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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Behold RockMelt, Browser For The Social Set — Does the world need yet another browser? Tim Howes and Eric Vishria think that it does, and that is one of the reasons why two years ago they started Mountain View, Calif.-based RockMelt, raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz …
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RockMelt blog:
World, Meet RockMelt — Hello Interwebs! The rumors are true... starting today, we're offering access to an early version of RockMelt, a new browser designed around you and how you use the Web. — RockMelt does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the things …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
New browser RockMelt oozes into beta — A look at social sharing on the new RockMelt browser. — Little has been known about stealth start-up RockMelt except that it's a browser, specifically (and yet ambiguously) a “Facebook browser,” and it's backed by browser godfather Marc Andreessen.
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New York Times, Mercury News and Webmonkey
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Kinect Hacked? Already?! — Adafruit's $2,000 bounty for an open source Kinect driver hack was only offered up late last week and already someone has allegedly delivered, said Adafruit's Phillip Torrone in an email to us just now. This was inevitable.
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VentureBeat, Network World, Kotaku, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz and Winrumors
David / TmoNews:
Dell Venue Pro To Launch Through Microsoft November 8th, Through Dell November 15th — Updated: Updated the post to include the internal image verifying the release dates! — The Dell Venue Pro will be available from Microsoft on November 8th and from Dell on November 15th according …
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pocketnow.com, Engadget, IntoMobile, Erictric, Product Reviews Net, PhoneNews.com, PhoneArena, WMPoweruser.com and WPCentral.com
New York Times:
The Facebook Skeletons Come Out — AMONG the many firsts in the 2010 elections, it is safe to assume that the following words had never before been uttered about a future member of Congress, “This is a candidate who is probably best known for getting drunk and having sex on television.”
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Amazon to buy Diapers.com for $540 million — A Zappos like purchase for the e-commerce giant. — “What Amazon fears most: Diapers” declared the cover of BusinessWeek earlier this fall. Now it's clear that Amazon didn't fear diapers, it just wanted them for itself.
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PC Magazine, Reuters, AuctionBytes Blog, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, DailyFinance, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, Kindle Review, TechFlash, SAI, The Next Web and MediaMemo
Adrian Chen / Gawker:
4chan Founder Is Not a Fan of ‘Chubbies’ — This week, 4chan's 22-year-old founder, Christopher Poole (AKA “Moot"), held an extensive Q&A with users of 4chan's /b/ message board. The discussion ranged from technical details, to the rewards of fame, to sex. Lots of sex.
Rene Ritchie / TiPb:
iOS 4.2 on iPhone 3G: Is the performance any better? [video] — How does the 2008 iPhone 3G work with the soon-to-debut iOS 4.2? When iOS 4 first came out back in June it was laggy and non-responsive and generally not a good experience for many iPhone 3G users.
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App Advice, Redmond Pie, Shoutpedia and MacStories
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Will the New US Congress Act on Privacy Legislation? — A string of Facebook privacy issues in the last year or so have gotten Congress' attention, including terms of service changes that required users to make their personal information more public, security breaches, exaggerated press coverage of those topics.
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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Google Chief Schmidt May Be Called Before Congress, Barton Says
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The Next Web and Search Engine Land
Jonathan Weber / New York Times:
In Whitman and Fiorina, Candidacies That Did Not Compute — Jonathan Weber writes a column for The Bay Citizen. — The candidates from Silicon Valley lost big in the California elections Tuesday. Meg Whitman, the former eBay chief executive, was trounced in the gubernatorial race despite spending …
Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Did Jammie Thomas case backfire on file sharers? — Jammie Thomas-Rasset was supposed to lead the major labels into a trap. — Proponents of less restrictive copyright laws predicted that the decision by the four biggest record labels to drag a single mother of modest means into court …
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