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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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Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:Possible Apple tablet multi-touch tactile keyboard detailed
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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 …
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.
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 …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent:
New York Daily News Takes “Major” Stake In Content Aggregator Service Loud3r — It is the year of low-cost content creators and aggregators. In that vein, Loud3r, a company that had to reboot earlier this year after some early missteps, has now raised a “multi-million” …
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.
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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.
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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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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
A year out, where's RIAA's promised ISP help? — A decade after the rise of Napster and a year after promising a new antipiracy strategy, the Recording Industry Association of America appears to be floundering on the piracy front. — The plan the trade group for the four largest recording companies adopted …
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 …
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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.
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.
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.
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 …
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?
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:
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.
