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Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Apple Expects to Ship 10 Million Tablets in First Year, Lee Kai-Fu Says — Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. expects to ship 10 million tablet computers in the device's first year of release, former Google Inc. Greater China president Lee Kai-fu wrote on his Web log, citing a friend familiar with the project whom he didn't name.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Tablet … —"Just a Touch Away, the Elusive Tablet PC", The New York Times, 4 October 2009 — Here's the thimbleful of information I have heard regarding The Tablet (none of which has changed in six months): The Tablet project is real, it has you-know-who's considerable undivided attention …
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9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, SlashGear, The iPhone Blog, DisplayBlog, CrunchGear, Silicon Alley Insider and Fox News, Thanks:atul
XLeung / Cloned In China:
Kaifu Lee said Apple Tablet looked like a bigger iPhone — Kaifu Lee, the Ex president of Google China , who also ever worked for Apple, revealed some information about the Apple tablet today through a Twitter alike microblog launched by Chinese news portal Sina.com.cn and his account on this microblog was verified.
Jeff Bertolucci / PC World:
Google: Never Mind the Nexus One, How About a Cheaper Cell Plan? — Based on this week's flurry of media reports, it appears that Google will introduce its Nexus One smartphone right after the New Year. This HTC-built handset sounds like a very good Android phone, a solid effort …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Google Countdown Reveals Its Explosively Colorful Secret — A few weeks ago we wrote about a mysterious Easter Egg on Google's homepage that we dubbed The Google Countdown. After clicking the “I'm Feeling Lucky” button with no search query entered, the page would display a countdown timer ticking …
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Fresh out of China emerges the Motorola Shadow/Mirage, yet another Motorola Android handset — Our Chinese is a bit rusty and the details are sparse but it looks like Motorola may be brewing up another Android-powered handset. This handset, codenamed the Mirage or the Shadow …
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Megan McCarthy / Techmeme News:
Top 10 objectively biggest tech stories of 2009 — Ignore all the other lists! As we did last year, Techmeme has distilled its very own Top 10 story list, utilizing headline ranking data archived throughout the year. While we employ a terrific team of news editors to guide our story selection …
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
This is why Apple denied Google Latitude from the App Store... Another Apple patent today looks remarkably similar to the functionality of Google Latitude which Apple relegated to WebApp status earlier this year. Obviously if Apple is working on their own version of Google Latitude …
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Patently Apple, App Advice, GPS Obsessed, The iPhone Blog and atmaspheric, Thanks:maclounge
The Real McCrea:
Silicon Valley: Top 10 of the 2000s — It's all too easy to view the first decade of the 21st Century as just an unmitigated series of disasters: September 11th, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and the meltdown of the global financial system, to name just a few.
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broadstuff, Tom Foremski: IMHO, Silicon Valley Watcher, CNN and dailywireless.org, Thanks:chrismessina
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
ChaCha Makes Its Crazy Business Model...Profitable — We've always had a lot of fun with Indianapolis-based startup ChaCha. They launched in 2007 as a human powered search engine - meaning a human found you answers when you typed in a query. Pranksters, obviously, loved it.
David Kaplan / paidContent:
Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media Secures $2.5 Million Funding — Social media publisher Whiskey Media has raised a $2.5 million funding, PEHub reported, citing a regulatory filing. No word on who the investors are or what the proceeds will go towards. The Sausalito, CA-based company was started …
Rebecca Harper / Hulu Blog:
Live Stream: Times Square 2010 — With a bit of rain and snow in the forecast for the New Year's Eve festivities in the Big Apple, the team at Hulu HQ can't blame you for wanting to stay warm and dry inside. The good news? You can catch all the festivities at home with Hulu.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple COO Tim Cook Said To Be A “Top Candidate” For GM CEO Job (AAPL, GM) — Apple COO Tim Cook is executive search firm Spencer Stuart's first choice for the open CEO spot at General Motors, a reader tells us. — We have no idea whether this is true or not, but it makes sense.
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The Official Google Blog:
Five years of Google blogging — It's time again for our annual wrap-up of blogging at Google. You may have noticed 2009 marked our fifth year here on the Official Google Blog — our first post was in April 2004 — and it was our busiest year yet. This is our 423rd post of 2009 — a 15 percent increase over last year.
Brad Stone / Bits:
Whoops! F.C.C. Chairman Spams Facebook Friends — Facebook scam artists have closed out 2009 by snagging a prominent victim: Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. — On Friday morning at around 10:30 a.m., Mr. Genachowski sent his Facebook friends this puzzling message …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
We All Live In Public Now. Get Used To It. — As the Web becomes more social, privacy becomes harder and harder to come by. People are over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting their whereabouts every ten steps on Foursquare and Gowalla, and uploading photos and videos …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Time Warner Cable Shows Subscribers How to Cut the Cord — The nightmare scenario for cable companies is that customers drop their TV subscriptions and grab their video directly from the Web, turning the cable guys into mere providers of “dumb pipes.” — But here's a comprehensive set …
Chris / cdixon.org:
What's strategic for Google? — Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It's one thing for a couple of programmers to hack together a side project. It's another thing for Google to put gobs of time and money behind it. The best way to predict how committed Google …
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Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor's blog:
Web Sockets in Tornado — I have been playing around with HTML 5 Web Sockets for a personal project. The Web Sockets API enables web browsers to maintain a bi-directional communication channel to a server, which in turn makes implementing real-time web sites about 1000% easier than it is today.
Rory Cellan-Jones / dot.life:
Plastic Logic's long journey to Vegas — In Las Vegas next week, a twenty-five year journey could come to a successful conclusion, when a British company launches what it believes will be a triumphant combination of science and technology. Plastic Logic's e-reader, the Que …
Mia / YouTube Blog:
YouTube's Top 10 Launches of 2009 — Did you know that we released more features in 2009 than in 2007 and 2008 combined? This made it the busiest year on record for the YouTube product and engineering teams. Some of these launches, like support for 1080p, made sizable splashes, while others …
Bill Ray / The Register:
Orange punts quality calling — HD moniker applied to voice, again — Orange UK will be upping the quality of voice calls over the next year, branding the development “HD Voice” in the ongoing search for market differentiation. — The improvements come with use of Wideband Adaptive Multi-Rate …
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David Chartier / Macworld:
Billings 3.5 paves the way for iPhone companion — PEOPLE WHO READ THIS ALSO READ: — Designers, writers, and other independent and/or indentured laborers will soon be able to get more things done on the road. Actually, to be more specific: they'll be able to keep track of what they've done …
Bill Ray / The Register:
Hacker rattles 21,000 iPhone unlockers — Claiming moral high ground — Hackers have mailed 21,000 customers of iPhoneUnlockUK to remind them the company uses unlicensed software, and that their details have been compromised. — E-mails were sent out to customers of the iPhone unlocking service …
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Start-Up IPOs Go Elsewhere — Not many Silicon Valley companies have gone public in recent years. And as 2009 draws to a close, the past 12 months have followed the same lackluster pattern. — Through early this week, eight venture-capital-backed companies had gone public in 2009, according to research firm VentureSource.
