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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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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.
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 …
InfoWorld:
Yahoo and Adobe team up to put online ads in PDFs — Yahoo and Adobe are partnering to allow publishers to run dynamically generated ads on PDF files posted on the Web or distributed via e-mail, opening up a new frontier in online advertising. — Until now, publishers have been able …
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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 …
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?
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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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 …
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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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Earnings: Warner Music Profit Down 58 Percent; Digital Grows 25 …
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 …
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 …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The Amazon Kindle: One week and 3,500 miles later — Guest post: Josh Taylor is the director of ZDNet and its sister site TechRepublic. Keep an eye out for Josh's product review blog later this year. In the meantime, here's his first impressions of the Kindle.
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Jerome Wendt / Computerworld:
Opinion: What you don't virtualize can hurt you — Congested networks can quickly mitigate whatever initial benefits virtualization delivers — In the frenzy to virtualize servers, companies are forgetting to virtualize an important and yet critical component of their infrastructures …
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Exclusive: Helio Mysto outed — Look what I found today. The first official pics of the Mysto from Helio. The CDMA version of the U600, of course. Ain't she a beaut? No word on specs or release date, but it'll run $150. Can't wait for this slick slider to make its way into my hands.
