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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Exclusive: Nexus One full specs detailed, invite-only retail sales starting January 5th? — We know you're itching to get your hands on a Nexus One — Google's managed to build buzz here the way only a couple companies in the world know how. Unfortunately, it sounds like you're going to need …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Google Nexus One Hands On — Thanks to a clandestine meeting with a source, I got a chance to play with and try out the Nexus One. It's basically, from my time with it, Google's Droid killer. It's thin, it's fast, it's better in every way. — My source was very firm about no photography …
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Google Nexus One stands with iPhone and Hero, interface gets a 5-minute walkthrough — The Google Nexus One trickle continues. Today's two menu items include a 5-minute demonstration of the Android 2.1 interface — shaky, sure, but it's a pretty thorough rundown of all the menus.
Boy Genius Report:
Apple tablet definitely coming in 7″ size? — We're really going out on a limb here, but one of our very connected sources let us know that they've heard very solid information about Apple's upcoming tablet. It has been widely reported recently that the size of the tablet is 10″ …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple To Demo Tablet In January, Asks Developers To Get Apps Ready (AAPL) — Is the long-awaited Apple tablet just weeks away? — Apple is preparing to show off a new, larger mobile device with a higher resolution display in January — probably a version of the Apple tablet we've been hearing …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Next-gen iPhone w/ 5-Megapixel camera for second half 2010 - WWDC launch? — Taiwanese sources suggest the debut of an all-new model iPhone, equipped with a 5-megapixel camera, could coincide with the currently mooted WWDC 2010 event in June. — Industry sources report orders …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Microsoft removes Custom XML features from Office 2007 — As my colleague Mary Jo Foley reported earlier today, Microsoft has lost a crucial court judgment over technology used in Office 2007: … Registered OEM partners got a tip-off that the judgment was on its way Monday afternoon …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Research in Motion Statement Regarding December 22nd Service Outage - BlackBerry Messenger to Blame! — * Update: Been getting lots of tips, and we've received the same message ourselves, from the BlackBerry Network Administrator pushing you to upgrade to the latest version of BlackBerry Messenger.
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Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
Strapped to Android, HTC Takes a Dizzying Ride to the Top — Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC is on a tear. This year alone, the company has released five Android handsets. Its next phone, the HTC Nexus One, aka the Googlephone, is among the most anticipated devices of 2010.
Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Jajah bought by Telefónica for $207m — Jajah has become the latest internet phone company to be snapped up by a bigger player, with the Silicon Valley company announcing it is being acquired by Europe's Telefónica for $207m (€145m) in an all-cash transaction.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month — Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we're hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces …
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Ex-Microsoftie: Company today ‘a lot like IBM was in 1985’ — Don Dodge made headlines last month when he was caught up in the tail end of Microsoft's first-ever round of mass layoffs. He had been at Microsoft for five years, and as a start-up evangelist had become a well-liked figure in the world of budding tech companies.
Financial Times:
Apple looks at internet TV foray — By Kenneth Li in New York and Joseph Menn in San Francisco — Apple is courting owners of US television networks, including CBS and Walt Disney, in the hope of launching a subscription television service over the internet next year, people familiar with the discussions said.
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
NVIDIA Ion 2 coming in early 2010, compatible with Pine Trail — Well, here we go: NVIDIA just gave us the heads-up that the next generation of Ion chips (which we'll be calling Ion 2 until it gets a proper name) will be compatible with Intel's new Pine Trail platform and arriving in Q1 of 2010.
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Firefox 4 Windows mockup provides 5 UI hints of things to come — Want a hint as to where Firefox will go next? As a product visual designer at Mozilla, Stephen Horlander is the kind of guy who can make things happen — so when he shares updates and mockups on Firefox 4's user interface, we tend to pay attention.
Google Chrome Blog:
Smarter holiday shopping with Google Chrome Extensions (beta!) — Since we launched extensions for Google Chrome on the beta channel for Windows and Linux a few weeks ago, we've seen over 1,000 extensions submitted to the gallery. Several of them have already become browser staples for me.
Harris Interactive I Newsroom:
Internet Users Now Spending an Average of 13 Hours a Week Online — Half of adult Internet users bought something online in last month — A new Harris Poll finds that adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online. Of course, people's usage varies greatly …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Qik Live Recording Finally Makes It To The iPhone (Legally) — The live video streaming application Qik has just been approved in the App Store and should be available shortly, we've learned. The company submitted the app a couple weeks ago following the approval of UStream's live streaming application …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Facebook's Sandberg Nominated To Disney Board — A big name addition to the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) board. The company just nominated Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg (pictured) to its board of directors. In a statement, Disney Chairman John Pepper says Sandberg will add value …
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Lauren Goode / Digits:
Sesame Bringing E-Books to the iPhone — Two weeks after Sesame Workshop said it would launch a line of digital books for children 2 to 6 years old, the nonprofit organization has launched an iPhone app that will let kids read Sesame books on a smartphone while listening to a recording of their parents' voice reading along.
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Mini-Note (Netbook) Shipments Grow 103% Y/Y in 2009; Revenues Up 72% — Mini-Notes Take 19.6% of Portable PC Shipments and 10.4% of Revenues; Share to Remain Stable in 2010 — Notebook PC revenues are expected to be $109 billion in 2009, down almost 7% Y/Y, according to the DisplaySearch …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Story Something Quietly Opens Up, Turns Your Kids Into Heroes — I don't have kids (yet), but I'd be all over this if I did ... and if I were a native English speaker: TC50 finalist Story Something is cautiously opening up to the masses during the holidays - intentionally.
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Mikael Ricknäs / Macworld:
Report: Handhelds grab larger share of hotspot traffic — Hotspot usage from handheld devices is growing fast, thanks to the increasing popularity of products equipped with Wi-Fi, according to a report from market research company In-Stat. — This year, Wi-Fi hotspot usage will increase by 47 percent …
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Computerworld:
Nortel accepts $282M bid for VoIP unit — Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement to sell its Carrier VoIP (Voice over IP) and Application Solutions business to Genband for US$282 million, it said on Wednesday. — Nortel Networks has entered into an agreement to sell its Carrier VoIP …
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Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Startup Automates Display Advertising — PaperG has been testing a platform with a handful of companies that lets small businesses automatically create and place ads on participating publishers' sites. The platform — PlaceLocal, scheduled to launch within two months …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
The $75 Tablet Computer — Designer Yves Behar shares images and details from One Laptop Per Child's flashy PC plans. — Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world's cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi.
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Andrew Nusca / SmartPlanet:
The science behind stronger display glass on your phone, computer — If you're the owner of a Motorola Droid phone, Dell Adamo laptop or Cowon S9 portable media player, have you noticed that it's awfully hard to break the glass of the display? — That's no accident.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
CauseWorld Launches: Do Good Deeds Simply By Walking Into A Store — Six months ago I wrote about a startup called Shopkick (it was then called MOBshop). The company won't disclose much of what their eventual product will be, but they've attracted some of the most high profile investors in Silicon Valley …
