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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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TechCrunch, Inquirer, iPodNN, AppleInsider, Gearlog, O'Grady's PowerPage, Computerworld, Neowin.net, PE Hub Blog, The Next Web, Engadget, Examiner, The Huffington Post, 9 to 5 Mac and Softpedia News
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Electronista:
Microsoft Black Friday: free netbook with Office, Mac deal — Not normally known for its Black Friday deals, Microsoft today launched a promo that promises major giveaways, including for Mac users. The highlight is a free Dell Mini 1018 netbook with a copy of Office Home and Business 2010 …
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AppleInsider and Gearlog
DigiTimes:
Apple to add 5 new features to iPad 2, says paper — A Chinese-language Economy Daily News (EDN) report citing industry sources claims Apple will add five new features to the iPad 2: video phone, better mobility, USB port, new display technology and 3-axis gyroscopes.
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SAI, Computerworld, PC World, TiPb, Pocket-lint, Shoutpedia, MacStories, Softpedia News, The Next Web and MobileBurn.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
The Address Book Wars Continue: Facebook Contact-Scraping Chrome Extension Taken Down — This is just getting silly. Yesterday, we reported on a new Chrome extension created by a developer that allowed you to scrape your Facebook contact information. Called “Facebook Doesn't Own My Friends …
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Inevitable! Google Chrome Extension Exports Your Facebook Contacts
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google's Internal Chrome OS Netbooks Codenamed “Mario” And “Andretti”? — So, it appears that the first Chrome OS netbooks are set to launch in the next few weeks. And it now appears that the first ones will be Google-branded versions, built by a third-party manufacturer.
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Softpedia News, Electronista, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, Fortune, Technologizer, Google Operating System and New York Times, Thanks:blogfisher
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google VP: Chrome OS Coming To Tablets & TVs; Windows And Sys Admins Going Down
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Search Engine Land, THINQ.co.uk, Electronista and LAPTOP Magazine
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
‘Collections’, PDF E-Mailing and Printing coming to iBooks — Just yesterday we reported that Steve Jobs informed a customer that better iBooks management would be ‘coming’ and today we got our hands on the details. First of all folders are indeed coming to iBooks for iOS and are similar to the folders on the iOS 4 homescreen.
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BlogsDNA, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista
Chris Chang / M.I.C gadget:
The End of Apple CEO Action Figure — A few hours ago, we have just received an email from a law firm representing Apple.Inc. Apple has informed us that this phenomenal SJ action figure, has not consented to the use of Apple's copyrights and trademarks, therefore they request us immediately …
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Fortune and MacStories
Richard Tyler / Telegraph:
Groupon explains why Google is in takeover talks — US voucher website Groupon, which trades in the UK as MyCityDeal, sets out why companies like Google and Yahoo! are interested in the fast growing company — Groupon has revealed why companies like Yahoo and Google may want to buy the fast growing online discount voucher company.
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SAI and The Next Web
Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
So Google's Buying Your Startup. Now What? — Google's M&A chief has to persuade founders to stick around, often with financial incentives and the promise of expanded roles — You'd think David Lawee has it easy. He's the mergers-and-acquisitions chief for Google (GOOG) …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
A Look At Windows Phone 7 Marketplace's Catalog, App Prices (Distimo Report) — App store analytics provider Distimo took its monthly look at the world of mobile application stores, and this time zoomed in on the differences between Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Marketplace and Windows Marketplace for Mobile (6.x).
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ReadWriteWeb, The Register, Inquirer, Softpedia News, ThinkMobile, IntoMobile, HEXUS.channel, LaptopMemo, New Media Age, The Next Web, TechFlash and Engadget
Naked Security / Sophos:
Twitter hacker spreads Tsunami warning from government advisor's account — As many people have found, Twitter is a fantastic tool for spreading important news rapidly. — In the past it's been used to share information about fires in Los Angeles, emergency landings in the Hudson River …
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The Jakarta Globe, The Register, Softpedia News, Inquirer and The Next Web
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Pirate Bay trial appeal: Defendants face $6.5m fine and jail time — Three men connected with infamous BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay have today been told they face prison sentences and payment of a share of a $6.5 million in damages to the entertainment industry.
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BBC, TorrentFreak, The Local, Guardian, PC World, The Register, Mashable!, p2pnet, Dow Jones Newswires, THINQ.co.uk and SlashGear
