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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Board Will Meet Tomorrow To Decide On Google Deal — Amidst everyone in the world writing about the rumored $5.3 billion dollar Google Groupon offer at the moment, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the deal has not yet been sealed and that Groupon's board of directors is holding …
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George Ou / Digital Society:
Level 3 outbid Akamai on Netflix by reselling stolen bandwidth — Level 3 communications raised a lot of eyebrows earlier this month when it outbid rival Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider Akamai to deliver Netflix content to large parts of the United States.
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ZDNet, Level 3 Communications, CNET News, GigaOM, Electronista, CNNMoney.com and Fortune
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J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works — In the last couple of days, since Level 3 challenged Comcast's “Internet peering” practices and said they violated the principles of “net neutrality,” a lot of people have been trying to understand just how “Internet peering” works.
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Computerworld, paidContent, CableTechTalk, GigaOM, Digital Society, Telecom Trends, Between the Lines Blog and Business Wire
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra — Wharton Business School professor Kevin Werbach dubs Comcast's actions this week a “turning point in US Internet policy.” Law professor Susan Crawford calls Comcast a terrifying, hat-wearing hydra—and she's looking for a Hercules to cut it down to size.
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savetheinternet.com/blog, Skype Journal, GigaOM, Susan Crawford blog, Media Decoder and Comcast Voices
Wall Street Journal:
Web-Traffic Tension Rises — U.S. regulators are looking into a dispute between two large companies that shuttle traffic around the Internet, a business invisible to most consumers but increasingly fraught with tension. — The issue gets to the heart of a longstanding argument: Who should pay for the Internet?
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eWeek, Comcast Voices, Free Press, ITworld.com, SiliconANGLE, Between the Lines Blog, dailywireless.org, Media Decoder and GigaOM
Vijay Sankaran / Nokia Siemens Networks Blog:
New iPhone OS supports our network technology to boost smartphone performance — With its latest iPhone iOs 4.2 software, it looks like Apple is joining efforts to cut smartphone signalling down to size. Tests by Nokia Siemens Networks have shown that iPhone iOs 4.2 supports …
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, DailyTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, GigaOM, Electronista, Communications …, Light Reading, iClarified and IntoMobile
Wall Street Journal:
Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture — Google Inc. is in the final stages of launching its long-awaited e-book retailing venture, Google Editions, a move that could shake up the way digital books are sold. — The long-delayed venture—Google executives had said they hoped to launch this summer …
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CNET News, paidContent, The Next Web and Kindle Review, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Incredible Stupidity Of Investigating Google For Acting Like A Search Engine — I did a search at Google today for “cars” and was shocked. Rather than list links allowing me to search for “cars” on Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Voila, Naver and Yandex, Google instead favored its own search results.
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BBC, Techdirt, SAI, TechEye, Techie Buzz, Guardian, European Public Policy Blog, VatorNews, Pulse2, BuzzMachine, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Tech Report and Bloomberg
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EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google
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eWeek, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, InformationWeek, Bloomberg, Mashable!, Internet Archive News, Computerworld, Telegraph, paidContent, TechFlash, PC World, MacDailyNews, Tnooz, BetaNews, New York Times, Adotas, TechCrunch Europe, Financial Times, The Register, V3.co.uk, VentureBeat, Neowin.net, Inside Google, PC Magazine, Post Tech, Search Engine Watch, CNET News, GigaOM, THINQ.co.uk, Search Engine Land and SlashGear
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Facebook Engineering Director Aditya Agarwal Departs — Facebook director of engineering and very early employee Aditya Agarwal is leaving the company after more than five years, he announced last night. — In a note published on his Facebook profile, Agarwal said:
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: AirPlay Video Streaming Coming to Safari and Third-Party Apps in 2011 — One of the major new features deployed in iOS 4.2 last week was AirPlay, Apple's solution for streaming video, audio, and photos from portable iOS devices to the new Apple TV for display on users' televisions.
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Computerworld, BlogsDNA, TiPb, Gizmodo, Gadget Lab, MacStories, App Advice, Netputing, TUAW, BGR, iClarified, Edible Apple and everythingiCafe
Nick Denton / Lifehacker:
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog — The 2011 template represents the most significant change in the Gawker model since the launch of Gizmodo and Gawker in 2002. One could go further: it represents an evolution of the very blog form that has transformed online media over the last eight years.
