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Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Nexus S with Gingerbread — The very first Android phone hit the market in November 2008. Just over two years later, Android's vision of openness has spurred the development of more than 100 different Android devices. Today, more than 200,000 Android devices are activated daily worldwide.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Review: Google Nexus S — For the last few days we've been using the Google Nexus S, manufactured by Samsung, with the new Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” operating system. This is a phone that was designed with direct input from the Google Android team.
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BetaNews, Engadget, Computerworld, Inquirer, Gizmodo, SAI, Telegraph, PC World, Guardian, The Atlantic Online, BGR, CrunchGear, I4U News, TmoNews, 901am, displayblog, Android and Me, Softpedia News, PhoneDog.com, Android Community, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans and Techie Buzz, Thanks:alexia
Android Developers Blog:
Android 2.3 Platform and Updated SDK Tools — Today we're announcing a new version of the Android platform — Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It includes many new platform technologies and APIs to help developers create great apps. Some of the highlights include:
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Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google finally spills the beans on Nexus S, coming Dec. 16 on T-Mobile
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Bits, Daring Fireball, The Toybox Blog and Appolicious Advisor
Abraham Murray / The Official Google Blog:
Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices — Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore.
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App Advice, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Google Operating System, BaltTech, Googling Google Blog, Hillicon Valley, Mobile Marketing Watch, Epicenter, GigaOM, Adobe, Androinica, IndieBound, New York Times, Macworld, Digital Trends, Smartphones …, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Techland, Consumer Reports …, Forbes, Reuters, GottaBeMobile, 9 to 5 Mac, ReadWriteWeb, Android and Me, GeekTonic, SEO Blog by Dave Naylor, Agence France Presse, Black Web 2.0, PhoneArena, CNET News, dailywireless.org, SAI, VentureBeat, Technologizer, MacRumors, Softpedia News, O'Reilly Radar, TechCrunch, ITworld.com, Between the Lines Blog, SlashGear, Android Community, Lifehacker, Kindle Review, LaptopMemo, BlogsDNA, Geek.com, Android Phone Fans and eWeek, more at Mediagazer »
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Google's New Bookstore Cracks Open the E-book Market — Google today launched its long-awaited electronic book store, called simply Google eBooks, with more than 3 million titles and 4,000 publishers participating as partners, including most of the major industry names.
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TechCrunch, eWeek, Business Wire, Fortune, TUAW, TechFlash, MacStories, Adobe Digital Publishing, BetaNews, TechEye, SFGate, Search Engine Land, dailywireless.org, mocoNews and The Next Web
Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle:
Consumer Reports: AT&T is the worst carrier — Consumer Reports is out with its latest survey of cell phone service by its members, and AT&T is now ranked as the worst in the country, as well as the worst in Houston. — In the 2009 survey, AT&T was at the bottom of the list locally, but came in next-to-last nationally.
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Consumer Reports …, MacRumors, TechFlash, 9 to 5 Mac, IntoMobile, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SlashGear, MobileBurn.com, BGR, Gizmodo, Mobilized, BerryReview.com, techblog.dallasnews.com, PhoneDog.com and iPhone Buzz, Thanks:dsilverman
Kirk Hiner / Appletell:
Appletell exclusive: Mac App Store to open December 13th? — An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month …
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Digital Trends, Computerworld, eWeek, GigaOM, CNET News, Engadget, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, I4U News, AppleInsider, Tech Trader Daily, The Toybox Blog, Ubergizmo, GeekSmack, Softpedia News, App Advice, TechSpot, Notebooks.com, BlogsDNA, AppleBitch, MacStories and Gearlog, Thanks:aczafra
Paul Graham:
Founder Control — Someone we funded is talking to VCs now, and asked me how common it was for a startup's founders to retain control of the board after a series A round. He said VCs told him this almost never happened. Ten years ago that was true. In the past, founders rarely kept control …
Nadia Damouni / Reuters:
AOL plots breakup, then merger with Yahoo: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc, undergoing a radical transformation into the king of content on the Internet, is actively exploring a breakup of the company involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans said.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Verizon may pay Apple to keep iPhone away from T-Mobile, Sprint — With the launch of the Verizon iPhone widely expected in early 2011, the wireless carrier may pay Apple to keep its smartphone off of rival networks Sprint and T-Mobile. — Analyst Shaw Wu with Kaufman Bros. said in a note …
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eWeek, Fast Company, TechFlash, Computerworld, MarketBeat, GigaOM, Fortune, MacRumors, Electronista, TmoNews, 9 to 5 Mac, Cult of Mac, Digital Daily, SiliconANGLE, Thoughts from the Sidelines, SAI, msnbc.com, everythingiCafe, TiPb and MacStories
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Russia's DST Out of Twitter Funding Race, As Kleiner Poised to Take the Deal — According to sources close to the situation, the aggressive Russian investment outfit DST Global is out of the running to fund Twitter. — Instead, the prize is almost certainly going to Kleiner Perkins …
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Profile Redesign Will Coax More Data From Users: An In-Depth Review — Facebook has released a major redesign of the user profile which makes more profile info, photos, and friends immediately visible. A single panel navigation system, image-accompanied Likes, Friendship Page previews …
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Computerworld and Digital Trends
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Facebook launches new profiles: Possible threat to LinkedIn?
