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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Facebook Effect: Foursquare Had Its Most Signups Ever Today — Leading up to Facebook's location announcement, there were two schools of thought. Either you thought Facebook Places was going to destroy Foursquare. Or you thought that this new service would help the startup by bringing more awareness to the location field.
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
One Big Reason Why Facebook Places Beats Foursquare: Clarity of Identity — So Facebook has begun rolling out Places, its answer to Foursquare, Gowalla, MyTown, and every other mobile service that lets you broadcast your location by checking into local businesses and other locations.
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Ray Valdes, PC Magazine, louisgray.com, Guardian and Boy Genius Report
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
The Confusing Stages Of Opting Into Facebook Places — Earlier today we had a bit of a fire-drill at TechCrunch Headquarters. As I checked into TCHQ on Facebook Places, I also tagged a few of my coworkers, fully expecting their checkins to be delayed until they actually opted into the feature …
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Kurt / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
How to Protect Your Privacy on Facebook Places
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Ars Technica, OUT-LAW News, PC World, Bloomberg, WebProNews and Logic+Emotion
Vic Gundotra / Google Mobile Blog:
To 100 million and beyond with Google Maps for mobile — Almost five years ago, we launched Google Maps for mobile to help you get where you needed to go from your phone instead of a paper map. Today, more than 100 million people a month are now using Google Maps for mobile to get from point A to point B …
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Sid Yadav / VentureBeat:
Google's social czar picks a location fight with Facebook — Google's timing can be peculiar — but rarely coincidental. A day after Facebook launched its first location feature, the search giant revealed in a blog post Thursday that more than 100 million users check Google Maps on mobile devices.
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google Tries To Steal Facebook's Thunder, Plays Up Impressive Maps Userbase
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Time Inc. breaks the iPad logjam — This week's People app is free to subscribers. Time, SI and Fortune are expected to follow — Image: Time Inc. — There's more to the iPad issue of People that appeared on the Apple (AAPL) App Store this morning than Sandra Bullock's new joy.
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MobileContentToday, iPad Weekly, blogs.ft.com, PadGadget, MarketingVOX, AppleInsider, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, MacDailyNews and iLounge
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
People Magazine Subscribers to Receive Free Access on iPads
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Sean Hollister / Engadget:
Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype preview (video) — Christmas came early at Engadget HQ this year, as evidenced by the picture above — you're looking at two Dell Thunder prototype smartphones, each with some surprising quirks, and hints that they might include global HSPA, AWS for T-Mobile, and maybe even a dash of CDMA support.
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Softpedia News, Fone Arena, Android and Me, IntoMobile, Electronista, TmoNews and Phones Review
Mike Fleming / Deadline.com:
Google Founders Sergey Brin And Larry Page Get Feature Film Treatment — EXCLUSIVE: The founders of Facebook aren't the only game-changing geeks poised to have their story told on a movie screen. Michael London's Groundswell Productions has teamed with producer John Morris to acquire movie rights …
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Liz Shannon Miller / NewTeeVee:
Auto-Tune the News Hits the Billboard Top 100 — Online video stars The Gregory Brothers continue making strides towards world domination. Their latest hit Auto-Tune the News single, Bed Intruder, debuted at number 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 today. — Billboard uses a number …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple testing iOS 4.1 alongside next-gen iPod touch, iPad and ‘unknown’ product — Apple is internally testing the first material update to its iOS 4.0 mobile operating system against a handful of new devices, including next-generation iPod touches, an iPad revision, and an “unknown” product, AppleInsider has discovered.
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Telegraph, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, MacRumors Page 2, I4U News, The Apple Core Blog, Phones Review, everythingiCafe, iLounge and Gizmodo Australia, Thanks:usamabenn
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A smartphone retrospective — This is what high-end smartphones looked like in 2007: — Smartphones were an established consumer-electronics market with devices that people thought were pretty cool, but often frustrating and with serious shortcomings and design flaws. — Then this happened:
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel exec Renee James discusses goals for McAfee (Q&A) — Renee J. James, senior vice president and general manager of the Software and Services Group at Intel, discussed Intel plans to buy security company McAfee for $7.68 billion in an interview with CNET on Thursday.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: OpenDNS Simplifies Life for Web Users — I'm about to make your life better. No need to thank me. — But first, a warning: On the way to understanding how your life will get better, you'll have to read about some technical, fairly arcane topics. Trust me: It'll be worth it.
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Michael Yang / iSuppli:
Will $1 Per Gigabyte NAND Resuscitate Solid State Drives? — After two years of inflated prices, NAND flash memory at the end of 2010 is set to return to the key $1 per gigabyte level considered a key threshold to drive adoption of Solid State Drives (SSD), but the cost reduction may come …
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James Niccolai / Computerworld:
HP: WebOS tablet coming early next year — Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in “early 2011,” the head of HP's PC division said Thursday. — Hewlett-Packard will release a tablet PC based on Palm's webOS operating system in “early 2011,” the head of HP's PC division said Thursday.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Hurd's last hurrah: HP hits earnings targets
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Inquirer, Business Wire, Tech Eye, Softpedia News, eWeek, Datamation, The Register, Neural Net Worth, Electronista and Between the Lines Blog
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple adds “Compare Macs” option to Apple Store — Apple on Thursday added a new option to its online Apple Store called “Compare Macs.” — The new option allows customers to quickly bring up specs on the hardware, included software and technical specifications for each system.
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Softpedia News, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MacStories and TUAW
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Teevox Turns Your iPhone Into A Computer TV Remote Control — Founded by former MIT students Jong-Moon Kim and Andrew Sugaya, YCombinator-funded Teevox is an iPhone app that allows you to remotely control watching Hulu and Netflix on your computer. — While apps like PlayOn let you watch Netflix …
Justin Uberti / juberjabber:
Google voice and video - now available for Linux! — Google voice and video chat is now available in Gmail for Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions. As the comments on this blog indicate, I know many folks have been waiting very patiently for this day!
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Gmail Blog, Google Operating System, Softpedia News, Digit - Tech News, Ubergizmo and NewsGrange
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb:
Advertisements Coming Soon to e-Books — It won't be long before we start seeing ads in e-books, a business professor and a former book editor wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial today. — Growing e-book sales and the opportunity for targeted advertising mean space in e-books is ripe for corporate messages.
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Wall Street Journal, ResourceShelf, broadstuff, Changing Way and Publishing Perspectives, more at Mediagazer »
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Why Are There So Many Porn Ads on Britney Spears' Facebook Page? — Britney Spears' official Facebook page, which has over four million fans, is rife with links to escort services. — Apologies for the link-bait, but it's true: Britney Spears' Facebook page is overrun with erotic pictures …
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Chris Tolles / TechCrunch:
When Attorneys General Attack — Earlier this year Topix CEO Chris Tolles got the call no one wants to get - that they are under investigation by a government entity. Two attorneys general, one of which was deep into his senate run, were leveling accusations of abuse at Topix.
