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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Dell's Mystery ‘Adamo’ Could Be Thinner Than Air — When Apple released the MacBook Air, someone viewed the sleek notebook as an opportunity to make fun of clunky, old Dell on YouTube with a parody ad. But what if Dell is about to have the last laugh in the ultra-light laptop race?
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Dell Studio XPS 13 leather-wrapped laptop revealed, Adamo info leaked! — Thanks to a totally amazing Engadget source, we've gotten our hands on photos of the absolutely sick Dell Studio XPS 13, and some new info about the company's forthcoming Adamo. First off, the photos in the gallery …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Universal Music seeing ‘tens of millions’ from YouTube — YouTube's traffic machine may finally be turning into a cash machine. — For the first time, there are signs that YouTube is driving significant revenue for itself and some of the video site's partners.
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broadstuff, TECH.BLORGE.com, paidContent.org, The Real McCrea, HipMojo.com, TechSpot and Lucas Gonze' blog
YouTube Blog:
Hi-Definition Rollout and New Landing Pages on YouTube — We have two developments that we would like to share with you: the expansion of our HD player and a test of three new landing pages designed to help you find the news, music and movies on YouTube that matter most to you. — HD on YouTube
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PC World, TechCrunch, NewTeeVee, CNET News, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch, TechCrunch UK and The Utube Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits — After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy. — The decision represents …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA Abandoning Mass Lawsuits In Favor Of Backroom 3 Strikes Policy — from the it's-a-step,-but-a-very-small- one dept — It really was just three days ago that we suggested that if the record labels actually wanted anyone to take them seriously concerning their desire to come …
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english.etnews.co.kr:
Samsung Electronics will launch Google Phone in Q2 — Samsung Electronics will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in North America. — The launch of Google phone by Samsung is regarded as a signal of its plan for increasing the shares in the smart phone market …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scribd Raises $9 Million So You Can Continue To View PDFs Online — Y Combinator startup Scribd has raised its second big round of financing - $9 million from Charles River Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Kinsey Hills Group. That comes on top of a $3.7 million Series A round in the middle of 2007 …
Google Mobile Blog:
Optimized search results pages for Android and iPhone — Whether you're using Google search through the search widget on the Android home screen, the built-in search box of the iPhone's Safari browser, or google.com on either device, you'll now end up with search results optimized for your phone.
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Search Engine Watch, Unwired View, SlashPhone, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, AndroidGuys, Phone Scoop, WebProNews and Google Android News …
Matt Peckham / PC World:
Guns N' Roses Frontman Axl Rose Growls About Guitar Hero — Shame on Activision for poaching Guns N' Roses songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. That's band frontman Axl Rose's testy take in a sprawling missive delivered at band fan site Mygnr.com. According to Rose …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
BlackBerry Storm Selling Well, As Expected (RIMM) — We got some validation this afternoon for our Nov. 20 BlackBerry Storm review thesis, which was “RIM's BlackBerry Storm is no iPhone, but should sell well.” — Indeed, RIM's (RIMM) new Storm is no iPhone — a recent RBC/ChangeWave survey suggests …
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AppleInsider, PhoneDog.com Cell …, Gizmodo, Silicon Alley Insider, Local Mobile Search, mocoNews.net, IntoMobile and Engadget
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
European Business Social Network XING Acquires socialmedian (Update: For $7.5 Million) — Hamburg, Germany based XING, a global professional social network that's strong in Europe, has acquired New York based socialmedian for approximately $7.5 million in total, a mix of $4 million in cash …
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socialmedian, net.work.xing, ReadWriteWeb, FaceReviews, MediaNama, paidContent.org, TheNextWeb.com and Regular Geek
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft job listings reveal Zune expansion plan, and Musiwave's role — At this point, it's clear that Microsoft plans to expand its Zune initiative beyond the current music device, software and service. The question is how. With the Zune Phone rumors fading into the background …
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Neil McAllister / Fatal Exception:
Native Client: Google's craziest idea yet — Is Google's plan to run native x86 code inside browser windows just a disaster waiting to happen? — The browser's role is ever increasing. It already has become far more than a mere tool for accessing information.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
NPR Now Lets You Roll Your Own Podcast Feed — National Public Radio (NPR) here in the US has some great audio content and the offering got even better today with the release of a new “mix your own” podcast option. Users enter a list of categories and keywords and the NPR site dynamically generates …
BBC:
BBC iPlayer now available on Mac — The BBC has created a version of the iPlayer that works with both Mac and Linux computers. — The two systems, which have been able to stream BBC programmes via the iPlayer for a year, will now be able to handle downloads.
