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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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Examiner, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, BetaNews, PC World, Wall Street Journal, Liliputing, GottaBeMobile, Internet2Go, BGR, The Toybox Blog, Eurodroid, Fortune, SlashGear and Electronista
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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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VentureBeat, Yahoo! News, Examiner, Laptops and Desktops Blog, TechRadar.com, Inquirer, Crave, CrunchGear, DailyTech, PC World, Pocket-lint, Notebooks.com, Pulse2, Geek.com, SlashGear, Electronista, The Tech Report 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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Examiner, BGR, Android and Me, pocketnow.com, Internet Evolution, The Toybox Blog, GottaBeMobile, DailyTech, MobileWhack.com, Androinica, displayblog and LAPTOP Magazine
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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VentureBeat, BGR, AppleInsider, paidContent, SAI, SlashGear, Billboard.Biz, MacRumors Page 2, Media Decoder, MacStories, Neowin.net, Techie Buzz, Reuters, Geek.com, iLounge, Pulse2, MacNN and TUAW
James Fee / James Fee GIS Blog:
What Steve Coast's Move to Bing Really Means — OK, sure — there is a rush to blog the news. Steve Coast joined Bing. But leaving it at just that news misses the whole point of what Bing/Microsoft wants and why Steve would go join the Bing Maps team. Remember this news a couple months ago?
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Bing Embraces OpenStreetMap, Hires Founder
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SteveC, ReadWriteWeb, Bing and Pulse2
Karen Gullo / Bloomberg:
SAP Must Pay Oracle $1.3 Billion Over Unit's Downloads — SAP AG, the world's largest maker of business application software, must pay $1.3 billion to Oracle Corp. for copyright infringement by a now-defunct software maintenance unit, a federal jury in California decided.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Oracle-SAP: Closing Statements Followed by Closing Insults
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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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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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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.
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Reuters:
Wozniak says he was wrong about Nuance/Apple deal — Retired Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak said he was “totally wrong” in recently suggesting the iPhone maker had bought speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. Nuance's shares had touched a 2-1/2-year high on Tuesday …
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Nielsen Wire:
Kids in the U.S. Eyeing Big-Ticket Tech This Holiday Season — With Black Friday rapidly approaching, parents may want to get up early Friday morning to find deals, as a recent survey shows their kids are eyeing some wallet-stretching electronics this holiday season.
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SAI, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Hillicon Valley, IGN Gear, Notebooks.com, Crave, MobileBurn.com, Gearlog, Yahoo! News, www.pocketgamer.biz, Eurogamer and The Loop
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
iOS 4.3 To Launch In Mid-December With App Subscriptions — iOS 4.2 went public yesterday, but Apple is already aiming at a mid-December release for the next major update of its mobile operating system, iOS 4.3. Before we get into the details and we try to put the pieces together …
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MacRumors, App Advice, AppleInsider, Covering Web, BlogsDNA, TiPb, I4U News, everythingiCafe, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo and GigaOM, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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eWeek, Pulse2, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, GigaOM, IntoMobile, The Next Web, MobileCrunch, Mashable!, NetworkEffect and Electronista
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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Social Medium, Mashable! and SAI
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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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Fans Throw Eggs At Houses Blurred In Google Street View — Some people who chose to blur their houses on Google Street View in Germany received an unexpected real life blurring: Google fans who threw eggs at their homes. — Deutsche Welle reports that on Saturday …
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The Not-So Private Parts, Deutsche Welle, Gizmodo, Fortune, Gawker, msnbc.com, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic Online, SAI and Tech Report
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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Pulse2, Softpedia News, Mashable! and TechSpot
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Poaching Enterprise Sales Staff From Research in Motion — As evidence of Apple's strong push into the enterprise market for the iPhone, The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that the company has hired at least five key members of Research in Motion's enterprise sales staff over the last year and a half.
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AppleInsider, SAI, Dow Jones Newswires, BlackBerry Cool, Electronista and Edible Apple
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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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Patent Office Agrees To Facebook's “Face” Trademark — Facebook is just a payment away from trademarking the word “Face.” As of today the U.S. Patent Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means they have agreed to grant the “Face” patent to Facebook.
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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, Softpedia News, Kotaku, TechTrends and CNET News
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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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hollywood's Big Hope: Google Shows Up With Suitcase Full of Money. It Could Happen! — Here's a script Hollywood has been pitching for some time: Google comes to town with a checkbook in hand. — It hasn't happened yet, but the longer the company struggles to break into the market for …
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Lance Whitney / CNET News:
Army launches video-sharing site for the military — People serving in the U.S. military now have their own Web site where they can upload, share, and watch videos. — Announced yesterday, the new MilTube site has been set up as a safer, more secure alternative to YouTube, with content protected behind firewalls.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Is this the Motorola Olympus Tegra 2 smartphone? — A tipster is shopping this device around the tech blog circuit this morning claiming it's the first of two “iPhone killer” Olympus Tegra 2 smartphones from Motorola. At first glance, it looks like a Motorola Defy.
