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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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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.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Experiment Lets You Change Results — Some users are reportedly seeing a new experiment in Google Experimental: the ability to re-order and even hide specific items in web search results. I can't see this yet, but according to the help page Google provides:
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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Verizon's "Open" Network Will Really Be Two-Tiered
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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?
John Leyden / The Register:
Cyber cold war fears grow — 120 countries have cyber-espionage capability, warns McAfee — Forget run of the mill cybercrooks, international cyber spying will pose the single biggest information security threat in 2008. — That's according to security giant McAfee …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New Google Maps feature could simulate GPS on iPhones — A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and handheld devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple's iPhone.
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Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
Yahoo! concocts a spicier new version of Widgets and Konfabulator — Yahoo! has launched an updated version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine and gallery. Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5 has the same look and feel on your desktop as version 4.0, but there are some changes in the way widgets are created and organized.
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
MTV to offer all South Park clips online — NEW YORK (Reuters) - MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of hit animated comedy "South Park" available for free online next year as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere. — The decision from the biggest division …
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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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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Computerworld:
Fringes with benefits — This pilot fish is updating the company's intranet welcome page with information from the human resources department. "It's a Word document regarding updates to our 401(k) program, with a link where employees can visit to update their own investment allocations," says fish.
