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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Privacy groups file FTC complaint against Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Ten privacy and consumer groups announced Thursday they've filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that Facebook Inc.'s privacy-policy changes violate federal law.
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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.
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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PC World, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Beat, The Microsoft Blog, Internet2Go, Between the Lines, AndroidGuys and WebProNews
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.
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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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.
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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mocoNews, Macworld, Android and Me, Android Phone Fans, Between the Lines and Android Central, Thanks:atul
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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.
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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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Softpedia News, Gearlog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, GPS Obsessed, Gadgetell, Technologizer, Between the Lines, Pocket-lint.com, WebProNews and Mashable!, Thanks:atul
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google In Discussions To Acquire Yelp For A Half Billion Dollars Or More — Google and Yelp are in advanced acquisition negotiations, we've confirmed from multiple sources. And while the deal isn't done, we've heard that it's very likely to close. The price is supposedly at least $500 million.
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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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Barry Collins / PC Pro:
Mozilla: Firefox Mobile will kill off app stores — Mozilla claims that its new Firefox Mobile browser could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular app stores created by Apple and its ilk. — Mozilla is releasing the first version of Firefox Mobile (codenamed Fennec) …
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Ilinca Nita / Unwired View:
Lots of Samsung bada OS screenshots leaked — For one reason or another, Samsung's been a bit reluctant in showing screenshots of its newly-announced bada smartphone OS. — Well, in case you want to know what the new mobile platform looks like (and you probably do want), there are many leaked screenshots available.
Joel Johnson / Gizmodo:
AT&T Has Spent Less on Network Construction Every Quarter Since the iPhone's Launch — If you like your links hyper, here is that AP story, AT&T's financial sheet [PDF], and the post in which Fake Steve Jobs originally pointed out this disparity. Namaste. — Send an email to Joel Johnson, the author of this post, at .
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Ad.ly Launches Analytics For Sponsored Tweets — There's been a bit of controversy around Ad.ly, which aims to link up high-profile advertisers with celebrities on Twitter and then distribute links to marketing campaigns through the user's tweet stream with full disclosure.
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.
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
WordPress and Tumblr show iPhone Tweetie and Twitterrific Not Just for Twitter Anymore — Tweetie 2 and Twitterrific 2 aren't just two of the best Twitter clients for the iPhone, they're two of the best mobile micro-blogging interfaces on the planet and now both WordPress and Tumblr …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Watch The Buzz On Bitly.TV — With more than two billion links a month passed through its link shortening service, bit.ly can see what is some of the most buzzed about and shared content on the Web. Today, it is exposing the most popular videos people share through bit.ly on Bitly.TV …
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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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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Reuters:
Heartland to pay AmEx $3.6 mln over '08 cyber intrusion — * Says resolves all intrusion-related issues with AmEx — Credit card processor Heartland Payment Systems (HPY.N) said it reached a settlement with American Express Co (AXP.N) related to a 2008 criminal breach of Heartland's payment systems environment by cyber thieves.
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Kelsey Volkmann / bizjournals:
Bing! Information Design sues Microsoft — Bing! Information Design in St. Louis has sued Microsoft Corp. for alleged trademark infringement and unfair competition over Microsoft's new Bing search engine. — The suit, filed this week in St. Louis City Circuit Court …
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internetnews.com, Agence France Presse, The Microsoft Blog, Ars Technica, Dow Jones Newswires, eWeek, TechFlash and Seattle Times
Business Wire:
Palm Reports Q2 FY 2010 Results … Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 11.72 — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM - News) today reported that total revenues in the second quarter of fiscal year 2010, ended Nov. 27, 2009, were $78.1 million.
Nik Fletcher / Download Squad:
Palm unveils “Project Ares” webOS developer tool — Ever since Palm announced its webOS system earlier in the year, the company has been continually working out its approach for application development for the device. With the App Catalog in beta for customer use, and the Mojo SDK available …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, InfoWorld, Silicon Alley Insider, Crave, PreCentral.net, Electronista and Phone Scoop
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Netflix Spilled Your Brokeback Mountain Secret, Lawsuit Claims — An in-the-closet lesbian mother is suing Netflix for privacy invasion, alleging the movie rental company made it possible for her to be outed when it disclosed insufficiently anonymous information about nearly half-a-million customers …
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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Michael Cheng / The Official Google Blog:
Translate Google Sites with one click — Google brought translation features to many of our products in 2009, including Google Docs and Gmail and we're happy to add one more before the New Year. To make it easier for people around the globe to read the site you created with Google Sites …
