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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Purchased iSlate.com in 2007. Apple's New Tablet Called iSlate? — With rumors of the Apple tablet reaching new highs, MacRumors has found evidence that Apple acquired the domain name iSlate.com presumably in preparation for the new device. — The iSlate.com domain was originally registered …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple's New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let's Dig A Little Deeper — Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Basically Every ISP Is Trying to Scare You Into Paying for Internet You Don't Need — You thought AT&T was screwing unsuspecting customers into paying obscene bandwidth bills with ridiculous claims of stuff you can't do? Time Warner says you can't have 3 people on the internet without at least 15Mbps.
TJ Luoma / TUAW:
Is Google Voice available for the iPhone? — Need a refresher on the Google Voice and Apple saga? Let's recap the story to date: — Apple pulled all Google Voice related apps from the App Store back in July, which led to an FCC inquiry, which led Apple to claim they had not rejected but were …
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Why so few paid apps on Android? Blame Google Checkout — The new monthly report on location-based apps from Dutch app store analytics firm Distimo and American location-detection technology maker Skyhook Wireless opens with a striking stat: Only 21 percent of the location-based Android mobile apps …
Frances Dinkelspiel / New York Times:
With High-End Meal Perks, Facebook Keeps Up Valley Tradition — By 11:45 a.m., when the steel door to Facebook's employee cafeteria rolls open for lunch, there is almost always a line of people waiting for food. — On one day, the menu may feature Thai-spiced cilantro chicken or salmon with red curry sauce.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Macs top Amazon's ‘Most Gifted’ list — Some computer wishes seem to have come true this holiday season — Last time we looked — on the eve of Cyber Monday — there was a conspicuous discrepancy in Amazon's (AMZN) computer department between the “Most Wished For” and “Most Gifted” machines.
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Surfdaddy Orca / hplusmagazine.com:
By Thought Alone: Mind Over Keyboard — Why bother to type a document using a keyboard when you can write it by simply thinking about the letters you need to type? — A brain wave study presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Epilepsy Society shows that people with electrodes …
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Want to connect your iPhone and Bluetooth keyboard? There's a (jailbroken) app for that (Update: video!) — The wait has been long, but now there's finally a means by which to connect your dear, yet almost buttonless, iPhone or iPod touch to a Bluetooth keyboard for some more intense finger tapping action.
Schneier on Security:
Intercepting Predator Video — Sometimes mediocre encryption is better than strong encryption, and sometimes no encryption is better still. — The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Iraqi, and possibly also Afghan, militants are using commercial software to eavesdrop on U.S. Predators …
Justin Scheck / Digits:
Critics of H-P Software Soften Their Stance — Two people named Desi and Wanda recently set off an uproar with a YouTube video claiming that Hewlett-Packard computers are racist, based on the performance of the company's facial-recognition software. After a discussion with the company, they seem to be backing down a bit.
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Lara Farrar / CNN:
Micro-blogs in China: Tweeting through the Great Firewall — Beijing, China (CNN) — A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.
