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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.
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 …
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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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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Google Experiments with Personalizing the Order of Search Results
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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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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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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 …
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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?
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Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Wireless connectivity problems still plague some MacBook users — Earlier this year, owners of many Apple laptops were having problems with Airport either causing kernel panics or just being flaky. MacBooks seemed to be hit especially hard, but a patch or two later, most of the major issues disappeared.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Earnings: Warner Music Profit Down 58 Percent; Digital Grows 25 Percent, Hits $130 Million — As expected, the Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) quarter ending Sept. 30 proved to be a challenge: The company booked revenue of $869 million, up 2 percent from last year's $854 million …
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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.
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Why You Can't Get Your Hands on a Wii — Brace yourself for another cranky Christmas, when hopeful children get up early only to discover there's no Wii under the tree. — The Nintendo console's broad appeal — and a maxed-out supply chain that can't be ramped up to meet holiday demands …
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
HP widens PC market share lead over Dell — How things change. Dell used to dominate the No. 1 spot in PC market share. But iSuppli reports this morning that HP is widening its lead. — Hewlett-Packard Expands PC Market-Share Lead Over Dell in Q3 — El Segundo, Calif., Nov. 29 …
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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.
Victor Keegan / Guardian:
How long should copyright last? — In 1735 William Hogarth, after a lively public campaign, helped to pass an act giving engravers the rights to their work for 14 years from publication. It was a landmark in the history of copyright as it bestowed on engravers similar legal rights to authors …
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