Top Items:
Marissa Mayer / The Official Google Blog:
Zeitgeist 2009: the collective consciousness — Curiosity — it's why we search the web. Whether searching for the latest news, a popular holiday gift, a website you've heard about, the latest singing sensation, or the trailer to a blockbuster film, you come to Google with something on your mind.
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TechCrunch, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, The Huffington Post, Domain names …, AppScout, Mashable! and GMSV
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft looking into Windows ‘black screen of death’ problem — Microsoft says it's looking into reports that its latest security updates are causing some Windows machines to stop working and display a mostly black screen with no desktop icons, taskbar, sidebar or other elements …
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Computerworld, I4U News, Ars Technica, PC World, Pocket-lint.com, GMSV, Mashable! and CNET News
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Jeremy Kirk / PC World:Latest Microsoft Patches Cause Black Screen of Death
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Hardware 2.0, GottaBeMobile.com, Electricpig.co.uk, Help Net Security, The Microsoft Blog, IT PRO - Today, Softpedia News, internetnews.com, GeekSmack, Gizmodo, InformationWeek, Electronista, The Register, Maximum PC, TG Daily, TechSpot, Neowin.net, I4U News, Ryan Naraine and Security Watch
Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:
Nokia Sues Samsung, Display Panel Manufacturers Over Price-Fixing Claims — Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, sued Samsung Electronics Co., LG Display Co., AU Optronics Corp. and other manufacturers of liquid-crystal displays over claims they colluded to fix prices of panels.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is YouTube Ready for Prime Time? Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee — YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV, too. — Google's video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, multiple sources tell me.
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
What's powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] — Of all the things Google is really good at, patience isn't necessarily one of them. — To prove Web applications like Gmail and Google Docs could be as sophisticated as desktop apps …
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The Next Web Appetite, Technologizer, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile.com, VentureBeat, jd/adobe, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, ReadWriteWeb and Gadgetopia, Thanks:electricwaffles
Alaska Miller / Silicon Alley Insider:
Check Out Google's Favorite Android Apps — Google named the winners today in its second annual mobile apps contest. — The top prizes for this year's Android Developer Challenge went to: — Sweet Dreams, which lets you avoid late-night phone calls and save battery power
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Fring Brings Free Video Calling To The iPhone, Nokia Smartphones — Apple has long been rumored to integrate video conferencing capabilities in the iPhone, and most expected Skype to incorporate such a feature in its free application for iPhone and iPod Touch devices sooner or later, but Israel's fring is first to actually do it.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple, Psystar strike deal in copyright case — Mac clone maker to pay Apple unspecified damages, but may be able to keep selling systems — Computerworld - Apple and Mac clone maker Psystar agreed Monday to settle a 17-month lawsuit that will effectively stop Psystar from preinstalling Apple's Mac OS X …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yahoo's 2009 searches topped by Michael Jackson and Twilight, not Twitter — Barely more than a few hours after Microsoft revealed the year's top queries on its new search engine Bing, Yahoo followed suit with its own top 10. Unsurprisingly, Michael Jackson topped both lists …
Wall Street Journal:
The Dark Side of ‘Webtribution’ — Imagine this scenario: Every person you know—each family member, friend, co-worker and casual acquaintance—receives an anonymous email from a stranger making terrible accusations about you. — How would you feel? — Renee Holder knows: “Devastated.”
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Why The Crunchpad Didn't Pencil Out — Ignore the soap opera. The real problem is simple: How do you compete with free? — BURLINGAME, Calif. — Some people take things personally. For blogger Michael Arrington, that's a strength. It also explains why his effort to build a touch-sensitive …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:The End Of The CrunchPad
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Venture Capital Dispatch, Fast Company, CrunchGear, ITworld.com, GMSV, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Rational rants, Erictric, Beyond Search, Electricpig.co.uk, ZDNet, InformationWeek, internetnews.com, Podcasting News, Mobile Entertainment, The Register, Gear Diary, PC World, ExtremeTech, louisgray.com, Obsessable, Christian Science Monitor, Engadget, Out of the Box, ChannelWeb, The Atlantic Business Channel, Pulse2, MAKE Magazine, Gadgetell, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SlashGear, Maximum PC, OSNews, eSarcasm, lalawag, Technologizer, Crave, technabob, Mobilewhack.com, Liliputing, Pocket-lint.com, Gizmodo, Ewan Spence's All New Musings, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gadget Lab, Gearlog, Texas Startup Blog, jkOnTheRun, Techland and TomsTechBlog.com, Thanks:wauki
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Droid Nears Its Million-Device Target — Motorola and Verizon's $100 million marketing push seems to be paying off: The much-ballyhooed Droid smartphone made by Motorola and powered by Google's Android 2.0 OS is inching toward its goal of a million devices sold during the fourth quarter of 2009.
