Top Items:
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Facebook: You Can't Import Our User Data Without Reciprocity — The war between Google and Facebook is heating up: Google just made one small tweak to its Terms of Service that will have a big impact on the world's biggest social network. From now on, any service …
RELATED:
Steve Kanefsky / The Official Google Blog:
The power of Google Instant, now in your pocket — Google Instant makes search faster by displaying not just predictions but actual search results as you type. This saves valuable time on a desktop browser, but wouldn't it be great to have Google Instant on mobile devices …
Discussion:
InformationWeek, Inquirer, FierceMobileContent, eWeek, Techland, BlogsDNA, Search Engine Roundtable, Softpedia News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Geek.com, Macworld, BGR, Pocket-lint, Silicon Republic, Gizmodo, Gadgetell, Googling Google Blog, V3.co.uk, CNN, App Advice, Mobile Entertainment, Fortune, Android Phone Fans, Droid Life, WebProNews, iSmashPhone, Product Reviews Net, MobileBurn.com, HEXUS.channel, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, Technologizer, Ubergizmo, GottaBeMobile, Pulse2, iThinkDifferent, Search Engine Land, Technology News, The Register, Lifehacker, paidContent, mobiputing, PhoneArena, VentureBeat, TUAW, Google Operating System, MacStories, Androidos.in, GigaOM and Voices on All Things Digital
RELATED:
Shayndi Raice / Wall Street Journal:
Dell to Ditch 25,000 BlackBerrys in Bid to Promote Own Service — In a direct shot at BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd., Dell Inc. plans to move its 25,000 employees over to its own line of smartphones and then aggressively market a service to help other companies do the same.
Discussion:
InformationWeek, Computerworld, TechEye, Between the Lines Blog, Reuters, The Next Web, SAI, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, TmoNews, DailyTech, HEXUS.channel, SlashGear, WPCentral.com, Winrumors, GottaBeMobile, WMPoweruser.com, Phones Review, Electronista, Engadget and ITworld.com, Thanks:rawmeet
Electronista:
Apple to drop Xserve after January 31 — Apple today sent notice that it was phasing out the Xserve. The rackmount server will be discontinued as of January 31, 2011, and the currently available 160GB, 1TB and 2TB Apple Drive Modules will ship through the end of 2011 or until stock runs out.
Discussion:
9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, SAI, GigaOM, Macworld, MacRumors, TUAW, MacStories, Insanely Great Mac, Softpedia News, BGR, Engadget and GeekSmack, Thanks:nitrium
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog:
Consumer Reports debunks the ‘racist’ Kinect — Is Kinect “Racist”? — Video: Consumer Reports — Shortly after the first Microsoft Kinect for Xbox reviews starting appearing in the wee hours last night, another Kinect story cropped up. It seems some testers encountered difficulty …
Discussion:
PC World, Gearlog, Digital Society, Silicon Republic, DailyFinance, TechEye, Voices on All Things Digital, Product Reviews Net, Gadgetwise, TechFlash, Between the Lines Blog, Black Web 2.0, Kotaku, Gadget Lab, ZDNet, Neowin.net, SAI, GameLife, adafruit industries blog and GamePolitics News
RELATED:
ifixit:
Microsoft Kinect Teardown — The Kinect is a horizontal bar of sensors connected to a small base with a motorized pivot, and is designed to be positioned lengthwise below the video display. We picked up and tore down our Kinect on launch day — November 4, 2010.
Discussion:
Geek.com, Gadget Lab, Geekosystem, SlashGear, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Joystiq, adafruit industries blog, Engadget, InformationWeek, Erictric and technabob
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
$2K bounty for free/open Kinect drivers (Microsoft thinks this is illegal!)
Discussion:
Digitizor, adafruit industries blog, Wired.co.uk, Kotaku, Hack a Day, Gadget Lab and CNET News
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Feature: The future of notebooks: Ars reviews the 11" MacBook Air — Apple CEO Steve Jobs is no stranger to superlatives. Every product Apple makes is “insanely great,” “amazing,” or even “magical.” So when he unveiled the latest MacBook Air models, declaring them to be the “future of notebooks …
Discussion:
eWeek, O'Grady's PowerPage, TUAW, Electronista, Insights on the tech industry and Engadget
RELATED:
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Dropping Adobe Flash boosts Apple's MacBook Air battery life by 2 hours
Discussion:
Podcasting News
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
What Your Phone Says About You [Graphic] — Sometimes the guys in our office like to get in stupid fights about phones. Yeah I know they do it on the blog, but they also do it in private as well times 1000. It is essentially the song that never ends, with Mike Arrington and Jason Kincaid erring …
Discussion:
C-Section Comics, IntoMobile, App Advice, Mike Industries, Geekologie, displayblog and Erictric
Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
How one company games Google News — Note the second cluster of stories produced by a Google News search for “iTunes” yesterday afternoon. All of those Red Label News stories were basically the same: spammy SEO-keywords alongside Web ads. — (Credit: Screenshot by Tom Krazit/CNET)
Discussion:
Google Webmaster Central Blog, TeleRead, Techdirt and parislemon
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
300,000 Apple apps? That depends. — For the second time in three weeks, an analytics firm jumps the gun — Click to enlarge. Source: Distimo — “Apple's App Store Soars Past 300,000 Apps,” reads the headline posted Thursday on the website ReadWriteWeb and picked up by SlashGear and GottaBeMobile.
