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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Where Does Adobe Go From Here? — Its been a bit of a rough year for Adobe Systems. — The company was pummeled in a very public fight over its software with Apple and its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. — After a number of attempts to sway Apple's opinion, Adobe seemed to give …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Apple responds on missing Flash in new MacBook Airs, says get used to it
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Ballmer: Riskiest product bet by Microsoft is the ‘next release of Windows’ — When you're in the on-stage interview hot seat, sometimes you may say things you regret. And sometimes you speak the truth. — My ZDNet colleague Larry Dignan covered Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer's hot-seat appearance …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Starbucks CIO shows why next version of Windows is “risky business” for Microsoft — Starbucks CIO, Stephen Gillett, and I had breakfast on Wednesday. He showed me Starbucks new Digital Network, which will pop up on the screen if you sign in on wifi at any of Starbucks US stores. 30 million people a month do that.
Thanks:scobleizer
The Official Google Blog:
Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google — In May we announced that we had mistakenly collected unencrypted WiFi payload data (information sent over networks) using our Street View cars. We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we're acutely aware that we failed badly here.
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Reuters:
Google says Street View cars got email, passwords
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Phil Nickinson / Android Central:
Will Gingerbread be Android 2.3? — We've been talking about the next version of Android — (still) unofficially dubbed Gingerbread — as far back as a year ago — months before Froyo was ever announced. But what we haven't really known was what version number it will be.
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Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Wikileaks Hacked By “Very Skilled” Attackers Prior To Iraq Doc Release — Update: Ahead of schedule, Wikileaks has published its latest leak: nearly 400,000 Iraq War documents. — Someone is trying to spring a leak in Wikileaks. — As the whistle-blower organization prepared earlier …
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The Next Web and Guardian, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:forbestech
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover — The simple credit card is about to get a makeover. — Next month, Citibank will begin testing a card that has two buttons and tiny lights that allow users to choose at the register whether they want to pay with rewards points or credit, at most any merchant they please.
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Wall Street Journal:
MySpace, Apps Leak User Data — Site Sends Personal IDs When Ads Are Clicked, a Journal Investigation Finds — MySpace and some popular applications on the social-networking site have been transmitting information to outside advertising companies that could be used to identify users, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
WSJ: ‘Ridiculous’ to Say We Killed Tough MySpace Story
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Is Twitter Going Back to the Funding Well for a Giant New Round? — Twitter, which has raised $160 million in its four-year history, may end up more than doubling that total: The messaging service is mulling yet another funding round that could see it raise more than $200 million.
Anne Ward Ernst / Mercury News:
Mozilla pays 12-year-old San Jose boy for hunting bugs in system — It's safe to say a typical Willow Glen 12-year-old doesn't earn $3,000 for a couple of weeks' worth of work. Then again, Alex Miller is no typical 12-year-old. — Alex is a bug hunter, but the bugs he's uncovering …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Talent Bleed At Palm Continues As Dev Leads Leave To Battle Closed Web “Dictatorships” — Back in August, while we were in the middle of confirming an exodus of talent from Palm after their acquisition by HP, I specifically asked them about the status of two guys: Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Android Fans Rejoice: The Gingerbread Man Just Landed At Google HQ — Yes, the rumors were true: the newest version of Android, codenamed Gingerbread, is imminent. How do we know? Because there's a new, massive treat that just arrived at Google headquarters: the Gingerbread Man.
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IntoMobile, Fone Arena and Electronista
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Twitter's “Similar to You” could outdo “Who to Follow” for suggestions [TNW Social Media] — Over the last couple of days, we noticed what seemed to be a new recommendation feature on Twitter called “Similar to You”. We reached out to Twitter just now to ask about it …
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Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
The iPhone is the worst... In my line of work, cell phones come and go faster than mixed drinks on MTV's Jersey Shore. They're here, they're gone and most of the time they're quickly forgotten. I can't even recall all of the mobile devices I've handled in the past month, let alone the past year.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Twitter Employees Get Google's 20% Time... For The Entire Next Week — Well this is sort of interesting. Apparently, Twitter has just kicked off something they're calling their “Hack Week”. But instead of it being a time when various third-party developers get together to hack on things off …
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Kent German / CNET News:
Call centers connected to Verizon staff up — The January release of a Verizon iPhone remains unconfirmed, but we may have still more grist for the ever-churning rumor mill. Call centers connected to the wireless carrier and Apple are hiring hundred of new positions over the next three months …
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Henry Blodget / SAI:
Here's What President Obama Said At Marissa Mayer's House Last Night — President Obama dropped by Marissa Mayer's house in Palo Alto last night for a $30,000-a-plate Silicon Valley fund raiser. — Afterwards, on Twitter, Marissa was understandably excited: “The President came to our house for dinner tonight.
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