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Nick Denton:
A 2009 Internet Media Plan — To judge from a hysterical press, one might think the apocalypse was already upon the media industry: rolling cuts this month at Time Inc., the hallowed magazine group; a new catchphrase among advertising pundits, flat is the new up; and revisions …
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paidContent.org, CostPerNews, Tech Daily Dose, The Globe and Mail, Valleywag, Sean Percival's Blog, Gawker and Media Bullseye
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Host of Internet Spam Groups is Cut Off — Spam Drops After Internet Providers Disconnect a California Hosting Firm — The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm, identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged …
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline — The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline.
Bruce Polderman / Google LatLong:
Roman history comes to life in Google Earth — Were you someone who struggled to stay awake in ancient history class? If so, perhaps this was due to those uninspiring “artist renditions” in your textbook. Reading countless pages that described how a monument, building or city may have appeared …
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren't Really Looking for Him — When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet and upgraded to the premium membership that would let him contact long …
Daily Mail:
Pictured: The robot that can pull faces just like a human being … Scientists have created the first ‘humanoid’ robot that can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being. — ‘Jules’ - a disembodied androgynous robotic head - is controlled only by his own software …
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Rough Type, broadstuff, The Raw Feed, CrunchGear, Online Media Cultist and techblog.dallasnews.com
Nicholas C. Zakas / Yahoo! User Interface Blog:
The New Yahoo! Front Page and YUI 3.0 — At the beginning of this year, the Yahoo! Front Page team embarked on an ambitious project to completely remake the face of the company. The goal was to make the Front Page into the most important starting point on the web while also showcasing Yahoo!'s commitment to openness.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Nokia's half QWERTY device, Wahoo, headed for AT&T gets pictured; Sorry Charlie! — Well, what do we have here? It seems as if it's a never before seen Nokia handset! We don't have a name to call it other than the internal codename, “Wahoo”, but what we can do is recap some of the specs of the device for you...
Joshuapa / Windows Mobile Team Blog:
Internet Explorer Mobile 6 — •Ed EMEA we announced the availability of emulators and documentation for Internet Explorer Mobile 6, which is the next generation browser for Windows Mobile. Available on new Windows Mobile devices soon, this browser will provide a high-quality browsing experience …
Wall Street Journal:
iPhone Faces Off With Game Champs — Apple Inc.'s iPhone has shaken up the cellphone business. Its next target: Nintendo Co. and Sony Corp. — The iPhone and its sister device the iPod touch, which feature big screens and powerful graphics, are emerging as serious competitors …
Major Nelson / Xbox Lives Major Nelson:
Xbox 360 Console banning — I've gotten a few messages and seen some forum threads pop up on console bannings so I thought I'd post and let folks know what's up. In our our continued effort to keep gameplay safe and secure for our community of more than 14 million members …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Qualcomm floats ‘PC alternative’ 3G device — Qualcomm on Wednesday entered the Internet device market with a “PC alternative” designed to give netbooks some competition in emerging markets. — The device, dubbed Kayak, is designed to use 3G wireless connectivity and be completely free …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Best Buy cuts outlook; Sees ‘most difficult climate ever seen’ — Best Buy said Wednesday that it is facing “rapid, seismic changes in consumer behavior have created the most difficult climate we've ever seen” and cut its earnings and revenue projections. Indeed, Best Buy's same store sales fell a whopping 7.6 percent for October.
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The Register, Tech Trader Daily, GMSV, Business Wire, Digital Daily, Valleywag and Wall Street Journal
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Twitter: One Billion Tweets. Wow. — Popacular, a site that measures popularity of websites according to the number of related tweets, has a huge counter that counts the overall number of tweets. I don't know how accurate this thing can be, given that it's third party, but if it is …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple may launch most aggressive Black Friday sale yet — With Black Friday sale information from rival PC vendors beginning to leak online, experts at Barclays Capital say they expect Apple to counter the promotions with a more aggressive than usual one-day sale, offering deep discounts on a number of Mac models.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
LG, Sharp, Chunghwa admit to LCD price fixing — Updated at 11:51 a.m. with more information on the case. — LG Display, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for participating in a liquid crystal display price-fixing conspiracy and pay $585 million in fines …
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US Department of Justice, The Register, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, Gizmodo and Valleywag
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
MySpace launches searchable video widget — Now you can put a TV on your MySpace profile—sort of. — The News Corp.-owned social network has built a new widget for its developer platform called “Primetime,” a video player that syndicates much of the professionally created content available on its MySpaceTV media hub.
AppleInsider:
Apple releases big bug fix patch for 4th gen iPod nano — Apple on Tuesday evening released a significant bug fix update for its recently released fourth-generation iPod nano digital media players, which adds support for a couple of the company's new headphone offerings …
wmpoweruser.com:
First Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots! — Smartphonefrance.info has scored a major scoop by having the first purported pictures of Windows Mobile 6.5, and they look pretty good indeed. — It seems Microsoft has taken the call for eye candy on board, and everything looks large, bold and anti-aliased.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube lets advertisers buy search terms — SAN BRUNO, Calif.—YouTube said Wednesday that it's rolling out a new ad platform called Sponsored Videos. — According to YouTube, which held a press conference at its headquarters, here's how it works: First, YouTube users …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Sky Is Falling: Google Shares Below $300 — So much for the Obama bump. The markets have resumed their downward spiral, making clear that our economic conditions aren't going to improve anytime soon. The impact of this sustained selling is even being felt by companies that were …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Layoffs Hit Mobile Entertainment Firm Thumbplay — Thumbplay is the latest victim of the downturn. The NYC-based mobile content firm laid off staff members across the company today, Thumbplay confirms to us. One source pegs the cuts at 25%; a Thumbplay rep says the actual percentage is “measurably lower,” but wouldn't specify.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows 7 and netbooks: Separating fact from speculation — Is Microsoft going to take a revenue hit when it releases Windows 7 because of the changing mix of PCs in the market? That's the expectation of many company watchers, though I have to admit I'm not quite so sure. Here's why.
InfoWorld:
Microsoft offers push e-mail with new SMB servers — Microsoft is offering smaller businesses the same kind of Windows Mobile push services that enterprises get with new versions of its server software, expected to be launched on Wednesday. — In addition, as part of a promotion …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I'll Never Let Canada Live This Down: Evil Carpooling Startup Fined — A ridiculous update on a ridiculous lawsuit: In August I wrote about a carpooling startup called PickupPal. The idea is that people can gather on the site to find others traveling to the same places, and carpool there to save gas.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
HTC MAX 4G officially announced, world's first GSM / WiMAX phone — Hey Sprint, you listening? Granted, GSM doesn't do Sprint a whole lot of good in the States, but swapping a CDMA radio into HTC's first WiMAX effort here would make for a downright mighty response to the Touch HD.
