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Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Windows Mobile and Xbox Live coming together, according to Microsoft job ad — The hints were already pretty strong on this one, but now Microsoft has come right out and said it, albeit in a job posting — the Xbox Live gaming platform is extending beyond the console and specifically onto WinMo phones.
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Has Big Plans for Google Voice, Cloud Computing in 2010 — Google's Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management at Google, said Google Voice and cloud computing will be huge plays for the search engine giant in 2010. Expect the Gizmo5 assets to bolster the Google Voice phone management application.
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Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Google Voice to go fully VoIP, open to all in 2010? — It looks like Google has big plans to develop its Google Voice telephony service into a Skype-rivalling VoIP operation in 2010, which might just mean that it's finally opened up to everyone. — At present, Google Voice offers …
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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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Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source:
Google building a base under Android with Nexus One — Assuming the Gizmodo report published by C|Net is accurate, Google plans to police the open source Android ecosystem by delivering its own phone starting in January. — The Nexus One is not designed to beat other Android phones …
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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.
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Virtual goods ‘to make billions’ — Virtual goods such as weapons or digital bottles of champagne traded in the US could be worth up to $5bn in the next five years, experts predict. — In Asia, sales are already around the $5bn mark and rapidly growing. — For many, virtual goods …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Engadget for iPhone / iPod touch: available now! — Good news, everyone! Our very own iPhone / iPod touch app is finally really available in Apple's much talked about and critically acclaimed App Store! That's right, all the excitement and info you've come to know and love from Engadget …
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Get every National Geographic since 1888 on a 160GB hard drive — From the massively-nerdy-but-really-quite- cool news department, I bring you the coolest thing I've seen since unwrapping my presents on Christmas Day. 120 years of amazing discoveries, eye-opening editorial and mind-expanding stories form …
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W.J. Hennigan / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Facebook and Seppukoo get lawyered up — Credit: Russel A. Daniels/Associated Press — The battle between social networking giant Facebook and Seppukoo.com may spill into the courtroom over privacy violations, according to a letter written by a Facebook lawyer.
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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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.
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.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Nuance buys voice-to-text company Spinvox for $102.5 million — Nuance has confirmed the story VentureBeat broke earlier this morning, that it has acquired voice-to-text company SpinVox for $102 million. Of that, $66 million will be in cash, the rest in stock.
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Glyn Moody / Computerworld UK:
Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So — One of the unusual aspects of open source is the fact that the software development philosophy spills over into the way that the project is run. This means that how and why things are done, and by whom, is plain for all to see.
Owen Fletcher / PC World:
Apple Censors Dalai Lama IPhone Apps in China — Buzz up! — Apple appears to have blocked iPhone applications related to the Dalai Lama in its China App Store, making it the latest U.S. technology company to censor its services in China. — Those apps, which appear in most countries' versions …
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Most Stumbled Sites of 2009 — As the end of 2009 draws near, we decided to look back at the content that was most popular with our community in the past year. We picked out the 10 most popular topics on StumbleUpon and, within those, selected the top 10 most stumbled websites.
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
With Ads, Music Downloads Sing a New Tune — ON Hulu, the popular Web site that streams free television shows and other video, users have proved to be perfectly willing to watch short commercials, and a new site is betting that the same willingness will apply to downloading music.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Motorola: 2 New Phones At CES? — Motorola (MOT) may be planning to announce a pair of new phones at next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, according to Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. — In a research note today, Chowdhry asserts that the company “may announce” …
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Multitouch Screens Could Enliven New Devices — Multitouch screens have been a little slower to enter the electronics marketplace than consumers might have hoped. Since Jeff Han, a research scientist at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences …
Gus Sentementes / BaltTech:
Engadget “official blog” of 2010 CES, but retains independence, says Aol — This morning, I received a press release from Aol Communications declaring that its insanely popular Engadget blog will be the “official blog partner” of the Consumer Electronics Assocation's 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show from Jan. 7-10.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple briefly cuts student price of MacBook to $728 — Special reduced price of entry-level plastic notebook by 19% — Computerworld - Apple on Tuesday reduced the price of its least expensive notebook to $728 for students, teachers and educational staff.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins 11 Patent Designs for MacBook Pro, Expose, iPod Classic, More — The US Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 19 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. The notables within this group include a patent for an Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
How Prices Compare on Different App Stores — With an increasing number of companies launching mobile app stores, we decided it was time to compare them. We wanted to find out the average cost of a paid application on various stores. — We asked our friends at Mobclix, a Palo Alto …
