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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Apple to Unveil Faster IPhone, AT&T's Stephenson Says — Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said. — The device will operate …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AT&T CEO outs 3G iPhone: "You'll have it next year" — Of course the 3G iPhone is coming, that's clearly in the evolution plan. As Jobs said himself, it's only a matter of time until improved batteries allow for it. Still, when AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson says, "You'll have it next year," well, our ears tend to perk up.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
At The Churchill Club: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson Says 3G Apple iPhone Coming Next Year — On Wednesday night, AT&T (T) CEO Randall Stephenson is speaking at a Churchill Club dinner in Santa Clara, California. He is being interviewed by Quentin Hardy from Forbes.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results — If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize. Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.
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Haochi / Googlified:
Google Digg-Style Experiment — Google Experimental is currently running an experiment that allows some selected users to "influence [the] search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results." — On a result page, you can choose move a search result to the top by clicking …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:Google Experiment Lets You Change Results
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo, Adobe team on PDF ads — Yahoo and Adobe are bringing pay-per-click ads to Adobe's Portable Document Format so that publishers can serve up ads inside PDFs distributed on Web sites and over e-mail that are contextually relevant to the content. — The text advertisements appear …
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Business Wire:
Adobe and Yahoo! Unveil Beta Of New Advertising Service For PDF Publishers — Dynamic Ads Integrated in Adobe PDF to Drive New Revenues for Content Owners — SAN JOSE, Calif. & SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE - News) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO …
Verizon:
Verizon Selects LTE As 4G Wireless Broadband Direction — Technology Platform to be Trialed in 2008 — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - the technology developed within …
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Facebook May Revamp Beacon — After pressure from MoveOn and members, the social network may change a policy on sharing info on users' Web buying and activities — In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool …
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
Group chat and rich emoticons now available in Gmail chat — The new Gmail Seattle team is happy to announce two additions to Gmail's built-in chat capabilities: group chat and enhanced emoticons. — To start a group chat, click "Group chat" from the "Options" menu when chatting.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again) — Don't look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware. — The company's overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful. Remember the Smart Display? The Spot Watch? The Ultra-Mobile PC? The original Zune?
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
P2P Traffic Is Booming, BitTorrent The Dominant Protocol — Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs concludes this from data they gathered between August and September 2007. In total, over 3 Petabytes …
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TVNZ:
Exploding phone gives midnight fright — Nokia has launched a full investigation into what is believed to be New Zealand's first case of a cellphone battery explosion. — Auckland man Norman Sievewright woke to a loud bang in the middle of the night and found his phone, which had been charging next to his bed, had exploded.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Turns Out You Can't Sue Creative Commons Because You Didn't Understand The CC License — A few months ago we wrote about a somewhat bizarre lawsuit where the family of a teenager sued Creative Commons after a photo of the girl was used in an ad campaign by Virgin Mobile Australia.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Warner Music (WMG): Next Year Will Be Awful — Warner Music doesn't formally offer guidance to Wall Street. But read between the lines from his just-concluded Q4 earnings call and it's pretty clear that WMG is going to have a lousy 2008: — • Physical music sales are going to continue to plummet …
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Elizabeth Aguilera / Denver Post:
DIA sets Wi-Fi free — An airport spokesman says wireless Internet use has risen tenfold since DIA dropped the fee early this month. — Travelers at Denver International Airport who have previously had to pay for wireless Internet access are getting an early Christmas surprise: The service is now free.
