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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The End Of The CrunchPad — It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves - the user interface …
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Podcasting News, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, Technologizer, Hardware 2.0, Silicon Alley Insider, Liliputing, eHomeUpgrade, Out of the Box, SlashGear, lalawag, TomsTechBlog.com, UMPCPortal, The Toybox, OSNews, eSarcasm, Gadget Lab, The iPhone Blog, Gizmodo, TG Daily, Daring Fireball, Erictric, I4U News, Techland, Electronista, The eBook Test, jkOnTheRun, EveryJoe, The Next Web, Mobilewhack.com, Gearlog, TeleRead, GottaBeMobile.com, Gawker, Ubergizmo and dailywireless.org, Thanks:wauki
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
LEAK: The Google Phone “Is a Certainty” — According to a trusted source who's seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone “is a certainty.” — And by “Google Phone” we don't simply mean another Android handset. We're talking about Google-branded hardware running a version of Android we haven't yet seen.
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jkOnTheRun, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, AndroidGuys, I4U News, SlashGear, Techland, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, GottaBeMobile.com and AndroidOS.in
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Online Sales Huge On Black Friday, Apple Retail Mac Down — Update: Munster has issued a new Black Friday report that includes e-commerce information. — It looks like Apple's Web business was huge: Sales were up 39% year-over-year on Black Friday, according to comScore …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Apple's Black Friday sales under analysts' microscope
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All Facebook, Tech Trader Daily, PC World, Internet Evolution, Digital Daily and Macsimum News
Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times:
Apple, Chip Bully? — Chipmakers Claim iPhone Maker Disrupts Flash Market — There are growing complaints in the semiconductor industry that Apple, the “smart” phone maker extraordinaire and major chip buyer, is manipulating NAND flash memory prices through its “questionable” purchasing strategies, industry sources said Sunday.
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, MacRumors, ExtremeTech, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Trader Daily, Electronista, TheAppleBlog, MacDailyNews, TG Daily, Macsimum News, EverythingiCafe and DisplayBlog
Stewart / Alsop-Louie Partners:
Droid Doesn't: It's Not Ready For Prime Time — The Motorola Droid is truly terrible, in part because it has such promise (and has been amazingly well reviewed — I worry I'm missing something). Ironically, most of the blame for the cruddiness of the phone really should be laid at Google's feet, not Motorola's.
Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Kindle has best sales month in November, Amazon says — Kindles are still available, while Sony and Nook e-readers are out of stock — Computerworld - November was the best sales month ever for the Kindle e-reader, even before traditionally heavy sales on Cyber Monday, Amazon.com Inc. said early today.
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Business Wire, paidContent, ReadWriteWeb, Gizmodo, GMSV, Mashable!, TECH.BLORGE.com, Kindle Review, Erictric, RyanSpoon.com and Gearlog
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld:7 reasons why e-book readers make lousy gifts this year
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internetnews.com, BetaNews, The Register, Hardware 2.0, Boy Genius Report and Electronista
Alexandria Sage / Reuters:Barnes & Noble delays Nook shipments to stores
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eWeek, Erictric, Digital Trends, paidContent, PC World, Fast Company, CrunchGear, ITworld.com, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Alley Insider, TeleRead, Kindle Review, Gadgetell, Maximum PC and Gizmodo
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death — Microsoft's latest round of security patches appears to be causing some PCs to seize up and display a black screen, rending the computer useless. — The problem affects Microsoft products including Windows 7, Vista and XP operating systems …
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Open Source as a Model for Business Is Elusive — SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program's creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
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Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, Computerworld, tecosystems, Open Source and The Big Money
Bing / Search Blog:
Top Bing Searches in 2009 — Cue Music. Awwww, 2009. It was a year of UFO shaped dirigibles, mom jeans on pop stars, real housewives, a new president, and a new decision engine. Oh and there may have been something about Vampires too, we weren't really paying attention.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch Europe:
French court slams eBay with €1.7M fine over LVMH product resale dispute — [France] A commercial court in Paris has fined eBay €1.7 million euros (roughly £1.6 million) for allegedly not sticking to an injunction banning users from selling on products of luxury goods …
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Royal Pingdom:
Study: Males vs. females in social networks — Have you ever wondered how many of Twitter's users are women? Or men? What about Facebook, MySpace, Digg, LinkedIn, and other sites in the social media sphere? — We have tracked down this information for a number of social network sites (19 of them).
