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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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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Yes, Twitter is a source of journalism — Like a lot of other people, I've been following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) throughout the day, using Twitter and blog search and Wikipedia and Flickr and YouTube and pretty much any other tool I can get my hands on.
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:Mumbai Attack Aftermath Detailed, Tweet by Tweet
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Sachi Izumi / Reuters:
Nokia to cease sales in Japan — TOKYO (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Thursday it will stop selling mobile phones in Japan except for its luxury Vertu brand after struggling to expand its presence. — Finnish Nokia has previously said it will cut costs ‘decisively’ …
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Nokia to Pull out of Japanese Handset Market — The world's largest cell phone maker is pulling out of one of the world's biggest cellular markets. Nokia said on Thursday that it will stop developing handsets for NTT DoCoMo and Softbank Mobile, effectively ending a push that began five years ago …
Dusan Belic / IntoMobile:
Fake iPhone Flip doesn't look that bad — We've seen quite a few iPhone clones in the past. However, today we're presenting you with “something completely different.” It's the iPhone Flip or at least the Chinese unofficial version. As you can see from the image above, the device doesn't look that bad at all.
Will Park / IntoMobile:
RIM's BlackBerry Storm and NY Times' Pogue don't mix — RIM's first touchscreen BlackBerry is proving to be one heck of a media-darling, the likes of which the iPhone would be proud. Some shower the BlackBerry Storm with praise, while others belittle the BlackBerry's SurePress click-able touchscreen.
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TechCrunch UK:
OpenStreetMap grows, spawns ecosystem — This is a guest post by Ed Freyfogle, co-founder of property search engine Nestoria. — OpenStreetMap started four years ago in the UK as a project to create a free and editable world map. What began as a few geogeeks wandering the streets …
Julian Lee / Sydney Morning Herald:
Online ad study shatters myths — THE $1.6 billion online advertising industry is set to get a revenue injection from reluctant converts to the medium after a study of its effectiveness as a brand-building tool. — On all key measures, online advertising boosted brand recall …
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Henry Blodget / Alley Insider:
Icahn Doubles Down: Buys Another 7 Million Shares of Yahoo! — Well, don't accuse Carl Icahn of cutting and running. After losing $1 billion on his massive Yahoo bet—he bought 69 million shares last spring at about $25—Carl Icahn has (figuratively speaking) doubled down.
Nokia:
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic now shipping — Espoo, Finland - Nokia announced today that the highly anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is now, or soon will be, available in select markets globally, including Russia, Spain, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Finland, among others.
Search Engine Roundtable:
Happy Thanksgiving '08 From The Search Industry — We wanted to wish all you American's a Happy Thanksgiving. As you can see, if you click through to the Search Engine Roundtable, we have a special theme live for the day - it is worth checking out. In addition, many search search engines …
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Is Email = Efail? — While I've always practiced reasonable email hygiene, for the last 6 months I've been in near-constant email bankruptcy mode. This concerns me. — Yes, it's partly my fault for being a world champion procrastinator, but I'm not sure it's entirely my fault.
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.
Danielle Demetriou / Telegraph:
Digital camera with builtin printer launched — The world's first digital camera with a built-in printer producing instant photographs has been launched. — The 21st century equivalent of the traditional Polaroid, the Xiao digital camera enables users to take photos and edit them before printing them out.
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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 …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Google Is No Longer Silicon Valley's Legal Defender — When Google settled the lawsuit over its book scanning project, we noted with disappointment how this appeared to signal the end of Google's earlier position of fighting certain legal battles on principle.
