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Nick Bilton / Bits:
2010: The Year of the Tablet — An image from an Apple tablet patent. — Publishers made 2009 the year of the concept newspaper and magazine. Time Inc. teamed up with design company The Wonder Factory to create a fun concept video of the Sports Illustrated of the future.
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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Possible Apple tablet multi-touch tactile keyboard detailed — Apple's forthcoming tablet could employ a dynamic surface that gives users tactile feedback when typing in order to identify individual keys, according to a new patent application revealed this week.
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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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes $1 salary in 2009 — SEATTLE — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs was paid his customary $1 annual salary in 2009, but Apple's strength through a rough economic climate returned the value of his personal holdings in the company to pre-meltdown levels.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
DNS Issues Cause Downtime for Major Sites — Some of the web's most prominent sites experienced downtime and sluggishness Wednesday night due to problems with DNS services. The issues were most pronounced at UltraDNS, which reported that its performance problems were caused by an electronic attack.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Report: Windows 7 hasn't hurt the Mac — A survey of corporate purchasing post-Windows 7 shows an uptick in Apple sales — At the end of ChangeWave's November survey of corporate IT spending — one that reports the strongest growth rate in two years — is the fever chart at right.
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Paul Carton / ChangeWave HotWire Blog:
Windows 7 Accelerating Corporate PC Purchasing — By Andy Golub — ChangeWave's November corporate IT spending survey points to an uptick in IT spending for 1st Quarter 2010 - midst the strongest growth rate in 2 years. — Regarding PCs, the release of the Windows 7 operating system is the key factor driving growth.
ABCNEWS:
Pepsi's Big Gamble: Ditching Super Bowl for Social Media — Why Pepsi Is Pulling Out of the Big Game and What It Stands to Gain — This year for the first time in 23 years, Pepsi will not have ads in the Super Bowl telecast. No Cindy Crawford, Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake.
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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Andrew Sinkov / Evernote Blogcast:
Huge Evernote for iPhone Update: Offline notebooks and more! — Talk about a holiday gift! The Apple AppStore elves work in mysterious ways and they just approved the biggest Evernote for iPhone (version 3.2) in months! What's new? Offline notebooks! Speed improvements! Better note editing!
Miguel Helft / Bits:
F.T.C. Steps Up Scrutiny of Google's AdMob Acquisition — The Federal Trade Commission has stepped up its antitrust review of Google's proposed $750 million acquisition of AdMob, a mobile advertising start-up. — In a blog post, Google revealed that it had received a “second request” …
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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Google Applications May Reach 150,000 in 2010 Amid Apple Chase — Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s Android mobile software may offer as many as 150,000 applications by the end of 2010, as the company chases Apple Inc. for downloads, according to a mobile-application research firm.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Mint.com beefing up for 2010, including Android app — Tis the season - the season for stressing over money and coming up with a game plan for keeping better track of spending in the new year, that is. — I'd received a couple of inquiries about Mint.com, the online personal finance tool …
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The How-To Geek / Lifehacker:
Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus — Anti-malware testing group AV-Comparatives.org not only gave Microsoft Security Essentials a top rating for malware removal, but now they've given it their best ranking in their performance test as well.
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Josh Bernoff / AdAge:
Twitter at a Crossroads: Audience Growth Won't Be Enough in 2010 — Plus Other Predictions From Forrester — Forrester has just published our interactive marketing predictions for 2010: — Companies' use of social councils will attain budgets and power. — Listening-platform insights will go mainstream.
Business Wire:
Random House English-Language Books Now Available to Kindle Customers around the World — Already Available to Customers in the United States, Amazon Customers around the World Can Now Download English-Language Books from Random House in the Kindle Store — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
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.
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Sandra Hanchard / Hitwise Intelligence:
2009 Year of the Status Update: Spending more time on fewer sites — To wrap up my blog for this year, I thought I'd look at how Australian Internet users divide their time online. This is a pertinent question as marketers battle it out for the precious attention span of consumers on what is now considered a mainstream channel.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Skout Studies What Happens When Dating Goes Mobile — Over the last decade or so, the public perception of online dating has shifted from being a bit odd to something that's pretty normal. But even as people get used to surfing the web as they look for a potential date, there's a new trend emerging …
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David Coursey / PC World:
Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry — Vonage now offers an unlimited $24.99-a-month international calling plan for iPhone and BlackBerry users, the company said Wednesday. The new “Vonage World Mobile” VoIP service competes with a $12.95-a-month service from Skype.
Erik Sherman / industry.bnet.com:
New Patent Test for Machines Using Mathematical Algorithms — Industries, particularly high tech, may be waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court decision, expected this coming spring, in the Bilski case to decide some fundamental questions of when you can patent business methods.
Kathryn Edwards / Computerworld:
Noble ideas: Google Australia's engineering director — Google Australia's engineering director, Alan Noble, talks to Kathryn Edwards about the building businesses, following your own path and why government transparency is so important in the world of the participatory Web.
