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Gizmodo:
The Ultimate Black Friday 2010 Cheat Sheet [Updated] — Black Friday's the biggest shopping day of the year. There are tons of deals—and not-really-deals—capitalizing on the hysteria. So, we've combed through every single deal we could find and ranked them all.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Black Friday 2010: List of Apple and 3rd Party Discounts on Apple and Mac Products — Apple has officially unveiled their U.S. Black Friday sales for their online and retail stores. The discounts are in line with past year events, around 8% depending on the product.
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9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, Engadget, MacNN and Gizmodo
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Google's Chrome OS Is Prepared for a Netbook — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When a Google engineer gave top executives computers running the company's new Chrome operating system, Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, tried to hold on to his computer running an older version.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google VP: Chrome OS Coming To Tablets & TVs; Windows And Sys Admins Going Down — Chrome OS draws near. Last night brought perhaps the more surefire sign yet: Google is openly talking to The New York Times about it. Perhaps that is in response to rumors that it was being delayed into next year.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Kinect hacks let you control a web browser and Windows 7 using only The Force (updated) — Hacking the Xbox 360 Kinect is all about baby steps on the way to what could ultimately amount to some pretty useful homebrew. Here's a good example cooked up by some kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid …
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CNET News, GottaBeMobile, ReadWriteWeb, T3.com News, VG247, technabob, Neowin.net and Web Browsers
Imran / iThinkDifferent:
The first Windows Phone 7 'Jailbreak'/Unlock ChevronWP7 is Out - Download now! — Admit it. You were waiting for a jailbreak for your WP7 Phone for the sake of ‘freedom’ and whatever it is that gets you going through the day with a phone that can run apps with access to private APIs.
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ChevronWP7, Engadget, istartedsomething, Hardware 2.0 Blog, WPCentral.com, BlogsDNA, Shoutpedia, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Geek.com, ThinkMobile, PalmAddicts and WinRumors, Thanks:itdfeed
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
A Look At Windows Phone 7 Marketplace's Catalog, App Prices (Distimo Report)
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mocoNews, The Next Web, HEXUS.channel and www.pocketgamer.biz
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone 7 now has over 15,000 developers and nearly 3,000 apps and games
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Engadget, LaptopMemo, Electricpig.co.uk, IntoMobile, Electronista, Geek.com, PhoneArena, VG247, Pulse2, Inquirer, RCR Unplugged, Phones Review, PalmAddicts, SlashGear and Recombu
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Inevitable! Google Chrome Extension Exports Your Facebook Contacts — Well look what we have here ... Last time we checked in on the Facebook/Google slapfight, Facebook had removed the option to import your contacts from Gmail and was still holding strong on the whole …
Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:
The TSA Needs to Opt Out of Tweeting — The TSA has its own Twitter account—which could be a great way to inform the scared, angry public (and do damage control). Instead, it's filled with idiotic, tasteless, and downright creepy tweets. Funded by your tax money.
Captainkrtek / xda-developers:
XDA Exclusive: Gingerbread 2.3 / Nexus S Pictures (Update) — Well, we have a little Thanksgiving treat for all of you. Thanks to a source that chooses to remain anonymous, we got exclusive pictures of the elusive Gingerbread! We can now confirm Gingerbread is Android 2.3 and not 3.0.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Apple bars ‘all single-station radio apps’ from iPhone — 'They're like fart apps,' howl Jobsian minions — Apple is now barring all single-station radio applications from the iPhone and iPad, insisting that “single station apps are the same as a fart app and represent spam in the iTunes store.”
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9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, Silicon Valley BizBlog, The Next Web, MacStories, Pulse2, BlogsDNA, Music Ally, App Advice, Softpedia News, ITProPortal and iClarified
Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Say Cheese: Social Photo Sharing App Throwdown — You badly need to share that photo of your cat wearing a pumpkin costume. It's understandable. You've got an iPhone and Internet access, but which app should you use? There's recently been a mini-boom in social photo sharing applications …
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Thanksgiving Recipes Are Latest Proof That Google Is Officially A Media Company — Here's one of the nicer Google “doodle” logos we've seen in a while: A photographic spelling of “Google” made out of Thanksgiving fixings. If you hover over each of the food items, it magnifies, and lets you click through to a recipe.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Search Engine Land, Gearlog and MarketingVOX
