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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Leaked Nexus One Documents: $530 Unlocked, $180 With T-Mobile — A tipster just sent in these Nexus One screenshots that supposedly confirms two things: that Google will sell it unlocked and unsubsidized for $530, and that Google will sell it by themselves. Plus, some other very interesting details.
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David / TmoNews:
T-Mobile “Officially” Confirms Google Phone — Update: Our sources are confirming a January 5th date, 9am, ordering through Google ONLY. Sadly, still no word on pricing. — T-Mobile has gone and made their expected support of the Google Phone aka Nexus One “official” this morning, albeit in a vague sort of way.
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Allegedly leaked Nexus One purchase page answers, raises questions (update: we've got the terms of sale) — So apparently the cats over at Gizmodo have gotten their hands on leaked pics of the Nexus One's landing and purchase page. First, the meat. According to the pages …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Is The Nexus One Bringing A New Android Backup Service With It? — Earlier this evening Gizmodo published leaked images that apparently show off the pricing details for Google's upcoming Nexus One phone. The Nexus One comes in at a hefty $530 for an unlocked device, or $180 with contract on T-Mobile …
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Google Announces Jan. 5 Android Event — This just in: Google will host an Android press gathering at its global HQ on Jan. 5 (click on image below to enlarge). Presumably, the event will have something to do with the company's Nexus One, an Android phone that Google plans to sell …
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Anil Dash:
Life on the List — In the time it takes you to read this sentence, I'll have gained another follower or two on Twitter. Within an hour, I'll have added more followers than 99% of Twitter users ever have. On a typical day, I'll have averaged 100 new followers every hour.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
My Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web — Give, give, give — that's all I (and other social web users) do. We share a lot of information about ourselves these days, and we get a lot out of that experience (monetarily speaking, the companies that provide the social web environment get even more).
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Have You Zeen What H.P. Is Up To? — This is my Zeen. It is the key to my Airlife. — I'm not sure what those two sentences mean either, but someone at Hewlett-Packard just might know. Over the last few months, the company has quietly been applying for some glitzy-sounding trademarks …
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
Watching a movie at home? Grab your iPhone — DVD sales tumbled this year as the weak economy and competition from the Internet soured consumers on buying new discs. What's a movie studio to do? — Look to the iPhone to goose sales. — NBC Universal and 20th Century Fox …
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Gethin Chamberlain / Guardian:
No internet sex please, we're Indian — Yahoo, Flickr and Microsoft introduce access filters — It may have given the world the Kama Sutra and the Bollywood wet sari scene, but it appears that India is not yet ready to be exposed to the delicate subject of sex on the internet.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features — One of the best things about Twitter is its wildly creative ecosystem of applications built by people outside the company. Those apps have been constrained, though, by technical limits imposed on retrieving data from Twitter.
Dan Levine / TechCrunch:
Siebel's Stealth Carbon Startup C3 Lands $26 Million And Condoleezza Rice On Its Board — What do Thomas Siebel, Condoleezza Rice and $26 million have in common? They are all connected to stealth energy startup C3, which may be entering the business of managing carbon cap-and-trade systems for corporations.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
First Look at Blio, Ray Kurzweil's Tablet-Friendly Ebook Format — Blio, officially debuting next week at CES, lets you read your ebooks as they're intended to look on paper. Clearly, Kurzweil is signaling his choice of tablets over e-ink, and his first shots are definitely persuasive.
Electronista:
Paradigm Shift to out color e-book reader at CES — A relatively unknown company called Paradigm Shift Sourcing and Manufacturing will introduce two full-color e-book readers that use 5- and 7-inch color displays at next month's CES show in Las Vegas. The company says both units …
Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Appsaurus: A Smarter Recommendation Tool Than App Store Genius — Let's face it: The iPhone's “Genius” recommendation tool for finding apps is mediocre at best. Fortunately a startup cooked up something better. It's called Appsaurus. — You “train” Appsaurus into understanding you better …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals Push Button Antenna that may Point to Cable TV Content — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a newly granted patent of Apple's that would suggest that they may be considering a push button style antenna for future devices such as their iPhone, iPod Touch or perhaps even a new tablet.
David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
AT&T: The most hated company in iPhone land — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Consumer outrage about AT&T's 3G service for iPhones is boiling over, but the dropped calls and spotty service reflect a greater lack of foresight in the wireless industry. — Analysts say AT&T's problems …
Erik Sherman / industry.bnet.com:
Google Might Get Into Hosted Gaming Via YouTube — There's an interesting patent application from Google (GOOG) that was published earlier this month titled Web-Based System for Generation of Interactive Games Based on Digital Videos. Filed February 19, 2009 and published earlier this month …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Broadcasters Battling for Cable Fees — The nearly billion-dollar battle between broadcasters and cable operators over programming fees has gone public. — The News Corporation is threatening to remove its Fox stations from Time Warner Cable systems at the end of this week if the cable company does …
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Tim Ferrill / WMExperts:
MSDN Outs Windows Mobile 6.5.3 — We've known (unofficially) for some time now that Microsoft has been working on various follow-ups to Windows Mobile 6.5. ROMs based off of 6.5.x builds of Windows Mobile have been floating around XDA and other similar sites for months …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Teen Muziic founder chastised by Vevo — The music industry's patience with Muziic and the site's teenage founder may have finally run out. — Rio Caraeff, chief executive of Vevo, the recently launched Web site that features music videos from three of the top four recording companies …
Jonathan Ansfield / New York Times:
China Starts to Lift Region's Web Blackout — BEIJING — Nearly six months after gruesome ethnic rioting on the western frontier of Xinjiang, Chinese authorities gingerly began to lift an Internet blackout on Tuesday, allowing partial access to a pair of official news sites.
Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Tim Cook gets $12.3M for watching Apple while Jobs was out — Apple COO Tim Cook has received $12.3 million in Apple stock for stepping in as CEO during Steve Jobs absence earlier this year. — Considering its been a rough couple of years for the economy and many CEOs still got large salaries …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
It Was a Facebook Christmas; Site Hits #1 in US For First Time — Christmas is a holiday that brings people together, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Facebook has become a part of millions of peoples' Christmas experiences. For the first time in its history, Facebook was the number …
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
‘Welcome to Macintosh’ hits CNBC Jan 4 — ‘Welcome to Macintosh’, the independent documentary highlighting Apple Inc.'s history and following, is to make its exclusive North American television premiere on CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, on Monday, January 4 at 9:30PM ET.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Secret Behind the Kindle's Best-Selling eBooks: They're Not for Sale — One big reason readers choose e-books over ink and paper versions: The digital ones are cheaper. — This wasn't the case when e-books first appeared a decade ago. But Amazon (AMZN) has made a point of selling …
