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Wall Street Journal:
Networks Block Web Programs From Being Viewed on Google TV — ABC, CBS and NBC are blocking TV programming on their websites from being viewable on Google Inc.'s new Web-TV service, exposing the rift that remains between the technology giant and some of the media companies it wants to supply content for its new products.
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Engadget, Bits, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, NewTeeVee, Electronista, ITworld.com, Relevant Results, Gizmodo Australia, Bruce Clay Blog, SimplyGoogleTV and Lost Remote
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions — Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable.
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TechCrunch, WebProNews, Techland, Rich DeMuro, Lost Remote, Google Webmaster Central Blog and Silicon Alley Insider
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Google in talks to unblock access to TV websites — (Reuters) - Google Inc is actively negotiating with three television networks that have blocked access to their websites on Google TV, a source familiar with the matter said. — Three of the biggest U.S. television broadcasters have blocked …
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Technologizer
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Plus, Take Two: How's $4.95 a Month? — Hulu is considering cutting the price on Hulu Plus, the subscription service it began testing in June, sources tell me. I'm told the video site is talking about slashing its $9.95 per month fee in half, to $4.95.
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Technology News, Pulse2, Company Town, The Next Web, Erictric, SAI, Electronista, Gizmodo and Gizmodo Australia, more at Mediagazer »
iFixit:
MacBook Air 11" Model A1370 Teardown — Join us as we take a peek inside the 11.6" version of the all-new MacBook Air!
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Velocity, MWD Tech News, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Gizmodo, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, displayblog, CrunchGear, I4U News, Gadget Lab, Liliputing, Engadget and Technabob
KPCB:
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs — Amazon.com, Facebook, Zynga, Comcast and Liberty Media to Invest and Help Accelerate a New Wave of Social Web Innovations — Palo Alto, Calif. - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) …
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Michael V. Copeland / Fortune:
John Doerr's quarter-billion dollar bet on the future of social
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NBC Bay Area, TechCrunch and silicontap.com
David Carnoy / CNET News:
Source: New Nook is Android-based, full-color — This is just a crude mock-up—and not the real deal—but our source says Nook Color is coming. — Is the upcoming Nook a color e-reader? Barnes & Noble doesn't comment on rumors, but CNET has been in communication with a source …
James Kelly / The Official Google Blog:
Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes — Earlier this year we announced our plans to build and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of American communities. Since then, a team of Google engineers has been hard at work experimenting with new fiber optic technologies.
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eWeek, Digits, Digital Trends, Boy Genius Report, Computerworld, SlashGear, Relevant Results, WebProNews, Post Tech, TechEye, Neowin.net, GigaOM, Silicon Valley Sleuth, TechCrunch, Fast Company, DSLreports, dailywireless.org, I4U News, Ars Technica, Electronista, Softpedia News, BetaNews, Erictric and The Next Web
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
HP Slate 500 finally (finally!) official, rings up at $799 — Nope, you're not dreaming, but feel free to pinch yourself, rub your eyes or take a cold shower! You've read right — the HP Slate is finally official, and after all the teasing, back and forth, and (very recent) leaks …
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PC World, Electronista, GottaBeMobile, displayblog, CNET News, Daring Fireball and Gizmodo
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Rapleaf's Web: How You Are Profiled On The Web — Earlier, I posted about San Francisco-based Internet information aggregator Rapleaf, a service that collects, sorts and repackages data about many of us who spend an inordinate amount of time on the Internet.
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Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Obama meets with Apple CEO Jobs — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama met on Thursday afternoon in San Francisco with Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. — “They discussed American competitiveness and education, especially reforms …
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SAI, Bloomberg, Computerworld, TechFlash, TiPb, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac, NEWS.com.au, MacRumors, Gearlog, MacDailyNews, TUAW, MacNN, Gawker, PadGadget, GeekSugar, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, Velocity and The Caucus
Victor Agreda, Jr / TUAW:
iMovie '11 Trailers feature won't let you spoof Universal trailers — Loyal tipster Tarik sent word that the iMovie '11 Trailers theme using a globe (very similar to the Universal Studios opener) won't allow you to use the word “Universal” in the title. — He's currently testing other themes …
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Robert Frank / The Wealth Report:
Millionaires Have No Time for Facebook — A new poll suggests that a majority of millionaires have signed up for social media sites. There is just one problem: They don't have time to actually use them. — The poll from SEI Wealth Network, a wealth-advisory firm, showed that 70% …
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Hillicon Valley
Marcio Galli / Mozilla Labs:
Chromeless: Build your own Browser UI using HTML, CSS and JS — The “Chromeless” project experiments with the idea of removing the current browser user interface and replacing it with a flexible platform which allows for the creation of new browser UI using standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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Mashable!
