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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, PC World, Ars Technica, GottaBeMobile, mocoNews, AndroidSPIN, Liliputing, Gadgetell, SlashGear, Examiner, Neowin.net, Wall Street Journal, Fudzilla, BetaNews, Eurodroid, BGR, Internet2Go, Electronista and The Toybox Blog
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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 …
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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Ray Willington / Hot Hardware:
Acer's “Alive” Digital Content Platform: A New App Store Emerges
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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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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 …
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 And Trademark Office has sent the social networking site a Notice of Allowance, which means they have agreed to grant the “Face” trademark to Facebook.
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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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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Flash Free: Aviary Hatches A Lightweight HTML5 Photo Editor For The Web — Aviary is very good at what they do. That is, offering relatively powerful tools for amateur artists to edit content online. But all of those tools are Flash-based. And some of Aviary's partners didn't like that too much, feeling they were too cumbersome.
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David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Amazon Black Friday deal: $89 Kindle 2 — Alert. Amazon just slipped a little Black Friday deal onto its Facebook page: $89 for its second-generation Kindle. — Here's the full text of the message: … We don't know how long the deal will last (it starts at 9 a.m. PT) but the price seems somewhat enticing.
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BGR, Erictric, CrunchGear, Gizmodo and eWeek
Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
No End In Sight For TiVo Losses — DVR pioneer TiVo reported third-quarter earnings for the quarter ended Oct. 31 after market close today, and the news wasn't good. — Net losses more than tripled from last year's quarter to $20.4 million, and revenue was $41.3 million …
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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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Examiner, Pulse2 and The Register
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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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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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple analysts under SEC investigation for ‘channel checks’ — The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission is investigating Wall Street analysts who cover Apple over the possibility that ‘channel checks,’ routine checks with suppliers and manufacturers, constitute insider trading.
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Wall Street Journal, SlashGear and MacDailyNews
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures arms HTC with big patent trove — Mobile phone maker HTC today announced a licensing deal that gives it acess to a large collection of patents owned by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based firm run by Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft chief technology officer.
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PR Newswire, Engadget, SlashGear, Electronista and The Register
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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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple Patent Case Against Motorola to Get Trade Agency Review — Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc.'s patent claims against Motorola Inc. will be reviewed by the U.S. International Trade Commission, which could issue an order banning Motorola phones from the U.S.
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Royal Pingdom:
Mobile web usage highest in Asia and Africa — We increasingly access the Web from our mobile phones, especially now that the rise of smartphones is making it easier than ever to get a decent web experience on the small screen. — However, the highest share of mobile web usage …
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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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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
RIM: Kik was pulled from App World over ‘breached contractual obligations’ — Looks like RIM has made a final decision on the Kik situation after having pulled the wildly popular upstart instant messaging app from the BlackBerry App World a few days ago — and for current and hopeful Kik users, the news isn't good (bold added by us):
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Kik Interactive, IntoMobile, Appboy Blog, PhoneArena, GigaOM, Electronista, CrackBerry.com blogs, Gizmodo, BlackBerry Cool, The Next Web, BerryReview.com and BGR, Thanks:budip
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
RockYou CEO Lance Tokuda Steps Down — RockYou founder and CEO Lance Tokuda is no longer leading the company, we've confirmed. Tokuda helped found RockYou back in 2005, and led it through several funding rounds totalling nearly $130 million. The change comes at a critical time in RockYou's life …
