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Linus Upson / Google Chrome Blog:
An update on Chrome, the Web Store and Chrome OS — On the Chrome team, we're constantly amazed by the speed of innovation on the web. We designed Chrome to make the web shine, and we hope our upcoming efforts will help support this vibrant ecosystem even more.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Google unveils Cr-48, the first Chrome OS laptop — We've had plenty of pre-knowledge on this, but surprisingly this is our first actual glimpse of Google's new unbranded “Cr-48,” the very first Chrome OS laptop. Google will distribute the laptop through its Chrome OS Pilot Program, in a sort of public beta.
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DigiTimes:
Inventec ships 60,000 Chrome OS netbooks to Google — Alongside Google's announcement of its new Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) operating system as well as Chrome OS on December 7, Inventec confirmed that it has already shipped about 60,000 Chrome OS-based netbooks to Google, which are expected to be used for testing.
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ZDNet, TechEye, Softpedia News, CrunchGear, Engadget, Geek.com, SlashGear and The Next Web, Thanks:michaelkroker
Om Malik / GigaOM:
The Network Computer Arrives...Finally! — Thank you Eric Schmidt for taking me down memory lane, to the heyday of another bubble, in another century. Today, at the launch of Chrome OS — a new Google operating system for web-centric computing — Schmidt talked about 1997 when he …
Thanks:ryanlawler
Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Google: Chrome OS laptops won't dual boot with Windows, live customer support for Cr-48 owners — We know there's a lot to digest after Google's Chrome OS event today, but following the shindig we caught a few minutes with Google VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai.
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IndustryGamers and GottaBeMobile
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
PayPal VP On Blocking WikiLeaks: State Department Said It Was Illegal — Of course Milo Yannopoulos' first question on stage to PayPal's VP of Platform Osama Bedier was why PayPal blocked WikiLeaks payments and froze its account. … The answer was met with boos from the mostly European audience.
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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
4chan rushes to WikiLeaks' defense, forces Swiss banking site offline — The forces of Anonymous have taken aim at several companies who are refusing to do business with WikiLeaks. 4chan's hordes have launched distributed denial-of-service attacks against PayPal, Swiss bank PostFinance …
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Esther Addley / Guardian:
MasterCard site partially frozen by hackers in WikiLeaks ‘revenge’
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BBC, The Next Web, Telegraph, SAI, THINQ.co.uk and ITProPortal
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch Europe:
WikiLeaks continues to fund itself via tech startup Flattr
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, The Atlantic Online and CNET News, Thanks:mikebutcher
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tracked Down: Google Just Quietly Launched An Official Latitude iPhone App — I guess Google really is in a feisty mood tonight. After the Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS, some leaked Google +1 information, and a Google Groups re-launch, we've just gotten word that Google has launched an official Latitude app for the iPhone.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
CONFIDENTIAL! Looks Like “Google +1″ Was Just Accidentally Revealed (Pic) — While we haven't 100 percent confirmed it yet (update: we've confirmed with a source), what you see above is what we do very much believe to be a picture of Google's latest social foray.
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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Steve Jobs: MobileMe to ‘Get A Lot Better’ Next Year — Apple's MobileMe service has been a bit of a mixed bag with consumers, with some seeing value in the service's email, photo/file hosting, and syncing capabilities while others feel that the $99 annual list price for the service is too high.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash — Salesforce.com has just announced that it is acquiring Heroku, which provides a Ruby application platform-as-a-service, for approximately $212 million in cash. — That's one hell of an exit for the startup, which was founded in 2007 and has raised only $13 million in funding.
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Heroku, GigaOM, Irregular Enterprise Blog, Force.com Blog, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, ZDNet, SAI, PR Newswire, The Register, Mashable! and silicontap.com
Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Asked to Pay Up as European Operators Inundated by Data — Google Inc., Apple Inc., and Facebook Inc. need to pitch in to help pay for the billions of dollars of network investments needed for their bandwidth-hogging services, European phone operators say.
Jenna Wortham / Bits:
Google Executive: No Time to Build, So We Buy — As news of Google's attempted acquisition of the daily deals site Groupon ricocheted around the Web, one big question loomed large: Wouldn't it be easier for Google to build out a similar service than pay several billion dollars for Groupon?
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Spencer Ante / Digits:
Google Executive Says Local Advertising Is Top Focus
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitter VP Of Product Jason Goldman Steps Down (At Le Web) — Our very own MG Siegler interviewed Jason Goldman, VP of Product at Twitter, at Le Web 10. — Our notes: — Siegler started off by asking about the new integrations Twitter launched yesterday.
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The Next Web, Mashable! and SelectStart
Amazon:
Every Website Can Now Be a Bookstore — Kindle for the Web enables customers to read full text of Kindle books in their web browser - no download or installation required — Websites are invited to participate in decentralized e-book sales — Kindle for the Web is Chrome OS launch partner
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Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon to let people read full Kindle books in web browser
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
AMO-DEAD, iPad 2 will use LCD — According to Digitimes Apple has ordered the BLUs (back light units) for the upcoming iPad 2. These backlight units will reportedly be used in conjunction with LCD displays built by LG and Chimei Innolux. Apple ordering backlights means the iPad 2 …
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AppleInsider, DigiTimes, MacStories and Phones Review
Electronista:
AT&T on iPhone: ‘exclusive arrangements end’ — AT&T today reiterated increasing clues that the iPhone's US exclusivity deal was coming to an end. CFO Richard Lindner at the UBS Media and Communications Conference on Tuesday stressed that there was no such thing as a permanent exclusive …
Sarah Nahm / Chromium Blog:
A New Crankshaft for V8 — Today we are introducing Crankshaft, a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome's JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of compute-intensive JavaScript applications - often by more than a factor of two!
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chrome Browser, Now Used By 120 Million People, Just Cranked Up Its Speed
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Brian Hendricks / Bing:
Bing's new mall maps: Get in, get out, and the avoid the crowds — Have you ever driven to a mall, parked at one of the big department stores, then discovered the store you needed to go to was on the other side of the mall? What about experiencing the frustration of not knowing where in the mall …
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The Next Web, Search Engine Land and Ubergizmo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
ChromeDeck: TweetDeck Finally Comes To The Web As A Chrome App — You can get TweetDeck, the popular realtime stream reader, as a desktop client, on your iPhone and iPad, or Android phone. But up until now, there was no Web browser version (unlike Seesmic, which is best known as a browser-based app).
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Scott Morrison / Wall Street Journal:
Map Wiki Plots New Route — Microsoft, AOL See OpenStreetMap as an Alternative to Commercial Vendors — OpenStreetMap, a sort of Wikipedia of online maps assembled with contributions from thousands of globe-trotting volunteers, has gotten the attention of two big Internet players: Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc.