Discussion:
asymco and GottaBeMobile
RELATED:
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple's App Store Soars Past 300,000 Apps
Discussion:
www.pocketgamer.biz, iPhone Buzz, GottaBeMobile and SlashGear
Josh Taylor / CNET News:
Wi-Fi, meet the TV antenna — The first half of CSIRO's Ngara rural wireless broadband technology allows several users to upload material at the same time without compromising the data rate of 12 megabits per second each. — Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research …
Discussion:
Sydney Morning Herald and FierceBroadbandWireless
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps — An error on Google Maps has caused an international conflict in Central America. — A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops into an area near San Juan Lake along the border between his country and Costa Rica.
Discussion:
VizWorld.com, Geek.com, p2pnet, GMSV, Search Engine Roundtable, The Microsoft Blog, TechSpot, Fast Company and Fortune, Thanks:jstatad
Dennis Fisher:
Attackers Now Using Honeypots to Trap Researchers — Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and adapting to what the security community and researchers are doing, and it's not unusual for the bad guys to adopt techniques used by their adversaries. The latest example of this is a malware gang …
Discussion:
The Register, Inquirer and SC Magazine US
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Big Cable Is Bleeding: 500K+ Subscribers Lost In Q3 — There's now even more evidence that subscribers are cutting the cord and opting out of paying for cable: By adding up subscriber losses from four of the top five cable companies, we found that more than half a million users have ditched their cable companies.
Discussion:
DailyTech, Engadget, Time Warner Cable, PR Newswire, SAI, Associated Press and DSLreports
Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:
Bank of America, Citigroup Said to Test IPhone for Mobile E-Mail — Steve Jobs may soon bag a pair of the biggest U.S. banks as iPhone supporters. — Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research …
Discussion:
ReadWriteWeb, SAI and Electronista
Marco.org:
Developers don't rush to new platforms — A common fallacy is assuming that any new platform in an exciting market — recently, smartphones and tablet computers — will be flooded with developers as soon as it's released, as if developers are just waiting outside the gates, hungrily waiting to storm in.
Sam Sheffer / Engadget:
Skyfire for iPhone hands-on (video) — Although Skyfire for iPhone is almost exactly like its Android counterpart, it's still not available for download in the App Store due to server issues, so we thought you might want to see how it works. We've seen improvements on the Flash …
Discussion:
CNN, Product Reviews Net and MobileWhack.com
AppleInsider:
Android edges Apple iPad as second-most-popular mobile development platform — Google's Android platform has narrowly overtaken the Apple iPad in terms of total developer support for mobile devices, though the iPhone remains the most popular software destination, according to a new report.
Discussion:
PhoneArena, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, GeekSmack and Winrumors
RELATED:
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
State of the App Industry 2010 (Report)
Discussion:
CNET News, Appolicious Advisor, The Next Web, The Register, Softpedia News, Winrumors and VentureBeat
Stuart Parmenter / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta for Mobile is Now Faster and Sleeker — We are happy to bring you the latest release of Firefox 4 Beta for mobile. The beta is now available for download in 10 languages on your Android or Maemo device. — We received a lot of great feedback on the previous beta and addressed …
Discussion:
madhava.com/egotism/, PC World, FierceMobileContent, Fone Arena, Android News, Rumours …, TG Daily, Download Squad, Neowin.net, Android Community, Go Rumors, Pocket-lint, Crave, SiliconANGLE, Android Phone Fans, MobileCrunch, PC Magazine, mobiputing, Ubergizmo, Android and Me and The Register
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? — American broadband capacity might not be able to keep up with everyone who wants to stream movies. — On Sept. 22, Netflix began offering its streaming movie service in Canada. This was Netflix's first venture outside of the United States …
Discussion:
The Steve Rubel Stream, DailyTech, NBC Bay Area and Fortune
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hey Gmail, 1994 Called, It Wants Its Dial-Up Level Performance Back — Something is rotten in the state of Gmail. At least for some of us. — I thought it was maybe just me when I tweeted a couple days ago about awful Gmail performance recently. But it's not just me.
