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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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VentureBeat, IGN Gear, Softpedia News, Fortune, Phones Review, Electricpig.co.uk, Fone Arena, SlashGear, I4U News, CNET News, VG247, DailyTech, Pulse2, Technologizer, PhoneNews.com, GeekSmack, IntoMobile, Android Phone Fans, Erictric, LaptopMemo, Kotaku, SlashPhone, Electronista, MobileCrunch, Boy Genius Report, PhoneArena, MacHackPC, BlogsDNA, AndroidSPIN, Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, Android Community, Ubergizmo, Joystiq, Destructoid, TechSpot and Crave
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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New York Times, Telegraph, paidContent, Mediaweek, MySpace, Velocity and Mashable!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's the Public Google Doc With All Of MySpace's Traffic Analytics — MySpace is mere hours away from their big redesign push (our early review is here). If you've got nothing to do until midnight California time, spend it perusing this document. It is, according to an anonymous source …
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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Digital Daily, IntoMobile, Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Computerworld, Covering Web, I4U News, Fone Arena, SlashGear, MacStories, SlashPhone, TechCrunch, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, Digits, PhoneDog.com, BlogsDNA, Phones Review, PhoneArena, MacRumors, TUAW, Neowin.net, iLounge and iPhone Savior
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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Barnes & Noble:
NOOKcolor: The Ultimate Reading Experience
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Between the Lines Blog and Technologizer
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Nook Color first hands-on! (updated: with video)
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CrunchGear, SlashGear, DailyFinance, Android Community, The Next Web and VentureBeat
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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Agence France Presse, Yahoo! Mail Blog and Techie Buzz
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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 — There's a lot to like in Apple's latest version of the MacBook Air, such as the smaller size, longer battery life and faster flash storage. Still, I was disappointed that the new MacBook Air uses the aging Core 2 Duo processor.
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MacRumors, ThinkMobile, AppleInsider, LAPTOP Mag, Electronista and I4U News
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, MacBook Pro. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.
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Cult of Mac, Macworld and Shiny Objects
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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Music Ally, Pulse2, Electronista, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, TiPb, SAI, AppleInsider, TUAW, MediaFile and Erictric
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Spotify says no acquisition talks with Apple
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louisgray.com and MacStories
Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Video Tops P2P Filesharing Traffic: Cisco — Content providers may have finally found a way to battle off 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 and GigaOM
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Kevin Krause / phandroid:
Nexus Two Launching Alongside Gingerbread in Time for the Holidays? — An interesting report has surfaced from London-based business paper City A.M. that claims the followup to the Nexus One — what very well could be dubbed the Nexus Two — will be released through an exclusive deal …
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IntoMobile and Android Phone Fans
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Outlook 2011 uses Webkit to render HTML — A little tidbit from the Microsoft gathering this evening. While demonstrating Outlook for Mac and the HTML rendering engine, Microsoft employees revealed that instead of using the Word HTML rendering that previous versions of Mac Office used …
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Microsoft:
Mac Meets PC With New Office Release
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Engadget, Office For Mac, Mashable!, Technologizer, Covering Web, greg hughes, All about Microsoft Blog, PC Magazine, SiliconANGLE, Seattle Times, PC World, BetaNews, Computerworld, Black Web 2.0, Download Squad, Redmond Pie, The Microsoft Blog, AppleInsider, Boy Genius Report, Softpedia News, Ars Technica and V3.co.uk
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, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Post Tech, Network World and Fortune
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
LimeWire Gives Up the Ghost, Shuts Down P2P Filesharing Client — Last spring, music filesharing service LimeWire suffered a crushing blow in federal court. This is the net result: The company is shutting down its core software - though it insists it's not doing that exactly.
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louisgray.com, Computerworld, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Threat Level, Techdirt, Boy Genius Report, ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net, p2pnet, SAI, New York Times, The Register, Download Squad, hypebot, Slyck, Electronista and TechCrunch
Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade:
‘iDOS’ - A Full Featured Universal DOS Emulator That Somehow Got Approved [UPDATE: Windows Installed on iPad; Pulled but Available on Cydia] — Ever since Apple eased up their App Store approval guidelines, all kinds of crazy things have been getting released like the fabled GV Mobile+ …
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9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, Gizmodo, ZDNet, IntoMobile, Mashable!, Boy Genius Report, Technologizer, MobileCrunch, PadGadget, TUAW, mobiputing, MacRumors, AppShopper.com and everythingiCafe