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VentureBeat, SAI and CNET News, more at Mediagazer »
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures — The domain seizures by the United States authorities in recent days and upcoming legislation that could make similar takeovers even easier in the future, have inspired a group of enthusiasts to come up with a new, decentralized and BitTorrent-powered DNS system.
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mygadgetnews.com, P2P Dns, DSLreports, Business Wire, Computerworld, DomainIncite.com, Techdirt, Techie Buzz, Gizmodo, CircleID and OSNews
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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Fed up with ICANN, Pirate Bay cofounder floats P2P DNS system
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ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch
Royal Pingdom:
Mobile OS usage splits the world (chart) — Where do you think Apple's iPhone is the most popular? Where does Nokia's Symbian phones dominate? How is it going for Android in different parts of the world? What about Blackberry? — We're going to answer all of those questions and more in this article …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Winamp Wants To Be The iTunes Of Android; Now Out Of Beta With Wireless Sync — Today Winamp for Android is coming out of beta, a month after its initial launch and more than 500,000 downloads later. The public Android release lets you manage your music downloads on your Android and will offer …
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Engadget, Winamp Blog, Pulse2, mygadgetnews.com, ReadWriteWeb, BGR, pocketnow.com, Electronista, Newlaunches.com, IntoMobile, TechSpot, Android Phone Fans, Technologizer, Download Squad, Examiner, SAI and ConceivablyTech
Sui-Lee Wee / Reuters:
China arrests hundreds of hackers, says situation “grim” — (Reuters) - China has arrested more than 460 hackers from start of this year to the end of November, but the prospects to prevent future assaults on computer security remain grim, the ministry of public security said.
Emre Peker / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan Gives Bankers IPads, Signaling Danger to RIM — JPMorgan Chase & Co. will give its investment bankers iPads to provide an additional mobile tool as Apple Inc. expands its domain to Wall Street, threatening Research in Motion Ltd. in a market it traditionally dominated.
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InformationWeek, MacStories, Electronista, eWeek, SAI, Clusterstock and The Huffington Post
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron Duo review — When Dell first demoed the Inspiron Duo and its vertically rotating screen on stage at IDF in September, our mouths nearly hit the floor. It looked like a plain old netbook until its 10.1-inch capacitive touchscreen did a magical backflip and folded down over its keyboard to morph into a tablet.
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GottaBeMobile, SAI and Liliputing
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Google Cuts Off AppNexus, and the Ad Tech World Shudders — AppNexus, a high-flying ad technology start-up, just had a bad few days. The next few weeks could be rough, too. — That's because over the weekend, Google suspended the company's access to the ad giant's “real time” ad exchange.
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Wins Multiple Touch & MacBook Tablet Patents — In a second wave of granted patents published by the US Patent and Trademark Office for Apple Inc. today, we see that they've won several key touch related patents including two relating to virtual keyboards.
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TUAW and CrunchGear
Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Microsoft exec says Google is ‘failing’ in the enterprise — In Q&A, Microsoft's Tom Rizzo says Google doesn't understand business needs — Computerworld - Raising the stakes in its war of words, Microsoft today said Google simply doesn't understand what businesses need, and is failing at pushing its way into the enterprise.
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SuperSite Blog, Beyond Search, WinRumors and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
Bing:
Bing Feature Update: Shop, compare and share on Facebook with new Bing shopping features — Having a tough time deciding between Xbox 360 Slim or Xbox Kinect? Black pumps or knee-high boots? Netbook or notebook? — Bing shopping has always let you compare prices, see product reviews and links to where you can purchase.
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Andrew / Groublogpon:
Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed — This summer, we launched personalization to bring you deals that better suit your interests. We weren't about to stop there - today, we're giving you a sneak peak of some new stuff that will bring you even more deals you love: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed.
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
FCC chairman to propose plan for net neutrality — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission plans to announce Wednesday a controversial proposal that would prohibit Internet providers from favoring or discriminating against any traffic that goes over their networks.
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New York Times, Associated Press and The Hill
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Twitter Trusts, No Longer Verifies — On the Internet no one knows you're a dog. And on Twitter, no one knows if you're really Kim Kardashian. Unless Twitter says so, via its “verified account” badge. — But that system, introduced by Twitter back in June 2009, is going away.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Gearing Up For A Chrome Web Store Launch (For Real This Time) — Back in August, at a conference in Europe, Google showed a little preview of the Chrome Web Store and noted that a launch would probably take place in October. While there were some hints of it coming along in October …
