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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Walmart iPhone on sale the 28th for a lot more than $99 — At this point, it's clear that the $99 iPhone 3G rumor was just that: rumor. We have a letter that we believe to be authentic from a source within Walmart that says the iPhone will launch in the house that Sam built at 9am December 28th.
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple Expo Paris cancelled — Reed Exhibitions will not hold Apple Expo Paris in 2009. The show organizers confirmed its plans for Macworld on Wednesday. — Apple has slowly been moving away from the Paris expo for the last several years. In 2005 Apple cancelled Steve Jobs' keynote in Paris …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Behind Steve Jobs' Macworld exit — Truth is, nobody outside Steve Jobs' inner circle knows why Apple's CEO won't be giving his annual Macworld keynote this year. — The news broke Tuesday afternoon, and by dawn Wednesday just about every reporter who follows the company had filed a story.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Piper believes leadership shift at Apple is underway — Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, one of the most outspoken figures on all things Apple, told clients on Wednesday that Steve Jobs' absence from this year's Macworld Expo signals “the beginning of a shift in leadership roles” at the company.
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Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy — With Consumer-Friendly Standard, Yahoo! Sets 90-Day Data Retention — Policy — Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a new global data retention policy that sets an industry-leading approach to user data privacy.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Yahoo will anonymize user data after 90 days; Ups privacy ante
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NY Daily News:
Gov. David Paterson unveils dire New York State budget that includes new taxes, layoffs and cuts — ALBANY - Gov. Paterson's proposed $121 billion budget hits New Yorkers in their iPods - and nickels-and-dimes them in lots of other places, too. — Trying to close a $15.4 billion budget gap …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia targets Netbooks, Intel with 9400M chip — With Apple under its belt, Nvidia is taking aim at Netbooks. — On Wednesday, Nvidia is launching its GeForce 9400M graphics chipset for Netbooks and small desktop designs. And the Santa Clara, Calif., company is hoping for another coup …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-078 - Critical — Security Update for Internet Explorer (960714) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution …
konami-digital-entertainment.co.jp:
4 titles, including the newest in the METAL GEAR series will be progressively made available for download for the iPhone and iPod touch from late this month. — KONAMI will make downloads of METAL GEAR SOLID TOUCH, DanceDanceRevolution S Lite, SILENT HILL The Escape and Frogger for the iPhone …
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Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann / Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Turn an email into a Google doc — More than once, I've had a conversation over email and later realized that the information contained in the messages would make a great starting point for a document. So I built an experimental feature for Gmail Labs that does just that …
Diane Mapes / MSNBC:
Bury me with my cell phone — Dying doesn't mean hanging it up for some mobile aficionados — We take them with us to the dinner table, the bedroom, even the bathroom stall. But in recent years, some of us have started taking our beloved cell phones someplace really startling: the grave.
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Upcoming 2009 handsets from Motorola pose for BGR on their way to Verizon — Well lookie here. Motorola apparently has a few tricks up its sleeve that might just surprise us in the coming year. Well they would have any way, if our trusty ninja didn't come through with the goods!
AppleInsider:
Apple ordered to end exclusive iPhone deal with France's Orange — Apple must immediately cease its exclusive relationship with France Telecom's Orange and allow other local carriers to offer the iPhone to its subscribers, the French competition counsel ruled Wednesday.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
VC survey: Market will look up ... in 2010 — There's a tough year ahead for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, according to a new survey from the National Venture Capital Association. Respondents predicted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs alike will have trouble raising money next year …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
StockTwits nails stockpicking on Twitter, raises round — StockTwits, a two month-old site that lets you track messages on micro-blogging service Twitter about public company stock performance, has closed a first round of venture funding. The investors, all individuals …
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asa.org.uk:
Number of complaints: 1 — Media: — Sector: — Leisure — Agency: — Freedman International — Ad — A TV ad, for the computer game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09, showed Tiger Woods swinging a Wii handset. The background showed scenes of a golf course from the game.
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:
Online Video Wins the 9-5 Hour, Weekdays — Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I know you're busy and all, watching online videos between 9-5 during the week. It's a pleasure that you took the time to stop by when you could be watching vids of cute cats and dancing humans.
Matthew Flamm / AdAge:
Report: News-oriented Websites Have a Future — But Traffic Needs to be Above 200M Page Views Per Month — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — News on the web has a future — and not just for sites that don't pay their bloggers, like The Huffington Post, but for cost-intensive operations such as The New York Times, too.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Jaxtr Launches Free Calling Service. Why? — Updated: A few years ago we saw a gaggle of VoIP start-ups pop-up, each claiming to have their unique twist on cheap phone calls. Some offered anonymous calling services as their signature feature. Others labeled themselves as social voice apps.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Ten things I don't like about Google Chrome — Recently I blogged about what I like about Google Chrome, and Philipp Lenssen asked a good question: “What do you *not* like about Google Chrome?” — Normally when I have suggestions or complaints about a Google product …
