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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google SearchWiki brings custom search results — Disagree with Google's search results? You'll be able to do something about it with a change the company plans to release starting Thursday. — Google's SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results.
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Ars Technica, Google Watch, Bits, Search Engine Journal, SitePoint, TheNextWeb.com and CostPerNews
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SearchWiki: make search your own — Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv — In a striking display of the power of live video, Abraham K. Biggs committed suicide on Wednesday while broadcasting himself on video site Justin.tv. As we understand it from various forum posts, the 19-year-old Floridian was apparently egged …
Marla Aaron / IAB:
Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 '08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion — 11% Increase from Q3 '07, Up Slightly from Q2 '08 Despite U.S. Economic Woes — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
BlackBerry Storm review — By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America's largest network, Verizon. Even if you haven't heard how the tale ends …
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Anita Hamilton / Time:BlackBerry Storm: The Novelty Wears Off Fast
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DVICE, BB Geeks, Boy Genius Report, CrackBerry.com blogs, BlackBerry Cool and MacDailyNews
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:BlackBerry's Storm Presses Into the Touch-Phone Fray
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GigaOM, eWeek, jkOnTheRun, TheAppleBlog, PC Magazine, The Toybox, Gearlog, Broadband Politics, Guardian, Computerworld and Boing Boing Gadgets
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing — Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. — “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging …
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loose wire blog, Techdirt, Portfolio, Joi Ito's Web, TECH.BLORGE.com, Unit Structures, Switched, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and /Message
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple developing always-on iPhone status indicators — Apple has conceptualized a means of displaying icon-like status indicators on the iPhone's displays even when the handset is locked and the backlight turned off, a new company filing shows. — The Cupertino-based electronics maker notes …
Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
A Historic Collapse in U.S. Corporate IT Spending — ChangeWave's latest corporate IT purchasing survey shows an accelerating collapse in U.S. business spending that has reached historic proportions - with record pullbacks occurring both in the current 4th Quarter and going forward.
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Why Firefox Won't Survive Chrome — [Editor's Note: In a departure from form, I will mostly blog shorter posts today so that I can post more to Apple Watch and Microsoft Watch. It's a stylistic experiment; please offer feedback in comments or by e-mail.] — GOT A TIP OR RUMOR?
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Vulnerability, Fix Coming on November 21st in Firmware 2.2? — German publication Spiegel.de reports an newly announced iPhone vulnerability that can force a (potentially expensive) phone call to be made simply by visiting a webpage in Safari. The vulnerability was to be announced …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:iPhone security posting suggests 2.2 firmware tomorrow
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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Orb 2.0 brings live television streaming to iPhone, no jailbreak needed — Orb, one of my long-time favorite applications for remotely streaming home media has finally come to the iTunes AppStore. Up to now, Orb was only possible on jailbroken phones, but somehow, Apple has approved the application for everyday use.
Waxy.org:
The Faces of Mechanical Turk — When you experiment with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, it feels like magic. You toss 500 questions into the ether, and the answers instantly start rolling in from anonymous workers around the world. It was great for getting work done, but who are these people?
Meghan Keane / Epicenter:
YouTube Tests Out High Quality, Stereo Surround Videos — YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week. The new format could be a big move for YouTube …
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Google Operating System, Download Squad, Webware.com, Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, webmonkey and WebProNews
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple now No. 2 in corporate smartphone market share — While Research in Motion continues to dominate the corporate smartphone market, new data shows Apple to be chipping awake at the BlackBerry maker's lead after having recently bludgeoned Palm to become the second leading supplier of advanced handsets to businesses.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft: IE 8 won't be done until 2009 — Microsoft plans to offer one more public test version of Internet Explorer 8 before releasing the final version of the updated browser, the company said late Wednesday. — The next test, essentially a “release candidate” version will come in the first quarter of 2009.
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Court filing: HP's Hurd complained to Ballmer about rocky Vista upgrades — In an e-mail message after Windows Vista's release, Hewlett-Packard Chief Executive Mark Hurd complained to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about the computer maker's “call lines being overrun” with customers' Windows …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Salesforce.com posts 43 percent revenue jump — Salesforce.com announced Thursday a 43 percent increase in third-quarter revenue, beating Wall Street's expectations. — Shares of Salesforce.com rose about 11 percent in after-hours trading to $25.30 a share.
Clearwire News Room:
Clearwire Stockholders Approve Transaction to Combine Clearwire and Sprint's 4G Mobile WiMAX Business — Clearwire Secures Lender Consents for Transaction — Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR), one of the world's largest providers of personal broadband and mobile Internet service …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
For Sony, No Discounts Means Stress-Free Shopping — Eliminating price competition among retailers for high-end cameras and TVs is a great benefit for consumers — or so Sony executives argued Thursday. — At a chat with reporters in New York, Stan Glasgow, the president of Sony Electronics …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
It's Official: Yahoo Search Exec Suchter to Microsoft — Yesterday, BoomTown reported, based on sources, that Yahoo search exec Sean Suchter was headed to Microsoft. — Now it's official. Here's a Microsoft (MSFT) statement on the hiring of Suchter (pictured here), an important tech leader at Yahoo …
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Search Engine Land, TechFlash, Beyond Binary, The Microsoft Blog and All about Microsoft
Dan Farber / Webware.com:
Yahoo open pages continue to dribble out — Yahoo is continuing to dribble out its open platform. — The company on Thursday added an eBay Anywhere application to the dashboard area of the new home page in testing. The eBay application allows users to monitor their buying and selling activities from the Yahoo home page.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google - the world's first firewalled monopoly — Pricing power goes virtual — Antitrust 2.0 Why did Google leave outgoing Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang heartbroken at the search engine altar? If you believe the words chief ad broker and CEO Eric Schmidt funneled through The New York Times …
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David LaGesse / US News:
America's Best Leaders — Home > Nation & World > America's Best Leaders — America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO — The founder of the massive online retailer is a true Internet pioneer … My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple DisplayPort-Dual Link DVI adapter delayed until December 23. Bah! Humbug! — I don't know what to say. I am livid. Not only has Apple charged me $100 to use my 30 inch screen with my Unibody MacBook, the adapter is huge and takes a USB port for power. Oh, and there was a one month wait for these part initially.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google — The question on the table is “Google violates its 'don't be evil' motto.” — You can vote “yes” or “no” yourself in the comments below. But first read some of the arguments put forward in an Oxford-style debate on the question held this week …
