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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Zune HD a major sellout? — Let it be known: we liked the Zune HD before it was popular, before all the poseurs jumped on the bandwagon with their tight-fitting jeans and their hairstyles. If various stores on the internet are to be believed, the Zune HD is selling out in a pretty big way.
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Electronista, Gizmodo, WMPoweruser.com, Joystiq, Engadget Mobile, Smalltalk Tidbits …, BloggingStocks and DailyFinance
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Off Topic: Microsoft will reveal two iPhone competitors in 2010 — It isn't really our area of expertise, but we've gotten word that Microsoft will unleash two new Smartphones, probably at CES in January 2010. Developed under the project “Pink” moniker, these two slider phones stem …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook Beacon has poked its last — It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising program that the social network initially launched with splashy Madison Avenue fanfare nearly two years ago. — The social network has settled a year-old class action lawsuit that targeted …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Importance Of Enthusiasm In Any Product — A video took the web by storm today entitled “Incredible, amazing, awesome Apple.” Basically, it boils down Apple's latest event into a series of superlatives. It's a funny video because Apple really does have a pattern of using these types …
Google Watch:
Why Didn't Google Throw Apple Under The Bus From The Start? — Apple lied. That is basically what Google claimed yesterday when it published the redacted version of its filing about Google Voice to the Federal Communications Commission. — My first reaction to this was: WTF?! My second take was: Why?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won't Win This Fight.
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Softpedia News, 901am, Google Public Policy Blog, GeekBrief.TV, CNET News and digg.com, Thanks:thinkmantra
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Once Again, Facebook Owns ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ On The Web — Last year, Facebook rolled out a new “pirate” language on Talk Like A Pirate Day, it was quite funny. Naturally, it's back again this year, and it's maybe even more awesome. — Most impressive is Facebook's attention to detail …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft Reader, back from dead — A TechFlash reader who commented on our E-Book Universe chart yesterday pointed out that we didn't include Microsoft Reader. That's the Redmond company's software for reading electronic books, which has been updated over the past few years …
Juan Carlos Perez / Macworld:
DOJ: Court should reject Google book search settlement — The U.S. Department of Justice has come out against the proposed agreement to settle copyright lawsuits that authors and major publishers filed against Google over the search company's book search program.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Department Of Justice Files Objections To Google Book Search Settlement
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The Laboratorium, madisonian.net, Webware.com, Screenwerk, eWeek, Telegraph, Agence France Presse, New York Times, Techgeist and Associated Press
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google Apps sics crawlers on public docs and sheets — Beware what you publish — Google will soon allow search engines to crawl and index documents, spreadsheets, and presentations published to the web via its online office suite, Google Apps. — On Friday, in a letter to Google Apps users …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Josh Elman Leaving Facebook, Returning to More “Hands-On” Product Role — Facebook Platform Program Manager Josh Elman, who has been with the company since early 2008, has decided to leave Facebook. Elman, who worked on the launch of Facebook Connect and has been focused on helping large developers …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
HTC Tilt 2 reappears in AT&T's system in preparation for launch — Are you an AT&T subscriber anxiously awaiting the day when you can finally make the HTC Tilt 2 your own? If so, good news first came back in August when we gave you a screenshot of the handset sitting pretty in AT&T's system.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Jammie Thomas lawyers file suit against Scribd — A legal complaint seeking class action status filed in Houston on Friday accuses social-publishing site Scribd of egregious copyright infringement. — Scribd managers have “built a technology that's broken barriers to copyright infringement …
Henry Newman / Enterprise Storage Forum News:
RAID's Days May Be Numbered — The concept of parity-based RAID (levels 3, 5 and 6) is now pretty old in technological terms, and the technology's limitations will become pretty clear in the not-too-distant future — and are probably obvious to some users already.
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