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Eric Schmidt / Wall Street Journal:
How Google Can Help Newspapers — Video didn't kill the radio star, and the Internet won't destroy news organizations. It will foster a new, digital business model. — Printer — Friendly — It's the year 2015. The compact device in my hand delivers me the world, one news story at a time.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Bow to Facebook & Twitter — Yahoo! announced this morning that it is adding Facebook Connect across many of its properties. This afternoon Google Friend Connect announced the inclusion of Twitter as a top-level log-in option.
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Barb Dybwad / Mashable!:
Google and Twitter Hook Up On 9 Million Sites — Hot on the heels of Yahoo integrating Facebook Connect comes more big news in the digital identity space: Google Friend Connect is now integrating Twitter. In other words, you'll be able to log in to any site that supports Google Friend Connect with your Twitter account.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:Google Embraces Twitter, Some More. In a Non Facebook Kinda Way.
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Tim Arango / New York Times:
Comcast Gets NBC From G.E. in Deal That Reshapes TV — After nearly nine months of negotiations, Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, finally reached an agreement on Thursday to acquire NBC Universal from the General Electric Company. — The deal valued NBC Universal at about $30 billion.
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New York Times:
In Secret Meetings, Comcast Wooed G.E. and Won NBC — The secret meeting was set for an early July afternoon in a condominium along the ninth hole of a golf course in Sun Valley, Idaho. Jeffrey R. Immelt, General Electric's chief executive, arrived first, taking care to avoid being spotted …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work? — Comcast said Thursday that it has officially acquired a controlling stake in NBC Universal in a deal valued at $30 billion. Comcast will have an arsenal of cable channels, a huge distribution network …
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
For 2010, IDC Predicts an Apple iPad and Battles in the Cloud — Apple brings out an iPad digital tablet. Netbooks move upscale. And I.B.M. buys Juniper Networks. — Those predictions for next year, and others, are being presented on Thursday by the technology research firm IDC.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
IDC: 300,000 iPhone apps before 2011 — A research firm looks into the near future and sees ... an Apple “iPad” next year — Apple (AAPL) figures prominently in IDC's top 10 predictions for the coming year, released Thursday and available here (registration required). The relevant bullet points:
Google Webmaster Central Blog:
How fast is your site? — We've just launched Site Performance, an experimental feature in Webmaster Tools that shows you information about the speed of your site and suggestions for making it faster. — This is a small step in our larger effort to make the web faster.
The Official Google Blog:
Now you see it, now you don't — You may have noticed that our homepage is sporting a new look. Today we're excited to be releasing a new version of our classic homepage. The main feature of the new homepage is that it “fades in” — when the page first loads, it shows only our logo, the search box and the buttons.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
What the “Black screen of death” story says about tech journalism — I've spent the better part of the last 48 hours looking into the colossal fiasco that is the “Black Screen of Death” story. It's a near-perfect case study in how Internet-driven tech journalism and rewards sloppy reporting …
Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
3 ways Bing is ahead of Google — This morning, Microsoft employees demonstrated a long list of enhancements to their Bing search engine at a press event at the company's San Francisco office. — That office is next door to the city's newest, splashiest, most expensive shopping center …
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Satya Nadella / Search Blog:Bing: Connecting People, Places and Things
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Game On: Time Inc. Shows Off a Tabletized Sports Illustrated — Last month, Condé Nast played show-and-tell with its concept of a digitized magazine. Today it's Time Inc.'s turn: The publisher is demoing a concept version of Sports Illustrated it says will be able to run on whatever tablet Apple …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
World's first iPhone orchestra performs live on December 9 — Given that the iPhone offers more processing power than the original iMac, this next story had to happen: December 9 will see a live performance by an orchestra, each and every one of whom will be using an iPhone to make the music happen.
Matthew Rivera / Digits:
Coke Tries Facial-Recognition on Facebook — Coca-Cola wants you to know that Coke Zero is a lot like Coca-Cola Classic. It believes this so strongly that it's willing to do something unusual to drive the point home, like introducing you to your own doppelganger. … Enter the Facial Profiler.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple tablet rumored to be ‘shockingly’ inexpensive — Internet and television personality Alex Albrecht claimed to have insight on the price of Apple's rumored tablet during the latest episode of Diggnation, which also featured actor John Hodgman from Apple's “Get a Mac” commercials.
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Nigel Whitfield / The Register:
Freeview HD goes live — Technical details emerge as DVB-T2 service activated — With the launch today of the Freeview HD service, the UK can claim to be at the forefront of digital television - though most punters won't be able to receive the service until spring 2010.
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Telegraph:
Google considers plans for British property portal — Google is considering plans to launch an online property portal in Britain which experts say could threaten existing websites and listings in local newspapers. — The US search engine giant is reportedly in talks with British estate agents …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Jack Dorsey's Square Going After the Wrong Customers? — Yesterday's official launch of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new mobile payment system was greeted with a lot of enthusiasm. Not everybody agrees that Square's business model is viable, however.
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Jenna Wortham / Bits:
The Anti-Social-Network Social Network — Facebook and LinkedIn are great for connecting with friends and business associates you already know. But what if you want to expand your social circle and meet new people? — For that, there's By/Association, a still-tiny site that is a new twist …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
AOL's New Strategy Is To Fill The Internet With Crap? — Remember how AOL first became “famous”? It cluttered the world (and our garbage dumps) with millions upon millions of CD-ROMs offering “try AOL for free!” It seems that pollution is in AOL's genes, and it just can't get away from it.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Friendster Gets A Major Makeover, Calls Other Social Networks Plain And Boring — Log on to Friendster today and you'll see a background image that says 'Watch this face! ... on December 4′. Turns out the pioneering social network is in for a major revamp tomorrow, including a new logo …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
10 Things We Love And Hate About The Droid — Google's Android operating system is on the way to getting huge, especially with Motorola's Droid and HTC's Droid Eris handsets available through Verizon this holiday season. — But are they any good? We've played around with both phones …
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
Two Weeks, 5 IPhones Sold in Chinese Online Store — China Unicom has sold just five iPhones through a big online retail site in the two weeks since it opened the virtual store, the latest sign that the handset is suffering in China from its high price and lack of Wi-Fi.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel sees rush to Netbook app store — As Intel and PC makers prepare to launch an app store for Netbooks in 2010, the emphasis is on speed. — “We have a lot of developers right now jumping all over this and writing apps and getting them ready,” Scott Apeland, director of Intel's Developer Network, told CNET Wednesday.
John Cook / TechFlash:
Paul Allen relinquishes board seat at Charter Communications — Charter Communications emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this week. But there's a familiar face who will no longer be in the cable company's board room: Paul Allen. The Microsoft co-founder — who previously held …
