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Nokia:
Desktop. Laptop. Pocket: The era of the personal Internet dawns with the Nokia N97 — Tilting touch display, QWERTY keyboard and personalized home screen - a true mobile computer — Barcelona, Spain - Nokia today unveiled the Nokia N97, the world's most advanced mobile computer …
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John Mahoney / Gizmodo:
Nokia N97 Unveiled, The First High-End N-Series Touch Phone — It's been a long time coming, but after dabbling with touch on the midrange 5800, Nokia has finally brought a touchscreen to its brand new flagship S60 smartphone, the N97. — But it's not quite a full dive into touch …
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia Joins the Do-It-All Push — New Smartphone Will Offer a Touch Screen, Fast Internet Access and Customized Features; Maps Show Landmarks in 3-D — Nokia Corp. unveiled an ambitious new smartphone with a touch-sensitive screen, a slide-out full keyboard, and access to a range …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Nokia N97: the ultimate Facebook device — UPDATE: here's a short video of the N97 in action last night at dinner. — Nokia just announced the N97. I got a chance to play with it last night and realized they have built the ultimate Facebook device. Now, I'm sure, lots of you will wonder how it compares to the iPhone.
Leahculver / The Pownce Blog:
Goodbye Pownce, Hello Six Apart — We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Six Apart acquires and shuts down Pownce — Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks.
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Evolving Web
Business Week:
Michael Wolff's Calm, Reasoned Analysis Of MySpace, And The “Cretins” That Flock To It — Part of writing my latest column required interviewing Michael Wolff, a friend and the author of the new Rupert Murdoch bio “The Man Who Owns The News.” After some negotiation, the interview took the form of a lengthy discussion-cum-argument.
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Henry Blodget / Alley Insider:
Michael Wolff: MySpace And Its Braindead Users Are Going To Zero — BusinessWeek's Jon Fine takes Rupert Murdoch tell-all author Michael Wolff out for dinner. Michael then reveals the secret he didn't put into the book: why Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) is trying so hard to ditch MySpace:
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Apple: Mac users should run multiple anti-virus — One of Apple's better Mac vs PC ads features a strong message that Windows computers are a magnet for viruses (malware) but Macs are automatically protected. As PC “ah-choos” his way through an infection, Mac offers a tissue and smugly infers …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple now “encourages” antivirus use for Mac OS X — After years of jabbing Microsoft for the seeming need to run antivirus software on Windows, Apple has quietly posted its own recommendation for similar security with its own operating system. — The knowledge base article …
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Microsoft:
Xbox 360 Registers Biggest Black Friday in Its History — Xbox 360 consoles and games sell at record levels; outsells PlayStation 3 by three-to-one ratio. — Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system kicked off the holidays with record-breaking console sales …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:Apple a ‘bright spot’ during lackluster Black Friday kick-off
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Yahoo Rumor Mill-The Broken Clock Will Be Right at Some Time — [UPDATED: I added a stronger first sentence to leave no doubt about there is no Microsoft-Yahoo deal at the present time and to be clear I am not backing off on my weekend post on the topic.]
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
gOS Cloud - From zero to web browser in just a few seconds — gOS is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that's designed to make it easy to interface with web-based applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Meebo. It uses the slightly OS X-like Enlightenment desktop environment …
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jkOnTheRun, Webware.com, Electronista, SlashGear, Gizmodo, thinkgos.com, SitePoint, Liliputing and Incremental Blogger
Randy Nelson / Joystiq:
Forbes: Nintendo making $6 profit on every Wii sold — While Sony and Microsoft dream of turning a profit on their consoles, Nintendo is doing just that. According to a new article from Forbes, the Big N makes $6 in operating profit from every Wii unit sold.
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Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
FCC to vote on free broadband Internet across USA — Free broadband for America has inched closer to reality: The plan, after two years of debate, is finally on the calendar for a full vote by the Federal Communications Commission. — Assuming the plan is approved at the FCC's Dec. 18 meeting …
Sydney Morning Herald:
Take note PayPal, cashing in on a legend is ‘degrading’ — The PayPal ad with the modified $50 note featuring David Unaipon as seen on the side of a bus. — Asher Moses — The family of the Aboriginal inventor and writer pictured on the $50 note have called on PayPal to pull down its …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Google's New Open Stack Expanding - Sans Facebook, Microsoft — A couple of weeks ago we celebrated the first birthday of Google's OpenSocial project, an open API framework for social networks and websites. Google's OpenSocial Blog recently presented some statistics, including that OpenSocial …
Brent Goldman / Facebook Developers:
Check Out the New Developer Application Settings Editor — We're always looking for ways to make developing Facebook Platform applications easier for you. Today we want to show you how we're improving the way you configure your application settings. — The application settings editor …
Google Mac Blog:
Google Calendar now supports Apple iCal — The Google Calendar team is proud to announce the public release of our support for the CalDAV protocol. You can now use Apple iCal with your Google Calendar, so you can work even when you're offline, sync almost instantly, respond to invitations …
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VentureBeat
Live Search:
You asked for it: instant cashback! — When we asked users about the improvements they'd like us make to Live Search cashback, many said they want to receive cashback instantly instead of waiting for 60 days. Well, I'm happy to announce that we've just released the Instant cashback feature with eBay.
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Lincoln Spector / Industry Standard:
BitTorrent: Register report on protocol change is “utter nonsense” — BitTorrent has slammed a report in The Register that suggests a planned protocol change could threaten the stability of the Internet. — According to blogger Richard Bennett, developers of the BitTorrent client uTorrent …
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mediacentre.o2.co.uk:
O2 cuts energy wastage with launch of energy efficient universal mobile phone charger — New charger cuts power when battery fully charged potentially saving Brits over £30m* a year - — London, UK 1st December 2008: Telefónica O2 UK has today announced the launch …
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec — When Apple recently introduced its revamped notebook line, it also introduced the world to the Mini DisplayPort. It turns out that the company is offering no-fee licenses to anyone interested in developing products that use the Mini DisplayPort specification.
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Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Legal challenge mounts against Baidu's online business model — Baidu, China's largest internet search engine, looks set to face a wave of legal challenges as a group of lawyers is organising a mass complaint against the company's business practices. — Led by Li Changqing …
