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Horacio Gutierrez / TechNet Blogs:
Microsoft sues Motorola over Android patent infringements — As many of you may have seen, Microsoft filed an action today in the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola, Inc. for infringement of nine Microsoft patents by Motorola's Android-based smartphones.
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TechCrunch, Bits, MacRumors, Technologizer, Wall Street Journal, Digital Daily, Agence France Presse, All about Microsoft Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, Engadget, Post Tech, 9 to 5 Mac, paidContent, Associated Press, Smartphones …, Silicon Alley Insider, jkOnTheRun, SiliconANGLE, Tech Trader Daily, Fone Arena, Fortune, Network World, WMExperts, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, MobileTechWorld, I4U News and V3.co.uk
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Aiming at Android, Microsoft sues Motorola — Microsoft today sued Motorola, alleging several of the cell phone maker's Android devices infringe on Redmond's patents — Microsoft both sued Motorola in U.S. District Court in Washington and brought a complaint before both the International Trade Commission.
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VentureBeat, The Microsoft Blog, TechFlash, BetaNews, silicontap.com and WinBeta
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google's Android
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Computerworld and ITworld.com
Stephen Baker / NPD Group Blog:
I Own An iPad, So What Do I do With It? — NPD has released the second in its series of iPad surveys. While the first looked at buying intentions prior to the launch this one is more focused on what the current ownership looks like and how those owners are using their iPad.
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Fast Company, Technologizer, NPD Group, Digital Daily, SlashGear, Fortune, Phone Arena, Rough Type, BetaNews, AppleInsider, I4U News, msnbc.com and iLounge
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
iPad's ‘Cannibalization’ of Notebook Computers Disputed
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NPD Group, PC World and Electronista
Ben Worthen / Digits:
Larry Ellison ‘Speechless’ Over New CEO of H-P — Larry Ellison, the outspoken CEO of Oracle, said he is having trouble finding words to describe his reaction to H-P naming former SAP chief Leo Apotheker as its new top man-and then found plenty of them. — “I'm speechless,” he wrote in an email to the Wall Street Journal.
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Silicon Alley Insider and Gearlog
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
New HP chief sees software as ‘the glue’
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blogs.ft.com, Crave, Inquirer, ReadWriteWeb and Silicon Alley Insider
Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
HP Stock Tanks After It Hires No-Name CEO
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Dana Gardner's …, Between the Lines Blog, CNNMoney.com, PC World, Velocity, Buleyean String, GMSV, Computerworld, Gearlog, DailyTech, Digital Daily, VentureBeat, TechEye, Inquirer, Irregular Enterprise Blog, MacDailyNews, Financial Times, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Softpedia News, Fortune, silicontap.com, MacNN, The Register and Datamation
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
As an ex-Yahoo and a New-AOL'er, My Thoughts on One Portal to Rule Them All — This is going to come as a shock to you: But suddenly and for the first time in years, I really care about the future of AOL. And, because I used to host a show on Yahoo Finance, the story floating around …
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C for Coding and Silicon Alley Insider
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Yahoo And AOL Should Immediately Merge — The two struggling Internet giants of the 1990s, Yahoo and AOL, should merge. — Immediately. — (In fact, it's ridiculous that they haven't already). — This idea isn't new—we've been calling for it for three years, and …
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The Business of Search, Adotas, GMSV, Fortune and BoomTown
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Where Are Facebook's Employees? At the Movies, of Course — If you are trying to reach anyone at Facebook in the next couple of hours, good luck. Various employees say that much of the staff from Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto is at the Century 16 in nearby Mountain View for a screening of, you guessed it, “The Social Network.”
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TechCrunch, SEO and Tech Daily and Nicke's shared items …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Facebook Movie: Sorry, Mark-But Critics Like It, They Really Like It!
