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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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Help Net Security, SAI, Fast Company, New York Times, Agence France Presse, Guardian, CNET News and Social Medium
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Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Wikileaks' Cables now available on Amazon, reviewers are not happy. — In the interests of keeping the Wikileaks Cables available for all, regardless of whether the official website is taken offline, an enterprising Amazon trader has taken the 5000 Cables and is now selling …
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SAI, Fast Company, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch and TechEye
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Why Wikileaks Will Never Be Closed Or Blocked — Last weekend, rather than read stories about the US diplomatic cables that Wikileaks has released, I decided to read them directly myself. In doing so, I better understood why no one — certainly not the US State Department — is going to shove those cables back into the darkness.
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TechCrunch, The Register, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Gawker, ReadWriteWeb, Associated Press, Inquirer, CNET News, Washington Post, Fast Company, Guardian, msnbc.com, Netcraft and The Lede
Bankston / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Information is the Antidote to Fear: Wikileaks, the Law, and You
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The Huffington Post, PC World and CNET 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 …
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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The Atlantic Online and WinRumors
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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eWeek, MacRumors, Electronista, TUAW, SlashGear, VizWorld.com, O'Grady's PowerPage, Gizmodo and Engadget
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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VentureBeat, MobileCrunch, DSLreports, TechEye, Inquirer, pocketnow.com, AppleInsider, Electronista, Mobilized, Appolicious Advisor, blogs.chron.com, ITProPortal, Androinica, BeyondVC, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, SlashGear, The Next Web, GeekSmack, MacHackPC, BGR, LaptopMemo, Techie Buzz, PhoneArena, Erictric, Know Your Cell, MacDailyNews, 9 to 5 Mac and PC Pro, 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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IntoMobile, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, TiPb, PhoneArena, I4U News, iLounge, Softpedia News, SlashPhone, Electronista, Erictric, Gadgetell, Phones Review, everythingiCafe and Gizmodo
Carolyn Penner / Twitter Blog:
To Trend or Not to Trend... Since Twitter first introduced the Trends feature in the summer of 2008, one frequently asked question has been “Why isn't X trending?” This question has come up around a variety of subjects, from #justinbieber and #adamlambert to #flotilla, #iranelection and #demo2010.
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Oliver Chiang / SelectStart:
Prompted By WikiLeaks Queries, Twitter Finally Explains Trends Algorithm
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Social Medium
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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SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, NBC Bay Area, MacStories and everythingiCafe
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
BlackBerry PlayBook hands-on video demo — We promised a hands on demo video of the BlackBerry PlayBook, and that's what you're going to get from us — almost 10 minutes of 1080p joy. As we said previously, we were pretty impressed seeing the PlayBook demo'd in person right in front of us, and well, we could go on for days.
Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Apple Loses Its iPhone Game Guru — The man in charge of making sure that Apple's popular portable devices play games well is no longer with the tech titan. — Graeme Devine joined Apple's iPhone Game Technologies division last year. Devine tells Kotaku that his last day at the company was Friday.
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9 to 5 Mac, Computerworld, Edge Online, Softpedia News, Mashable!, SlashGear, Neowin.net, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, Touch Arcade, SelectStart, paidContent and AppleInsider
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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Mashable!, NBC Bay Area, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Gawker, Softpedia News, SAI and The Register
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Nicholas Carlson / SAI:
Why Groupon Said No To Google's $6 Billion — Each and every Groupon board member stood to gain millions, hundreds of millions, or even more than a billion dollars by accepting Google's $6 billion offer to acquire the company. — Groupon cofounders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky might …
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Screenwerk, NBC Bay Area, Tech Trader Daily, The Equity Kicker, Examiner and Silicon Valley Watcher
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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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GigaOM, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, TechCrunch, Pronet Advertising, The Next Web and Electronista
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple rolling out 90-second iTunes song previews — Apple has begun extending song previews in the iTunes Store to 90 seconds on select songs in the U.S. store. — Some songs on iTunes now offer 90-second previews for users of the U.S. iTunes Music Store.
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The Toybox Blog, GigaOM, MacRumors, TUAW, MediaMemo, Techland, LaptopMemo, Geek.com, BGR, CNET News, The Next Web, SlashGear, BlogsDNA, Lifehacker, Pocket-lint, Softpedia News, Engadget and CrunchGear
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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Download Squad, PhoneArena, Eurodroid and The Next Web
Noel Randewich / Reuters:
Intel says tablets and phones on the way in 2011 — (Reuters) - Intel Corp said it is making headway getting its chips into tablet computers and that smartphones using its processors will go on sale late next year as it rushes to catch up in the fast-growing mobile market.
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Insights on the tech industry, Electronista, ITProPortal, GottaBeMobile, eWeek, TechSpot, Engadget, TG Daily and MobileBurn.com
Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Adsense Creator Lands $25 Million Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Index For New Startup, Factual — Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures have co-led a $25 million round in Factual, a data startup. — Factual is founded by Gil Elbaz, who is the co-founder of Applied Semantics …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, VentureBeat and Pulse2
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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Computerworld and Beth's Blog
Owen Fletcher / China Real Time Report:
iPad-Smuggling Housewives Detained … Chinese housewives carrying dozens of iPads into China can only confirm what the U.S. war on drugs has already shown: Border control can't fully staunch the flow of a product in huge demand. — Customs officials in Shenzhen, a southern Chinese city …
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ITProPortal, PadGadget, The Register, Examiner and Computerworld
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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9 to 5 Mac
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
DST Partner: On A Path To Becoming A $1 Billion Company? Come Talk To Us — Le Web 10 host Loic Le Meur just finished his on-stage interview with Alexander Tamas, Partner at one of the most watched technology investment firms on the planet, DST / Mail.ru Group.
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