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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.
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Reuters:
Apple shares hit new high on tablet excitement  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc shares reached their all-time high on Thursday as excitement builds over the expected release of its tablet computer.  —  Although Apple has never acknowledged that a device exists, anticipation is peaking as the company enters the new year.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Is Coming Back To The iPhone Via The Browser, Thanks To VoiceCentral  —  Last summer, when Apple pulled third-party Google Voice applications from the App Store, one of them was VoiceCentral.  Apple's subsequent rejection of the official Google Voice app spurred an FCC investigation …
Google Watch:
Tracking Santa's Global Traversal The Google Way  —  It's that time of year when people love to track Santa, trying to figure out his route to deliver gifts across the world.  Google is all over it, picking up a tradition started by NORAD in 1955, which you can read about here.
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Early Holiday Gift For Googlers: $2.3 Billion  —  Like many companies, Google has a tradition of giving holiday presents to its employees — an Android phone last year, $1000 in cash net of taxes the year before.  This year, they got Google's soon-to-be-released phone.
Discussion: SFGate
Sherri / philosecurity:
Our Google Government  —  Recently I saw an ad which read:  —  Google and State Gov  —  “Over 60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google.”  —  Does this mean that we've now handed the majority of our state governments' operational data to a single privately-controlled company …
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.
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Footprint: real-time web stats, for free  —  While Google Analytics is a great product, one of the most frustrating aspects of it is the lack of any data about what's happening right now with your site's traffic.  —  In these days of the real-time web, shouldn't we have real-time web stats too?
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
IsoHunt Loses Big; Court Says: You Induce, You Lose  —  One of the many lawsuits against file sharing sites/search engines around the world is the IsoHunt lawsuit — yet another case where the entertainment industry decided a marginal player in the space didn't have enough attention and sued.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SCVNGR Raises $4 Million From Google Ventures  —  SCVNGR, the platform that lets you build location-based games compatible with any mobile phone, is on a roll.  The company has just raised $4 million from Google Ventures, with participation from existing investor Highland Capital.
Discussion: Pulse2 and mocoNews, Thanks:daniel_levine
David Talbot / Technology Review:
Security in the Ether  —  Information technology's next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud—and prove we can trust it.  —  In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in the quest to transform computing into a ubiquitous utility, like electricity.
Discussion: Bits and ebizQ Business …, Thanks:atul
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes/MySpace Mystery Solved: A Christmas Miracle!  —  About 10 days ago, there was a post in this column about interest by News Corp. and its MySpace unit in Flixster, the popular social networking site for movies.  —  Titled “MySpace and News Corp. Eye Flixster (But for What?), I wrote:
Discussion: Crave
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Texas County to Name Drunk Drivers on Twitter  —  If you get busted for drunk driving in Montgomery County, Texas, this holiday season, your neighbors may hear about it on Twitter.  —  That's because the local district attorney's office has decided to publish the names of those charged …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Top Ten IPO Candidates For 2010  —  It's been a long drought for IPOs, but venture capitalists and tech entrepreneurs are hopeful that 2010 will be the year they rain down on the Valley once gain.  Earlier this year, a handful of IPOs trickled out, such as OpenTable, Rackspace, and A123Systems.
Thanks:atul
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.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:   Report: Windows 7 hasn't hurt the Mac
Sharon Noguchi / Mercury News:
San Jose police test head-mounted cameras for officers  —  San Jose police, under fire for interactions with the public that have turned violent, on Friday launched a pilot project equipping officers with head-mounted cameras to record contacts with civilians.
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
XBMC Updates to 9.11 Camelot, Brings Awesome New Look, Improved Features  —  Windows/Mac/Linux/and more: XBMC is a killer open-source, cross-platform media center, and today they've released XBMC 9.11, introducing a whole new default look and feel, and it's very friendly on the eyes.
Discussion: XBMC
bizjournals:
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff Named 2009 Executive of the Year by the San Francisco Business Times  —  The San Francisco Business Times has named Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of Salesforce.com Inc., its 2009 Executive of the Year.  —  Benioff is being recognized as the executive …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
Memory chip shortage seen in H2 2010: DRAMeXchange  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Memory chips for computers are likely to be in short supply by the second half of next year as consumers demand more capacity and companies embark on a delayed drive to replace PCs, industry tracker DRAMeXchange believes.
Discussion: TG Daily and Maximum PC
Venture Capital Dispatch:
With IPOs Popping And LPs Hopping, VCs Look Toward China  —  With what looks to be the world's second largest market for initial public offerings and a burgeoning limited partner base, China is going to command an increasing amount of attention from some of the world's largest venture capital firms.
John Cox / Network World:
Forrester: Google Android smartphones to take 10% of market in 2010  —  Forrester outlines 7 enterprise wireless and mobility trends for next year  —  Android phones will make significant headway in the smartphone market and 4G service providers will zero in on apps in 2010.
Anupreeta Das / Reuters:
Qualcomm COO resigns to take CEO job elsewhere  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The chief operating officer of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc, Len Lauer, has resigned to become a chief executive of another company, Qualcomm said on Thursday.  —  Lauer, a telecommunications industry veteran …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Managing the Wireless Data Deluge  —  Smartphones are forcing wireless carriers to meet surging demand for data, creating a huge opportunity for the many companies that help them  —  It wasn't so many years ago that U.S. wireless carriers wanted nothing more than to convince their customers to use their phones for more than talking.
Tom Spring / PC World:
E-Book Piracy: The Publishing Industry's Next Epic Saga?  —  With the rise of e-book readers like the Kindle, Sony Reader, and Nook comes the scourge of the digital world: pirates.  —  Recommends  —  As e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle continue to rise, so follows the publishing industry's worst nightmare: e-book piracy.
Discussion: Digits and TeleRead
 
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John Hering / CNET News:
Web-based Lookout protects mobile devices, data
Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:
Year in Review: Social networks come of age
Discussion: Forbes
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Clear Channel Radio Debuts Android Version of iheartradio App
Discussion: Erictric and Examiner
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's dominance draws interest of regulators
Discussion: NBC Bay Area, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Serkan Toto / CrunchGear:
TDK develops method to tint touchscreens
David Coursey / PC World:
Vonage Offers Unlimited Int'l Calling for iPhone, Blackberry
Discussion: Digital Trends
Business Wire:
Random House English-Language Books Now Available to Kindle …
 Earlier Items: 
Kathryn Edwards / Computerworld:
Noble ideas: Google Australia's engineering director
Josh Bernoff / AdAge:
Twitter at a Crossroads: Audience Growth Won't Be Enough in 2010
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Mint.com beefing up for 2010, including Android app
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
The How-To Geek / Lifehacker:
Microsoft Security Essentials Ranks as Best-Performing Free Antivirus
Discussion: The Microsoft Blog
Erik Sherman / industry.bnet.com:
New Patent Test for Machines Using Mathematical Algorithms
Discussion: Techdirt and Ars Technica