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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The PlayStation Phone — It's hard to believe that what we're looking at is real — but we assure you, the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you've long been waiting for. As we reported back in August, the device you see is headed into the market soon, likely boasting Android 3.0 …
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Fast Company, Guardian, GottaBeMobile, Eurodroid, Signal to Noise, IGN Gear, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, PhoneNews.com, GeekSmack, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, Erictric, LaptopMemo, Kotaku, SlashPhone, Electronista, MobileCrunch, Boy Genius Report, PhoneArena, Fone Arena, MacHackPC, Fortune, BlogsDNA, DailyTech, AndroidSPIN, VG247, Electricpig.co.uk, Phones Review, Android and Me, Technologizer, Androinica, PhoneDog.com, Android Community, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, I4U News, Covering Web, CNET News, Destructoid, Geek.com, Joystiq, Mobile Entertainment and Pulse2
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony's PlayStation Phone strategy takes shape as prototype picture leaks out
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winrumors and Mobile Entertainment
Bloomberg:
News Corp. Reboots MySpace in Quest to Recapture Young Crowd — News Corp.'s MySpace is introducing a new website design with a focus on younger users in a drive to stem subscriber losses and distinguish itself from Facebook, the biggest social network. — Starting today …
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Signal to Noise, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and DailyFinance
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The My-Fill-In-the-Space Reset Is Here, As Struggling Social Network Morphs Into Entertainment Hub — Empty bracket or no empty bracket: Will it work? — That's pretty much the big question at News Corp. tonight, as its much beleaguered social networking site, Myspace, rolls out a new beta version aimed at shifting its fortunes.
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Music Ally, All Things Digital, SAI, New York Times, MySpace, Telegraph, paidContent, Mediaweek, Velocity and Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's the Public Google Doc With All Of MySpace's Traffic Analytics
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New Media Age and Nicke's shared items …
Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Apple delays white iPhone until next spring — (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday that it would delay release of its eagerly anticipated white iPhone again, this time until next spring. The latest version of the popular handset, the iPhone 4, was released in June, but the white model …
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Boy Genius Report, Digital Daily, IntoMobile, Inquirer, SlashPhone, Mashable!, iPhone Buzz, Engadget, GottaBeMobile, iThinkDifferent, Appletell, Computerworld, Gadgetell, MacStories, Covering Web, I4U News, SlashGear, Fone Arena, BlogsDNA, TiPb, Fudzilla, PhoneDog.com, PhoneArena, Digits, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, Electricpig.co.uk, MacRumors, TUAW and Neowin.net
Kakul Srivastava / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Gets Even ‘Beta’ with New Email Experience — For hundreds of millions of people around the world, email is a critical part of their online communications, connecting them to the people who matter most to them. With that in mind, we are rolling out Yahoo! Mail Beta — a faster …
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Between the Lines Blog, Yahoo! Mail Blog, Agence France Presse, Softpedia News and Techie Buzz
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Mike Curtis / YDN Blog:
Yahoo! Mail Beta technology update
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Inquirer, Download Squad, V3.co.uk, PC Magazine and The Register
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors — “Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in negotiations to acquire Spotify,” read the tip that came in yesterday via email from an anonymous source. Most tips are just outright false, but we dug into this one a little bit.
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Pulse2, Pocket-lint, Electronista, AppleInsider, TiPb, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, MediaFile, SAI and Mobile Entertainment
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Spotify says no acquisition talks with Apple — Contrary to a published report, Apple is not talked with Spotify about acquiring the European digital music service, a Spotify spokesman said today. — TechCrunch reported that it received an anonymous tip that indicated Apple had spoken to Spotify about a possible acquisition.
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Music Ally and louisgray.com
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
MacBook Air review (late 2010) — The MacBook Air has never exactly been a simple product to review. Since the laptop's launch back in the heady days of 2008, we've always considered it a niche, high-end product and much less a mainstream system. Originally, the wafer-thin …
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James Galbraith / Macworld:
Lab report: MacBook Air benchmark results
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Electronista, Softpedia News, ThinkMobile, AppleInsider and LAPTOP Mag
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.
