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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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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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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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Go Rumors, TechCrunch, Touch Arcade, TiPb and IntoMobile
Sam Grobart / Gadgetwise:
Understanding AirPlay in Apple's iOS 4.2
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
iOS 4.2 available today, brings the iPad into the multitasking era …
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Macworld, eHomeUpgrade, techeblog.com, The Register and Download Squad
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Ars goes hands-on with AirPlay on iOS 4.2 and Apple TV
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AppleInsider, Macworld, MacStories, CNET News, Faster Forward, Computerworld, App Advice, SAI and VentureBeat
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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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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The Next Web, Hardware 2.0 Blog and Electronista
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google CEO Schmidt: No Chrome OS Netbooks for Christmas
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The Register, Geek.com, Electronista and THINQ.co.uk
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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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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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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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Techland, About Foursquare, IntoMobile, Social Medium, EngageDigital, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Pulse2, Mobile Marketing Watch and SAI
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, MacNN, MacStories and The Next Web, 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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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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Digital Society, Adotas, MediaFile and The Next Web
Jolie O'Dell / Mashable!:
Twitter's Creative Director Talks Design, UX and Inspiration — In the web design community, Doug Bowman has distinguished himself both as an individual and as a part of big-name creative teams. Currently, he is Twitter's creative director, a job he took after leaving Google last year.
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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Kotaku, The Next Web, TechTrends, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, MobileTechWorld and Ubergizmo
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
What's Microsoft's role in the Novell-Attachmate deal? — Seattle-based Attachmate Corp. is buying Novell for $2.2 billion, the companies announced on November 22. At the same time, Novell announced the “concurrent sale of certain intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC …
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Between the Lines Blog, Ars Technica, Open Source Blog, Digital Daily, Electronista, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, OStatic blogs, PE Hub Blog, TechFlash and Computerworld
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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.
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Electronista and Gizmodo
Financial Times:
Spotify under pressure over US launch — By Tim Bradshaw in London, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Spotify is considering a US launch of its digital jukebox service without all four major record labels signed up as pressure builds on its management …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes — Another chapter in the Facebook vs. Lamebook, errmm, book: the social networking giant has confirmed to us that it has moved to diligently block all outgoing links to Lamebook.com, shut down the two-person company's Facebook Page …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog and Neowin.net
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.
Tris Hussey / The Next Web:
Instapaper for iOS updated to support AirPrint and more — One of our favorite services and iOS apps, Instapaper, has bumped up the iOS version of the app (the paid one) to 3.2.1 and one of the key new feature enhancements is support for AirPrint. — Marco has also updated the share panel …
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