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Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Breaking: American Airlines to offer Wi-Fi service next year; takes lead as first totally not-crappy airline — We got a tip that something cool is about to hit. I keep saying that the "no electronic devices on airplanes" thing is crap, and American Airlines, it seems, is seeing my point of view.
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Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Web Access and E-Mail on Flights — Passengers may soon hear a new in-flight announcement: "You can now log on." — Starting next week and over the next few months, several United States airlines will test Internet service on their planes. — On Tuesday, JetBlue Airways will begin offering …
Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
Apple's $15 billion cash hoard — Pop quiz: Which tech company has the most cash? — (A) IBM (IBM) — (B) Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) — (C) Intel (INTC) — (D) Google (GOOG) — (E) Apple (AAPL) — If you picked E, congratulations. Apple's $15.4 billion stash is indeed the biggest of the group …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Edgeio To Shut Down - In The DeadPool — Edgeio, a company I co-founded in 2005, had a final board meeting this evening and made the decision to shut down operations of the company. We are putting it into the TechCrunch DeadPool. — Edgieo first launched in February 2006 after a beta period.
David Pogue / New York Times:
The Dr. Seuss Jumble: Naming Web Sites — Could it possibly be true? Has all wit and cleverness already dried up in the naming of Web sites, less than 15 years after the Internet was opened to the public? — In the beginning, Web sites announced their own names.
Blog Council:
Corporate Bloggers Launch the "Blog Council" Organization — CORPORATE BLOGGERS LAUNCH THE "BLOG COUNCIL" ORGANIZATION — Top Executives from 12 Global Brands Form Private Community to Develop Best Practices, Measurement, and Idea-Sharing — CHICAGO, December 6, 2007 — The Blog Council …
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Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:Big Business "Blog Council" created, business world yawns
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Associated Press:
Macrovision to Buy Gemstar-TV Guide — SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Macrovision Corp., which develops technology to prevent unauthorized copying and viewing of video, music and other content, said Friday it will buy television listings provider Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. for $2.8 billion in cash and stock.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Crazy Cousins Thank Gordon Crovitz — One of the nice things about having a blog is that I can mouth off on just about anything I want and include whatever I want too (such as, for example, shamelessly making videos of my kids in a fruitless attempt to try to cajole Yahoo's Jerry Yang into having lunch with me).
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
The Cult of Kindle — I'd not given Amazon's Kindle ebook reader much chance of succeeding given the stratospheric price tag combined with DRM, but then I started reading the customer reviews for it and just realized that the Kindle has already amassed quite a considerable cult following, and this could be crucial to its success.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Software Freedom Law Center goes after Verizon over GPL — The Software Freedom Law Center on Friday said it has filed a suit against Verizon Communications alleging that it has violated the terms of the General Public License, which governs the use of thousands of free and open-source software products.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
EchoStar Now DISH Network — Spins Off SlingBox, Set-Top Biz — EchoStar, the satellite broadcasting company, is finally changing its name to DISH Network, according to a filing with the SEC. Why the change? EchoStar wants its name to truly reflect its true business.
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
HTC Shift Gets (Carbon) Dated? [Delays] — HTC Shift Gets (Carbon) Dated? — While the HTC Shift was supposed to be released in November, the world is still waiting anxiously for this quasi-UMPC device to show up in stores. Now the company has announced a January 11th launch date in Britain …
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Gerry Block / IGN Gear:
Nyko Reveals Wireless Wii Nunchuck — Exclusive news and first pictures revealed. — The Wii is a pretty slick system in many ways, from the small and understated proportions of the console to the minimalist yet powerful Wiimote. In our minds, its only really glaring aesthetic shortcoming …
Becky Bitzenhofer / Compete Blog:
Google Docs and Spreadsheets — Lately, I seem to be getting more invites to view a Google document (rather than a Word document). I guess I'm not surprised though. It has been just over a year since Google Docs and Spreadsheets was officially released, and it has been just under a year since Microsoft released Office 2007.
Julie Kent / Search Engine Journal:
Research Firm Says Yahoo, MSN, & Google Have Major Page-Caching Flaw — A "significant" vulnerability has been found in the page-caching technologies of the three major search engines - Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft Live Search. Researchers at Aladdin Knowledge Systems discovered the flaw …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Beacon Inflating Facebook's Visitor Numbers? — While Facebook's Beacon program has been drawing the ire of many people because of the privacy issues surrounding it, advertisers might be equally concerned about whether Beacon is inflating Facebook's overall visitor and traffic numbers.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google — Matt Cutts of Google said at PubCon that Google will be treating sub domains similar to how they treat folders on a site. I reported this at the Search Engine Roundtable on a post by Tedster at WebmasterWorld, where Tedster said:
Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
PHS300 Turns Your 3G Cellphone into a Personal Hot Spot [Gadgets] — Three months ago, CradlePoint brought out a portable router that let you turn your EV-DO mobile into a wi-fi router, and now they've done it again for 3G phones. Connect your 3G mobile or USB modem to the PHS300 …
