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Sarah Lai Stirland / Threat Level:
In Test, Canadian ISP Splices Itself Into Google Homepage — A screen shot posted to the web over the weekend seems to show that Canada's largest provider of high-speed internet access is exploring a controversial data substitution technique that lets it add its own content to the webpages customers visit.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Street View Images for Dallas, Detroit and Other 6 Cities — Every two or three months Google adds new cities to Street View. This time Google included eight new cities from the US: Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Fort Worth, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Providence (all of them are in the top 150 US cities by population).
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Robert Weisman / Boston Globe:
Get ready for your close-up — Google's acclaimed, criticized Street View bears down on Boston — Google Inc.'s controversial Street View feature, which offers 360-degree, street-level images of urban life so clear that passersby often can be identified, is set to make its Boston debut this morning.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dell Latitude XT tablet hands-on — We spent a few minutes with the brand new Dell Latitude XT and we have to say, as far as tablets (and especially Dells) go, this thing is top-tier. Some thoughts: — The whole machine's decked in a ThinkPad-esque soft touch finish …
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Lionel Menchaca / Direct2Dell:
Latitude XT Details — Lots of folks have been waiting for us to release more details on the Latitude XT Tablet PC. My first brief post about it has received more than 400 comments and has gone on to become the #1 most viewed post in Direct2Dell's history.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Ask.com Puts a Bet on Privacy — Will privacy sell? — Ask.com is betting it will. The fourth-largest search engine company will begin a service today called AskEraser, which allows users to make their searches more private. — Ask.com and other major search engines like Google …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, ResourceShelf, Silicon Alley Insider, Compiler and BloggingStocks
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:Ask.com plays to people's privacy concerns with AskEraser …
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Quincy Pince-Nez / 9 to 5 Mac:
15 Billion dollars, Apple? Someone is doing some Christmas shopping — So it came out last week that Apple had been saving a bit of money. They are likely going to buy something and the internet blew up with ideas on what that should be. Ars came up with Adobe, Tivo, Nintendo.
John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:
Vudu adds TV shows — The previously movie-only Vudu now offers some TV episodes as well — When we reviewed the Vudu back in September, we said "only feature films are available, but Vudu says that TV shows are on the roadmap." Vudu made good on that pledge today, adding 12 TV shows to its content roster.
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James Quintana Pearce / paidContent.org:Universal Offers HD Movie For Download On Vudu At The Same Time As DVD
Skrentablog:
PageRank wrecked the web — Two years later and rel=nofollow is still bugging folks. — Google needs YOUR help — It's still bugging me, too. It doesn't make any sense. — Bad linking hurts everybody — Google couldn't seriously be asking webmasters to tag which of their links …
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BBC:
Rice and laptops — Criticism of plans to get technology into the developing world is misplaced, says Bill Thompson. — One of the best things about being on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet each week is that I get to hear about interesting technologies from many different countries …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FolderShare AutoDeletes Files. Whoops — One of the favorite things I like to hear from developers when some horrible and embarrassing bug manifests itself is "It's a feature not a bug." It's a joke of course, but it's unlikely Microsoft developers will be doing any joking around as they try …
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Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Napster's CFO Set To Leave — If the CFO of a highly successful company were to quit for "personal reasons," an eyebrow or two might need to be raised. But Nand Gangwani, the CFO of Napster, is stepping down, and, well, there you have it. — At $2.36 per share, Napster's stock is not the sort …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Hands-on with BetaBlue, JetBlue's WiFi-equipped Airbus — Generally we're the type to pass out the second we've stowed our carry-on items safely in the overhead bin, but on a recent test flight for a gang of reporters, photographers, Fortune 500 execs, and the obligatory PR team …
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Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
His Royal Steveness a Late Entry for 2007's Best-Dressed Lists [Nobel Steve] — Dear Steve, I knew you could do it— get away from that zen-inspired "one single look means one minute in the closet" sartorial philosophy. But a shirt and tie? Oh, my son, you look positively ravishing.
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Insanely Great Mac
Mrn / iPod Touch Mods:
VoIP confirmed!!! — Amazing news, guys! I have no words! We all knew it will come. — So here it is: — eok did manage to make the Nintendo DS-based SIP app from Samuel running on the iPod Touch!! — Samuel's page here: svsip.free.fr — His SW does use pjsip from pjsip.org.
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9 to 5 Mac, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and CrunchGear
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Jaxtr Racks Up Over 5 Million Users In Under 5 Months — Social communications startup Jaxtr has been experiencing some pretty amazing growth. They've attracted over 5 million users in under 5 months (140 days). It's a ten fold increase in users since they reported 500,000 users in July.
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