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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week — Google's Chrome OS project, first announced in July, will become available for download within a week, we've heard from a reliable source. Google previously said to expect an early version of the OS in the fall. — What can we expect?
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Joe Hewitt:
On Middle Men — The Internet has been incredibly empowering to creators, and just as destructive to middle men. In the 20th century, every musician needed a record label to get his or her music heard. Every author needed a publishing house to be read. Every journalist needed a newspaper.
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Rupert Murdoch to remove News Corp's content from Google ‘in months’ — Rupert Murdoch, the head of News Corporation, is prepared to remove his company's content from Google' search index “within months” as the pay versus free content debate reaches crisis point.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:News Corp Wants To “Lead” The Media Industry To Its Own Demise
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Victoria Ho / ZDNet:
Google: Firms can ‘get rid’ of Office in a year — SINGAPORE—In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to “get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to”, suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division. — Girouard, one of the company's four presidents including …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
App Store dejection process - now Rogue Amoeba leaves the flock — The App Store rejection process continues to infuriate even long-term Apple developers, and something will have to change - today we see long time Mac developers, Rogue Amoeba, announce they will no longer develop apps …
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Paul Kafasis / Under The Microscope:Airfoil Speakers Touch 1.0.1 Finally Ships
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft admits its GPL violation; will reissue Windows 7 tool under open-source license — Microsoft officials confirmed on November 13 — a few days after pulling a Windows 7 download tool that allegedly contained improperly-licensed open-souce code — that the company did …
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now? — Starting next week, Verizon will double the early-termination fee for smartphones. That is, if you get a BlackBerry, Android or similar phone from Verizon, and you decide to switch phones before your two-year contract is up, you'll be socked with a $350 penalty (it used to be $175).
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Digits:
A Later Ship Date For Nook — If you want to put a Nook electronic-book reader under the tree, you'd better move fast — very fast. … Barnes & Noble's Web site now says that new orders are expected to be shipped on Dec. 18, in time to make Christmas delivery.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Office 2010 beta leaks early — Those who can't wait until next week for the beta of Office 2010 can apparently find the code already on torrent Web sites. — According to Neowin, the beta code has popped up on peer-to-peer sites in recent days. — Meanwhile, another enthusiast site …
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Chris Crum / WebProNews:
Google: Page Speed May Become a Ranking Factor in 2010 — Algorithm Change Would Make Slow Sites Rank Lower — Over the course of 2009, a consistent theme that Google has been involved with is that of speed. In announcement after announcement, Google has talked about the importance of speed on the web …
Jared Newman / PC World:
Is Dell's Android Smartphone Doomed? — Dell confirmed it is releasing an Android-based smartphone, called the Mini 3, in China and Brazil, but the company's lack of details about the handset makes it hard to get excited. Dell's unwillingness to share more about the Mini 3 also has me wondering …
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Danny Allen / Gizmodo:
Sleek Vega Tablet with Android 2.0, Touchscreen, and 3G Arrives Next Year — I'm psyched to see Android moving into tablets. Some of the first will be from Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), who say their Tegra-powered 7-, 11-, and 15-inch tablets will arrive through “tier one” carriers in the first half of 2010.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Badda Bing! Microsoft woos newspapers by funding their stick to beat Google — As Microsoft shed its beta tag for the launch of the UK version of Bing today, TechCrunch Europe has learnt that it held a secret meeting with a group of big European publishers, mainly newspapers.
Bloomberg:
AdMob Said to Have Been Approached by Apple Before Accepting Google Offer — Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — AdMob Inc. was approached by Apple Inc. about an acquisition before the company accepted a $750 million bid from Google Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Don't make me a target — The augmented reality view in Brightkite's mobile app. — Brightkite, a location-tracking service, recently launched version 2.0 of their service after merging with Limbo and taking $9M in funding this past April. — In recent months I've found myself using Foursquare …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft opens up Windows 7 to advertisers via downloadable themes — The same way that it already allows advertisers to buy placement on various Microsoft sites and properties, Microsoft may allow them to extend their brands onto Windows 7. — The ads aren't being foisted on Windows 7 users.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Dolly Parton Says: You Should Try IE8 Webslices! — In what's got to be the most amusing celebrity tech endorsement of the season so far, Dolly Parton has gone on YouTube endorsing Microsoft's IE8. It's got this great webslices feature, you see. “You've got to have Internet Explorer 8 to use webslices …
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report:
WHERE helps us track DROID infestation, sales numbers — The folks over at uLocate, makers of the popular GPS-centric WHERE application, have come through with some stats in order to help us better track the DROID as it leaves store shelves...and there's a map for that. Oh irony.
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Alex Crippen / CNBC.com:
Microsoft's Bill Gates Praises Apple's Steve Jobs For ‘Saving the Company’ — Microsoft's Bill Gates had some words of praise today for Steve Jobs, the CEO of arch-rival Apple, despite the blistering “Mac and PC” television ads that sharply, and humorously, criticize the new Windows 7 operating system.
