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Rajen Sheth / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini — When we acquired Postini in 2007, we incorporated additional cloud-based spam and virus filtering, email archiving and encryption services into our Enterprise products. We had a vision that the power of the cloud could deliver …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Google morphs Gmail into Microsoft backup service — Backup today. Flee Redmond tomorrow — Google has unveiled a service that lets businesses use Gmail as a back-up for Microsoft Exchange. — Known as Google Message Continuity, the service replicates all your Microsoft Exchange data on Google's servers.
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SAI and Computerworld
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Microsoft: “Yeah, We Tried To Acquire Facebook.” — While on the “How To Get Acquired” panel here at Le Web, Microsoft Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions Fritz Lanman admitted that Microsoft did try to acquire the social network Facebook, acquisition talks first reported …
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Microsoft Watch, CNET News, The Microsoft Blog, WinRumors, TechFlash, GeekSmack and The Atlantic Online
The Economist:
More Wikileaks: The 24-hour Athenian democracy … I am talking to members of a group called “Anonymous”, using a web-based collaborative text-editing service. It is the first such interview for all of us, and their answers begin to collide on the page. One member comes from Norway …
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The Next Web, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Online, PC World, New York Times, Agence France Presse, SAI, Help Net Security, Fast Company and The Lede
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon Explains Why It's Okay to Sell Books About the WikiLeaks Stuff It Won't Host — Last week Amazon pulled the plug on WikiLeaks, by refusing to host the group's data on its server. But Amazon is now profiting from some of that data, via a Kindle e-book title now available through its U.K. outlet.
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The Next Web, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SAI, Techdirt, TechCrunch, Seattle Times, Fast Company, Pulse2, ReadWriteWeb and NBC Bay Area
Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You
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Search Engine Land, TechCrunch and CNET News
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Google Cr-48 Chrome laptop preview (update: video!) — Well, would you look at what showed up on our frigid doorstep this morning? That's right, we are now the proud owners of Google's first Chrome OS laptop — the Cr-48. Obviously, we ripped open the box and got right to handling the 12.1-inch, Atom-powered laptop.
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Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, Neowin.net and Gizmodo
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Two Days After Unveiling, Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Already Showing Up On Doorsteps — Ben Kessler woke up to an unexpected surprise on the doorstep of his New York home this morning: a Cr-48. Yes, the just-unveiled Google Chrome Notebook is already rolling out to those who requested one.
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Fortune, I4U News, SlashGear, Chrome Story and Softpedia News
Pew Internet:
8% of online Americans use Twitter — This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Project had asked internet users whether they “used Twitter or another service …
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Yahoo! News, TechEye, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Tech Daily Dose, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Mashable!, techPresident, CIOInsight, Pulse2, SAI, USA Today, NetworkEffect, msnbc.com, SiliconANGLE, GigaOM, Guardian, VentureBeat, eWeek, The Next Web, Los Angeles Times, digiphile and Adotas
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Apple to tap Intel's graphics for future MacBooks — Apple has decided to use Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge processors in its MacBook line, a transition that will occur in 2011, squeezing out Nvidia's graphics processors in at least some models of the popular laptops, sources have told CNET.
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VentureBeat, Tech Trader Daily, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Electronista, Shiny Objects, Pulse2, eWeek, MacRumors, Softpedia News, Gizmodo Australia, Gizmodo, TUAW, SlashGear, Engadget and O'Grady's PowerPage
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The Full List Of The Top iPhone And iPad Apps Of 2010 — We've already highlighted the four apps that Apple has chosen as their “award winners” for 2010. But they've also highlighted the following: Overall Paid iPhone Apps, Overall Free iPhone Apps, Overall Grossing iPhone Apps …
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CNET News, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, BGR, GigaOM, LaptopMemo, 9 to 5 Mac, MobileCrunch, Know Your Cell, Redmond Pie, TUAW, SAI, Gizmodo, Gearlog, NBC Bay Area and MacStories
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Unaffected By Toshiba Outage, Says Gleacher — Following reports that Toshiba's (TOSBF.PK) semiconductor fab in Yokkaichi, Japan was halted today by a sudden drop in power, Brian Marshall with Gleacher & Co. this morning writes in a note to clients that Apple (AAPL) …
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Bloomberg and Electronista
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Split second power outage may lead to drop in Toshiba chip shipments
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Wall Street Journal and Voices on All Things Digital
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
First iPad 2G case shows rear camera, new curves? — Shenzhen MacTop Electronics, a Chinese manufacturer, is now offering what it claims is a case for the second-generation iPad. Dubbed the “Crystal Case for iPad 2nd Generation,” the case appears to have different, slimmer contours …
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SAI, MacRumors, MacStories, PhoneDog.com, 9 to 5 Mac, Covering Web, TiPb, Erictric, TechMobiCity, CrunchGear, SlashGear and Gadget Lab, Thanks:starrett
Johanna Wright / The Official Google Blog:
Zeitgeist 2010: How the world searched — In the search team we talk a lot about that people are always looking for new things with Google. In fact, about 20% of our queries are new each day. As it gets to be the end of the year, it's a great time to look at what searches we all have in common.
