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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Sony's Netbook “fits in a pocket”, Might Not Fit Netbook Category — Actually, Sony has this “P-series” VAIO on their notebook section in the SonyStyle store, so maybe netbook isn't the right term. Just ask Psion, if you don't believe me. Eagle-eye reader Jose was browsing Sony's online storefront …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
OMG, We're Not BFFs Anymore? Getting ‘Unfriended’ Online Stings — Users of Social-Networking Sites Delete Friends Who Don't Keep in Touch, Misbehave — JoAna Swan recently purged her profile on social-networking site Facebook Inc. of friends she hadn't spoken to for a while.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Meaning Of Friendship — I can only imagine the angst that Jessica Vascellero at the Wall Street Journal inserted into countless minds this evening with her article about the difficulties people are having defining what is and isn't a “friend” for online social networking purposes.
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Svetlana Gladkova / Profy:Facebook Mess Is Coming: You Now Have To Talk To Your Friends not To Be Unfriended
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Dan Farber / CNET News:
Print news is fading, but the content lives on — It's been about 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web on the back of the Internet. For more than a billion people on the planet, the Web today is an alternate, digital universe that is gradually overtaking the analog …
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PewResearch.org:
Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source — The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news. — Currently, 40% say they get most of their news …
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Robert McMillan / Macworld:
Google, Apple, Microsoft sued over file preview — A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.
TechCrunch:
A Silicon Valley Christmas Tale — Editor's note: The poem and illustrations below were submitted by an engineer in Silicon Valley who works for a big company and wishes to remain anonymous. The views expressed are not (necessarily) those of TechCrunch. The awesome illustrations are by Doug Shannon
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
USA Today Will Be Sold On Amazon's Kindle — Gannett (NYSE: GCI) flagship USA Today is the latest paper to be sold through Amazon's Kindle. The top-selling U.S. paper has yet to show up in the Kindle Store but Amazon told Kindle subscribers on Christmas morning that they'll be able to download the Dec. 26 edition for free.
PC World:
Samsung Shipped Infected Digital Picture Frames — For the second year in a row, some of those digital photo frames lying under the Christmas tree may come with a nasty surprise. — Samsung says that CDs that shipped with many models of its digital photo frames may have included …
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Leaked 2009 Blackberry Roadmap Hints at Touchscreen Bold, Storm Slider — A supposed 2009 Blackberry Roadmap posted on TmoNews Forums suggests that we'll not only be seeing the Curve 8900 next year, but also a touchscreen Bold and a Storm with a slide-out keyboard.
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
How to write a Mike Arrington blog post — As we “work” our way through the holiday (or winter break as the school system calls it) we are once again reminded of Mike Arrington's skill at dominating the trainwreck formerly known as The Conversation. I've watched Mike at close range …
Freddie Wilkinson / The Huffington Post:
John Borthwick and Kenneth Lerer: Micro-Giving: A New Era in Fundraising — Thirty years ago, a young economics professor named Muhammad Yunus started a new kind of banking in Bangladesh — tiny loans to small entrepreneurs. Few thought these dreamers in a dirt-poor country would ever repay.