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Features Chrome For Mac Beta Will Be Missing — As we've noted, Chrome for Mac is getting very, very close to its official beta launch. The team is down to a mere 8 bugs to fix before it's ready (and it looks like the list has been trimmed to 7 as of a few hours ago).
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InfoWorld, Macworld, MacRumors, Technologizer, Electricpig.co.uk, 9 to 5 Mac, Erictric and Gizmodo
Simone Weichselbaum / NY Daily News:
Gangs in New York talk Twitter: Use tweets to trash-talk rivals, plan fights — The city's street gangs are becoming tweet gangs. — Manhattan's young thugs have turned to Twitter, and the cops who track them are fast behind, the Daily News has learned. — It's old-school crime meets …
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CNET News, NBC Bay Area, Mashable!, Switched, Silicon Alley Insider, The Next Web, Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins and AppScout
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The New TweetDeck Goes List Crazy And Adds Maps To GeoTweets — Streamreaders just keep getting better and better. A new version of TweetDeck is rolling out today with some major improvements, including support for Lists, Retweets, maps for geo-tagged messages, and LinkedIn streams.
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction — Windows 7 is scarcely more than a month old. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven't gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in. And the Win 7 experience will change rapidly as remaining bugs are squashed …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Twidroid 3.0 Launches with Plugin Support — Originally set to launch in “early December,” Twidroid surprised us by launching the next version of the popular Android Twitter client here on the last day of November instead. Twidroid 3.0, which is now available in the Android Marketplace …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Location start-up SimpleGeo maps out funding — Venture firm First Round Capital has led the Series A funding round for start-up SimpleGeo, a buzzed-about new company that has built a product for easy integration of “location” features into Web and mobile apps, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.
David Carr / New York Times:
The Fall and Rise of Media — Historically, young women and men who sought to thrive in publishing made their way to Manhattan. Once there, they were told, they would work in marginal jobs for indifferent bosses doing mundane tasks and then one day, if they did all of that without whimper or complaint …
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Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, A VC, Fast Company, Screenwerk, Daily Patricia, Glass House, HighTouch and Gawker, Thanks:atul
John Levine / CircleID:
US Court Levies $15 Million Fine Against Spammer — Earlier this year, the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Australian CMA broke up a large fake drug spam ring known as Herbal Kings, run by New Zealander Lance Atkinson.
Chris Saad / Got Kit?:
Echo Whirlpools are here! — Whirlpools is a new feature that is slowly being released for Echo. We are very excited about this upgrade, we hope you will enjoy it. — What's new? — Long conversation threads can now be collapsed to 4 items (the first 2, the last 2 with an expander line in the middle).
Thanks:chrissaad
Brian Prince / eWeek:
IBM Reportedly to Buy Guardium for Database Security — IBM is reportedly acquiring database security vendor Guardium for $225 million. The acquisition announcement is expected to be made this week. — Rumors are circulating that IBM is acquiring database security vendor Guardium for $225 million.
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
LG, AT&T Announce 1-GHz Projector Phone — Here's a whole bunch of firsts for the U.S.: LG today announced the Expo, a Windows Mobile 6.5-based smartphone with a built-in fingerprint sensor and optional pico-projector powered by a Qualcomm 1-GHz processor that I assume is their Snapdragon chipset, though LG doesn't say.
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AT&T, Engadget, Phone Scoop, SlashGear, MobileCrunch, InformationWeek, I4U News and WMExperts
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
Stolen Belgian iPhones Starting To Appear on Russian Black Market … Batches of stolen iPhones snagged during the “Great iPhone Heist” in Belgium earlier this month are showing up on the Russian black market. — Two weeks ago, thieves made off with 3,000-4,000 iPhone 3GS …
