Techmeme: The Exhaustive Guide to Apple Tablet Rumors (Matt Buchanan/Gizmodo)

3:10 PM ET, December 27, 2009

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Chris Jacob / Gizmodo:

The New, Terrifying, No-Electronics US Flight Security Rules — That failed terrorist attack yesterday might make international flights a whole lot less enjoyable. Passengers are reporting that new restrictions are in place. Among them: No electronics allowed. Updated:

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider, New York Times, Kotaku, Air Canada, TeleRead, Boing Boing, lalawag, I4U News, The PhoneBoy Blog, TSA, TechCrunch, Crave, techeblog.com, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Gawker

Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.com:

BA and Virgin: Electronics are still allowed on US bound flights — Rumours about new flight security following Christmas terrorist attack aren't true — Travellers to the US from the UK will experience new security measures in the coming weeks, following the attempted terrorist attack …

Discussion: Gizmodo and Mashable!, Thanks:stuartmiles

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:

The Exhaustive Guide to Apple Tablet Rumors — The Apple tablet is almost here. We hear. Actually, we're hearing a whole lot lately. With this exhaustive guide to every tablet rumor, we've got the clearest picture of the Apple tablet yet. — Uh, What's It Called?

Discussion: BetaNews, PC World and GottaBeMobile.com

Arn / MacRumors:
Apple ‘iSlate’ Trademark and What is a ‘Magic Slate’?

Randall Stross / New York Times:

Sorry, Shoppers, but Why Can't Amazon Collect More Tax? — BEFORE settling on Seattle as the home of Amazon.com, the founder, Jeff Bezos, considered placing the company on an Indian reservation near San Francisco. “This way, we could have access to talent without all the tax consequences …

Discussion: TechFlash

BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's blog:

Self-Proclaimed Social Media Gurus on Twitter Multiplying Like Rabbits — In May 09 when we first used Tweepsearch to count of the Twitter bios of self-proclaimed social media gurus, experts, superstars and ninjas there were 4,487. A mere seven months later, we were shocked to see that there are now nearly 16.000.

Discussion: Mashable!, broadstuff and Webmetricsguru

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:

Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas (AMZN) — Amazon's Kindle hit an important and startling milestone yesterday: On Christmas, the company sold more Kindle books than physical books. — Yes, this is obviously the result of everyone who got a Kindle for Christmas …

Discussion: Download Squad, Mashable!, Amazon.com, Boy Genius Report, Electronista, broadstuff, Agence France Presse, 901am and The Next Web

Nick Douglas / lalawag:

Twitter Is Profitable. Your Argument Is Invalid. — Oh. Thank. God. Twitter's deals with Google and Microsoft (letting the two companies search Twitter in real-time) total $25 million and make the company profitable for 2009, according to BusinessWeek.

Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Apple Expanding iWork In The Cloud? — A year ago Apple launched iWork.com in beta, which allowed users of their office suite of applications to publish documents online. It's a light feature set compared to Google Docs and Office 10 - just viewing and commenting.

Discussion: Gizmodo, Mobile Whack, 9 to 5 Mac and EverythingiCafe

Ross Miller / Engadget:

Android 2.0 (or maybe 2.1) officially coming to T-Mobile G1? — We don't know where this is coming from so take it with a grain of salt, but rumor has it from AndroidSPIN that the progenitor Android device, the T-Mobile G1, is destined to officially get an over-the-air update for an Eclair build, Android 2-point-something.

Discussion: Download Squad, TmoNews, Mobile Whack, Gadgetell and Engadget HD

Seth Rosenblatt / CNET News:

The 10 best new Firefox add-ons of 2009 — This past year felt like a rebuilding year for Firefox add-ons, with two new frameworks implemented to help guide the future of extensions. Personas gave Firefox on-the-fly theme-switching, and users can expect it to be part of the stable version of Firefox 3.6 when that gets released.

Discussion: TechSpot

Marion Maneker / Washington Post:

E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry — The evolution of publishing from print to digital has caused a schism in the reading world. There are now two constituencies: readers (and writers) on the one hand, and the publishing world on the other. And they don't want to hear each other.

Discussion: TeleRead

Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:

Infamous Chinese pirates launch Ubuntu that looks just like Windows XP — From the Chinese pirate masters of the non-sea-faring variety comes ... Ylmf OS! Not happy with pirating Windows XP itself, these creative Chinese have gone one step further and hacked Ubuntu to look exactly like Windows XP.

Discussion: Cloned In China

Kindle Review:

NYTimes misuses Kindle Review stats to attack the Kindle — The NYTimes' Bits Blog has an article using Kindle Review statistics to attack the Kindle. — It's a perfect example of why people are losing faith in newspapers. — Here's what the ‘Is Amazon Working Backward’ article by Nick Bilton does -

Discussion: Bits and TeleRead

Seth Godin / Seth's Blog: Learning from bad graphs and weak analysis

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