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David Pogue / New York Times:
It's a Tablet. It's Gorgeous. It's Costly. — Every time there's some new hot, heavily hyped gadget from Apple, it takes only a few months for the copycats to crop up. IPod? Zune! IPhone? Android! — The iPad? Well, it came out in March, and the iPad alternatives are just landing in stores now.
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AppleInsider, Daring Fireball and The Next Web
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck — This is it. The Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet meant for humans. But is it actually fit for humans? — Put simply, the Galaxy Tab is the first post-iPad tablet that matters, because it's the first tablet that's trying to be legitimate competition.
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Product Reviews, CNN, ThinkMobile, Tech Sanity Check, Computerworld, SAI, SlashGear, OS X Daily, Electronista and displayblog
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Samsung's Galaxy Tab Is iPad's First Real Rival — After seven months of unchallenged prominence, Apple's hot-selling iPad now has its first credible competitor in the nascent market for multitouch consumer tablet computers: the Samsung Galaxy Tab. — [ See post to watch video ]
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606 Tech Forums, AppleInsider and FM Blog
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Why Did Amazon Just Pull A Top-Selling Book? Oh, That's Right, It's A Pedophilia How-To — Less than an hour after it hit the Amazon Bestsellers list and the controversial topic of its existence made the Dr. Phil show as well as other mainstream media, it looks like Amazon has taken down the infamous pedofile how-to book.
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This Just In and Virtualeconomics
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon Defends Sale Of Pedophile How-To Guide — Earlier today we reported that Amazon is selling a book titled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure. The book itself is a disgrace - a how-to guide for pedophiles. It includes, among other things, tips on how to get away …
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VatorNews, Fudzilla, Gawker, The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GigaOM, NBC Bay Area, Yahoo! News, Boing Boing, TomsTechBlog.com and TechCrunch Europe
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
When Good News Is Bad News: Google Reportedly Fires Raise Leaker — Some corporate memos are confidential. — And some memos are “confidential"-meaning there's no real expectation that they'll stay within the family. — You'd assume that Eric Schmidt's memo to “Googlers” announcing big raises falls in the latter category.
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Law Blog, louisgray.com, Digits and Gadgetell
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Andrew Munchbach / BGR:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 — Moments ago, Apple released its Mac OS X 10.6.5 update to its customer-base. Fixes in the point-upgrade include: — • improve reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers — • address performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture
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Softpedia News, MacRumors, GigaOM, Engadget, TodaysiPhone.com, everythingiCafe, Gizmodo, Product Reviews Net and TUAW
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AppleInsider:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 with no mention of AirPrint
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MacStories, Guardian, Apple, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Mashable!, The Register, Appletell, TidBITS, Redmond Pie, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, Business Wire, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, Download Squad, Neowin.net, MacNN, Lifehacker, Erictric, TUAW, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews and Electronista
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Adobe Flash contributes largest number of security patches …
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The Next Web
Ian Paul / PC World:
Windows Phone 7 Success Tied to a Million in Sales — Critics are already debating whether Windows Phone 7 is a flop, but the phone's true measure of success will be in how long it takes to sell one million units. It all started after reports that Microsoft's new handset platform sold …
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VG247, All about Microsoft Blog, The Next Web, The Microsoft Blog, T3.com News, MediaPost, Go Rumors and FierceWireless
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows Phone 7 updates: can carriers block them?
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Softpedia News and The Microsoft Blog
Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
Great Scott! Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTube — Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute.
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Softpedia News, Podcasting News and Erictric
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
A Web Video Truce: Free Hulu Goes Away From Boxee, Replaced by Hulu Plus — The Hulu-Boxee war is over! The terms of the truce: Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to get Web video on TV, will remove links to Hulu's free service-but will give users the ability to use the Hulu Plus paid service.
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Andrew Kippen / Boxee Blog:
Boxee Box by D-Link starts shipping, new Boxee version, Netflix and Hulu Plus, too
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SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Business Of Online Video, Gizmodo, Engadget and Crave
Tyler Cunningham / GTVHub.com:
Fox.com now blocking Google TV devices — Another one bites the dust. A couple of weeks ago, Fox.com was atop our list of Websites that could still be accessed on Google TV to stream full episodes of content. Well, you can go ahead and cross Fox off that list, as they are now blocking Google TV devices (see the photo above).
