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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For The Google Branded Chrome OS Netbook — Most of the tech world now considers it a given that Google will be selling its own unlocked phone, called the Nexus One, to customers directly early in 2010. A few stragglers are still debating the finer points of the difference between Google working …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
ComScore: iPhone overtakes Windows Mobile use for the first time in US — There are plenty of ways to measure smartphone marketshare. IDC measures units shipped from manufacturers whereas Gartner measures units sold to consumers. Then there's comScore, the research firm that conducts monthly surveys …
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comScore, Inc.:
Android: Crashing the Smartphone Party — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the release of its latest report on the mobile market, Android: Crashing the Smartphone Party. The report provides an overview of the current U.S. mobile environment …
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Between the Lines
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
JooJoo/CrunchPad Company Responds To Mike Arrington's Lawsuit — Fusion Garage, the Singapore-based company behind the JooJoo tablet — formerly known as the CrunchPad — has responded to the lawsuit that TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington filed earlier this month.
BBC:
YouTube post leads to movie deal — A producer from Uruguay who uploaded a short film to YouTube in November 2009 has been offered a $30m (£18.6m) contract to make a Hollywood film. — The movie will be sponsored by director Sam Raimi, whose credits include the Spiderman and Evil Dead films.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com — Have you ever wondered where the readers of The New York Times's Web site come from, and what kind of devices they use to read our content? In a past life, not too long ago, when I worked in The Times's research and development labs …
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Google LatLong:
Google & Audi take Google services in a car to the next level in the new Audi A8 — Nowadays, it seems like everything is connected to the Internet: mobile phones, laptops, netbooks, portable game consoles, personal navigation devices. Think of how applications such as Google Maps for mobile …
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Raphaël Moll / Android Developers Blog:
Knowing is half the battle — As a developer, I often wonder which Android platforms my applications should support,especially as the number of Android-powered devices grows. Should my application only focus on the latest version of the platform or should it support older ones as well?
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Tim Conneally / BetaNews:Analytics: 15% of all Android devices are Motorola Droids
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Download Squad
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Working on 3D ‘Hyper-Reality’ Displays — Apple's patent applications always provide an interesting peek into what Apple researchers have been working on. In one of the more interesting patent applications we've discovered, Apple appears to be researching 3D displays in which the user will be able to look around an object.
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Facebook:
Facebook Data Team: How Diverse is Facebook? — How Diverse is Facebook? — In order to make Facebook as open and connected as possible for everyone, one of our goals is to understand how different populations of users join and use the service. With that objective in mind …
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Matt Webb / BERG:
Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines — I've got something I want to share with you. — We've been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Next Step in the Facebook Privacy Blowback: The FTC Complaint. The Real Question: Will Advertisers Care? — The clamor about Facebook's changes to its privacy policy — the ones where the social network encourages its users to abandon their privacy — is getting louder.
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
RIM Says BlackBerry E-Mail Service Is Interrupted — Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., maker of the BlackBerry phone, said some North American customers using the device are experiencing problems with their e-mail service. — Technicians are working on the problem, the Waterloo …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld:
Shuttleworth steps down as Ubuntu CEO — In a morning press call on December 17th, 2009 Mark Shuttleworth announced that he was stepping down as head of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. In his place, Jane Silber, the current Chief Operating Officer who has been with Canonical since 2004 will take over as CEO.
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Royal Pingdom:
Thank you Google for the SLOOOW Internet — Pingdom's management team recently visited Boston, USA, for some meetings. On their way back they had some time left over at the airport and decided to get some work done. Nicely enough, Google is currently offering everyone free Wi-Fi …
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These are the Droids
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Windows 7 leaving Redmond's help desk less busy — There are many ways to measure how Windows 7 is doing. There are reports on new PC sales, tallies of boxed copy sales, and surveys of planned enterprise adoption, to name a few. — But one of the most encouraging signs for Microsoft …
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Dell Lays Off 700 Workers, Dell.com Suddenly Filled with Numerous Price Mistakes — Simply a coincidence, or payback from scorned employees? — Maybe it's a coincidence, but Dell's recent round of layoffs seems to have sparked a flurry of price mistakes on Dell.com.
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The Official Google Blog:
Transliteration goes global — Most of us use a keyboard to enter text; it's one of the most basic activities we perform on a computer. However even this simple activity can be cumbersome in many parts of the world. If you've ever tried to type in a non-Roman script using a Roman keyboard, you know that it can be difficult to do.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel: New graphics, ‘Core’ chips coming — Intel on Thursday previewed new Core processors and graphics technology that will become the pillar of its mainstream chip offerings. — As reported previously, Intel said it will roll out new Intel Core i processors on January 7 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Jim Goldman / CNBC.com:
RIM Soars, Stuns the Street — So much concern, so much talk about dealing with disappointment, and a perceived slowdown in Blackberry momentum amid so much media clamor about anything and everything Droid from Google and what does Research in Motion do? Blows everyone away, that's what.
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Oracle tops Wall Street views with quarterly results — Shares move 4% higher in late trading; company says Sun deal will win approval — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Oracle Corp. on Thursday reported fiscal second-quarter profit and sales that topped Wall Street analysts' estimates …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
AT&T dismisses tiered data chatter? — AT&T has dismissed speculation it intends changing the way it charges iPhone users for data plans on its service, but hopes to encourage customers to use other methods to get their data in future. — “We have not made any decision to implement tiered pricing …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
uTorrent Adds Video Streaming Support — BitTorrent was first released by Bram Cohen back in 2001, long before streaming video sites such as YouTube existed. At the time, those who wanted to watch high quality video on their computers sometimes had to wait for hours or days until a download finished.
Kat Hannaford / Gizmodo:
3D Blu-ray Specs Officially Confirmed, We Can All Breathe Easy Now — The Blu-ray Disc Association has issued the official specifications for 3D Blu-ray, thankfully confirming that the discs will be backwards-compatible for when you tire of actors lunging out of the TV at you.
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David Kaplan / paidContent:
WSJ, MarketWatch and NY Post Subscriptions Coming To Sony E-Reader — Sony (NYSE: SNE) has struck a deal with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). that gives the electronics company the opportunity to sell subscriptions to the WSJ digital edition of the WSJ, as well its Dow Jones sibling MarketWatch …
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Peter Key / bizjournals:
Phila. to buy EarthLink's wireless network that was meant for citywide Wi-Fi — The city of Philadelphia said Wednesday it intends to purchase, for $2 million, the wireless network constructed by EarthLink Inc. to turn the entire city into a Wifi hotspot. — The city said it intends …
Zee / The Next Web Network:
Report: The Most Active Online Are The Most Educated. — People who spend the most time online are in fact the most educated claims a recent report from Eurostat. — The study, that covered households containing at least one person aged 16-74 across Europe, shows that nearly 90 …
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
Asustek Plans EeeBot Educational Robot — Asustek Computer plans to develop an educational robot for kids called the EeeBot along with software and services as part of several technology projects sponsored by the Taiwan government. — The goal is to build an affordable robot able to interact …
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