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Hell Freezes Over As MySpace Fully Surrenders To Facebook — It was just a couple of years ago that MySpace wasn't all that concerned about the fast growing Facebook. Fast forward two years and a handful of CEO changes, and everything has changed. — Last summer MySpace found a way to get MySpace status updates into Facebook.
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SFGate, Computerworld, SAI, VentureBeat, All Facebook, Fortune, Neowin.net, The Next Web and The Business Insider
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MYSPACE INTRODUCES MASHUP WITH FACEBOOK — Myspace Users Can Easily Create Highly Personalized, Entertainment-Focused Streams Based on their Facebook Profile — Today, Myspace announced Mashup with Facebook, a new feature that allows Myspace users to easily create a personalized stream of entertainment content.
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VatorNews, GigaOM, Agence France Presse, Guardian, Mashable!, Download Squad, CNET News, NetworkEffect, Gothamist, Switched, Social Medium, TechSpot, Techland, Digitizor, Techie Buzz and Black Web 2.0
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Dell Inspiron Duo finally official, can be yours the first week of December for $549 — That's right, just as we had heard, Dell is finally putting an end to the Inspiron Duo's mysterious marketing videos and officially spinning its screen for the world to see!
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Between the Lines Blog, netbooknews.com, DailyTech, The Tech Report, TechSpot, The Next Web, Liliputing and TeleRead
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Hands-on with the uniquely touchable, typable Dell Inspiron duo — Today is the grand opening of the Microsoft Store in Bellevue Square Mall, and it's also the first time you'll be able to walk into a store and get some play time with the Dell Inspiron duo, Dell's completely unique …
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Apple Releases iOS 4.2.1 GM Build — A few minutes ago Apple posted a new GM seed in the iOS Developer Center. The build shows that it's a GM seed for iOS 4.2.1, with build number 8C148.Here's what we know: a reliable source informed us that Apple released this build internally last night …
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MacRumors, Computerworld, App Advice, Download Squad, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, SAI, Daring Fireball, I4U News, IntoMobile, Covering Web and BGR, Thanks:viticci
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Dave Caolo / TUAW:
Line2 users shouldn't update to iOS 4.2
Line2 users shouldn't update to iOS 4.2
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, iLounge, Covering Web, TiPb, Urlesque, App Advice and iClarified
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Exclusive: Woz misquoted! ‘Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’ — Some comments attributed to Steve Wozniak caused quite a kerfuffle this morning — according to Dutch paper De Telegraaf, Woz said that “Android phones have more features,” which would help Google's OS become the dominant smartphone platform.
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Examiner, PC World, TechCrunch, eWeek, App Advice, BGR, TG Daily, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, SAI, IntoMobile, CIOInsight, GigaOM, Covering Web, Android Phone Fans, TiPb, Fortune, PhoneDog.com, P Morgan Brown, Gearlog, Pulse2, Black Web 2.0, Neowin.net, TUAW, Electronista, Switched, GottaBeMobile, Tech Trader Daily, MacStories, Daring Fireball, ITworld.com, 9 to 5 Mac, CNET News, Android Community, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo Australia
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Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers — As customers begin to recognize large productivity gains with Gmail, Google Docs and the rest of Google Apps, they frequently ask when they'll be able to use services like Google Voice, Reader, Blogger and AdWords with their Google Apps accounts.
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Meet The Man Who Paid A Record $335,000 For Virtual Property — Last week, I introduced you to the man who sold his virtual property in the mass multiplayer online game Entropia Universe for $635,000 in real dollars, making a half million dollars from the sale. Now meet the man who bought the largest chunk of that property.
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Gizmodo, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, everwas, VizWorld.com, Gizmodo Australia and Fudzilla
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A dark trend runs through this year's Web 2.0 tech summit — Normally a sunny celebration about the future of the Web, one of the largest annual gatherings of the Internet elite took on a darker and more pessimistic tone this week. — The fear that ran through the seventh annual Web 2. Summit …
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CNET News
Mark Piesanen / Google TV Ads:
This is big. This is FiOS + Google TV Ads — Reach, precision, utility and measurement. These are the qualities we strive to deliver to customers, and we're getting better at it everyday. Today we've strengthened the reach of the Google TV Ads platform even further by signing a partnership …
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VentureBeat, Fortune, Erictric, Electronista, TechCrunch, SAI, SiliconANGLE, paidContent and Search Engine Land
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Mozilla: $104 Million In Revenues, 400 Million Users, Google Deal Running Through 2011 — Mozilla has just published their annual “The State of Mozilla” report. They do this once they've filed their audited financial statements for the previous year, so these numbers are for 2009.
