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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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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.
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, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Electronista, PhoneArena and MacStories
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Jolicloud Jolibook review — The Jolicloud Jolibook. Oh yes, it's sounded like a made-up device ever since the pictures of it started to leak out, but the netbook centered around the Jolicloud Linux operating system is indeed a real product. So real that we've been using the Atom N550-powered system over the past few days.
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ReadWriteCloud, netbooknews.com, displayblog and Liliputing
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
My thoughts on “My thoughts on ChevronWP7″ — I would be lying if I said I didn't think some people would get the wrong idea about ChevronWP7, which is why we went into great lengths to emphasis it is just an unlocking tool and even outlined our position on application piracy.
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Neowin.net, VentureBeat, SAI, DailyTech, WMPoweruser.com and ChevronWP7
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft: Using ChevronWP7 unlock could render Windows Phone 7 permanently unusable
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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, ReadWriteWeb and TomsTechBlog.com
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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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, Electronista and Daring Fireball
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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SlashGear, Engadget, Covering Web, BlogsDNA, App Advice, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, Neowin.net, PhoneArena and Gizmodo
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
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.
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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Electronista, TechCrunch, SAI, MobileCrunch, PhoneArena, Engadget, Android Community, Android Phone Fans, PhoneReport v2.0, The Next Web and Phones Review
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.
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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Gearlog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Examiner, GigaOM, SAI and Gizmodo
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