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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.
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 …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Test Lets Users Vote, Add and Delete Sites in SERPS — Google Experimental is testing the ability to actually change the ranking of results or delete sites listed in personalized search results, in a Digg style setting (similar to some tests they were running at Google's SearchMash).
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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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 …
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Facebook 'to drop' creeptech ad system — Watch online now - The findings of The Register's Virtualization Study — Facebook looks set to scale back its advertising ambitions after one of a suite of new features aimed at milking cash from user data was slammed as creepy.
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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?
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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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 …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Coming in 2008: GPS-enabled cameras? — The year of the GPS-enabled camera is nearly upon us. — So predicts Kanwar Chadha, founder of GPS chip designer SiRF. Speaking of camera makers, he said, "Most of them are seriously planning location-enabled cameras. The first, you'll see next year."
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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