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Apple:
Apple's iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch — Major Software Update Brings Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay & AirPrint to iPad — Apple® today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system …
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Sam Grobart / Gadgetwise:
Understanding AirPlay in Apple's iOS 4.2 — Update November 22, 2:11 p.m.: Added information regarding Airplay's audio capabilities. — As you may have learned already from my colleague Nick Bilton's post, Apple on Monday released an upgrade to its iOS operating system that brings a number …
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Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:
Is your iPhone's music gone after updating to iOS 4.2.1? Here's a fix — If you're an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch user, you probably know that Apple released the latest update to the operating system that powers those devices. iOS 4.2.1 is now flowing through the tubes …
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iOS 4.2 available today, brings the iPad into the multitasking era …
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Jason Snell / Macworld:
Apple makes Find My iPhone free for some iOS 4.2 users
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Ars goes hands-on with AirPlay on iOS 4.2 and Apple TV
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Google Enterprise Blog:
A bridge to the cloud: Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office now available to early testers — Tens of millions of people have moved to Google Docs because it's 100% web: it provides real-time collaboration in the browser, with no software to install, manage or upgrade.
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Jessie / The Official Netflix Blog:
A new plan for watching instantly, plus price changes to existing unlimited plans — Hi, Jessie Becker here, VP Marketing, with an update about changes we are making today to our plans and prices. — First, we are now offering a new $7.99 a month plan which lets you instantly watch unlimited TV episodes …
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Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Netflix formally launches $7.99 streaming-only plan, bumps unlimited …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
So... whatever happened to Google's Chrome OS? — It was just about a year and a half ago that Google started talking up plans for its Chrome OS. As I recall, a number of bloggers and reporters began tolling the death knell for Windows at that time, claiming Google's “operating-system-less” …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google: Chrome OS Still Coming This Year (It Just Might Be In Beta Form) — There's a lot of hoopla right now that Google's Chrome OS has been delayed and will miss the stated release date of “this year”. Much of this is based off of the comment that Google CEO Eric Schmidt made last week …
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google CEO Schmidt: No Chrome OS Netbooks for Christmas
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunchIT:
Attachmate Corporation To Buy Novell For $2.2 Billion — Attachmate Corporation has agreed to acquire technology giant Novell for $6.10 per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion. Attachmate is owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo.
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Shin Hyon-hee / The Korea Herald:
Galaxy Tab global sales top 600,000 units — Samsung Electronics Co. said Sunday it has sold more than 600,000 units of its tablet PC globally just a month after its launch. — The 7-inch Galaxy Tab was first released in Italy in mid-October, challenging the global dominance of Apple Inc.'s 9.7-inch iPad.
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Foursquare Blog:
We're heading west! — In the past year, we had a major growth spurt: from about 100,000 to over 4.5 million users; from a single phone platform to six; from 50-person foursquare flashmobs to 1,000 person epic swarms; and we now have thousands of developers building on the the foursquare API.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
News Corp's Upcoming iPad App ‘The Daily’ to Pioneer New Recurring Subscription Billing — So the cat — or at least part of the cat — is out of the bag on Apple's upcoming support for recurring subscription billing for content. Edward Helmore, reporting for The Guardian yesterday:
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
HP Employees Rejoice As New CEO Returns Pay To Previous Levels — HP is raising salary levels back to where they were pre-financial crisis, new CEO Leo Apotheker just told employees. — Here's what one employee just told us: — We heard from Leo today.
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Surur / WMPoweruser.com:
Silverlight coming to Xbox 360-the circle is complete — Microsoft has put out a job advert asking for a software development engineer to bring Silverlight to the Xbox 360. — Silverlight is already the development basis of Windows phone 7, and of course already runs on the desktop.
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Tyler Cunningham / GTVHub.com:
Comedy Central, MTV, Nick, and other Viacom properties blocked on Google TV — Are we beginning to see a pattern yet? Just when we thought (or at least we were hoping) that Fox was going to be the last major network to block Google TV, Viacom has arrived just in time to rain on our parade.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Viacom Confirms Blocking Access To Full Episodes On Google TV
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY — In a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video from their mobile phones to emergency centers.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
HP Beats The Street; Q4 Revenue Up 8 Percent To $33.3 Billion — HP narrowly beat analyst expectations for Q4 earnings today, posting net revenue of $33.3 billion, up $2.5 billion or 8% from a year earlier. Non-GAAP diluted EPS was $1.33, up 17% from $1.14 in the prior-year period.
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Twitter's Creative Director Talks Design, UX and Inspiration — The Web Design Best Practices Series is supported by The Bazaar, a marketplace to buy and sell creative objects. Creatives can start setting up their stores here. The Bazaar offers free shipping for all orders this festive season, and can be visited at http://bza.co.
