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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:
The genius behind Steve — The CEO is the heart and soul of Apple Inc. yet he's got a deep management bench from which to choose his eventual successor. — (Fortune Magazine) — Let's start with some uncomfortable truths. We wouldn't be publishing an article about the under-the-radar guy who's …
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BBC:
Study shows how spammers cash in — Spammers are turning a profit despite only getting one response for every 12.5m e-mails they send, finds a study. — By hijacking a working spam network, US researchers have uncovered some of the economics of being a junk mailer.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
MacBook Nano Looks Like It Came from Cupertino — I don't know if these MacBook Nanos are a custom hack or if they come from some kind of shady outlet selling retrofitted MSI U100 laptops made to look like shiny—and fictional—Apple notebooks with Mac OS X installed.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Does MSN Toolbar Distribution Deal With Java — Continuing on with its strategy to build search share by gaining distribution partners, Microsoft has landed a deal to have its MSN Toolbar offered to anyone in the United States who downloads Java for Internet Explorer.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Bill Gates' New Career? Patent Troll For Nathan Myhrvold? — from the kinder-capitalism? dept — Plenty of folks have been wondering just what Bill Gates is up to now that he's left his full-time position at Microsoft. Longtime rabble-rouser theodp has alerted us to one thing …
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1a hitting Best Buy next month — Thanks to our Best Buy ninjas, we've just got some screen shots showing that Sony Ericsson's X1a (North American model) will definitely be hitting best buy early next month. The actual in stock date as of now is December 7th. The price?
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Bloomberg:
Circuit City, Electronics Retailer, Seeks Bankruptcy — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Circuit City Stores Inc., the 59-year- old seller of televisions and computers, filed for bankruptcy protection, becoming the biggest retail casualty of the slowing U.S. economy and frozen credit markets.
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Electronista:
Study: new MacBooks likely 33% of US sales — Apple's recent MacBook lineup and the iPhone may make it one of the better-positioned companies to survive a likely steep drop in spending during the holidays, according to new data from ChangeWave. The analyst firm says that a full third …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Cyber criminals target Facebook users — Facebook has been infiltrated by Nigerian scammers and other cyber criminals who use compromised accounts to con users out of cash. — Now that even non-tech savvy internet users know not to respond to, or click on links in, emails from strangers …
Denise Dubie / Network World:
One in four DNS servers still vulnerable to Kaminsky flaw, survey says — Despite industry efforts to lock down DNS servers, one in four remain vulnerable to cache poisoning due to the well-documented Kaminsky flaw identified earlier this year and another 40% could be considered a danger to themselves and others, recent research shows.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News:
Activists launch certification for e-waste recycling — Activists groups on Monday launched a certification program meant to identify responsible recyclers of electronic gear in North America. — The program, called e-Steward Initiative, was organized by the Basel Action Network …
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Scott Moritz / Techland:
Nortel cuts jobs, shakes up management — Nortel (NT) plans a major restructuring and another round of job cuts as demand for tech gear plunges. — The Toronto networking equipment giant said Monday it would trim 1,300 jobs on top 1,200 cuts previously announced. Nortel had 32,550 employees at the end of 2007.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Everybody's Underwater In Silicon Valley — As tech stocks plummet, more Silicon Valley workers find themselves holding worthless options — the kind that would allow them to buy company stock at higher prices than they are currently being publicly traded. — They're “underwater.”
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Dapper MashupAds Turn Your Website Into Contextual, Display Ads — The most important ad for a company or brand is its Website. So why not use that Website to generate ads? Dapper, a startup that can create a feed from any Website, is applying its technology to generate contextual …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine — It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T's portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup.
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Reuters:
YouTube to post full-length MGM films — NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing website, will show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's archives in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing, the company told Reuters on Sunday.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
The better part of Nokia's smartphone roadmap goes on display — Okay, so maybe the N96 isn't your cup of tea. Perhaps you're disappointed that Nokia didn't blow out its inaugural entry into the wide world of touch with something just a little more superphone-ish than the 5800.
Wall Street Journal:
Dell Lags in New Products — Michael Dell last year promised innovative new consumer products to generate “product lust” and spark his company's turnaround effort. But in the runup to the holiday sales season, Dell Inc. has been slow to deliver on that promise.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google, T-Mobile, Give AOL a Hand and a Big Check — Apple (AAPL), Research In Motion (RIMM) and Google (GOOG) are duking it out for consumers' smartphone dollars this fall. But here's an early winner: Time Warner's AOL (TWX), which has just landed a giant contract to push Google's G1 phone for the next two days.
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Profy, Mashable!, dailywireless.org, AndroidGuys, RCR Wireless News, mocoNews.net and CNET News
Steve O'Hear / last100:
I've been playing with Nokia's new touchscreen phone - the 5800 XpressMusic (aka the Tube) — Ever since Nokia officially announced its new consumer touchscreen smartphone, the 5800 XpressMusic (aka the “Tube"), I've been dying to get my hands on the device.
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John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
How To: Max Out Apple TV's Potential With Boxee — This is a guide that, if followed, will unchain your Apple TV from its cruel iTunes tether, turning it into the useful living room conduit of music, video and web-based content it should have been all along via the media center software Boxee.
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
VMware Wants to Bring Virtualization to Your Smart Phone — VMware is looking to bring its virtualization technology to smart phones and cell phones in 2009 through a new virtualization platform called the VMware Mobile Virtualization Platform, or MVP. The platform will use …
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Reuters, Bits, LinuxDevices.com, Inquirer, Computerworld, virtualization.info, OStatic blogs, Virtualization.com and BrianMadden.com