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Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, msnbc.com, Softpedia News, Neowin.net and Digital Inspiration …
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Snapstick takes on Apple TV, Google TV — Snapstick in action in CNET headquarters on an iPhone 4 and TV monitor. — A startup called Snapstick is introducing its spin on Internet TV today that it hopes will compete heavily with Apple TV, Google TV, and other set-top boxes.
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SlashGear, Engadget, IntoMobile, GigaOM, SiliconANGLE, CrunchGear, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and Pronet Advertising
Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Andy Rubin: Google activates 300,000 phones every day — Google may now be the biggest smartphone vendor on earth. — Andy Rubin just Tweeted that Google (GOOG) is activating 300,000 phones a day. That passes Apple's (AAPL) iOS, that passes Blackberry (RIMM).
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Tech Check, pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, MobileCrunch, AndroidGuys, Electronista, Mobilized, Reuters, VentureBeat, Droid Life, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, blogs.chron.com, Appolicious Advisor, BGR, BeyondVC, TechEye, msnbc.com, Androinica, Inquirer, PhoneArena, MacHackPC, ITProPortal and ThinkMobile, Thanks:markgurman
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Best Buy Mobile offering iPhone 3GS for free on December 10th — We just received a tip from a Best Buy ninja of ours, and well, it seems that Radio Shack isn't the only game in town in you're looking for an Apple iPhone. Best Buy will be offering up Apple's iPhone 3GS for free for one day only, this Friday the 10th.
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9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors iPhone Blog, Business Wire, IntoMobile, Startup Meme, I4U News, Softpedia News, TiPb, TUAW and PhoneArena
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Forecast: IPad Will Generate Two Percent of North American Net Traffic by End of 2011 — How's this for a prediction? By the end of 2011, the iPad will generate more than two percent of all North American Web traffic. — That's according to Chitika, which has been tracking iPad adoption rates …
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CNET News, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and Electronista
Audrey Watters / ReadWriteWeb:
Apache Software Foundation Resigns from Java Executive Committee — Making good on its promise to walk away from the Java Executive Committee following disagreements with Oracle, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has just announced its resignation from the Java Community Process (JCP) “effective immediately.”
Todd Brix / The Windows Blog:
Windows Phone Marketplace payouts coming in January, reporting available now — It has been very humbling to see the developer excitement and all of the great new apps coming to Marketplace every day. As I sit here and type this, over 18,000 registered developers have signed …
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eWeek, CNET News, The Next Web and WMPoweruser.com
Wall Street Journal:
16 Tycoons Agree to Give Away Fortunes — The billionaire founder of social network Facebook Inc. has agreed to give the majority of his wealth to charity, part of a broader group of rich entrepreneurs committing to philanthropy earlier in their lives. — Mark Zuckerberg has signed onto the …
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Yahoo! News, Mashable!, Social Medium, NBC Bay Area, The Raw Feed, Gizmodo, Softpedia News and ITProPortal
Andrey Doronichev / Google Mobile Blog:
YouTube 2.1 App Now Available on Android Market — When you're watching a video on YouTube, how often do you JUST watch the video? If you're like me, you scroll down, maybe read the video description and glance over at the related videos to choose what you might watch next.
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GigaOM, Softpedia News, AndroidGuys, Eurodroid, Download Squad and DroidDog Android Blog
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone's Unsung Hero — I've always been just a little baffled at the whole concept of app-phone cases. I mean, people go out of their way to buy these thin, gorgeous iPhones and Android phones, and then wrap them in 3/4 inches of ugly black rubber!
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Donations Ban on iPhone Apps Irritates Nonprofits — The nonprofit world is stewing over the ban Apple has put on making donations on the iPhone via charity apps. — No one, including Apple, has data on how many nonprofits have created apps for the iPhone.
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PC World, Beth's Blog and Computerworld
