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7:00 PM ET, November 12, 2009

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Chromium Blog:
A 2x Faster Web  —  Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced “SPeeDY”, an early-stage research project that is part of our effort to make the web faster.  SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
SPDY: Google Wants to Speed Up the Web With New Protocol  —  Google has just announced that it is working on a new protocol that will minimize latency and speed up the Web experience for users.  SPDY (pronounced “speedy") is not meant to replace HTTP, the protocol that allows Web servers …
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Intel:
AMD and Intel Announce Settlement of All Antitrust and IP Disputes  —  Intel Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) today announced a comprehensive agreement to end all outstanding legal disputes between the companies, including antitrust litigation and patent cross license disputes.
Avner Ronen / Boxee Blog:
a Boxee Box is coming!  —  We launched our public alpha for Mac/Linux in January at CES.  During the show we met with several device manufactures interested in embedding Boxee into their existing devices or building a dedicated Boxee device.  —  I am very happy to announce we have signed our first partnership with a CE company.
Google Voice Blog:
Google welcomes Gizmo5  —  Today we're pleased to announce we've acquired Gizmo5, a company that provides Internet-based calling software for mobile phones and computers.  While we don't have any specific features to announce right now, Gizmo5's engineers will be joining the Google Voice team …
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Dell's Zino HD is a Candy-Colored Mac Mini Killer  —  Dell's new Zino HD mini-computers look good enough to eat.  And, even more important if you are the sole geek of the the house, good enough to put in the living room.  —  The Zino HD wants to sit by your TV, and is a full-on entertainment PC.
Matt Peckham / PC World:
Banned Xbox 360s Flooding Craigslist, Ebay  —  Beware of banned Xbox 360s loosed in ballooning numbers on auction sites and distribution lists featuring online classified ads.  In the wake of Microsoft's ban of between “a small percentage” or “around 600,000” or “up to one million players” …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?  —  Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages.  Which is frightening, since they're being very vocal about how they're supposedly wronged by Google.
Discussion: paidContent, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp. COO: The Journal's Leaky Wall Strategy Makes No Sense
Discussion: Techdirt and paidContent
Staska / Unwired View:
Apple patents improved digital ink recognition techniques for pen-aware tablet  —  The rumors about he upcoming Apple tablet have been flying around far and wide lately.  —  Well, actually, the rumors about the upcoming Apple tablet have been flying around for years now.
Casey Whitelaw / Google Wave Blog:
Follow your waves  —  We've received lots of feedback from Wavers that the public waves they read were clogging up their inboxes.  Today, we've introduced a new concept to Google Wave—"following" waves.  Now, clicking on a public wave no longer causes it to appear (and stay) in your inbox …
att.com:
AT&T Sets the Record Straight on Verizon Ads  —  To Our Customers: As the U.S. market leader in wireless data service, we typically don't respond to competitors' advertising.  However, some recent ads from Verizon are so blatantly false and misleading, that we want to set the record straight about AT&T's wireless data coverage.
Discussion: Digits
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple's Upper West Side Store Unveiled [Updated]  —  ifoAppleStore notes that Apple has taken the wraps off the company's new Upper West Side retail store in New York City in advance of the public opening scheduled for Saturday morning. … Numerous workers were busy Wednesday night cleaning …
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Apple's Global Retail Invasion
Discussion: Gizmodo and MacRumors
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm Pixi review  —  It's hard to believe that Palm is already pushing its second webOS device, the Pixi, out the door.  It seems like just a few weeks ago that we were eagerly awaiting the release of the Pre, a phone that was considered to be the last gasp for the badly ailing company …
Andrew Webster / Ars Technica:
Modern Warfare 2 sells 5 million in a day  —  Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has already sold an estimated 4.7 million units, claims publisher Activision, possibly making it the biggest launch in gaming history.  —  We all knew that Infinity Ward's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was going to be big, but just how big?
