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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch Android tablets, shipping April 2011 — Shocker of shockers, folks — Acer's getting into the tablet game, too. With the holidays too close for comfort, the outfit's giving everyone pause that was considering that janky Android tablet on sale for Black Friday.
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IntoMobile, BetaNews, PC World, Internet2Go, The Toybox Blog, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Electronista, BGR and Eurodroid
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer reveals Iconia dual-screen laptop / tablet, Clear.fi cloud-based media sharing system — Here in New York at Acer's Global press event, the company's talking touch. Lots and lots of touch. It'll be introducing a veritable smorgasbord of equipment as the minutes roll on …
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Laptops and Desktops Blog, Inquirer, TechRadar.com, DailyTech, CrunchGear, Electronista, Notebooks.com, Pulse2, Geek.com, BrokeController, The Tech Report, PC World, Pocket-lint, SlashGear and Recombu
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Acer reveals 4.8-inch Android smartphone with 1024x480 screen resolution — Acer may be calling this “100 percent smartphone. 100 percent tablet.,” but something just doesn't add up there. That being said, we have to agree that a 1024x480 screen resolution on a 4.8-inch smartphone is downright drool-worthy.
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The Toybox Blog, Android and Me, displayblog, Androinica, DailyTech, GottaBeMobile, MobileWhack.com and BGR
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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eWeek, PC World, msnbc.com, Pulse2, GigaOM, App Advice, Gearlog, Softpedia News, I4U News, MacRumors, TUAW, SlashGear, 9 to 5 Mac, Geek.com, The Huffington Post and IntoMobile
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook Alternative Diaspora Launches Their Private Alpha With Some Bet Hedging — We've been tracking the progress of Diaspora, the open-source Facebook alternative, since before the project even started. That's because the idea got so much buzz on the crowdsourced micro-funding site Kickstarter …
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Mashable!, join diaspora and The Next Web
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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ReadWriteWeb, App Advice, Pocket-lint, Erictric, FierceMobileContent, SlashGear, TUAW, Pulse2, Download Squad, Houston Chronicle, CNET News, MacStories, FierceDeveloper and Crave
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Video Support for AirPlay Is Limited in iOS 4.2
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SAI, Computerworld, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, everythingiCafe, Apple Gazette, The Apple Core Blog, Macworld, TiPb and Apple
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
Skyfire Debuts 3.0 for Android: A “Browser for the Social Networking Generation” — Skyfire, the mobile browser that brought Flash video to the iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices, is unveiling version 3.0 for Android today. This latest version of Skyfire, dubbed the “Facebook edition” …
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GigaOM, NetworkEffect, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Pulse2, Softpedia News, Mashable!, eWeek, IntoMobile and The Next Web
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zynga Is “Extremely Pleased” With Playdom/Disney Litigation Settlement — A little over a year ago Zynga sued rival game startup Playdom for, among other things, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of the duty of loyalty, tortious interference with contracts …
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VentureBeat, paidContent, Gamasutra, SAI and Pulse2
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Google Fired an Apple Legend for Leaking Internal Memo — The saga of Randy Wigginton is long and lively. He was employee number six at Apple. A distinguished engineer at PayPal and eBay. And now word out of Google is that he's been fired there for leaking a raise.
Chris Dixon / cdixon's posterous:
Bubble or bust? Nobody knows anything … Sequoia Capital is widely (and, in my opinion, correctly) considered to be the best venture capital firm on the planet. Their list of hits include Apple, Oracle, Cisco, Atari, EA, Google, Yahoo, and Paypal (and that's just counting the investments …
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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.
Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
How Kleiner Perkins Almost Blew Its Best Investment Since Google — The investment that could be Kleiner Perkins' greatest success since Google almost never was. — At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, KP partner John Doerr said that “Zynga is the largest, most rapidly growing …
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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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Internet2Go, 9 to 5 Mac, Business Wire, mocoNews, VentureBeat, Nuance, Xconomy, Pulse2, SAI, NBC Bay Area, TVDeck.com Blog, Mass High Tech, Tech Trader Daily and Phones Review
Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
Microsoft Job Advert Hints at Apps for Xbox — Microsoft is looking to expand its Silverlight web platform to Xbox 360, according to a recent job advertisement placed by the company. — “Silverlight is looking to hire motivated developers with a passion for creating ground breaking …
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VentureBeat, TechTrends, Kotaku, CNET News and Softpedia News
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
The Beatles Aren't Yesterday, After All: Two Million Songs, 450,000 Albums in a Week — Question every Internet wisenheimer had last week: “Doesn't every Beatles fan already have every Beatles song?” — Answer: Nope. Consumers had room for two million Fab Four songs …
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Guardian, SAI, Billboard.Biz, MacStories and Reuters
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Bing Embraces OpenStreetMap, Hires Founder — Microsoft announced that it has hired CloudeMade and OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder Steve Coast as “Principal Architect for Bing Mobile,” as well as a kind of liason to the “open map community.” According to data in the Bing post announcing Coast's hiring …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Blekko Partners Up With Search Engine DuckDuckGo — Blekko, the little search engine that could, has just come off the success of hitting one million search queries day and 30,000 slashtags (human curated search topics like /colleges, /vegan, /blogs) created in it's first week of existence.
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Search Engine Land, Gabriel Weinberg's Blog, Skrentablog, Mashable!, Marksonland and Search Engine Journal
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
St. Clair accuses Apple, RIM, HTC of patent infringement — St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants, a firm that sued Apple a year ago over camera-related patents, has filed a new suit in relation to patents it owns regarding power maintenance and processors.
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 Trends, CNET News, OStatic blogs, PC Pro, The Tech Herald …, The Next Web, THINQ.co.uk, SiliconANGLE and ITProPortal
Neil Stevens / The Big Blog:
Celebrating 25 million concurrent users — Yesterday we reached a new milestone for peak concurrent users: 25 million people online, on Skype, at the same time. Our software is designed to handle large numbers of concurrent users, with wideband audio and group video calls all flowing smoothly around …
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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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VentureBeat, mokoyfman.com, VatorNews, SiliconANGLE and bijan sabet
Electronista:
Dell selling Streak unlocked in US with Android 2.2, 32GB — Dell today began selling an unlocked version of the Streak along with an OS upgrade. The new version, which can now work on T-Mobile or other GSM carriers, is the first in the US to ship with Android 2.2 out of the box.
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BGR, BlogsDNA, Fortune, Android Phone Fans, IntoMobile and BrokeController, Thanks:chrisleckness
Chris Thompson / About Foursquare:
Getting your “baggage” handled by the TSA? Yeah, there's a badge for that — Foursquare's irreverent sense of humor couldn't have come into play at a better time. As millions of travelers prepare for the US's busiest travel weekend of the year, foursquare has released a new badge picking up on America's latest punchline, the TSA.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Oracle-SAP: Closing Statements Followed by Closing Insults — With closing arguments said and done, the Oracle-SAP case is nearly over, but the companies continue to trade sucker punches outside the courtroom. In dueling statements issued Monday night, Oracle branded SAP an IP plunderer …
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Ken Gagne / Computerworld:
Apple-1 goes for $213K in Christie's auction — It was No. 82 of about 200 Apple-1s made — Computerworld - Christie's auction house in London today sold an Apple-1 computer for £133,250, or $213,600. — The lot, which went up for auction at 9:30 a.m. ET today, had an estimated value of between $160,300 and $240,450.
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