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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple posts Black Friday sale teaser — In advance of the biggest shopping day of the year, Apple has posted a teaser for a Nov. 26 Black Friday sale on its website, telling customers to come back to the Apple Online Store on Friday for a special “holiday shopping event.”
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, App Advice, MacRumors, Softpedia News, TUAW, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, I4U News and The Huffington Post
Firt / Mobile Web Programming:
Safari on iPhone & iPad 4.2: Accelerometer, WebSockets & better HTML5 support — iOS 4.2 is a free update for every iPhone, iPod or iPad device available now. This new release provides some major changes on HTML5 and W3C future standards support, like WebSockets and Accelerometer support …
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Pocket-lint, TUAW, SlashGear, Erictric, CNET News, MacStories and Crave
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2 — AirPlay is the killer feature for Apple TV. But perhaps we'd better keep that in the future tense for now: it's going to be the killer feature for Apple TV. After installing today's various software updates for iOS devices …
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SAI, PC World, Gizmodo, everythingiCafe, Lifehacker, Apple Gazette, The Apple Core Blog, Macworld, TiPb and Apple
Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:
Is your iPhone's music gone after updating to iOS 4.2.1? Here's a fix
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PC World, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, blogs.chron.com, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, ThinkMobile, Geek.com, Go Rumors, Zero Day Blog and greg hughes
Jennifer Van Grove / Mashable!:
Yelp Introduces Checkin Offers — Foursquare may have pioneered the idea of rewards and specials associated with checkins, but everyone from Facebook to SCVNGR has followed suit. Today, Yelp joins the fray, giving business owners the ability to add “Check-in Offers” to their venues.
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Yelp Official Blog, Fast Company, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, atmaspheric, Search Engine Land and BlogsDNA
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web — Founder of world wide web says some of the most successful social networking sites ‘have begun to chip away at its principles’ — Facebook, LinkedIn and other social networking sites represent “one of several threats” to the future of the world wide web …
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PC Pro, Digital Society, The Tech Herald …, Adotas, The Next Web, MediaFile, THINQ.co.uk and ITProPortal
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.
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Digital Trends, TechEye, The Atlantic Online, IntoMobile, Switched, MobileBurn.com, Electronista and Gizmodo
Taimur Asad / Redmond Pie:
iOS 4.2.1 Final Version Jailbroken Using Updated Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 [How to Guide] — The iPhone Dev Team has just released Redsn0w 0.9.6b4 today which brings first proper jailbreak, with working Cydia and MobileSubstrate for all iOS 4.2.1 devices. — For those of you who don't know …
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Dev-Team Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, Erictric, TUAW, Shoutpedia, BlogsDNA, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, MacStories, SlashGear, iThinkDifferent, Know Your Cell, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, everythingiCafe, Go Rumors, Fudzilla and THINQ.co.uk, Thanks:taimurasad
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 …
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GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk and Examiner
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
So... whatever happened to Google's Chrome OS?
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Fortune, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Electronista and The Next Web
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google CEO Schmidt: No Chrome OS Netbooks for Christmas
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Google Watch, IntoMobile, The Register, Geek.com, Electronista, THINQ.co.uk, DailyTech and Go Rumors
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Phil Schiller has a Twitter — Apple's VP of iOS Scott Forstall got a Twitter back in mid-July and today Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller got his verified. We've honestly been following his account for a while now but only very recently could it have been verified …
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TechCrunch, MacStories, The Next Web and MacNN, Thanks:markgurman
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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Electronista:
Apple, News Corp seen launchng Daily, iTunes subs on Dec. 9
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The Register, Thanks:jonfingas
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
How Amazon.com undersells Best Buy, the Apple store, and almost everybody else. — Apple's new 11-inch MacBook Air has a list price of $999—that's what you'll pay at Apple.com and the Apple store, as well as at Best Buy and other large retailers. At Amazon.com, though, the same model sells at a slightly lower price—$979.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Verizon proposes wholesale rewrite of US telecom law — Here's something you don't see every day: Verizon just put out a press release titled “Congress Needs to Update the Nation's Antiquated and Anti-Competitive Telecom Rules.” Yeah, no tip-toeing around here — Verizon public policy VP Tom Tauke straight …
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DSLreports, PR Newswire, DailyTech and IntoMobile
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Svpply Is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round — One thing the first Web boom got right: Amazon, eBay and the other big e-commerce sites that made it really easy to buy stuff on the Internet. — But those sites are efficient places to get the things you know you want.
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mokoyfman.com, VatorNews, SiliconANGLE, BoomTown and bijan sabet
Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Holiday plans? Apple & Foxconn increase iPad production capacity — Apple's iPad production is nearing three million units every month in the lead-in to Christmas, with manufacturing partner, Foxconn, opening aditional capacity in its new plants in Chengdu, China.
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TechEye, DigiTimes, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, App Advice, SAI, Electronista, ITProPortal, Erictric and displayblog
Simon Mackie / GigaOM:
Opera 11 Beta Introduces Tab Stacking, Extensions — The beta of Opera 11, released today, continues Opera Software's long tradition of innovating in the browser space by introducing a neat new feature: tab stacking. The idea is that users can stack tabs to group them by site or by theme …
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Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteWeb, my.opera.com, Download Squad, Lifehacker, CNET News, Softpedia News, gHacks Technology News, PC Pro and Inquirer
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Accel Partners' Extraordinary 2005 Fund IX — In 2005 Accel Partners closed its $440 million Accel 9 Fund. That fund may not go down in history as the most profitable venture fund ever, but it will certainly be one to remember. Why? Facebook, for the most part.
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Bloomberg:
China Unicom Restricts Resale of Apple IPhone4 — Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — China United Network Communications Group Co., parent of the nation's only mobile operator offering Apple Inc.'s iPhone, issued new rules restricting the resale of the smartphone for use on other networks.
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The Next Web
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
Qype raises another 6.5 million euros to super-charge mobile, signs Vodafone deal — Local reviews site Qype, which lets you review any venue from restaurants and bars to gyms and childcare, has raised a new funding round amounting to a combined 6.5 million euros to throw fuel onto its mobile business.
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Screenwerk, paidContent and VatorNews
Violet Blue / Tech Broiler Blog:
No “Gay” or “Sex” In Yahoo! Clues: The Emergent Trend of Filtered Results — I asked, and now I'm telling: looks like Yahoo! Clues, the new keyword search and comparison tool, has a problem with the gays. — Yahoo!'s new research tool Clues appears to be part of the growing trend …
Thanks:violetblue
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Apple Acquired Nuance? Five Reasons Why It's Probably Not True — Rumors are swirling this morning about voice technology giant Nuance Communications being acquired by Apple, following remarks made by the company's co-founder Steve Wozniak in a short video interview by TVDeck (see below, skip to the 0:40 mark).
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SAI, mocoNews, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Nuance, Business Wire, Mass High Tech and Phones Review
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Badgeville Investors Now Betting $2.5 Million That You'll Want To Check In To Websites — TechCrunch Disrupt Audience Choice winner Badgeville announces a $2.5 million Series A round today in order to apply its badge-based game mechanics across the web. Investors in the round include eBay …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, EngageDigital, Pulse2 and Scobleizer
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Coupons.com Reaches $1 Billion In Coupons Printed, Growing At A Rate 5x That Of Newspapers — more info (via: Wylio)For the first time ever in a year, digital coupon platform Coupons.com has surpassed a billion dollars in printed coupon savings. A milestone for the company …