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MacRumors, Quick Online Tips, Macworld, Pocket-lint.co.uk, Neowin.net, Guardian, Insanely Great Mac, TUAW, MacNN, MacDailyNews and Slashdot
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
OS4.7.0.83 Leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9530! — w00t! Whether you're celebrating Christmas, Hannukah, Festivus or anything and everything else this Holiday Season, for you BlackBerry Storm 9530 owners the sweetest gift just arrived... a new update to the 9530 Storm's OS!
npd.com:
The NPD Group: Decline in U.S. CD Sales Drives Down Overall Music Demand by 2 Percent in Third Quarter of 2008 — Paid downloading gains traction and music-related games are evolving into an important source for music discovery
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Guardian, hypebot, InformationWeek, Silicon Alley Insider, WebProNews and paidContent.org
Dennis Yang / Techdirt:
Did Burger King Really Just Issue A C&D Through Twitter? — Now that it's legal to serve papers to someone through Facebook, Burger King has apparently sent a cease and desist via Twitter to the user “whoppervirgins” for an unauthorized use of trademark. “Whopper Virgins” …
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Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Where To iPhone app sells for $70,000 — A couple of months ago, when iPhone application developer Tap Tap Tap announced that it was shopping around its flagship Where To software, we wondered how much an iPhone app, albeit a successful one, might be worth. — Now we know.
Ashley M. Heher / Associated Press:
Web deals create procrastinators' paradise — CHICAGO (AP) — 'Twas the week before Christmas and despite all the sales, fewer presents were shipping to shoppers by mail. — This year's dismal holiday shopping season is producing more peril than poetry for merchants hoping to eke out a profit …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple TV at the center of Apple's latest lawsuit — A wireless set-top-box maker is suing Apple, claiming the company hired away a trio of employees privy to patented technology that would later turn up as part of Apple TV. — The 6-page complaint was filed in an Illinois court on Tuesday …
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
GeoData Explorations: Open Street Map's Growth — Open Street Map (OSM), the open data mapping project, has grown a lot over the past year. It now has almost 80,000 users and 800 million data points. — OSM's data is still freely available, but commercial services around it have sprung up.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Synthasite Buys ClickPass. I See Few Synergies. — Easy site building service Synthasite, which we first covered way back in 2006, has acquired Y Combinator startup Clickpass, which launched earlier this year. — There are no details on the purchase price or terms of the deal …
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Times of India:
Yahoo Inc announces strategic investment in INMAC … Text: — BANGALORE: Yahoo Inc on Thursday announced that it had acquired approximately 30 per cent stake in the Chennai-based Info Network Management Company, a large tele-information service provider — The strategic investment …
Apple:
About the Multi-Touch Trackpad Update for Windows XP and Vista 1.0 — This update improves Multi-Touch trackpad responsiveness and performance when running Windows XP and Vista using Boot Camp on MacBook Air (Late 2008), MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008), and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) computers.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Ad network Glam sees record 4th quarter, puts entire workforce on “variable” pay — Glam Media, one of the newfangled content and advertising networks assumed by many industry observers to be vulnerable to financial meltdown, says it still hasn't seen any marked decline in online display advertising.