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CNET News, Computerworld, Home of the Mozilla Project, Datamation, The Register and internetnews.com
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Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says — Like a teenager apologizing to his parents for having a party and breaking the furniture, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams admitted today that the company “screwed up” its relationship with third-party developers …
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SAI, A VC, Bits, MediaFile, eWeek, Digital Trends, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and L.A. Times Tech Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Interview With Twitter's Evan Williams At Web 2.0 Summit (VIDEO)
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Qualcomm Reveals Next-Gen Snapdragon MSM8960: 28nm, dual-core, 5x Performance Improvement — Earlier today Qualcomm briefed analysts on its Snapdragon SoC roadmap. The current Snapdragon is available in both 65nm and 45nm versions integrating a single Scorpion CPU core running at up to 1GHz …
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TechSpot, pocketnow.com, Android Phone Fans, GigaOM, MobileCrunch, Eurodroid, WMPoweruser.com, PhoneArena and IntoMobile
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Google Sky Map- now with time travel — Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way. — H.G. WELLS, The Time Machine - Google Books book link
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SAI, L.A. Times Tech Blog, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Erictric and AndroidGuys
Chris Nerney / ITworld:
Mark Zuckerberg's first website at Harvard sold in online auction — FaceMash.com purchased for $30,201 on Flippa; winning bidder unknown — 1 I like it! — In early October I wrote about an online auction for FaceMash.com, which was the first website started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was attending Harvard a few years back.
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Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet — The quest to bring the full range of Internet video to your TV in a simple way continues, but it isn't going well. The latest team to try—Google, Logitech and Sony—has made an admirably bold effort, but, like others before, it has missed the mark, at least in its first effort.
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Technologizer, I4U News, dailywireless.org, Telegraph, blogs.chron.com, CrunchGear and DSLreports
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Korea attacks force DDoS bunker creation — South Korea has installed digital “bunkers” to prevent a repeat of the massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that crippled parts of the country last year. — The nation was floored after huge streams of junk internet data poured …
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CNET News
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Chinese woman jailed over Twitter post — Twitter is banned in China but many use it by circumventing internet controls — A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp after posting a message on the social networking website Twitter. — The fiance of human rights …
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SAI, Amnesty International, L.A. Times Tech Blog, New York Times and CNET News
Jason Calacanis / Calacanis.com:
The Trouble with Bubbles (talent, angel & incubators... oh my!) — The bubble is back, baby! Yes! Let's raise lots of money... Aeron chairs for everyone! Oh wait, I'm angel investing now.... higher valuations means I get a smaller percentage! Boooooo! Bubbles are bad! Bad bubble, bad bubble!
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Qualcomm, AT&T Said to Hold Talks for Mobile-TV Spectrum Sale — Qualcomm Inc. has held talks with AT&T Inc. over the possible sale of spectrum the chipmaker acquired for its mobile-television service, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
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Hillicon Valley, mocoNews, Engadget, Tech Trader Daily, RCR Wireless News and Electronista
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Facebook Tests “Pay Later” Option for Buying Virtual Goods — Facebook is testing a “Pay Later” option for purchasing goods within social games. Users who have never purchased Credits before can spend Credits they haven't paid for and repay the balance later.
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All Facebook, Technologizer and SAI
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Carrier Organization Changes Rules to Allow the “Apple SIM” — The GSMA, the organization representing most of the world's mobile operators, today changed its rules to allow for a programmable SIM card much like we described Apple building with Gemalto a few weeks back.
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GSM World, IntoMobile, Connected Planet Online and Internet Thought
Apple:
Apple's iAd Coming to Europe in December — Revolutionary Mobile Advertising Network Will Launch in Europe with L'Oréal, Renault, Louis Vuitton, Nespresso, Perrier & Unilever — Apple® today announced it will expand its revolutionary iAd℠ mobile advertising network to the UK …
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GigaOM, The Register, App Advice, Engadget, Guardian, 9 to 5 Mac, iPhone Buzz, Computerworld, MacStories, Macworld, Softpedia News, SAI, The Next Web, TechCrunch, SlashGear and MacRumors
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Overstock.com sued by district attorneys — OAKLAND — Overstock.com, a popular online retailer that says it offers the cheapest prices on a many items, is being sued by seven district attorneys in Northern California, accusing the company of making untrue and misleading statements about pricing.
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Angry Birds spotlights Android fragmentation — The good news for Android is that it's flexible enough to reach many corners of the smartphone market. The bad news is that this can mean headaches for programmers—as the top-ranked game Angry Birds illustrated today.
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Gamasutra, Digital Trends, PhoneArena, pocketnow.com, Gizmodo, Gadgetell, GigaOM and Softpedia News