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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Report: Apple to launch Verizon iPhone in Q3 2010 — A new report citing sources in the Taiwan handset supply chain says Apple has contracted to produce a UMTS/CDMA hybrid iPhone due in the third quarter of next year that will enable the company to sell a single global handset to all carriers …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
My Thoughts on the Skype Settlement: Winners & Losers Scorecard — The final results are in: eBay and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners have struck a deal with Skype founders and JoltID, the technology company controlled by Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake …
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Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft tops Google, Yahoo, Facebook in worldwide Web use — Windows Live Messenger led Microsoft's Web properties in capturing 14.5 percent of total time spent online in September worldwide, handily beating Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other sites, according to analysis firm comScore.
Farhad Manjoo / Glamour:
Marissa Mayer: The Visionary — You do it. Your mom does it. Nearly every American does it: We google, about 7 billion times a month. And each time, itâs like a trip into Marissa Mayerâs mind. That sunny logo, blessedly spare interface and perfect list of links you get in response to a query are all pure Mayer.
Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
October 2009 OS stats: Windows 7 passes Snow Leopard, Linux — In less than two weeks of general availability, Windows 7 has already captured a market share that is greater than Snow Leopard and Linux. Details inside. — Windows 7 arrived two weeks ago and so far it's selling quite well.
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
Verizon launches Droid to few lines, but much excitement — Verizon Wireless launches its first two Android phones this morning, and though the launch was not greeted with the same crowds and lines that accompanied previous iPhone launches, customers said they were excited about the devices, especially the Motorola Droid.
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Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Zynga Launches FishVille — How Big Will This Virtual Aquarium Game Get? — Zynga, the largest developer on Facebook — and one that has come under increasing scrutiny recently for its use of scammy advertising offers in games — has just soft-launched a new title called FishVille.
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Jeff Longo / MacRumors:
RadioShack To Sell iPhone — In a brief press release today, RadioShack announced that it will begin selling the iPhone starting with the Dallas-Fort Worth and New York City markets later this month. RadioShack plans to sell the iPhone across the U.S. in 2010.
Kevin Bury / The LinkedIn Blog:
A new design for LinkedIn — Some of you may have noticed a new site navigation experience on LinkedIn. We are in the process of testing a new design. During this testing phase, some users will see the new design, while others will not. — What's New
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Retail Stores Roll Out ‘Reserve and Pick Up’ Purchasing for Holiday Season — Apple has rolled out a new Reserve and Pick Up purchasing program for its retail stores, allowing customers to select and reserve products for later in-store purchase and pick up ahead of the holidays.
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Lady Gaga Goes Exclusive With Google — Last week Google made a big announcement around enhanced search features for music discovery. Now when you search for a song, album, lyrics, or an artist, your search results will include streaming audio previews and purchase options.
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
The Droid Gets Google.com Real Estate — Part of the All-Out Push for the Verizon Handset — “Sesame Street” is not the only one getting plum placement on Google.com. Droid is as well, with 42 characters of promotion, right underneath Bert and Ernie. — Google's done this sort …
Christian Zibreg / Geek.com:
Mozilla posts Firefox 3.5.5 — A maintenance update fixed five stability related bugs, three of which have been labeled as critical. No major security concerns have been reported since the Firefox 3.5.4 release. — Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.5 Thursday, an incremental Firefox update that brought no new features.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Boxee Beta Coming December 7 — NYC-based Boxee will release the long-awaited beta version of its Web video-watching software on Dec. 7, MediaMemo's Peter Kafka tweets. — It'll be shown off at an event at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. — Boxee is basically a Web video browser designed …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Intel replicates ‘bricked SSD’ bug, pledges fix — Intel has once again promised a fix for the glitchy firmware update tool it released for its 34nm solid-state drives last month. But it still can't say when the new version will arrive. — The chip giant released new firmware for the drives on 26 October.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
Google, Microsoft ‘Strongly’ Urged to Limit Internet Search Data Storage — Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. must limit the amount of time they keep Internet- search records and can't justify keeping the information beyond six months, European Union officials …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Is Verizon's New Early-Termination Fee Anti-Consumer? — Beginning Nov. 15, Verizon subscribers looking to get out of their smart-phone contracts early will pay $350 for the privilege. That early-termination fee is double the current one, but Verizon insists it's justified because of the higher prices of today's phones.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Surpasses 325 Million Users — Facebook has continued to grow at an impressive rate throughout the year, most recently announcing the 300 million user milestone. According to Facebook's own advertising statistics though, the company is now beyond 325 million users and continuing to grow.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Bettween Makes Tracking And Sharing Twitter Conversations A Breeze — With Twitter rolling out its own retweet functionality soon, people will be pointing their followers to more users they may not be engaging with yet, which will spark users to follow more people and hence increase the amount of conversations on Twitter.
Stephanie N. Mehta / Brainstorm Tech:
Will Microsoft become the General Motors of software? — It has near-monopoly status and nimble, disruptive competitors. We've seen this movie before. — By Jay R. Galbraith, president and founder, Galbraith Management Consultants — Galbraith questions Microsoft's resolve to change.
Luke Plunkett / Kotaku:
Nintendo: There Is No Wii HD — Speaking on GameTrailers TV, Nintendo of America's Reggie Fils-Aime has, with a smile and some stern words, crushed into tiny, tiny pieces the prospect of a HD revision of the Wii. — Chatting with host Geoff Keighley, Fils-Aime said of the rumour …
Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Lenovo ThinkPad X100e netbook tipped for Jan 5th 2010 launch — The thought of a ThinkPad netbook is enough to make anyone even vaguely familiar with Lenovo suspicious, but according to ThinkPadToday that's exactly what the company have up their corporate sleeve.
