to Nintendo — The R4 looks like a simple piece of plastic. It is just a couple of centimetres square, a few millimetres thick and unbelievably easy to use. For Nintendo it is the Christmas stocking filler from hell.
CNET News.com:
Holiday tech gifts we don't recommend — 5. Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, A Parody by Daniel Lyons — This is another instance of "only the geeks would get it." The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, a once-anonymous blog created by Forbes editor Daniel Lyons (under the pseudonym …
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Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune:
Tracking the media audience, wherever it may be — PARIS: The French media consumer is about to enter a brave new world where broadcasters and advertisers can study and dissect their habits wherever they are. — Early next year, Médiamétrie, a French audience survey company …
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Tech design with thought — newsmaker If anyone knows a thing or two about designing for human-computer interaction, it's Don Norman, professor at Northwestern University, author of The Design of Future Things, and co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group. — In addition to his current consulting work …
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A Gimmick Becomes a Real Trend — TWO years ago, Cyber Monday was a marketing gimmick in search of shoppers. This year, it seems to be a genuine trend that retailers have embraced. — In a survey of roughly 120 members of Shop.org, the trade group for online retailers …
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:
Desktop Evolution: Windows and Mac OS Comparison [Desktop Comparison] — Since Windows 95 dropped more than a decade ago, our desktops have evolved to no end. Having recently had a fresh Leopard install on our Macs, we thought we would take a look back, with a side-by-side comparison of Windows and Mac operating systems.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do? — The One Laptop per Child project's "Give One, Get One" program has been extended through Dec. 31 as donations averaged about $2 million a day. On that pace, the OLPC should move about 490,000 units by the end of the year.
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Xconomy, The Bivings Report, Today @ PC World, Guardian Unlimited, Digital Trends, White African and BoomTown
Will O'Brien / Hack a Day:
slr lenses on your digital video camera — considering all the attention we give digital cameras, i wanted to find an interesting hack for those old school analog slr cameras. (i spent a fair share of time behind one; i'm fond of the classic canon ae-1) [joshua] mated his sony vx-2000e video camera …
