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Facebook Asks More Than 350 Million Users Around the World To Personalize Their Privacy — Service Gives Users New Tools to Control Their Information — Setting a new standard in user control, Facebook announced today that it is calling on its more than 350 million users to review and update …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Day Has Come: Facebook Pushes People to Go Public — Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. It's a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple tablet set for spring launch? — Production is starting and should hit mass-market stride in February, says an analyst — Artist's rendition of an Apple tablet computer, with iPhone. Credit: AppleInsider — “The manufacturing cogs for the tablet are creaking into action,” …
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Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
AT&T to New York and San Francisco: We're Working on It — The head of AT&T's wireless unit said Wednesday that the carrier is working to improve its network for iPhone and other smart-phone subscribers in New York and San Francisco. … Manhattan and San Francisco, particularly …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter Spawned 50,000 Apps To Date, Will Open Up Firehose For More — Twitter's Director of Platform Ryan Sarver just took the stage at Le Web a couple of minutes ago, and shared some announcements with the audience about the future of the platform and the effect this will have on the ecosystem.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The iPhone Finally Gets Live Video Streaming With Ustream Live Broadcaster — Services like Ustream and Qik have long offered the promise of live streaming video from your mobile phone to the web — except if you had an iPhone. For those devices, that was only possible if you jailbroke your phone.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Jack Dorsey Talks About Square at LeWeb: Wants Dongle to be Available for Free — At the annual LeWeb conference in Paris today, Loic Le Meur interviewed Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey about Square, the mobile payment system he launched in limited beta in November.
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry / Silicon Alley Insider:Jack Dorsey Has Already Made $650 Charging Credit Cards In Square Demos
MySpace Developer Team:
Opening the Gates, and Unleashing Data! — MySpace is a busy place. For example, our users share approximately 35 million public activities and updates per day. As a platform, we're committed to open standards, and providing rich data, available to the world in real-time.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Safari edges Chrome in Mac speed trials — Google's Mac browser whips Firefox, Opera, lags Apple's Safari in JavaScript rendering race — Computerworld - Google's new beta of Chrome for the Mac is nearly twice as fast as Mozilla's Firefox, but can't keep up with Apple's Safari, benchmark tests show.
Roselyn Roark / Gadget Lab:
The Droid Has Been Rooted — Now What? — Verizon's Motorola Droid is a brand-new phone today. Like many smartphones before it, the Droid has been rooted so that owners of the Android 2.0-based smartphone can install multitouch support (including pinch-to-zoom gestures), enhanced themes and other previously forbidden goodies.
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Two Publishers Delay E-Books — Simon & Schuster is delaying by four months the electronic-book editions of about 35 leading titles coming out early next year, taking a dramatic stand against the cut-rate $9.99 pricing of e-book best sellers. — A second publisher, Lagardere SCA's Hachette Book Group …
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Rajen Sheth / The Official Google Blog:
Join this group: Google Groups joins Google Apps — Blogs, wikis, social networks, YouTube and Twitter are changing how many of us connect with others. Yet within most businesses, especially large corporations, the software hasn't evolved much over the last decade.
DigiTimes:
Acer chairman blames HP and Dell for poor ultra-thin notebook sales — Acer chairman JT Wang believes ultra-thin notebooks with long battery-lives will be the future trend in the notebook industry and he recently urged Intel, which plans to mainly push mainstream notebook platforms in 2010 …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
First Mobile Firefox enters home stretch — Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, an important step in bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence. — “Our goal is to have a release candidate next week …
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Vevo Stumbles Out of the Gate — If Vevo is supposed to be the future of the music industry, that future has gotten off to a slow and ignominious start. Apparently Vevo's servers are still hungover from a wild night of partying with Bono, Adam Lambert, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga …
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David Kaplan / paidContent:@ Vevo Launch: Google's Schmidt: The Music Industry Will Finally …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day — A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008. The paper — entitled “How Much Information?”
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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
HP leaks forthcoming Radeon GPUs, Core i3 CPUs, Hulu and Netflix software integration — We've come across a bonanza of information about HP's Spring 2010 plans for North America. Kicking off the new year in style will be Pavilion desktops featuring a choice between ATI's Radeon HD 5350 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
60 Million People A Month Use Facebook Connect — Facebook's Director Development Network Ethan Beard took the stage at the Le Web conference in Paris to talk about the status of Facebook Connect. — Beard's talk focused on the notion of identity as defined by connections - to people …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Skyfire Lights Up New Version Of Rich Windows Mobile Browser — Skyfire, the developers of a “game-changing” PC-like web-browser for mobile devices, has launched a new version of its browser for Windows Mobile. Skyfire is free and the only browser of the bunch to support Flash, Silverlight …
Bruce Johnson / The Official Google Blog:
Faster apps for a faster web: introducing Speed Tracer — Do you ever wonder what's going on inside the browser when a webpage doesn't load or respond as quickly as it should? Many developers do, especially when trying to build powerful web applications for their users.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Text Messages: Digital Lipstick on the Collar — There is a question that has crossed the mind recently of anyone who has sent a cellphone text message while cheating on a spouse: What was I thinking? — Text messages are the new lipstick on the collar, the mislaid credit card bill.
Variety:
Variety.com behind paywall — Subscribers to get full access to all content — Starting Thursday, Variety will begin its rollout of the website's paywall as part of an overall revamp of the publication's subscription structure. — After clicking on two pages of content at Variety.com …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Milo's Local Shopping Engine Leaves Beta With One Million Users In Tow — There's nothing like shopping online when it comes to finding the lowest price for a consumer product, but when it comes to actually getting something now, online obviously falls far short of driving down to your local retail store.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Tim Armstrong Makes One Last Pitch for AOL: “No More Hail Marys” — AOL is about to cut ties to Time Warner (TWX) and CEO Tim Armstrong has been making his case to current and potential investors. Here's one last pitch, delivered to the crowd at the annual UBS Media and Communications conference in New York.
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