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PC World, CNN, VatorNews, Yahoo! News, Pulse2, Venture Capital Dispatch and Notebooks.com
Milo Yiannopoulos / Telegraph:
Dark forces gunning for Google — Microsoft has been funding an organisation seemingly set up to make trouble for the search giant. — Last week's announcement that Google is to be investigated by the EU for allegedly giving preference to its own services and advertisers in search rankings …
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Groupon Aims to Emulate Facebook, Not Yahoo, After Walking Away From Deal — Groupon Inc., which rejected a Google Inc. takeover last week, is betting it can keep increasing its valuation after walking away from a deep-pocketed suitor, something Facebook Inc. pulled off and Yahoo! Inc. failed to do.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, Adotas and Pulse2, Thanks:chadcat
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Sprint's Future: No iDEN, LTE (Maybe) — Sprint is rolling out a $4-5 billion plan to modernize and converge its network in a wide-ranging effort that will mean the end of its iDEN network and a possible embrace of LTE down the road. The Sprint Network Vision blueprint will involve replacing …
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Between the Lines Blog, BGR, Electronista and MobileCrunch
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Norman Foster to design Apple's new campus called ‘Apple City’ — El Economista reports (English)that renowned British architect Norman Foster is hard at work designing Apple's new campus in Cupertino. The 100 acre campus was picked up from HP last month for a measly $300M.
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AppleInsider, NBC Bay Area, SlashGear and MacRumors
Ina Fried / All Things Digital:
Ex-AdMob crew lands cash to start rival — The team at MoPub, which include several former Google and AdMob employees, have scored an undisclosed amount of funding in a seed round. The backers are Accel Partners and Harrison Metal Capital. — With the phone giants scooping …
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 — I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high …
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Amazon Web Services Blog, Consumer Reports …, The Progress Bar, Between the Lines Blog and CNET News
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Tumblr Outage Continues — Can It Pull a Twitter and Recover? — The Tumblr blog-hosting platform has been down for more than 17 hours, in what appears to be the longest outage in the company's history. Fans of the fast-growing service are grumbling about the downtime …
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Associated Press:
Swiss cut off bank account for WikiLeaks' Assange — GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss postal system stripped WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of a key fundraising tool Monday, accusing him of lying and immediately shutting down one of his bank accounts. — The swift action by Postfinance …
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ReadWriteWeb, New York Times and techPresident
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Loopt 4.0: Redesigned, Facebook-Heavy, And Location-Based Texting — Much has already been written about how Loopt was perhaps a bit too early to the location game for their own good. But that doesn't mean they're not out there still trying new things to keep their over 4 million users and entice new ones to join.
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GigaOM, VentureBeat and IntoMobile
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google's New Social Sitelinks — Google is now showing social search related results in the Sitelinks section of the search results. The social sitelink includes your friend's name, profile photo, and it links to your friend's content on a particular website.