Jesse Drucker / Business Week:
The Tax Haven That's Saving Google Billions — Google uses a complicated structure to send most of its overseas profits to tax havens, keeping its corporate rate at a super-low 2.4 percent — The heart of Google's (GOOG) international operations is a silvery glass office building in central Dublin …
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Kotaku, Relevant Results, CJR, Bloomberg, The Atlantic Online, MediaPost Raw and The Raw Feed
Dave Caolo / TUAW:
FaceTime for Mac security hole easily remedied — Macworld Germany has described what they're calling a security hole in the FaceTime for Mac beta (Google translation). The gist is this: once a user has logged into FaceTime for the Mac, his/her Apple ID and password can be altered from the app …
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Ars Technica, SlashGear, Appolicious Advisor, IntoMobile, eWeek and Download Squad
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MACNOTES.NET:
FaceTime for Mac - a serious threat for your Apple ID
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InformationWeek, PC World, TiPb, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Engadget, Digital Trends, 9 to 5 Mac, msnbc.com, MacRumors, V3.co.uk, Softpedia News, Download Squad, everythingiCafe, GottaBeMobile, iClarified, Erictric, Fortune, TidBITS, Macworld and louisgray.com
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Square Starts Shipping New iPhone 4-Compatible Credit Card Reader — There was a lot of hoopla yesterday about the fact that the old version of Square's little plastic credit card reader doesn't work with Apple's newest iPhone, the iPhone 4. That's because the metal fitting …
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Ubergizmo, App Advice and iPodNN
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Official Twitter app for Windows Phone 7 goes live (update: hands-on) — Surprise of surprises! On the day that Europeans finally got to dig into the Windows Phone 7 cake in earnest, Twitter's official app for the hot new platform has also gone live. We've downloaded it to our own WP7 device …
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Ars Technica, download.cnet.com … and Wall Street Journal
Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
Gingerbread's Screen Off Animation [Exclusive Video] — We promised we'd be digging for more information about Gingerbread well ahead of its coming out party, and we're making steady progress. We initially broke the news on Monday. While most of you remained skeptic thanks …
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IntoMobile, Android Community, pocketnow.com, Softpedia News, Neowin.net, Gizmodo, TechEye and Droid Life
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Tech Companies See Dearth of Mobile-Software Developers — A survey by online job board Dice shows that tech employers and recruiters face a shortage of qualified mobile-software designers — Technology companies are running up against a dearth of qualified developers to create applications …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Amazon Q3 Tops Street Ests, But Margins Fall, And Shares Drop — Amazon.com (AMZN) this afternoon posted better-than-expected Q3 results, but the shares are trading lower after hours, perhaps on concerns about lower margins. — The company reported revenue of $7.56 billion, up 39% from a year ago …
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CNBC, SAI, WebProNews, Digital Daily, Reuters and Between the Lines Blog
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon Introduces New ‘Free Usage Tier’ For AWS — Today Kleiner Perkins is holding a special event at Facebook headquarters to announce the launch of a new $250 million social-centric sFund, which will foster a new generation of companies tapping into the social graph.
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Business Wire, Mashable!, Computerworld and eWeek
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Op-Ed: Optical Media Not Dead Yet — I have to admit, I read with fascination this morning the latest Techmeme headline from Techcrunch: “Yep, Apple Killed the CD Today.” Of course, a headline like that is meant to cause a reaction - and it did, by the number of tweets, Diggs and comments.
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The Apple Core Blog, Technologizer, GeekSmack, TeleRead, Boy Genius Report and TechCrunch
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Identity and The Independent Web — Are we are evolving our contract with society through our increasing interactions with digital platforms, and in particular, through what we've come to call the web? — I believe the answer is yes. I'm fascinated with how our society's new norms …
