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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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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A Tour Of How Networks Have Blocked Google TV — After less than a week since its release, three of America's largest television networks have started blocking Google TV. Sort of. While ABC and CBS keep Google TV viewers out, as does Hulu, NBC actually still seems to let them in.
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Fortune, PC World, Inquirer and WatchingTV Online
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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Engadget, Post Tech, DailyTech, Technologizer, Android Community, I4U News, Android Phone Fans, Androinica and MediaPost Raw
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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Sandra Gonzales / Mercury News:
President Obama meets with Apple's Steve Jobs, heads to Palo Alto fundraisers — On a West Coast swing to help embattled Democrats, President Barack Obama on Thursday stopped in the Bay Area for the one thing this high-powered region can provide: money. — Reports indicate the visit scored big …
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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.
Arn / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs Comments on Apple's Java Discontinuation — Apple's announcement that they would be ceasing future development of their version of Java for the Mac has generated concern amongst Java developers. Apple posted developer documentation Thursday stating that they would not be supporting Java for Mac OS X in the future:
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9 to 5 Mac, Softpedia News, Pitos Blog, AppleInsider, Computerworld, iThinkDifferent and techno.blog
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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9 to 5 Mac, Inquirer, Geek.com, Shoutpedia, CNET News, MWD Tech News, MAKE Magazine, THINQ.co.uk, Velocity, TUAW, CrunchGear, Gadget Lab, MacRumors, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Technabob, Liliputing, displayblog, I4U News and Engadget
Chris / cdixon.org:
Online privacy: what's at stake — It is widely believed that a flourishing democracy requires an independent, diverse, and financially solvent press. With print newspapers set to disappear in the next few years, the future of quality journalism is highly uncertain.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pincus: In Five Years, Connections Will Be To Each Other, Not The Web; We'll Be Dial Tones — Today at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins unveiled a new $250 million fund for investing in social applications, called “sFund”.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Google's Piracy-Fighting Music Search Engine For Indian Users Now Live — Yesterday, the WSJ reported that Google was planning to launch a music service in India to help users search for legal online streams and downloads and fight digital piracy, which reportedly runs rampant in the nation.
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Google India Blog, PC World, Digitizor, Digital Inspiration … and The Next Web
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Google to Combat India Piracy
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paidContent, MediaNama and Reuters
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Feature: Windows Phone 7: The Ars Review — The smartphone market ain't what it used to be. Four years ago, Symbian ruled the world—it was totally dominant in every market but three: Japan and China both had strong showings from Linux, and the North American market was split roughly evenly between RIM, Microsoft, and PalmSource.
Zach Holman:
Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0 — Yesterday, Apple announced FaceTime for Mac. A couple hours later, I launched Facelette, which is basically like Chat Roulette for FaceTime. Post your FaceTime ID, we'll hook you up with a stranger, and you eagerly FaceTime with them.
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Gizmodo, WatchingTV Online, TheAppleBlog and TUAW
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Microsoft puts PC game downloads in the browser — Microsoft wants to let PC gamers know it's still serious about delivering game software and is putting that idea to the test with a new system that places fewer roadblocks in the way of getting gamers connected to digital game downloads.
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ZDNet, TechEye, Microsoft, Joystiq, Fast Company, PC World, TechCrunch, VatorNews, Neowin.net, Mashable!, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, Geek.com, BlogsDNA, TG Daily, Go Rumors, MSDN Blogs, Engadget, Electronista, Gizmodo and VentureBeat
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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Fortune, VatorNews, LiveSide.net and IntoMobile
Jvarese / Adobe Dreamweaver Team Blog:
Adobe announces the HTML5 Video Player widget — HTML5 has received a tremendous amount of buzz, much of it driven by the potential for plugin-free video. However, the limited browser support for the HTML5 <video> tag has forced web designers to scramble for a solution that would work across platforms as well as browsers.
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Download Squad, TechCrunch, Kaltura Developer Blog, BlogsDNA, Softpedia News, TUAW, Los Angeles Times, everythingiCafe and Signal to Noise, Thanks:beet_tv
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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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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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 …
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SlashGear, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, Kindle Review, ThinkMobile, Gadgetell, Geek.com, Engadget, Go Rumors, Android Phone Fans, Android Community, The Toybox Blog, Erictric, Electronista, Gizmodo and The Next Web
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Looks Like Our Friends Over At GigaOm Just Raised Another $2.5 Million — Om Malik, well-respected journalist and founder of technology news blog network Giga Omni Media and its flagship blog GigaOm, broke the news about us being acquired by AOL about a month ago now.
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paidContent and SAI
Michael T. Jones / Google LatLong:
History in the Unmaking — Few events in human history have the scale of World War II. It's spatial breadth and temporal extent make it difficult to comprehend by those of us too young to have lived it. There are history books, movies, and photographs, but they portray isolated places and events more than the connected whole.
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Search Engine Land
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon's third quarter better than expected; 584,000 postpaid adds — Verizon delivered a solid third quarter performance Friday, but the net wireless retail postpaid subscriber tally trailed rival AT&T. — Verizon on Friday reported third quarter net income of $2.92 billion …
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New York Times, CNET News, Electronista and Boy Genius Report
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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The Toybox Blog, Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo and Gear Live
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
R.I.P. Chatroulette: A Sad Tale of Missed Opportunity — Remember Chatroulette? It's hard to believe that barely eight months ago the anonymous video chat site had everyone captivated. Venture capitalists clamored to invest, journalists tripped over one another to profile—and now Chatroulette is dying, unused and unloved.
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