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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.
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Marisa Taylor / Digits:
Where to Find Black Friday Deals — The day after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest shopping days of the year and marks the official beginning of the holiday retail season. … So where can you find the Black Friday deals? Google the term and a host of compilation sites pop up …
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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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 …
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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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 …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ustream Brings Its Viewer App To Android Market — Ustream has just launched a version of its Ustream Viewer for Android Market, giving users the ability to access any Ustream footage while they're on the go, free of charge. You'll be able to use the app for streaming video both over Wi-Fi and 3G.
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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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 …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Windows 7 passes Mac OS X in market share race — Weekend numbers for new OS bigger than for all versions of Mac OS X, says Net Applications — Computerworld - Windows 7 passed the 5% market share milestone last weekend, which put it, if only temporarily, above the total market share …
UTalkMarketing:
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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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Smartbook Says Bloggers Can't Use The Word Smartbook Anymore. Smartbook. — For most of us, the term ‘smartbook’ (a device that's somewhere in between a smartphone and a netbook) is nothing but the latest tech buzzword du jour. For German company Smartbook, however …
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.
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.
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.
Brian Prince / eWeek:
Symantec Website Hack Exposes User Data — A hacker recently demonstrated how a SQL injection vulnerability in a Symantec Website could be exploited to reveal user data. Symantec says the vulnerability ony impacts customers in Japan and South Korea. — A Website operated by security firm Symantec …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
‘Racist’ Obama pic removed — Hot Girls website apologises over ‘monkey’ picture that had been appearing at the top of Google Images searches — A blog hosting an offensive image of Michelle Obama with monkey features has removed it and posted an apology.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Online Advertising In The U.S Begins To Stabilize — Online advertising revenues in the U.S. seem to be stabilizing. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers released third-quarter figures showing that online advertising in the U.S. approached $5.5 billion …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Navigation App Waze Makes Crowdsourced Map-Building a Game — The latest edition of mobile navigation app Waze has just launched in the iTunes App Store and on the Android Market Place with the Symbian and Windows Mobile versions available on the Waze website.
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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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
White House official's net neutrality comments irk AT&T — White House official links the issue to censorship in China — AT&T doesn't like the idea of new regulations mandating unfettered access to the Internet, and recent comments from the Obama administration that connected the issue …
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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Cable Guys Ask for Some Love — A year ago, when Time Warner Cable and Viacom sparred over renewal fees, Viacom (VIA) took out ads asking consumers for sympathy. Today, faced with the prospect of similar fights with the likes of News Corp. and Scripps, Time Warner Cable (TWC) is launching its own media salvo.
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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.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet — A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good ‘Influence Index’ for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions.
