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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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GigaOM, CNET News, Level 3 Communications, VideoNuze.com and CNNMoney.com
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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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GigaOM, Media Decoder, savetheinternet.com/blog and Susan Crawford blog
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?
J T. Ramsay / Comcast Voices:
How Internet Peering Works
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CableTechTalk, GigaOM and Telecom Trends
EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission probes allegations of antitrust violations by Google — The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google Inc. has abused a dominant position in online search, in violation of European Union rules (Article 102 TFEU).
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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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Techdirt, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechEye, BuzzMachine and SAI
European Public Policy Blog:
Our thoughts on the European Commission review
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USA Today, Ars Technica, VatorNews, DailyFinance, Techie Buzz, Pulse2, Softpedia News, Between the Lines Blog and SAI
Aoife White / Bloomberg:
Google Investigated by EU Over Online Ads, Search
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BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Engadget, TechCrunch Europe, Telegraph, Guardian, Computerworld, Macworld, PC World, DailyTech, Fortune, Googling Google Blog, VentureBeat, Fast Company, Digital Trends, Electronista, BGR, GigaOM, The Next Web, SAI and Search Engine Land
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's Groupon Offer: $5.3 Billion, With $700 Million Earnout — According to sources close to the situation, Google has offered $5.3 billion for Groupon, in what will be its largest acquisition yet if completed. — Sources said the deal for the social buying site seemed likely to be struck …
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Examiner, Local Onliner, PC World, Venture Capital Dispatch, Fortune, Mashable!, Insights on the tech industry, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, Deal Journal, Chicago Tribune, GigaOM, ClickZ, TechCrunch, Tech Check, dailywireless.org, NBC Bay Area, Digital Trends, MarketBeat, Search Engine Land, SAI, Techland, Digits, Tech Trader Daily, DealBook, P Morgan Brown, Times of India, GMSV, Fast Company, TechEye, VatorNews, Googling Google Blog, Softpedia News, John Battelle's Searchblog and Hillicon Valley
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon Board Will Meet Tomorrow To Decide On Google Deal
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Wall Street Journal
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
New Enterprise Associates Poised to Score Big on Groupon Thanks to Old Ties
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Venture Capital Dispatch
Stephen Grocer / Deal Journal:
Analysts on Groupon Deal: Google Upping Its Fight with Facebook?
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Daniel Rubino / WPCentral.com:
Rumor: January Windows Phone 7 update to be massive, catches up with iPhone — We've been covering the rumored software update for Windows Phone 7 for sometime now, even having our forum members add some info to the mix. So far, the update is suppose to have the following features:
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Examiner, IntoMobile, Channel News, Computerworld, TechSpot, eWeek, Yahoo! News, mygadgetnews.com, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Fonehome.co.uk, Pulse2, MobileCrunch, Erictric, BGR, Geek.com, Download Squad, SlashGear, Technologizer and Bink.nu
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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9 to 5 Mac, TUAW, TiPb, Gizmodo, MacStories, Gadget Lab, App Advice, Netputing and BGR
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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P2P Dns, mygadgetnews.com, DSLreports, Techdirt, CircleID, Computerworld, Business Wire, DomainIncite.com, Gizmodo, OSNews and Techie Buzz
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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica:
Fed up with ICANN, Pirate Bay cofounder floats P2P DNS system
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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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Examiner, Winamp Blog, ReadWriteWeb, IntoMobile, SAI, Technologizer, Newlaunches.com, TechSpot, Download Squad, Android Phone Fans and Electronista
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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CNET News and SAI, more at Mediagazer »
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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GigaOM, Communications …, Light Reading and IntoMobile
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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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 …
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Verizon sucks at Photoshop: confuses the Droid X for an iPhone — Man, Motorola's not going to be pleased about this! The Droid X is justifiably one of Verizon's marquee devices for this holiday season and takes pride of place on the carrier's Cyber Monday offers page, but wait …
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Macworld, Gizmodo, CrackBerry.com blogs, Examiner, p2pnet, Droid Life, IntoMobile, App Advice, Geekword, AndroidSPIN and Android Phone Fans
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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SAI, eWeek, MacStories, Electronista, Clusterstock and The Huffington Post
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple makes PhotoFast stop production of speedy 256 GB MacBook Air SSDs — Back in late October we reported that PhotoFast began producing 256GB SSD upgrade kits for Apple's latest MacBook Air lineup. PhotoFast's third-party SSD upgrade for the new MacBook Airs read and write at 250MB/s …
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Computerworld, Examiner, OSNews, Macworld, Geek.com, DailyTech, CrunchGear, Pulse2, Ars Technica, Gizmodo and MacRumors, Thanks:markgurman
E.B. Boyd / Fast Company:
Visa to Use Your Phone's Location to Prevent Credit Card Fraud — Sure, you like all the great benefits of having your phone know where you are. Looking up directions or local weather information becomes that much faster. But outside companies and agencies are equally delighted to have access …
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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WinRumors and The Next Web, Thanks:hornokplease
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Motorola to finally split on January 4th — Motorola announced Tuesday that its board has approved a reverse stock split ratio of 1-for-7, and the company will finally split into two separate entities on January 4th, 2011. In just over a month, Motorola will change its name to Motorola Solutions …
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Digital Trends, SAI, Tech Trader Daily, Between the Lines Blog, Neowin.net, Electronista and Engadget
Rob Pegoraro / Faster Forward:
Amazon charges Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg e-books — Kindle readers, take note: You may have been paying for books you could legally download for free—in nearly identical editions—elsewhere. The titles in question aren't just public-domain books that have long been freely available at such sites as Project Gutenberg.
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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.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sony claims it has shipped 4.1M PlayStation Move units, but doesn't give sell-through number — Sony said today that it has shipped 4.1 million units of its PlayStation Move motion controller to retailers around the globe. But, as is its custom, the Japanese company did not say how many of those units have been sold to consumers.
