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Open Handset Alliance announces 14 new members — The Open Handset Alliance, a group of technology and mobile players, is pleased to announce the membership of 14 additional companies. By joining the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance, the following companies demonstrate …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:Sprint Getting Closer to Android Phone?
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Dave Foulser / The Official Google Blog:
Search and find magazines on Google Book Search — The word “magazine” is derived from the Arabic word “makhazin,” meaning storehouse. Since Daniel Defoe published the world's first English magazine back in 1704, millions of magazines catering to nearly every imaginable taste have been created …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online — First Google digitized books, then newspapers, then historic Time-Life photos and now — magazines. Today through Google Book Search, people can search the full-text of millions of articles from more than 10 magazine with hundreds more to come.
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material — Bumpgate We break out the electron microscope — WHEN THE NEW Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the proverbial ‘bad bumps’.
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YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008 — Hulu Continues Ascent, Ranks #6 in Online Video Market Share — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released October 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service …
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IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage — A Wikipedia webpage was reported through the IWF's online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008. As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in accordance …
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Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org:
Ringtone apps — As an iPhone developer who's been in the App Store since its launch, I'm starting to see a trend that concerns me: developers are lowering prices to the lowest possible level in order to get favorable placement in iTunes. This proliferation of 99¢ “ringtone apps” is affecting our product development.
Jeremy Kaplan / Gearlog:
It's Official: The DirecTV HDPC-20 Tuner Is Canceled — Tags: — DirecTV, Media Center, television, TV tuner — DirecTV fans have been holding their breath in anticipation of a new tuner to link the service to Windows Media Center. Announced at CES way back in 2006 …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:DirecTV kills its Media Center tuner project
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Andrew Noyes / Tech Daily Dose:
Photos From Google's New Virginia Digs — Some images of Google's new office in Reston, Va. See related blog post here and additional photos after the jump.
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Stephen Chau / The Official Google Blog:
Street View: A year in review, and what's new — With just 22 days left in the year, I can't help but think back to where Street View was at the beginning of 2008. At that time, we had imagery for 23 cities in the United States, and we had just released embeddable panoramas.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A Web Start-Up Counting on Ad Sales? Good Luck — During the dot-com bust, as the online advertising market dried up and the Web companies that had been buying most of the ad space went bankrupt, the people who start and fund companies in Silicon Valley began questioning whether Web sites could survive on advertising alone.
Roy Mark / eWeek:
FCC Chairman Accused of Abusing Power — Resource Library: — House Democrats issue a report accusing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin of egregious abuses of power, suppression of information and manipulation of data. Among the charges: burying engineering reports that said broadband …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Netvibes Founder Building iPhone-Like Operating System For Netbooks — Last month I wrote about why Netbooks, which are small, low end computers that are selling like crazy, just aren't good enough for most users. — Small screens, small keyboards and underpowered hardware make for a less than stellar Netbook user experience.
Dave Rosenberg / CNET News:
Monetizing open source and killing Adobe AIR — Appcelerator, an open source company that makes it easier to build and manage rich Web applications with aim to bring web apps to the desktop, today announced Titanium - their new platform to do just this. — Titanium is primed …
Amanda Kelly / Inside AdWords:
An update to the AdWords alcohol policy — As many of you know, we're constantly evaluating our AdWords program policies to keep them current and effective. This means making changes from time to time by either adding new policies, such as the endangered species policy, or updating existing policies, such as the Display URL policy.
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Why Apple Won't Sell a $100 iPhone, a Netbook or a Tablet — Apple fans love speculating about imaginary new products almost as much as they love getting their hands on a brand-new MacBook Air. — But it's easy to get carried away and take these speculative flights of fancy as true, or even as somewhat credible rumors.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Rustic Canyon Sells Part of Its Portfolio To Give Liquidity To Chandler Family, Its LP — A crazy but true story, along with a strange co-incidence: Rustic Canyon (RC), one of the largest VC firms in Southern California that has invested in a bunch of digital media companies …
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Lena Lee / Bloomberg:
Sony Will Cut 16,000 Jobs as Recession Curbs Demand — A A A — Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp., the world's second-biggest consumer-electronics maker, plans to eliminate 16,000 jobs in the largest reduction announced by a Japanese company since the credit crunch drove the world into recession.
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Rik Myslewski / The Register:
Apple's Snow Leopard set to exploit GPU power — OpenCL 1.0 spec debuts — Apple's Snow Leopard bounded closer to reality today - and there's a strong possibility it leapt well past Windows 7 in the process. — Today, at SIGGRAPH Asia in Singapore, the Khronos Group, a self-described …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
New York Times: Our Digital Ads “Could Be Under Great Stress” — A glum quartet of New York Times (NYT) executives appeared at the UBS media conference today to repeat what they had already said via press release this morning: Business is grim, but we're sure we'll be OK. Also, anyone want to lend us money?
Dan Cox / FishBowlLA:
EXCLUSIVE: Yahoo! To Lay Off 1,500 In California on Wednesday; 200 In L.A. — Yahoo!, via an email from departing CEO Jerry Yang, told its California employees that on Wednesday, as many as 1,500 employees will be tossed, inside sources confided to FBLA. — No details were available regarding …
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo Spam Machine Revs Engines — In case the TiVo Central banners, Now Playing List banners, Music & Photos menu banners, banners after recordings, and commercial button overlays weren't enough, TiVo's now pitching ads that render while programming is paused:
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Amazon: Armed to Beat the Recession — Analysts say the e-tailer's new iPhone shopping app, among other high-tech tools, will help it outperform rivals amid weak consumer spending — Gary Bacon II had bargain-hunting on the brain when he visited his local Barnes & Noble (BKS) in Jacksonville, Fla., on Dec. 7.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
CBS Interactive Exec Patrick Keane Out, Replaced by CNET Counterpart — We haven't heard of much bloodletting since CBS (CBS) bought CNET for $1.8 billion this summer. But obviously there have to be some cuts as the companies continue to merge the network's CBS Interactive unit with the Web publisher.
