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The Official Google Blog:
Explore images with Google Image Swirl, now in Labs — Back in 2001, to give people a new, quicker way to find images, we launched Image Search. When you do a search for [eiffel tower] you'll find an array of images of the tower in the daytime, in black and white, at sunset and more.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good — In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height.
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Sebastian Rupley / GigaOM:Pirate Bay's Tracker Shutdown Won't Snuff Torrents
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Windows Azure opens for business on Jan. 1, 2010 — This morning, Microsoft kicked off its 2009 Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles. Typically, Microsoft times PDC around new operating systems that are testing and launching in the near future. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 launched less than a month ago.
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Boy Genius Report:
Apple's Black Friday deals leaked? — One of our connects just hit us up with some intriguing Apple information. According to them, what you see detailed above is a shot of Apple's yearly Black Friday deals. It's reported to be something Apple will email out shortly.
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Anurag Acharya / The Official Google Blog:
Finding the laws that govern us — As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions.
Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft set to announce Internet Explorer 9 plans — Today at a packed out keynote for Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) Microsoft's Ray Ozie hinted at the next generation of Internet Explorer. According to sources close to Neowin, Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is set …
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Matt Peckham / PC World:
360 Facebook and Twitter Today, PS3 Integration Incoming — Fire up your Xbox 360 later today and you'll discover your social network just broadened by a factor of two. Microsoft teased Xbox 360 Facebook and Twitter integration at E3 this summer and rolled it out to beta testers several weeks ago …
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
How Microsoft Blew It With Windows Mobile — Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the PC market with a 90 percent market-share stronghold, but when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie Chan movie.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
The great Belgian iPhone robbery — Burglars in Antwerp make off with $3 million worth of smartphones — Over the weekend, someone used a fire ladder to climb to the roof of a huge warehouse in Willebroek, a Dutch-speaking municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp, cut a hole in the roof …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Online Petition Demands Apple Approve iPhone Apps — Three iPhone application developers are cited in an online petition which asks Apple to approve their apps, all of which have been sitting in limbo for months on end. The developers are awaiting word about their new DJ applications …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
See Adobe AIR 2's Best New Features Demoed in 9 Sample Apps — Today Adobe released new beta versions of the company's Flash Player and AIR. The Flash Player 10.1 technology now includes HTTP streaming and hardware decoding of H.264 video. The company plans to bring the updated Flash Player …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 And AIR 2.0 - Both Include Multi-touch Support
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Close To Acquiring iMeem — MySpace is in late stage negotiations to acquire music streaming service iMeem, we've confirmed from multiple sources. MySpace is on a bit of an acquisition spree - they acquired iLike, another music service, three months ago.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Zynga raises more venture capital for social gaming expansion — Zynga has become the hottest social gaming company with more than 196 million users on Facebook alone. Today, the San Francisco company has raised $15.18 million in an extension to its second round of funding, according to a regulatory filing.
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Inside Social Games, AdAge, Inside Facebook, paidContent, Silicon Alley Insider, Brainstorm Tech, Gawker and Venture Capital Dispatch
Electronista:
ASUS best, HP worst for notebook reliability — A new study published by SquareTrade revealed that the smaller name brand notebook manufacturers are usually more reliable than their larger rivals. Of the top nine, ASUS has the lowest tracked breakdown rate with fewer than 10 percent of its notebooks failing in the past two years.
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Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, CrunchGear, Liliputing, TheAppleBlog, TechSpot, Digital Trends and Engadget
AT&T:
AT&T Invests Nearly $65 Million Through 2009 to Strengthen 3G Wireless Coverage in SF Bay Area — Deployment of 850 Mhz Spectrum for 3G in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area Improves In-Building Wireless Coverage, Adds Capacity to Support Surging Demand for Mobile Broadband
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it's a date-related self-correction) — While we were busy looking into external speaker problems on the Droid, it would seem Moto was itself hard at work remedying a separate issue with the device.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Over A Year After Android Launch, ShopSavvy Finally Comes To The iPhone — ShopSavvy was one of the best early Android applications. It launched in October of last year after winning one of the initial Android Developer Challenge top prizes (when it was still known as GoCart).
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Verizon to AT&T: “Our ads are true and the truth hurts” — Verizon Wireless responded today to a lawsuit filed by AT&T earlier this month that accused Verizon's “There's a map for that” marketing campaign of misleading consumers about AT&T's 3G coverage in the United States.
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
AdMob brings interactive video ads to iPhone — While it's waiting to be gobbled up by Google, AdMob isn't sitting still. — The mobile ad company announced Tuesday that it will deliver interactive video ads to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The ads, set to run this week …
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The Life and Times of AdMob, App Advice, VentureBeat, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Mashable! and FierceMobileContent
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
TypePad Takes on Tumblr With Free Microblogging Feature — Six Apart's TypePad blogging service has long been aimed at bloggers who were serious enough about what they were doing to fork over money for a blogging platform. But today Six Apart is announcing TypePad Micro …
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DeWitt Clinton / Open Web Foundation:
Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement — The Open Web Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the Open Web Foundation Agreement (OWFa). — The Open Web Foundation was founded to help developer communities collaborate and share technical innovation on the web …
The Official Google Blog:
New site hierarchies display in search results — Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where you're headed. Today we're rolling out an improvement that replaces the URL in some search results with a hierarchy showing the precise location of the page on the website.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Seesmic Launches Native Twitter Client For Windows — Today brings good news for PC users everywhere. Seesmic is launching a native desktop client for Windows. Seesmic's founder and CEO Loic Le Meur made the announcement today at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles.
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Download Squad, Technologizer, The Windows Blog, ReadWriteWeb, WebNewser, Loic Le Meur Blog and Mashable!
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Palm Smartphone From Verizon by Early 2010 … For Palm, 2010 will be a year of channel expansion, with its new webOS handsets coming to more carriers. Top among them, Verizon (VZ), which has been rumored to be getting a device “like the Palm Pre” since Palm (PALM) launched it.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed. — Google is planning to hold a special Chrome OS event at its headquarters in Mountain View, CA this Thursday morning, we've just been notified. The plan is to give some technical background information …
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BBC:
T-Mobile staff sold personal data — Staff at mobile phone company T-Mobile passed on millions of records from thousands of customers to third party brokers, the firm has confirmed. — Details emerged after the firm alerted the information commissioner, who said his office was preparing a prosecution.
Chris Tryhorn / Guardian:
Times editor outlines plans for online charging — Micro-payments dismissed in favour of charging for 24-hour access to day's edition of the paper — James Harding, the editor of the Times, today gave the clearest indication yet of how News International is going to start charging for its journalism online.
