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Jessica Wohl / Reuters:
Wal-Mart to start selling iPhones on Sunday — CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday it will start selling Apple Inc's iPhone on Sunday, but the popular cell phones that can surf the web will not be priced as low as some anticipated. — Wal-Mart plans to sell …
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Walmart publicly confirms iPhone sales, $197 price — Rumors had been flying for months that retail juggernaut Walmart would be selling iPhones in its US stores. That rumor had all but been confirmed when leaked memos revealed that sales would begin on December 28.
Amazon.com:
Amazon.com's 14th Holiday Season Is Best Ever — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the 2008 holiday season finished as its best ever, with over 6.3 million items ordered worldwide on the peak day, Dec. 15, which is a record-breaking 72.9 items per second.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Googlers Call Friend Connect “FriendSense” — It's always fun to hear what Google employees call various projects when they think no one is listening. In 2007 they called the upstart Hulu joint venture Clown Co. as a private joke about the messy start to that unlikely company …
Fred / A VC:
Bits Of Destruction — The news is full of stories this year end about the impending bankruptcies of retailers, newspapers, auto manufacturers, banks, and a host of other businesses that have been the mainstay of corporate america for the past 100 years or more.
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Erica Sadun / Infinite Loop:
Apple files for swipe patent, augmenting iPhone keyboard — MacRumors has uncovered a nifty new patent application that discusses swipe gestures for touch-based, onscreen keyboards. The idea is that, instead of being limited to touches of specific keys, that the iPhone could detect a general swipe movement and interpret it.
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Arn / MacRumors:Multi-Touch Swipe Gestures for iPhone Keyboard
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Priya Ganapati / Wired News:
Top Technology Breakthroughs of 2008 — The economy may be tanking, but innovation is alive and well. — When it came to products, incremental improvements were the name of the game this year. Phones got faster (iPhone 3G anyone?), notebooks turned into netbooks and pocket cameras went …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
iPhone nano knockoffs already on sale in Thailand (photos) — Those eagerly anticipating next month's Macworld and the prospects of a smaller iPhone should beware, as a slew of tiny clones are introducing confusion as they reach store shelves. — While silicone case molds have surfaced …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Voicetag Brings Voicemail To Facebook — For those of you who don't think voicemail is counterproductive, there is a new app on Facebook called Voicetag that lets you send voicemail messages to individuals or groups. This is not the first such app on Facebook (see Voicemail or TringMe) …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone to Run Windows and Get Copy and Paste (It's Not What You Think) — Windows will run soon on the iPhone using Citrix Receiver, a remote screen software that connects to a PC and gives you the illusion you are running Microsoft's operating systems, including copy and paste functionality.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Wii to Get Video on Demand...Sorta — It's about time! Nintendo is developing a video-on-demand service for its hit Wii game consoles, it said today in a joint announcement with Dentsu, the Japanese advertising company. However, the service will only be available in Japan starting this spring …
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David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Microsoft, Apple, Google sued over icon software patent — Cygnus Systems, Inc., a networking company based in Michigan, got into the holiday spirit by suing Microsoft, Apple, and Google for violating a patent it was recently awarded, which covers the navigation and access of files based on representational thumbnails.
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Rajat Agrawal / Cellpassion:
RIM grabs the most absurd QWERTY keyboard patent — USPTO Patent Application 20080318617 should go down in the history of patents as the most absurd QWERTY keyboard. Okay, this is how it works — In the original position it looks like a normal alphanumeric keypad and then there are two hinges …
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