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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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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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Computerworld, The Next Web, AppleInsider, TechCrunch and Daring Fireball
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Galaxy Tab hitting AT&T on November 21st for a $649 premium? — It's not official but that image above sure as hell looks like an official AT&T training document. AT&T already announced that it would carry the Samsung Galaxy Tab but has been coy with details about launch date, pricing, and custom apps.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck
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eWeek, BGR, blogs.chron.com, Tech Sanity Check, ThinkMobile, GottaBeMobile, SAI, SlashGear, Computerworld and OS X Daily
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung Galaxy Tab on sale now at Verizon for $599.99
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Delimiter and Softpedia News
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, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Gawker, TeleRead, GigaOM, VatorNews, TomsTechBlog.com, Gearlog, Boing Boing, TechCrunch Europe, Techland, The Smoking Gun, SAI and Virtualeconomics
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Erik Sherman / BNET:
Amazon Kills One Pedophilia Book — but Keeps Another — Amazon (AMZN) has been caught up in another hurricane of consumer outrage. This time the reason was a Kindle book on how to make pedophilia safer for both child victims and pedophiles. But Amazon's protestations that it supports absolute freedom …
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The Next Web, Fudzilla, GMSV, NBC Bay Area, Yahoo! News and TechCrunch
Andrew Kippen / Boxee Blog:
Boxee Box by D-Link starts shipping, new Boxee version, Netflix and Hulu Plus, too — The Boxee Box by D-Link is launching today in 33 countries with a brand new version of the software. You can order yours here. — If you have been spending more and more time watching videos on your computer …
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Black Web 2.0, SlashGear, Geek.com, Technologizer, Gizmodo, The Business Of Online Video, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget, Crave and Rob Hof's Blog
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Boxee Box Demo (TCTV)
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Engadget, Electronista and MediaMemo
Chris / cdixon.org:
The interoperability of social networks — Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: … Facebook allows users to download their personal information (photos, profile info, etc) but has been fiercely protective of the social graph (you can't download friends, etc).
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VentureBeat and SiliconANGLE
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Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Is My Email Address My Identity? — Google and Facebook may act like toddlers fighting over a toy, but there is a lot more going on in their recent too-public spat about user emails. — Google publicly shamed Facebook this week for not giving its users the option to export the email contacts …
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Computerworld, Relevant Results and MediaPost
Jorge Cino / All Facebook:
Teens Find Innovative Ways to Control Their Facebook Presence — Ever heard of “Super-logoff” or “whitewalling”? They are ways to designate what some teens have been doing in order to have total control over who posts what (and when) on their Facebook page.
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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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SAI, Search Engine Watch, Inquirer, Gearlog, Softpedia News, Podcasting News and Erictric
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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MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, THINQ.co.uk and The Next Web, Thanks:oryankim
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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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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Mashable! and The Next Web
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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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ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Land, DSLreports, Androinica, Engadget, paidContent, The Next Web, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Fortune, AppleInsider, BGR, Gizmodo, AndroidSPIN, Electronista, CNET News, Android Phone Fans, GigaOM, The Android Phone, Ubergizmo, Search Engine Watch and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Photo Sharing on the Go Is the Latest Hot Investment Niche in Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — In Silicon Valley, the three words on the tips of everyone's tongues are mobile, social and local. — Add a fourth word and venture capitalists get excited: photos.
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Mixed Media Labs, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, MediaMemo and PE Hub Blog
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Windows Phone 7 updates: can carriers block them? — Throughout Windows Phone 7's development process, Microsoft was clear about how updates would work. Microsoft would deliver them according to Microsoft's own timetable, with a mix of small updates, delivered over-the-air …
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Electricpig.co.uk, Softpedia News and The Microsoft 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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9 to 5 Mac and Go Rumors
Jsullivan / The Mozilla Blog:
Fasten Your Seatbelts - Firefox 4 Beta adds new JavaScript power and faster graphics — A new release of Firefox 4 Beta is now ready for you to download and test! This release boosts performance in some important ways: it adds the JägerMonkey just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler …
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Download Squad, Softpedia News, Mozilla, Mozilla Hacks, SEO and Tech Daily, Webmonkey, The Register, BetaNews and V3.co.uk
Mozilla Labs:
Mozilla Labs: F1 — So many buttons just to share! — Have you noticed how more and more pages on the web have 3, 6, or sometimes 12 little icons on a page encouraging you to share the link to that page with your friends? Why is that? Publishers want to make it easy for their readers …
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Between the Lines Blog, Mashable!, Inquirer, ReadWriteWeb, Softpedia News, The Next Web, VentureBeat, BlogsDNA and Ubergizmo
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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Inquirer, Softpedia News, MacRumors, Product Reviews Net, GigaOM, Engadget, Gizmodo, TodaysiPhone.com and everythingiCafe
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AppleInsider:
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.5 with no mention of AirPrint
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CNET News, Computerworld, Apple, MacStories, Cult of Mac, THINQ.co.uk, iThinkDifferent, GottaBeMobile, The Register, Mashable!, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Guardian, TidBITS, Ars Technica, Appletell, Redmond Pie, Business Wire, Download Squad, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac, Neowin.net, MacNN, Lifehacker, Ubergizmo and TUAW
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 …
