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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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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 …
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Mac Pro / AppleInsider:
Apple authorized resellers launch Black Friday sales early [u] — 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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Electronista, Mashable!, Gadgetell, EverythingiCafe, PC World, Search Engine Land, IntoMobile, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gearlog, eWeek and Gizmodo
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 …
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 …
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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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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The Huffington Post:
Mac Lovers Try To Take Over Microsoft's Holiday Window Display (UPDATED, PHOTOS) — UPDATE: A member of the Windows PR team issued this statement regarding the Twitter feeds posted in the Saks Fifth Avenue holiday window display: … In an effort to promote its new software …
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 …
Paul Linford / Holdthefrontpage.co.uk:
Regional publisher to introduce online paywalls — A leading regional publisher is to introduce paid-for access to some of its local websites from next week in an experiment that could change the face of the industry. — HoldtheFrontPage has learned that paywalls are to be introduced …
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.
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.
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.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Loses The Brains Behind Boss — The brains behind Yahoo Boss, a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier this year, Singh was named to Technology Review's 35 Under 35 list at the age of 24.
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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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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 Engleman / TechFlash:
Washington Post, Amazon.com link up for book sale experiment — The Washington Post and Amazon.com are joining forces for an e-commerce experiment. When books are mentioned in Post articles and reviews, the newspaper links to an online store powered by Amazon, where readers can buy the books in question.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
ComScore: Nearly 28B Videos Viewed in October — Well the cat was kinda let out of the bag yesterday when the Internets spoiled the news that Hulu had a huge month in October, according to comScore. So with that out of the way, let's take a look at what else comScore tells us about online video viewing last month.
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 …
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 …
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.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Music streaming app Spotify comes to the U.S. early next year — Perhaps the most-hyped music service coming out of Europe is making its way to American shores early next year. — Spotify's desktop software lets users stream from a massive catalog of music for free.
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.
Katherine Boehret / All Things Digital:
A Clicker To Watch TV Online [The Mossberg Solution] — Finding TV shows online can be a major hassle. If you can remember which network hosts the show, you then must hunt through a maze of listings of several other television shows on that network's Web site to find it.
