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Jason Lee Miller / WebProNews:
Facebook To Cry Uncle Over Beacon — Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week. — MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksgiving and has since signed up 50,000 Facebook members incensed …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Updates Beacon — Facebook has just announced that they will be updating their Beacon system. Stories will no longer be published "without a user proactively consenting." According to Facebook here is how the Beacon changes work:
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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Dan Primack / PE HUB:
AdBrite Raises $23 Million — Online advertising company AdBrite has raised $23 million in third-round funding, according to a regulatory filing discovered by peHUB. Return backers include Sequoia Capital and hedge fund Artis Management (which often gloms onto Sequoia for hot VC deals).
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Warner Music: We're totally screwed — I'm paraphrasing a little, but that seems to be the general thrust of Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s comments about the company's latest financial results. In a nutshell, Warner — which Edgar Jr. maintains is not a record company at all, but a …
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paidContent.org, CrunchGear, Beet.TV, Silicon Alley Insider, The Globe and Mail and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
Amazon's Kindle Makes Buying E-Books Easy, Reading Them Hard — Companies have failed for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a dedicated device that would do for books what Apple's iPod has done for music — allow you to carry around large numbers of titles and enjoy them in a convenient way.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Xbox 360 tops PS3, trails Wii in initial holiday sales — Microsoft sold more than 310,000 Xbox 360s last week in the United States, according to data released by the company this morning. The number essentially completes the statistical picture for the first week of holiday console sales.
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Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) — Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development. — Over the next few months we'll …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Verizon's Real Move to Openness — Verizon Wireless got a lot of attention Tuesday for its vague announcement about offering open access to its network. But a much geekier announcement today may well be more important. — The company said it would use a technology standard called LTE …
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Netflix:
NETFLIX AND NBC UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCE ONLINE DEAL FOR 'HEROES' AND OTHER POPULAR SERIES — by Netflix Subscribers the Day After its Network Airing — UNIVERSAL CITY and LOS GATOS, Calif., November 26, 2007 - Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coming Soon: A Small Move by Facebook, with Big Implications — So a lot has been made of the Facebook vs. Google fight, whether it be the fight over talent or potential advertising revenues. The reality is that if Facebook needs to keep growing, it needs Google.
Scott Wasson / The Tech Report:
Quad FX canceled, upgrade path unclear — When AMD introduced its Quad FX dual-socket enthusiast platform one year ago, the entire proposition was a tough sell, because Intel had a single-socket quad-core solution that combined superior performance with lower power consumption than AMD's offering.
Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Insider charged with hacking California canal system — Ex-supervisor installed unauthorized software on SCADA system, indictment says — A former employee of a small California canal system has been charged with installing unauthorized software and damaging the computer used to divert water from the Sacramento River.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
'Bot Roast II' Nets 8 Individuals — Second Phase of Ongoing Cyber Investigation Reveals More Than $20 Million in Economic Loss and More Than One Million Victimized Computers. Public Urged To Take Precaution. — The FBI today announced the results of the second phase of its continuing investigation …
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eWEEK.com, WebProNews, How To Split An Atom, Threat Level, SecurityFocus, InfoWorld, Security Fix and TechSpot News
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple developing mini-disc adapter for slot-loading drives — Apple iPod chief Tony Fadell has develop a collapsable hardware solution that would allow his company to reduce shipping and packaging costs by selling software on smaller discs which could then be used in slot-loading optical drives built …
