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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
First Hand Accounts Of Terrorist Attacks In India On Twitter, Flickr — Forget CNN, which so far has few details of the ongoing attacks in Mumbai, India that have left at least 80 dead (Update: they're starting to catch up now). People are giving first hand reports of what they're seeing directly on Twitter.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
No Keyboard? And You Call This a BlackBerry? — Research in Motion (R.I.M.), the company that brought us the BlackBerry, has been on a roll lately. For a couple of years now, it's delivered a series of gorgeous, functional, supremely reliable smartphones that, to this day, outsell even the much-adored iPhone.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Black Friday Discounts on Macs Have Begun — MacMall has announced their Black Friday sale which will runs from now until midnight P.T. on Friday, November 28th. Last year's MacMall sale delivered some of the largest discounts available online. This year, however, MacMall faces stiff competition …
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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Apple Macs and Notebooks Remain Hottest Holiday Gift Ideas in 2008 — With the 2008 holiday shopping season here, consumers looking for that special gift are likely checking out the new Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro that hit the market earlier this year. The two new Apple MacBooks remain high …
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens — Over the last few months we've showcased a handful of innovative mashups that developers have created using Yahoo! Search BOSS. The creations have ranged in functionality and focus, but all have included interesting applications of Yahoo! Search's index, infrastructure and technology.
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Clint Ecker / Infinite Loop:
First impressions: Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display — As we noted yesterday, Apple's new 24-inch Cinema Display has shipped, and arrived this afternoon. While we have only had about an hour to test it out so far, we're quite pleased. It should be noted that this new display …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Lori Drew Not Guilty of Felonies in Landmark Cyberbullying Trial — LOS ANGELES — Lori Drew, the 49-year-old woman charged in the first federal cyberbullying case, was cleared of felony computer-hacking charges by a jury Wednesday morning, but convicted of three misdemeanors.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Twitter kills Canadian SMS updates. Can the U.S. be far behind? — As regular readers know, I hate SMS (text messaging). It's not the idea or technology that I hate, it's just the ridiculous costs associated with it. Why should I pay AT&T $15 a month for unlimited text messages …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Massive botnet returns from the dead, starts spamming — Criminals regain control after security firm stops preemptively registering routing domains — Computerworld) A big spam-spewing botnet shut down two weeks ago has been resurrected, security researchers said today, and is again under the control of criminals.
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Erica Sadun / Infinite Loop:
iPhone 2.2 SDK offers undocumented TV-out features — The other day, Ars showed you how to dump iPhone frameworks. Today, we can confirm that the updated MediaPlayer framework (it's a public framework) offers a working solution for exporting video out live to a connected TV screen.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Barack Obama's Change.gov Adds OpenID — OpenID has had a lot of big supporters, but this week President Elect Barack Obama's Change.gov added the ability for users to log in using an OpenID account and to post comments to sections of the website using OpenID.
Chris Matyszczyk / Technically Incorrect:
Microsoft shuts down LeBron James — In a move that might be a lesson for my beloved (and, just occasionally, beloathed) Golden State Warriors this Friday, Microsoft has shut down LeBron James. — Two years ago, MSN and the Cleveland Cavalier superhero who looks 35 and is, allegedly, 13 or 14, announced big plans.
Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Why you can't trust ‘friends’ on Facebook — Facebook is popular and growing — especially with criminals. Here's why they love it. — Computerworld) Every form of communication, from snail-mail to e-mail, chat and others, is subject to fraud and scams.
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Oh Where, Oh Where Has Autonomy Gone? — One of the few constants in Silicon Valley has been a giant billboard set on a hill beside Highway 101, near San Francisco airport. For eight years, the billboard has carried a variety of messages from Autonomy, a high-end search company that few people know.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper — Last month, peer-to-peer lender Prosper stopped all new lending on its site because of scrutiny by the SEC. Prosper agreed to register under the Securities Act, a process which can take months.
James Plath / DVDTOWN.com News:
Samsung Blu-ray players to deliver Netflix in HD — Tools: — Recommend this news to a friend » — Samsung Electronics America, a market leader and award-winning manufacturer of consumer electronics, today announced that its two cutting-edge Blu-ray players, the BD-P2500 and BD-P2550 …
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
How widely used is Chrome? More than I expected — Chrome doesn't have much market share among CNET News visitors, but it's climbing. — (Credit: CNET News) — Is Google's Chrome browser mainstream? — Certainly not. But I've been curious how widespread its use is …
Alex Pham / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Sony movies trickling into Xbox 360 via Netflix Instant Watch — Last week, we reported that Sony had balked at letting its movies and TV shows be streamed by Netflix to Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console. — That was then. Now it seems that a number of titles from Sony and its subsidiaries …
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John Boudreau / Mercury News:
Famed Indian film director keeps a foot in Silicon Valley — MUMBAI, India — Shekhar Kapur, perhaps India's most internationally renowned director, actually studied business. — That quickly becomes apparent as he talks about the future of filmmaking. He often sounds more like a Silicon …
BBC:
Apple made to drop iPhone advert — An Apple iPhone advert has been banned by the advertising standards watchdog for exaggerating the phone's speed. — The advert boasted the new 3G model was “really fast” and showed it loading internet pages in under a second.
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Nicholas Carlson / Alley Insider:
Yahoo Still Losing Search Share: Time To Do Deal, Focus On Display — Yahoo should do a a search deal with Microsoft now, if only so it can focus on its strengths — on and off network advertising to its tremendously large audience. — Nielsen's October U.S. search share rankings show Yahoo's …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
You're doing it wrong: Motorola astroturfs just about everyone — Joel at BBG has found a bunch of threads from MGOODE08, apparently a shill for Motorola who posts comments to gadget sites about the Motorola Krave. … And before that: … UPDATE - I found that MGoode is now appearing on CrunchGear as well.
Gmgfarrand / Instructables:
VGA to USB power! — introVGA to USB power! — This INSTRUCTABLE came into being because of the new craze of NETBOOKS. — These small laptops have only 3 or less USB ports which is fine for some people, but for others that want to use an external Mouse, Keyboard, or just want to charge your MP3 player …
William Neuman / New York Times:
Bad News Travels Fast, Courtesy of the M.T.A. — Sometimes your commute comes with a surprise: you get down to the subway platform and find it crammed with people. The crowd grows and grows, but no train comes. Somewhere up the line there is a stuck train, a sick passenger or some other delay.
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