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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More — Following on the heels of this week's domain seizure of a large hiphop file-sharing links forum, it's clear today that the U.S. Government has been very busy. Without any need for COICA, ICE has just seized the domain …
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Hillicon Valley, Techie Buzz, TechSpot, CircleID, p2pnet, THINQ.co.uk and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog
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Nick Saint / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Homeland Security Is Seizing Internet Domains Left And Right — The Department of Homeland Security's ICE has launched a major crackdown on websites enabling copyright infringement or selling counterfeits of trademarked goods. In just the past few days ICE has seized at least 12 domains, TorrentFreak reports.
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TorrentFreak
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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Tech Trader Daily, Examiner, PC World, techblog.dallasnews.com, MacRumors, The Next Web, gHacks Technology News, Engadget, TUAW, MacStories, PadGadget, BGR, Neowin.net, Shoutpedia, PhoneArena, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, displayblog, ThinkMobile, Erictric, MobileBurn.com, Ubergizmo, Pulse2 and O'Grady's PowerPage
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Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
iPad 2 Getting Gyroscope, Retina Display, USB?
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Computerworld, BlogsDNA and TiPb
Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Los Angeles Times:
For some, the Microsoft Store concept is a puzzle — The stores, now totaling seven, may be just about keeping the brand in the public consciousness, an analyst speculates. Unlike at the Apple stores, many of the products offered can be found elsewhere. Then there's the missing ‘cool’ factor.
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TUAW, Daring Fireball and Electronista
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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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Checkout Now Offers Black Friday Deals
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, GigaOM, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Gearlog, SAI and Gizmodo
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft: Using ChevronWP7 unlock could render Windows Phone 7 permanently unusable — Microsoft has responded to the recent news of an unlock tool for Windows Phone 7. — A Windows Phone 7 “unlock” tool was released on Thursday that allows owners to side load home-brew applications.
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SAI, istartedsomething, MobileTechWorld, Erictric, ChevronWP7, BrokeController, Engadget, DailyTech, mobiputing, Pronet Advertising, ReadWriteWeb, Pulse2, Electronista, WMPoweruser.com, pocketnow.com, Within Windows and iThinkDifferent, Thanks:rebsurry
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Paul Paliath / GeekSmack:
Interview: A chat with the guys behind ChevronWP7
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ChevronWP7, Thanks:paulz0r
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Cydia hack enables Airplay in all apps — Following on from Erica's Sadun's discovery of a way to enable AirPlay Video streaming in third-party apps, a developer named Zone-MR created a hack which enables this feature in all applications including Apple's Safari.
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App Advice, Covering Web, Redmond Pie, Engadget, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and Gizmodo
Emma Barnett / Telegraph:
Twitter lacks ‘clear long term vision’ admits new CEO — Dick Costolo, Twitter's chief executive, has admitted that the microblogging company is currently lacking a clear long term vision. — Dick Costolo, formerly the chief operating officer of Twitter, took over as the company's chief executive officer last month.
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SAI, Scripting News, VentureBeat and Pulse2, Thanks:michaelkroker
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Can Mobile Phones Think? — Almost six years ago, while working on a story for Business 2.0 magazine, I remember having a conversation with someone from Nokia about the possibility that one day mobile phones could think and adapt to our environment. For instance, what if the phone …
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Roope Tassberg / Nokia Beta Labs:
Introducing Nokia Situations - tell your device how you want it to behave
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pocketnow.com, ReadWriteWeb and ThinkMobile
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Japan Real Time:
No iPhone? DoCoMo Turns to the Dark Side … After losing out on the rights to sell Apple Inc.'s iPhone to Softbank Corp. in the Japanese market, NTT DoCoMo Inc., the country's top mobile carrier, is aggressively promoting rival smartphone offerings such as Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy handset.
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SAI, MobileCrunch, Engadget, Android Community, PhoneReport v2.0, The Next Web, Android Phone Fans and Phones Review
DigiTimes:
Monthly MacBook shipments in 4Q10 to reach 1 million units — Apple's global shipments of MacBook series notebooks in the fourth quarter of 2010 will reach a monthly average of one million units, with MacBook Air models to account for 20-25% of the volume, according to sources from notebook component makers.
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SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, Pulse2, Macgasm, MacStories, Electronista, Tech Trader Daily and MacDailyNews
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japan iPhone craze attracts global app developers — TOKYO - The iPhone's popularity in Japan is cracking open an industry long thought inaccessible to outsiders. — For years, the typical Japanese cell phone — built to operate on a network hardly used anywhere else in the world …
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PhoneArena
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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Cult of Mac, App Advice, Macgasm, Pulse2, BlogsDNA, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, iPhone in Canada Blog and Electronista
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Chrome and Multiple Profiles — Google Chrome has always supported multiple profiles, but you had to use a command-line flag (—user-data-dir="c:\path\to\the\p rofile") to associate a profile with a folder where the browser will save its state. — At some point, Google added an option …
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Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb and Techie Buzz
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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Digital Trends, ReadWriteWeb, BGR, Computerworld, Reuters, Ars Technica, Dow Jones Newswires, Pulse2, Associated Press, TorrentFreak, Mashable!, The Local, eWeek, BBC, Slyck, The Register, Guardian, Music Ally, Techie Buzz, TechSpot, Softpedia News, p2pnet, Pocket-lint, ITProPortal, THINQ.co.uk and SlashGear
W.J. Hennigan / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Cyber Monday deals will be more aggressive and more widespread, retail group says — Even while Black Friday is in full swing, many retailers are looking ahead to another big shopping day for bargain-hunters: Cyber Monday. — Thankfully for consumers there are no long lines or pushy salespeople on the Internet.
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I4U News
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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Examiner, MacStories and Fortune
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Motion, Sensitive — WHAT does it mean to play a game? — As someone who spends at least 1,500 hours a year alone in my house playing video games, I can tell you it has always meant pressing a lot of buttons. — In video games there has traditionally been a button for everything.