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Digits, Slate, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, Silicon Alley Insider and L.A. Times Tech Blog
Mark Ward / BBC:
Change to ‘Bios’ will make for PCs that boot in seconds — The Bios in modern computers dates from the earliest IBM PCs — New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers. — The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start …
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CrunchGear and Pocket-lint
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon scoop extravaganza: Motorola Venus with portrait QWERTY, Stingray LTE tablet, and more? — We've been tipped by multiple sources today on some interesting developments in Verizon's roadmap over the next couple quarters, and if you're a BlackBerry fan, an Android fan …
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VentureBeat, Appolicious Advisor, IntoMobile, Liliputing, Pocket-lint, Android Community, I4U News, Zatz Not Funny!, LAPTOP Magazine, Yahoo! News, Softpedia News, Electronista, Gadgetell, CrackBerry.com blogs, Android and Me, BB Geeks, FierceWireless, Erictric, Fone Arena, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life and MobileCrunch
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Privately held Facebook in 5-for-1 stock split — (Reuters) - Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, is splitting shares in the privately held company. — A Facebook spokesman told Reuters on Friday that Facebook will enact a 5-for-1 split of the company's shares …
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All Facebook, CNET News, Silicon Alley Insider and Felix Salmon
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Ugliest Girl At The Dance: How Yahoo Destroyed Yelp's Google Acquisition — A fascinating footnote to the failed Google acquisition of Yelp last December: a Yahoo counteroffer killed the deal, say two source with knowledge of the situation. — As of December 17 Yelp was in the final stages …
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Pulse2, Adotas and MediaPost Raw
Marc Hedlund / Marc Hedlund's blog:
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint — A number of people have asked and speculated about why the company I co-founded, Wesabe, shut down earlier this summer. Some of the claims or guesses about it are just factually wrong; others seem misinformed to me; others seem to have some truth. I thought I'd add my own opinion.
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ReadWriteWeb, Domain Name Wire, TechCrunch and Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft Appoints New Presidents—For Mobile, Entertainment And Office — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is turning to its existing executive ranks to fill the vacancies left by the departures of entertainment and devices president Robbie Bach and business division president Stephen Elop.
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VentureBeat, Microsoft, All about Microsoft Blog, Technology News, The Microsoft Blog, The Next Web and Electronista
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Stop It. Google Won't Buy Twitter. — Today I landed from a trip to the world of the non-tech obsessed (PA and OH) to find my newsfeed was full of speculation that Google MUST buy Twitter, or be damned to obscurity in a race it's already losing to Facebook. Not so fast.
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Regular Geek, MediaPost Raw and FM Blog
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Impressive Touchscreen Keyboard Startup BlindType — Google has just acquired BlindType, a very impressive technology that allows you to type on touch screens without even looking at them. See our past coverage of the startup here. — BlindType doesn't force you to type using …
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Droid Life and The Next Web, Thanks:gsharma
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Google Instant in Chrome Is Awesome, Even More Useful than on Google.com — If you're keen on the as-you-type search results you get from Google Instant, you'll really like Instant integrated with Chrome's omnibox. Just launch your beta/dev/canary release, type about:labs, enable Instant …
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CNET News
John Boitnott / VentureBeat:
Is it too late for a Digg comeback? — Social news aggregator site Digg.com is trying to work its way out of the traffic hole it created with its botched redesign attempt. Today it announced the return of several popular features from its previous version.
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The Atlantic Online, Digg Blog, MediaPost Raw and TechCrunch
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung terminates support for Symbian — It was almost a year ago that a senior Samsung VP was quoted expressing plans to drop Symbian. Samsung quickly backtracked on those comments with a vague commitment to its multi-OS strategy. Well, the other shoe just dropped via an email sent …
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Samsung Mobile Innovator, Electronista, Mashable!, Crave, MobileCrunch, Pulse2, IntoMobile, InformationWeek, Phone Arena, Inquirer, Computerworld, The Register, V3.co.uk, Gizmodo, Mobile Knots, Electricpig.co.uk, Boy Genius Report, mobiputing, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, All About Symbian, VentureBeat and Phones Review
Robin Wauters / MobileCrunch:
Nokia on Ovi: 200k daily sign-ups, 2.3m app downloads per day, 140 million users — Nokia has declared its Ovi suite of service and the Ovi Store a roaring success. — The Finnish mobile giant says 200,000 people are now signing up to its services per day, and that the total number …
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CNET News, Nokia Conversations, jkOnTheRun, Distimo Blog and Quintura blog
ABCNEWS:
FBI: Crime Ring Stole $70 Million Using Computer Virus — Zeus Trojan Malware Steals Bank Account Passwords; Five Hackers Arrested in Ukraine — An Eastern European cybercrime ring stole $70 million from US banks, the FBI announced today. In additions to the dozens of individuals charged …
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Computerworld and Federal Bureau …
