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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 …
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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″ …
David Gelles / blogs.ft.com:
Exclusive: Apple to host event in January — Apple has something big up its sleeve for next month. — The company has rented a stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for several days in late January, according to people familiar with the plans.
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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
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Twitter Blog:
Mixing It Up at 795 Folsom St — In August, we previewed expanded location support for developers. Last month we launched our Geotagging API with support from several of the top Twitter clients. When current location is added to tweets, new and valuable services emerge …
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Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Twitter Acquires Mixer Labs To Step Up Geo-Location — Twitter CEO Ev Williams just announced on the company blog that they have acquired Mixer Labs, creators of GeoAPI. In a nutshell, GeoAPI provides developers with the ability to query the world through services which include a reverse geocoder …
Paul Feng / Google Public Policy Blog:
An update on our AdMob acquisition — Since we announced our plans to acquire AdMob, we've been excited about the positive reaction — particularly from advertisers and publishers who have told us that they're enthusiastic about the possibilities for how the combination of AdMob and Google …
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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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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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Scott Budman / NBC Bay Area:
Got Baggage? Let Yahoo Pick it Up — Web giant helping out at the airport — Technology companies love to help the community. It's part of what makes them beloved to Silicon Valley residents (well, that, along with their stock options and cool perks).
Dan Macsaiwed / Fast Company:
Why Does Facebook Want to Suck the Fun Out of Unfriending? — As Facebook roars past the 350 million usermark, it's become so ubiquitous that literally everybody I know has a profile. And even though I've accepted precisely 1,252 of their friend requests over the years …
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Facebook's Sandberg Nominated To Disney Board — A big-name Silicon Valley addition to the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) board. The company just nominated Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg to its board of directors. In a statement, Disney Chairman John Pepper says Sandberg …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
FCC commish says Verizon's ETF response is ‘unsatisfying and, in some cases, troubling’ — A member of the FCC's five-person commission, Mignon Clyburn, has sent out a letter today in response to Verizon's earlier reply regarding questions surrounding its gargantuan $350 early termination fee on so-called …
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.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
Apple thrives despite Jobs being away — 2009 was a year for the record books for Apple. — Besides recording three of the most profitable quarters in company history and ending the year with $36 billion in the bank, Apple had its biggest iPhone opening weekend ever this summer.
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
New! Viliv N5 Clamshell Launching at CES — We've just been invited to see the Viliv N5 at CES. — 4.8", 1024×600, Clamshell design, 3G, Wifi, GPS and we can probably expect Viliv's usual high quality build and battery life. The UMID M2 has a competitor! — Note that the S10 is launching too.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Project Alesia: News Corp.'s Roman Battle Cry-Does That Cast Googlers as the Gauls? (Plus Video!) — While Internet companies such as Google use baked goods as names for their key strategic initiatives-recent ones related to its Android mobile operating system were called Donut and Eclair …
John Rath / Data Center Knowledge:
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’ — A look at some of the high-density server and networking gear inside the Weta Digital data center used to render the animation for the new James Cameron movie “Avatar.” (Photo: Foundry Networks Inc.) — It takes a lot of data center horsepower …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Barnes & Noble Will Ship Around 60,000 Nooks This Year — A lot more people have ordered the Barnes & Noble Nook, first announced on October 20, than the company expected (despite getting panned by the official reviewers). The company had Foxconn, their ODM, build far fewer of them than they should have.
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
With Increasing Staff, Facebook Expanding Offices Again in Palo Alto — Facebook left its disjointed cluster of offices in downtown Palo Alto, earlier this year, and moved across town, consolidating into a big old former Hewlett-Packard manufacturing building next to Stanford University.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Looking Back at Google in 2009 — Google is perhaps our decade's Xerox PARC with a commercial edge, and the speed at which they released products in 2009 was quite immense. This shows they do two things well so far: scaling technology (across different countries and languages …
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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
More People Around The World Get Their News Online From Google News Than CNN — Well, Rupert Murdoch is going to love this. More people around the world get their news online from Google News than from CNN or the news properties of the New York Times. In November, 2009, according to comScore …
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