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Gizmodo, paidContent, SlashGear, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, BGR, Electronista, Android Phone Fans, AppleInsider, AndroidSPIN, Fortune, GigaOM, Search Engine Watch, Ubergizmo, WebProNews and CNET News, more at Mediagazer »
Wall Street Journal:
FCC Investigating Google Data Collection — The Federal Communications Commission is investigating whether Google Inc. broke federal laws when its street-mapping service collected consumers' personal information, joining a lengthy list of regulators probing what Google says was inadvertent harvesting …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Holding Yet Another Event Next Monday In San Francisco. Inbox Related? — After a Summer spent in “Lockdown”, Facebook apparently got quite a bit of work done. They've already had a number of events just in the past few weeks. And now they're having another one.
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GigaOM, Mashable! and The Next Web
David Huynh / Google Open Source Blog:
Announcing Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglers — Our acquisition of Metaweb back in July also brought along Freebase Gridworks, an open source software project for cleaning and enhancing entire data sets. Today we're announcing that the project has been renamed to Google Refine and version 2.0 is now available.
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Mashable!, Techie Buzz, BlogsDNA and ReadWriteWeb
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
FarmVille is Still the Most Popular Facebook App - But #2 is a Surprise — Over 16 million people watered their FarmVille crops yesterday. While AppData's Facebook app top 10 is mostly populated by games like Zynga's popular farming game, Texas HoldEm Poker, FrontierVille and Café World …
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Neowin.net, MediaPost, SiliconANGLE, The Blog Herald, Inside Facebook, LiveSide.net, The Atlantic Online and The Windows Blog
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Is There A Secret Reason That Apple TV Is Being Kept Off Of Amazon's Best-Selling Gadgets List? — How's Apple TV selling? Apple hasn't said since announcing 250,000 units sold in mid-October. And our old technique — looking at Amazon's sales rankings for clues — isn't working for some strange reason.
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Go Rumors
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
SkyFire Pulls In Nearly $1 Million In Its First Weekend On The App Store — Just about every time I write about SkyFire, the cross-platform (and generally free) smartphone browser capable of churning through most Flash videos, someone always says: “Great! But uh, how are they going to make money?”
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SlashPhone, VentureBeat, Insights on the tech industry, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice, MacRumors iPhone Blog and Web Browsers
Chad Catacchio / The Next Web:
Mozilla launches the F1 share button, as in “one to rule them all” — Mozilla just announced that it is launching a new toolbar button called F1, and it could be huge. — Saying, “Have you noticed how more and more pages on the web have 3, 6, or sometimes 12 little icons on a page encouraging …
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Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad:
Social browsing with Mozilla Labs F1 — how RockMelt should've been
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Mozilla Labs, Mashable! and VentureBeat
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Motorola Strikes Back, Sues Microsoft For Infringement Of 16 Patents — The Motorola-Microsoft battle has escalated even further. Many of you may have heard about the lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola over royalties regarding the use of Motorola's technology in the Xbox gaming system.
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CNET News, Motorola Media Center, Engadget, PhoneArena, Electronista, Phones Review, L.A. Times Tech Blog and The Microsoft Blog
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
One Third of Top-Grossing iPhone Apps Are Free — When Apple began allowing free apps to include in-app purchases a little over a year ago, it opened the door for freemium models to flourish. And they are doing just that, with about a third of the top-grossing iPhone apps using a freemium model.
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The Next Web, Thanks:oryankim
Alyson Shontell / SAI:
Airbnb Raises $7.2MM Series A Round and Releases iPhone App — Airbnb, the marketplace for overnight bookings of unique spaces around the world, has just announced Series A funding from Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners for $7.2 million. — Sequoia was the company's seed investor with $600,000.
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Bits, Mashable!, VentureBeat, The Next Web, SFGate and CNET News
