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Parija B. Kavilanz / CNNMoney.com:
Wal-Mart's Black Friday deals: High tech — Ad showing retailer's planned discounts focuses on consumer electronics like a Samsung 50-inch plasma HDTV, Magnavox Blu-ray player and Xbox 360. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart is highlighting flat screen TVs, Blu-ray players …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Profiles Adds Photos, Inching Closer to Lifestreaming — Rolfe Schewe sent me a heads-up on Twitter tonight that Google Profiles now has added photo streaming. All you need to do is point Google toward Picasa, Flickr or any other photo sharing service that supports feeds and it will pull in your public photos.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge — French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Sees Traffic and Peers Surge — Only a few days before the largest BitTorrent tracker will celebrate its 5th anniversary, the Pirate Bay reached a new milestone. The site now tracks 25 million peers, which is more than the entire populations of Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Denmark combined.
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Sandra Gonzales / Mercury News:
Man who lost job at Santa Clara startup killed 3, including CEO and another top executive, police say — A recently laid-off tech employee Friday opened fire inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, police said, killing three people, including the CEO and another top executive …
Harry A. Jessell / TVNEWSDAY:
Obama Names FCC Transition Team — Two academics — Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach — will lead the Obama FCC transition team with the responsibility of advising the incoming administration on policy, budget and personnel matters, the Obama-Biden office announced today. — Story continues after the ad
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Layoffs Set for December 10 (And, No, Jerry Yang Is Not Leaving Too) — While they're not as significant as the potential 6,000 layoffs at Sun Microsystems (JAVA) announced earlier today, several sources at Yahoo said that the previously announced layoffs at the Internet giant are set to take effect on December 10.
Joseph Tartakoff / The Microsoft Blog:
Top execs cast blame in Vista Capable ‘mess’ — New e-mails unsealed in a lawsuit Friday show that a Hewlett Packard executive was outraged at a Microsoft decision to loosen the requirements necessary for a PC to be labeled ‘Vista Capable.’ — The HP executive's concerns then triggered …
Marc Flores / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile Customer Delight Day - Free Minutes! — We just got word that T-Mobile will be holding Customer Delight Day tomorrow - that's November 15! What does this mean? Well, it means free minutes for you T-Mobile subscribers. Here's how it works:
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Eric Schmidt and the YouTube election — Is YouTube making Google a political player? The video-sharing site, with its stratospheric bandwidth bills and questionable new ad formats, may never pay Larry and Sergey back in cash for the $1.65 billion they shelled out to buy it in 2006.
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John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's 20 Essential iPhone Apps — It's been four months almost to the day since iPhone 2.0 came, and we've been hitting the App Store hard every week ever since to sift through what's new in iPhone App land. This week, we've decided to hold back for a second, take a breath …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Tech Industry, Long Insulated, Feels a Slump — The technology industry, which resisted the economy's growing weakness over the last year as customers kept buying laptops and iPhones, has finally succumbed to the slowdown. — In the span of just a few weeks, orders for both business …
