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Richard Lai / Engadget:
Emblaze's First Else unveiled in London, promises to be a game-changer — Folks, today might be the day when you start to notice how ancient our smartphones have become, even if they only came out in last few months. Blame Else (formerly Emblaze Mobile) for their confusingly-named First Else …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
What's Really Behind the Rupe-a-Dope With Google and Microsoft? Here Are Five Possibilities! — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — There certainly is a lot of noisy swirl of late around the escalating fight between Google and some traditional media companies over content online.
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Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Wikileaks Says It Has Half-a-Million 9/11 Pager Messages — The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it's preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. — Site operators say they plan …
Google Mobile Blog:
Get movie trailers and more with Google Search for mobile — Heads up, movie fans — today we've launched a mobile version of our new Google Search results for movies, which makes it easier to plan a trip to the movies. Just go to google.com in the web browser on your iPhone, Palm WebOS …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Chrome OS like lightning from a USB key: we could get used to this — We finally got around to prepping a USB key so we could boot to Chrome OS natively, and let us tell you: it's a world of difference. Of course, running something natively instead of virtualized is always going to be a treat …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
LinkedIn hits 3 million members in the UK, eyes IPO in not so near future — [UK] Business social network LinkedIn has hit a milestone in the UK, surpassing 3 million registered users in these parts. Kevin Eyres, Managing Director Europe at LinkedIn, announced the feat at a London event …
Google Mobile Blog:
The Iterative Web App: A new look for Gmail and Google mobile web apps — On April 7th, we announced a new version of Gmail for mobile for iPhone and Android-powered devices. Among the improvements was a complete redesign of the web application's underlying code which allows us …
Ian Douglas / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Microsoft marketing thinks that women = Sugababes — Aiming for that crucial eight-year-old girls market, Microsoft's abysmal marketing department have signed up the Sugababes as the new face of Windows 7. Follow the three unrecognisable singer-dancer-actress-models in a series …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
The iPhone comes to Tesco — will a price war follow? — [UK] Is an iPhone price war about to break out? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhone - after O2's two year monopoly expired in September - we learn today that Tesco, the UK supermarket leviathan, is to sell the iPhone on Tesco Mobile …
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Ikea campaign innovation on Facebook breaks new ground — Marketing through Social Media channels still leaves many marketers scratching their heads but occasionally the industry is provided with some inspiration to help provide a guiding light. Take for example a new project to help market …
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Mac Pro / AppleInsider:
Apple authorized resellers launch Black Friday sales early — As was the case last year, several Apple authorized resellers are getting a jump-start on the 2009 holiday shopping season by launching early Black Friday sales that offer up to $220 off Mac desktops and $250 off Mac notebooks.
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
30,000 Internet Users to Receive File-Sharing Cash Demands — For regular readers of TorrentFreak, this fresh news can hardly come as a surprise. The supposed anti-piracy scheme originally pioneered in the UK in conjunction with lawyers Davenport Lyons rolls on, but now in the hands of ACS:Law and their partners DigiProtect.
Janko Roettgers / P2P Blog:
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde wants your credit card number — For years, the Pirate Bay was the place to go to if you wanted to share movies, music or other digital goods. Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde, who resigned from his job as the site's spokesperson earlier this year …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Surveys: iPhone users pay for digital content, while Mac users are all individuals — iPhone users are happier to pay for digital content than the wider online population; while Mac users are more creative and individualistic, a pair of surveys released this morning claim.
Ed Bayley / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Launches New “Terms of (Ab)Use” Page — One cannot go online today without eventually being asked to accept a set of so-called Terms of Service (or TOS). Such TOS agreements have become ubiquitous to websites and other online services in the same way End User License Agreements (EULAs) …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon bolsters battery life for Kindle; Adds native PDF reader — Amazon on Tuesday said it has improved the battery life of the Kindle and added a native PDF reader. — The statement appears to be timed to get holiday shoppers off the fence about the Kindle as rivals like Barnes & Noble …
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Ericsson wins Nortel's North American GSM unit — Ericsson is slowly building its wireless business by scooping up parts of struggling Nortel. — Ericsson announced Wednesday that it has won a bid to buy Nortel Networks' North American GSM business for $70 million in cash.
Alan Long:
Searches getting longer — Last week I spoke at Search Engine Room in Sydney and presented some of the trends we are seeing in how Australian's interactions with search Engines are changing. — There has been a global trend that my international colleagues have been reporting on for some time - the lengthening of search terms.
Bill Gorman / TV by the numbers:
TiVo Loses 314,000 Subscribers, Worst Quarterly Subscriber Fall Yet, Now Below 3 Million — TiVo Loses 314,000 Subscribers vs. 146,000 in Previous Quarter Even by the standards of its continuing loss of subscribers, the last quarter was a particularly bad one for TiVo.
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
The Problem With the Boxee Box — Boxee generated a lot of excitement on the part of online video fans when it said it would release a dedicated hardware device that will enable users to connect its open-source media center software directly to their TVs. But by becoming a hardware company …
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
eBay opens auction app for BlackBerry — RIM's BlackBerry App World is slowly but surely gaining ground as a storefront for distributing BlackBerry applications. eBay is the latest major company to forge a presence in the storefront, in the form of an eBay app for BlackBerry auctioneers in the U.S. and Canada.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users — Updated with new information from Dropbox: You don't go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that's what it seems to be yielding for 2-year-old Dropbox. Simply put, people — including my GigaOM coworkers and I — love Dropbox because it works.
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Launching E-Book Service In Japan — Google will launch an e-book service called Google Edition in Japan, according to Japanese business paper Nikkei. — Book publishers will determine the prices of the books, keeping 63% of the sales. The service debuts in English speaking countries …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft CFO Liddell Leaving; Replaced By Peter Klein — Microsoft (MSFT) this afternoon announced that CFO Chris Liddell is leaving the company at the end of 2009, and will be replaced by Peter Klein, who is now CFO of the Microsoft Business Division. — Liddell joined the company in May 2005 …
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Sobees Tackles LinkedIn In Powerful New Clients, Android App To Launch Soon — The evolution of Twitter clients have been speeding along. While Twitter is the fundamental platform that formed a base for many applications, such as TweetDeck, Seesmic, PeopleBrowsr and Sobees …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scamville Shakeout: Was Gambit The Right Fall Guy? — I'm not sure any lasting change will come from our series of Scamville posts. For now the most egregious of the social gaming offers are gone, which is a good thing. But none of the big players seem to have felt much pain.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mobile Web Usage Continues To Explode As Opera Mini Nears 40 Million Monthly Users — We all know the Mobile web is exploding in popularity. Opera Mini, Opera's mobile browser, grew its monthly users by 11 percent to nearly 40 million users in October from 32 million users in August.