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Cult of Mac, I4U News and Macworld
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo:
Nook Color: Barnes & Noble's Full-Color Tablet With Apps, Mags and Books for $250 — Barnes & Noble's touchscreen Nook Color—a reading-centric, 7-inch Android tablet with full color books, magazines, newspapers and apps is well, surprisingly good. It might be the best Android tablet yet, even.
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Ross Miller / Engadget:
Nook Color first hands-on! (updated: with video)
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CrunchGear, DailyFinance, DailyTech, SlashGear, Android Community and The Next Web
James McQuivey / paidContent:
What The Nook Color Means For Amazon, Sony
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Engadget, GigaOM, Mashable! and VentureBeat
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Video Tops P2P Filesharing Traffic: Cisco — Content providers may have finally found a way to battle peer-to-peer file sharing: by making their content easily available online. That's one possible takeaway from Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index, which found that video now accounts …
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Cisco Systems, Inc, Computerworld, Softpedia News and GigaOM
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Steve Dinneen / City A.M.:
Google and Carphone in mobile deal — THE SECOND Google-branded mobile phone will hit the UK in time for Christmas through an exclusive deal with Carphone Warehouse, City A.M. has learned. — Its predecessor, the Nexus One, is the flagship device for the search giant …
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Kevin Krause / phandroid:
Nexus Two Launching Alongside Gingerbread in Time for the Holidays?
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SAI, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and Android Community
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Acer tablet PC line launching on November 23rd, priced from $299 to $699 — Not much more to tell you that you didn't already pick up from the headline. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci told Dow Jones Newswire that it will be launching its first line of tablet PCs in New York City on November 23rd, priced from $299 to $699 each.
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Dow Jones Newswires, GottaBeMobile, CrunchGear, Electronista, SlashGear and SAI
Tris Hussey / The Next Web:
How To: Avoid Getting Fleeced By Firesheep — Over the last 24 hours the world has been abuzz with talk about a small Firefox extension. Usually Firefox extensions don't make headlines, but in this case one did. Why? This extension is called Firesheep, and it's scary.
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The GitHub Blog, Committee to Protect …, Computerworld, LAPTOP Magazine and GeekSmack
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
The Creepiest TV Moments of Google's CEO — Eric Schmidt is a thoughtful speaker with impeccable educational credentials. But the Google CEO's been a creepy, arrogant-sounding disaster in the press lately, especially on television. Today he issued a retraction. Here are the lowlights of how this came about.
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Telegraph, Technology News, Post Tech, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Network World
Dumplings from this Panda!:
In Response to The Digg Blog Post — Digg has responded publicly to the post I made yesterday and I appreciate their willingness to address this. I feel obligated to give my feedback/response - not in the expectation that digg will further address it. — Defending my post yesterday …
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Jen Burton / Digg Blog:
Info on site changes and test accounts
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ReadWriteWeb, ProgrammableWeb, TechCrunch and Download Squad, more at Mediagazer »
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
Foxconn and Compal contracted for 5-6 Palm devices in 2011 [rumor] — While the Palm Pre 2 might be eliciting less-than-impressed responses from Palm fans, we can't help but wonder what Palm might come out with next. It's all but assumed that the Pre 2 was the phone Palm had in the pipeline …
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SlashGear and Boy Genius Report
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
With a Big Push From Apple, HTML5 Video Wins the Web (But Not Completely) — Remember the big Apple vs. everyone else video format war from last spring? When Apple was pushing the HTML5 standard he wanted to use for video on the iPhone and iPad, instead of Adobe's Flash?
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MeFeedia Blog
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Oracle CEO claims can prove wrongdoing by new HP CEO — BOSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison said he has proof that Hewlett-Packard Co's incoming CEO oversaw a scheme to steal Oracle's software by rival SAP AG. — SAP has admitted in court documents that it stole Oracle's software.
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CBS News, Between the Lines Blog, Digits, Inquirer, The Register, TechEye, blogs.ft.com and Mercury News
