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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Black Friday Is for Suckers — Netbooks, e-book readers, and other post-Thanksgiving bargains to avoid. — Black Friday is a treacherous time. Lured in by the promise of fantastic bargains, you flock to local big-box retailers, facing the threat of injury or even death to grab unbelievably cheap “doorbuster” gizmos.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Turning Times Square Into A Giant Voice Search Experiment On Black Friday — There are few things more terrifying to me than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday. But if I lived in New York City, I think I would this year because Google, Verizon …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Check the Redesigned Google (With Always-Visible Sidebar) Yourself — When you paste the following into the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit return, you should find yourself as new participant of Google's latest and more all-encompassing prototype test - the one with a new logo …
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Microsoft ‘worked with Apple’ for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb — It was an impressive demonstration, once they got it working: H.264 video streaming wirelessly (and slowly, at least during the caching sequence) using Microsoft's Silverlight video streaming, to an Apple iPhone.
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Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:
Nearly half the money spent at US retail on desktop PCs goes to Apple — In October, Mac US retail desktop computer revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies combined command …
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft: Nice try, Mac geniuses, but we're filtering your tweets — There's something suspicious about all these stories about Mac fans “hijacking” the live #holidaywindows Twitter feed that Microsoft is using to display holiday messages at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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Graham Cluley / Graham Cluley's blog:
Ikee worm author gets job at iPhone app firm — The author of the world's first iPhone worm must be feeling pretty chirpy today, because he's managed to get himself a job as an iPhone application developer. — 21-year-old Australian Ashley Towns, revealed that he was going to join mogeneration …
March / Bloomberg:
Draper Fisher to Raise $400 Million for Startups in India, U.S. — Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the venture capital firm that backed Skype and Baidu Inc., expects to raise as much as $400 million by March to invest in startups in India, China and the U.S.
Louis Gray:
Is There a Looming Battle Over OAuth's Successor? — The OAuth protocol, used on many popular Web sites and applications to pass your credentials between sites without requiring the entry of your user name and password, including Twitter, is potentially under pressure from a team …
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PC World:
Redirecting DNS Requests Can Harm the Internet, Says ICANN — ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Tuesday condemned the practice of redirecting Internet users to a third-party Web site or portal when they misspell a Web address and type a domain name that does not exist.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Profiles Turn Into OpenIDs — As part of its push to go more social, Google has been attempting to unify its various account profiles into one Google Profile. And now it's more useful. Google's Brad Fitzpatrick has just tweeted out that Google Profiles can now be used as OpenIDs.
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Talking to Developers About New Plans for Its Virtual Currency — Facebook first broached the idea of creating its own virtual currency for third-party developers back in December of 2007. The company has slowly rolled the “Credits” product out. First it introduced the currency …
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
Microsoft Launches New Mobile Search Advertising Campaigns — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has launched a new mobile ad product that combines mobile search and display. Called “Microsoft Mobile Marketplaces,” it should not be confused with Microsoft's “Windows Marketplace for Mobile,” which is its new app store on Windows phones.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Apple Sues To Stop Power Adapter Knock Offs — A lawsuit filed on Monday charges a California-based company with copying a patented Apple design. — Apple on Monday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Media Solutions Holdings, a company based in Anaheim, Calif …
Brian Heater / AppScout:
New Site Logs iPhone App Store Rejections — Last week I wrote a column for PCMag discussing the state of Apple's iPhone vetting process. In the piece, I stated, “No one but Apple knows precisely how many apps have been rejected.” The creator of App Rejections responded this week, saying …
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
Google's Not Done Giving: Free Wi-Fi in Even More Airports — Google got into the Holiday spirit several weeks early. The search giant didn't want to just give boring old toys or gadgets, though. No, when Google does something, it does it on a wide scale.
Christina Warren / Mashable!:
PREVIEW: Tweetie 2.1 for iPhone Gets Twitter List Support — Ever since Twitter Lists started rolling out to all users, there has been a big race to add the feature to all the popular Twitter clients. — Web apps and Adobe Air-based apps got in on the action first and some native-platform clients …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying — The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable companies to shut down the analog streams on video-on-demand movie programming. As Ars readers know, we've been covering this issue for a while.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
4iThumbs overlay adds a tactile keyboard to your iPhone... sorta (video) — The iPhone keyboard (or the lack thereof) has been a polarizing point for many, and while we've seen a workaround or two in our day, we've yet to see a solution to the lack of tactility as beautifully simple …