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Expert says Adobe Flash policy is risky  —  A lax security policy in Adobe Flash puts visitors to user-generated content sites at risk, says a researcher who has found a technique exploiting the way browsers handle Flash files.  —  The problem stems from the origin policy of Adobe Flash …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Chrome OS Browser to Mimic Windows Explorer?  —  When Google announced its plans for a new cloud-based operating system built around the Web browser, there was some concern about the OS' capabilities.  Although a lot of our computing can now be done in the Web browser these days thanks …
Dr. Wreck / phoneWreck:
Motorola Droid Teardown Images!  —  Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for has arrived.  Dr.Wreck has fully dissasembled his Brand New Motorola Droid from Verizon.  —  Stay tuned to his Twitter, and RSS feed for all the details as they come out!
Nicholas Bonsack / Macworld:
Apple launches iTunes Preview  —  iTunes.  You know it.  I know it.  We all have some sort of a relationship with it, whether it's love for the things it does or hate for how bloated it has become.  —  So what happens when you send a link to a song or album from the iTunes Store to somebody who doesn't have or even want iTunes?
Roger Cheng / Dow Jones Newswires:
Qualcomm CEO: AT&T To Launch First Smartbook  —  NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- AT&T Inc. (T) will sell the first smartbook using Qualcomm Inc.'s (QCOM) Snapdragon chip, according to Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs.  —  Jacobs, speaking at the company's investor day conference, unveiled the product …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel to launch three Arrandale CPUs for ultra-thin notebooks in 1H10  —  Intel plans to launch three 32nm dual-core Arrandale CPUs (Calpella platform), the Core i7-640UM (1.2GHz), Core i7-620UM (1.06GHz) and Core i5-520UM (1.06GHz) with price in thousand-unit tray quantities of US$305 …
Kevin Ohannessian / Fast Company:
Facebook and Twitter Come to Xbox Live This Tuesday  —  The next update to the Xbox Live network will be coming Tuesday, November 17 according to Live's General Manager, Marc Whitten (left).  The new features are contributing to “turning Xbox and Live into this rich media portal …
Samuel Axon / Obsessable:
YouTube to stream 1080p video within a few days  —  YouTube's Hunter Walk revealed at the NewTeeVee Live event that YouTube will be rolling out 1080p FullHD video streams within the next few days with a new widescreen player.  —  YouTube began offering HD videos up to 720p several months ago …
Discussion: CNET News and NewTeeVee, Thanks:samuelaxon
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Microsoft damage control after marketer claims Win7 inspired by Mac  —  It's not like this sort of thing has never happened to someone at Microsoft before: a moment of clarity and candidness which may actually be close to, if not exactly, the truth, but which is nevertheless “off message.”
Business Wire:
Forbes Media Acquires FlipGloss Photo Publishing Platform  —  FlipGloss-Powered Experience Sponsored by Lexus Debuts on Forbes.com  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Forbes Media today announced that it has acquired FlipGloss Media and its Digital Glossy Insert™ photo publishing platform.
Discussion: TechCrunch and paidContent
AppleInsider:
Conflicting reports within Qualcomm suggest Verizon-only iPhone  —  Additional evidence pointing to the introduction of a Verizon Wireless iPhone has surfaced, although reports differ in how Apple is expected to bring its smartphone to the CDMA carrier.  —  This morning, CDMA inventor …
Dan Stokeley / The Official Google Blog:
Google's movie showtimes, digitally remastered  —  Did you know you can immediately discover movie times and locations by typing a simple search on Google?  For example, search for [where the wild things are] and you'll see times and places to watch the film, or try [glendale 18 los angeles] to see movies playing at your local theater.
 
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Nicholas Bonsack / Macworld:
Undercover 1.5 ousts iPhone thieves with push notifications
Discussion: MacRumors iPhone Blog
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Class Action Suit in the Works for Victims of Social Gaming Scams
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:atul
Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Playdom Buys Green Patch and Trippert Labs — On the Way to IPO?
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Comcast TV Everywhere launch details: December, free for existing subs …
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Jason Ankeny / FierceMobileContent:
Livestream premieres free iPhone video service
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Verizon's $1.99 Phantom Fee Returns …
Discussion: New York Times
Matt Bowman / VatorNews:
Highland Capital closes $400M Fund
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
How iPhone Apps Are Raking In Cash From Virtual Goods
Galen Gruman / InfoWorld:
Ultimate mobile deathmatch: iPhone vs. BlackBerry vs. Droid vs. Pre
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Full Streams Ahead: Clicker's TV Search Engine Is Now Open To The Public
 

 
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