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PC World, Tech Trader Daily, FierceWireless, DisplayBlog, PMP Today, Fone Arena, Edible Apple, Android and Me, Pulse2, ChannelWeb and Unwired View
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Plancast Is Foursquare... For The Future — If you're going to leave your job at TechCrunch, you better have a good reason. I think Mark Hendrickson actually may have had one. — Hendrickson left TechCrunch in March. After about two years of writing and doing development for TC, he got the startup itch.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Confirmed: Office 2010 to ship in June — After several Web sites today claimed to having seen a possibly inadvertent notice from Microsoft claiming June as the release month for its forthcoming Office 2010 (we looked hard and couldn't find it ourselves), a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed …
Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
NCR to Roll Out Blockbuster DVD Kiosks — NCR Corp. is expected to announce today it will roll out 200 Blockbuster-branded DVD rental machines in New York City drugstores by year end, a move that will likely accelerate the move to low-price rentals at the expense of more lucrative revenue streams for Hollywood.
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Silicon Alley Insider
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
M.I.T., Google, And Umberto Eco Want To Erect a Realtime Cloud Over The 2012 London Olympics — What is it with architects that they feel the need to glom onto the latest buzzwords to justify their projects? A group from M.I.T.'s Senseable City Lab is looking for funding …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Apple iPhone May Go to T-Mobile Next — Stock quotes in this article: AAPL , VZ , MOT , T — NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple's (AAPL Quote) path to U.S. smartphone dominance may take an abrupt detour as the iPhone's next destination may be Deutsche Telekom's (DT Quote) T-Mobile and not Verizon (VZ Quote).
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9 to 5 Mac, Unwired View, PMP Today, Electronista, Between the Lines, Technologizer, Fone Arena, Macsimum News, dailywireless.org, TmoNews and TechFlash
Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Nokia's Ovi, the World (Minus the U.S.) Is Enough — Tero Ojanperä, Nokia's EVP of Services — For nearly two years, I have been critical of Nokia for a diverse set of reasons including its denial of competition from Apple's iPhone, its hardware, and a botched launch of its Ovi app store.
DigiTimes:
Intel notebook platforms for 2010 to not push WLAN chips — New notebook platforms launched by Intel in 2010 will no longer highlight the inclusion of an Intel CPU, chipset, and wireless solution under the Centrino brand, and will instead focus on the CPU under the Core brand, a company representative has revealed.
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Owen Fletcher / Computerworld:
Microsoft offers Twitter-style service in China — IDG News Service - Microsoft has launched a microblog-style service in China based on Windows Live Messenger, expanding the social-networking functions linked to the chat software in a country where it is a hit.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Local UK Newspaper Chain Tries A Paywall — Slowly, but surely, we're seeing some regional newspapers try out a paywall. We've already seen Newsday, on Long Island, put up a paywall, but it's more about reducing churn than actually getting people to pay (and early reports are that not many are paying).
Zee / The Next Web:
Introducing twitter's first augmented reality iPhone app with geo-tagging built in. — Twitter 360 is an iPhone app that lets you visually see the flow of tweets from locations nearby, layered on top of your natural “real” environment. — Thanks to to the iPhone's video camera and Twitter's …
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Google Maps Mania
John Markoff / New York Times:
Looking for Balloons and Insights to Online Behavior — The prize is $40,000, and it goes to the first person or group to determine the locations of 10 red balloons that can be anywhere in the continental United States. — The apparent frivolity of the challenge is only on the surface.
BBC:
India blocks millions of mobiles — Millions of Indian mobile phones with no valid unique identification code have been blocked for security reasons. — The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is a 15-digit code which appears on the operator's network whenever a call is made.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
FreeBSD bug gives untrusted root access — ‘Unbelievably simple’ exploit — A security bug in the latest version of the FreeBSD can be exploited to grant unprivileged users complete control over the operating system, a German researcher said Monday. — The flaw is present in FreeBSD 8 …
Jansen Ng / DailyTech:
Lenovo, HP, Dell Integrating SDXC Readers in New 32nm Intel “Arrandale” Laptops — Don't want to be obsolete before launch — Most laptops and netbooks today come with a SDHC flash memory card reader. One of the major benefits of standardization is the ubiquity it allows.
Deborah Gage / PE Hub Blog:
SEC Looking At Angel Groups — The SEC has “investigated every angel group they know of” out of concern that the groups may be operating as unregistered broker-dealers, according to Steve Murchie, president of the Denver Keiretsu Forum. — Murchie's chapter (UPDATE: and the rest of the Keiretsu Forum) …
