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8:50 PM ET, December 6, 2010

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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.
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:
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Google finally spills the beans on Nexus S, coming Dec. 16 on T-Mobile
Discussion: CNET News, Ars Technica and Gadgetwise
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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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Google's New Bookstore Cracks Open the E-book Market
James McQuivey / paidContent:
The Ultimate Effect Of Google E-Books: A New Ad-Supported Model For Books
Discussion: Bloomberg
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.
Kathy Kristof / CBS Money Watch:
Online Retailer Charged with Fraud, Threats  —  DecorMyEyes founder Vitaly Borker — also known as Tony Russo and Stanley Bolds — was arrested Monday and charged with defrauding customers of his online eye wear company and making repeated and violent threats to customers who attempted to return defective goods.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
DecorMyEyes Merchant Vitaly Borker Arrested After NYT Piece On Google Rankings
Discussion: CNET News and CNBC
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 …
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 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Russia's DST Out of Twitter Funding Race, With 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 …
Discussion: WebProNews
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
TUMBLR IS BACK!  —  Tumblr is on its way back up after an extended outage that started yesterday.  —  While the outage was certainly a bad and stressful thing for the company, it shouldn't cost it too many users, provided it doesn't become a habit.  (And provided there wasn't a massive data loss.)
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 …
Discussion: SiliconANGLE
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 …
Discussion: Search Engine Land and SAI
Alex North / Google Wave Developer Blog:
Introducing Apache Wave  —  One of the best outcomes from November's Wave Protocol Summit was a proposal for Wave to enter the Apache Software Foundation's incubator program.  Apache has a fantastic reputation for fostering healthy open source communities that create great software.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Gmail Blog:
A Priority Inbox update: time savings, new features, and your feedback  —  It's been a couple of months since we first launched Priority Inbox.  Since then, we've heard from a number of you who've found it helpful in combating information overload, and we've seen evidence of this in aggregate too.
Discussion: TechCrunch and The Next Web
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Pandora has a change of heart; no Windows Phone 7 app planned [Updated]  —  Back in March of this year, Microsoft proudly announced that Pandora would be one of its big-name Windows Phone 7 launch partners.  In an interesting turn of events last week, however, the popular Internet radio provider …
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Cord Cutting Could Get Costly for ESPN  —  ESPN released new data Monday calling into question the number of people that have canceled their cable bills.  But while ESPN seeks to downplay the effect that cord cutters have, it may already feeling the hurt from the drop in pay TV subscribers — to the tune of $1.3 million per month.
Tony Romm / The Politico:
White House to continue copyright crackdown  —  The Obama administration is just getting started in its mission to shut down rogue websites that illegally share copyrighted content such as movies and music.  —  The White House's intellectual property czar, Victoria Espinel …
Discussion: Techdirt and ReadWriteWeb
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft seeks to lure Salesforce users with new promotion  —  On the opening day of Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference, Microsoft is going on the offensive by launching a new promotion aimed at getting users to switch to its Dynamics CRM Online offering.
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 …
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 …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Zynga's CityVille Springs To A Metropolis Overnight (Surprised?)  —  Late last week, Zynga launched CityVille, its latest flagship title that's sure to draw millions of rabid fans.  The game represents Zynga's entry into the very popular (and already-crowded) city-building genre …
Discussion: Inside Social Games
 
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Geoff Cook / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Has It All Wrong When It Comes To Social Games
Discussion: VentureBeat
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
US Copyright Group Drops Cases Against Thousands of BitTorrent Users
Discussion: Slyck
Evan Blass / Pocket Now:
First Look at Windows Phone 7 Copy/Paste Update (Video)
Discussion: WinRumors and The Next Web
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Can you defame someone with a hyperlink?
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Orders Up a New Bite-Size Show.  It's Going to Taste a Lot Like “Talk Soup.”
Larry Dignan / CNET News:
Cisco, BMC forge cloud infrastructure partnership
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google's New Social Sitelinks
Discussion: WebProNews
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Loopt 4.0: Redesigned, Facebook-Heavy, And Location-Based Texting
Discussion: Inside Facebook and Macworld
 Earlier Items: 
Ina Fried / All Things Digital:
Ex-AdMob crew lands cash to start rival
Discussion: VentureBeat and TechCrunch
eMarketer:
Online Ad Spend Continues Double-Digit Growth
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Sorry, But This “Tech Bubble 2.0” Talk Is Ridiculous
Discussion: Adotas, Thanks:mradamtaylor
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Leaked U.S. embassy cables suggest China uses access to Microsoft …
Thanks:tomwarren
David Sarno / Los Angeles Times:
BlackBerry vs. iPhone: What's in your pocket?
Discussion: PhoneArena
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Groupon Aims to Emulate Facebook, Not Yahoo, After Walking Away From Deal
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming
 
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