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Andrew Pederson / Google:
Stay Connected with Free Airport Wi-Fi from Google this Holiday Season — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it is working with airports across the country as well as Boingo Wireless, Advanced Wireless Group, Airport Marketing Income and others to provide free Wi-Fi as a holiday gift now through January 15, 2010.
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Allenblue / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn works with Twitter, and vice versa — Today we're announcing a partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter - and new features that we think are going to make both Twitter and LinkedIn more powerful for you. These new features will be rolling out gradually over the next couple of days.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Social Networks Continue To Rally Around Twitter As LinkedIn Goes Tweet Crazy Too — Professional social network LinkedIn has long had a feature that lets users update their status on their profile. But it's plainly obvious that LinkedIn users don't nearly use the status feature …
Bloomberg:
Motorola Probably Sold 100,000 Droids in Challenge to IPhone — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Motorola Inc. probably sold 100,000 Droid phones in their first weekend on the market, a sign that the handset maker is recovering even though it still trails Apple Inc., an analyst said.
Mike / Nokia Conversations:
Nokia N900 begins shipping! — GLOBAL - Today sees the first batch of Nokia N900 handsets boxed up and shipped out on their maiden voyage into wild. The N900 has been the most discussed device we've ever reported on here at Conversations, so many of you are sure to be stoked to discover …
Venture Capital Dispatch:
The Wisdom Of AdMob's Founder Omar Hamoui — Google Inc.'s announcement that it will buy AdMob Inc. for $750 million brought a media spotlight on Accel Partners, an investor in both AdMob and Playfish Inc., which said today it will sell to Electronic Arts Inc. for at least $275 million.
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The Official Google Blog:Investing in a mobile future with AdMob
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New Version of Google Search Is Launching Soon — Back in August, we were shocked to learn that Google was working on a new version of its search engine. The secret project, known officially as Google Caffeine, wouldn't change the face or design of the Google search engine …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Intel introduces a digital book reader that reads aloud to the blind — Ben Foss grew up with dyslexia, a visual impairment so severe that his mother had to read books to him throughout his school years, all the way through college. Now 36, he is spearheading the launch of a remarkable device …
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Amazon.com:
“Kindle for PC” Now Available — The Free Application for Reading Kindle Books Available on the PC Today for Readers Around the World — Latest Kindle application brings more than 360,000 Kindle books, including New York Times Bestsellers and New Releases, to the PC
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Nellie Andreeva / The Live Feed | THR:
Twitter user ‘S**t My Dad Says’ gets CBS deal — Twitter sensation S**t My Dad Says is headed to television. — CBS has picked up a comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 707,000 followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star.
Rob Jackson / Android Phone Fans:
Motorola Droid OTA Update Coming December 11th? — The Motorola Droid was launched less than a week ago but we're already eying a December 11th OTA update that will cure a defined list of software issues. Defined by who, you ask? Verizon Wireless themselves.
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Laura Melahn / The Official Google Blog:
Fifty states of Street View — In 1959 Hawaii became the 50th state admitted to the union. Today, 50 years later, we're including Hawaii as the 50th state in Street View on Google Maps. With our imagery of Oahu and Maui, you can now take a virtual vacation to white sandy beaches …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Why An Exclusive Wall Street Journal Deal Wouldn't Help Bing — With Rupert Murdoch talking about blocking Google, Jason Calacanis suggests that Murdoch should cut an exclusive deal with Bing, which if it doesn't Google might at least 10% search share within 6 months. I suggest Jason needs a reality check.
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Emma Barnett / Telegraph:Google: Rupert Murdoch can block us if he wants to
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Blu-ray discs get Managed Copy; hardware support nonexistent — After four years in the oven, “managed copy” is done—and boy, is it a stinker. — “Managed copy” has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films …
Electronista:
Samsung launches bada open mobile OS — Samsung today entered into the mobile OS arena with bada. The software, whose name is based on the Korean for “ocean,” is designed to be open and will compete directly against rivals like Android or LiMo. It will be based on universal standards …
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire blog:
Hundreds of Facebook Groups Hacked — A hacker, or group of hackers, has found a back door into taking over Facebook groups, and is now doing so, claiming it to be a public service. It has taken over up to 300 different Facebook groups so far. — This is an example of one:
Gillian Reagan / New York Observer:
Esquire's Augmented Reality Issue — A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp's Esquire announced that they'd debut a snazzy new “augmented reality” issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet — Mega-D no more — A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world's spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye. — After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet …
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Blockbuster to Rent Movies on SD Cards, but Why? — Blockbuster is piloting a new movie-rental program that allows customers to load movies onto SD cards and play them back on mobile phones and TVs equipped with SD readers. — Perhaps conceived as a one-up response to the unexpectedly …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Rdio: First Screenshots Leaked of Skype Founders' New Music Service — We've been lucky enough to get our hands on leaked screenshots from one version of Rdio, the forthcoming music app from Skype, KaZaA and Joost creators Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Zennstrom and Friis …
OUT-LAW News:
Consent will be required for cookies in Europe — EDITORIAL: A law that demands consent to internet cookies has been approved and will be in force across the EU within 18 months. It is so breathtakingly stupid that the normally law-abiding business may be tempted to bend the rules to breaking point.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5 — Last month Skype was in talks to acquire VoIP startup Gizmo5. It was a perfect backup plan in case all that IP litigation didn't work out. - Gizmo5's SIP infrastructure could theoretically replace Skype's proprietary P2P back end.
Tom Chivers / Telegraph:
Cough into your mobile phone for instant diagnosis — Your mobile phone may soon be able to diagnose respiratory illnesses in seconds when you cough into it. — Software being developed by American and Australian scientists will hopefully allow patients simply to cough into their phone …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
NVIDIA CEO shows off mystery tablet, makes zero statements about mystery tablet — You think maybe the cats at NVIDIA are a little hot to trot on the tablet concept? Not only did Mike Rayfield (the company's general manger of its mobile division) spout off on a “3G capable touchpad” …
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Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Keeping Pacemakers Safe from Hackers — Communicating with ultrasound could help make implantable medical devices safe from attack. — Manufacturers have started adding wireless capabilities to many implantable medical devices, including pacemakers and cardioverter defibrillators.
