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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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New York Times, CNET News, Mashable!, Gizmodo, TechSpot, Techie Buzz, Hillicon Valley, 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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Engadget, PC World, Macgasm, The Next Web, MacRumors, techblog.dallasnews.com, gHacks Technology News, TUAW, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Neowin.net, PadGadget, Examiner, ThinkMobile, Tech Trader Daily, Shoutpedia, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, BGR, O'Grady's PowerPage, Pulse2, MacStories, Pocket-lint, MobileBurn.com, displayblog and Erictric
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Apple bans Android magazine app — Tells a Danish publisher he can't sell a magazine about Google's OS in Apple's App Store — Tuesday seems to have been Apple's (AAPL) day for saying “No.” — First Apple Legal ordered the Chinese manufacturer of a Steve Jobs look-alike doll to stop making the popular action figure.
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MediaWatch and The Next Web
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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Engadget, App Advice, Neowin.net, Covering Web, BlogsDNA, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog and Gizmodo
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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Electronista, TUAW and Daring Fireball
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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Scripting News, SAI, VentureBeat, Pulse2 and Epicenter, Thanks:michaelkroker
Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:
No Angry Birds For Windows Phone 7 In 2010 — This may make you sad, but there is nearly no chance that Windows Phone 7 users will be able to enjoy some Angry Birds fun on their phones this year. — Despite previous rumors to the contrary, we have confirmed that indeed Windows Phone 7 will not get the app.
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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Pulse2, Erictric, Macgasm, Electronista, SAI, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, Tech Trader Daily and MacDailyNews
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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TechCrunch, Electronista, SAI, MobileCrunch, Engadget, Android Community, PhoneReport v2.0, Android Phone Fans, The Next Web and Phones Review
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
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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LAPTOP Magazine, Redmond Pie, istartedsomething, Electricpig.co.uk, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, pocketnow.com, Crave, mobiputing, DailyTech, IntoMobile, SAI, Pulse2, MobileTechWorld, WMPoweruser.com, Erictric, Within Windows, Electronista, BrokeController 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
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
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Google Checkout Now Offers Black Friday Deals — Last year, Google Checkout debuted a holiday savings promotion in time for Cyber Monday, the monday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It looks like Google has gotten a slight head start this year, and is now offering Black Friday promotions for Google Checkout promotions.
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PC World, Gearlog, GigaOM, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, SAI and Gizmodo
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Former Digg VP Of Engineering Lands At Gilt Groupe — Well there's at least one former Digg engineer out there that had a happier Thanksgiving. We've gotten word that John Quinn, former Digg VP of Engineering, will be joining luxury discount marketplace Gilt Groupe as VP of Engineering come next Monday.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
How Did The Beatles Sell 2 Million Songs On iTunes? Mostly Facebook (Not Search) — Although at least one recent study says search beats social media when it comes to product discovery, those rules don't apply to The Beatles. When you're known worldwide and have set the standard …
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Hitwise Intelligence and ReadWriteWeb
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Pages Can Have All Their Admins Removed, Leaving No Way to Control Them — Facebook Page admins recently received the ability to remove all existing administrators including themselves from a Page, preventing anyone from editing or posting as that Page.
