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Joanna Stern / Engadget:
Microsoft to demo new slate PCs, Windows 8 tablet functionality at CES? — The CES 2010 Ballmernote has become something of a black mark for Microsoft — the company's delivered almost nothing in the year after Steve demoed the HP Slate and talked about future Windows 7 Slate PCs …
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CNET News, Between the Lines Blog and Go Rumors
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Nick Bilton / Bits:
Microsoft to Announce New Slates Aimed at the iPad — A decade ago Bill Gates, founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, presented a new class of computing to the world: a tablet PC that offered a fully functional computer with the “intuitive aspects of pencil and paper.”
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The Register, BaltTech, Network World, SAI, Computerworld, Download Squad, GMSV, IntoMobile, DailyTech, Telegraph, AppleInsider, Liliputing, WinRumors, Between the Lines Blog, Newlaunches.com, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, ReadWriteWeb, I4U News, SlashGear, Inquirer, Appolicious Advisor, WMPoweruser.com, Gadget Lab, netbooknews.com, Technologizer, Edible Apple, MacRumors, The Microsoft Blog, Digital Trends, GottaBeMobile, Marco.org, Electronista, ITProPortal, CNET News, The Seattle Times, All about Microsoft Blog, Phones Review, TechFlash, CrunchGear, Neowin.net, mocoNews, The Next Web, 9 to 5 Mac and VentureBeat
Lars Backstrom / Facebook Blog:
2010 Memology: Top Status Trends of the Year — Natural disasters and human triumphs made their mark in our 2010 list of top trends in status updates, but more than anything else people wanted to spend time with their friends and family. The fastest growing trend was the use …
Zachary M. Seward / Digits:
The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords — Readers of Gizmodo, Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: “123456.” So is the runner-up: “password.”
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Coding Horror, Fast Company, Quick Online Tips and Erictric
Marcus Foster / Google Voice Blog:
Google Voice app now supports iPad & iPod Touch — Since we launched Google Voice for iPhone a few weeks ago, we've been hard at work to add a few improvements that didn't make it into the first release. — At the top of the list was adding support for iPod Touch and iPad.
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TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, MacStories, IntoMobile, SlashGear, The Next Web, GottaBeMobile and Gizmodo
Paul Butler / Facebook:
Visualizing Friendships — Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. — When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it.
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The Atlantic Online, Engadget, GigaOM, Digital Trends, Mashable!, TechCrunch, The Huffington Post, ITProPortal, Softpedia News, FlowingData, Pluggd.in, Social Medium, Pocket-lint, Geekosystem, SAI and ReadWriteWeb
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit: Chrome OS Will Perish Or “Merge” With Android — Former Googler, FriendFeed founder and Facebook-er turned investor Paul Buchheit just tweeted this zinger: … Considering his former employer just launched the Chrome OS pilot program last week …
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TomsTechBlog.com, GigaOM, The Register, Google Watch, Search Engine Land, BGR, SAI, FierceWireless, Erictric, Geek.com, Android Phone Fans and Business Week
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Google's ChromeOS means losing control of data, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman — New cloud computing OS released by Google is plan to push people into ‘careless computing’, warns free software advocate … Google's new cloud computing ChromeOS looks like a plan “to push people into careless computing” …
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TechCrunch, Tea & Tech, Technologizer and SlashGear
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Best Buy tells the Nexus S retail story: 8AM online sales, two per customer maximum — Want a Nexus S this Thursday? Yeah, well, welcome to the club, pal — you're not alone, so you're going to want to be armed with the right information to figure out your plan of attack.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google, These Aren't Really The Best Answers For Users. They Are The Best Answers For You. — Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an article pointing out how Google is increasingly favoring its own properties, in search results over natural results to outside sites which previously commanded the top spots.
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Tnooz, The Equity Kicker, Internet Evolution, TechEye, Understanding Google … and MediaPost
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
With Chrome, Google Is Moving Towards Deeper Location Integration — It should be pretty clear by now that Google is taking location very seriously. The original launch of Latitude in early 2009 was just a first step. Now they have robust APIs, Google Places, and key executive Marissa Mayer …
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Google Operating System
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Nvidia seeing popularity grow in tablet PC market — Nvidia's Tegra 2 platform has recently become a new spotlight in the tablet PC market as most of the tablet PC vendors including Acer, Asustek Computer, Toshiba and Samsung Electronics as well as several regional brand vendors in China …
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Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Mobilized, Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans, netbooknews.com, AndroidGuys, Electronista, Geek.com and The Tech Report
Amanda Camp / Gmail Blog:
Restore your contacts — There are many times in life when a do-over can come in handy. Perhaps you clicked “Send” on an email that was better left unsaid, or “Delete” on a contact before realizing you still needed it. Just like Gmail lets you unsend a message, you can now have a second chance with your contacts too.
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Techie Buzz and The Next Web, Thanks:richdemuro
Mark Tran / Guardian:
Julian Assange granted bail over sex crime allegations in Sweden — Founder of WikiLeaks granted bail at Westminster magistrates court after celebrities stood sureties — A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of rape in Sweden.
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CNET News, News: News blog, Threat Level, New York Times and Tea & Tech
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Rising Computer Prices Buck the Trend — Average Prices Rose 6% in November, Industry Reversal Has Some Executives Saying Prices Have Bottomed; No $99 Laptop — For the first time in several years, people shopping for personal computers are doing something new: paying more.
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Digital Trends
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
An Interview with Gnosis, the group behind the Gawker hacking — The chances are you already know about the Gawker Media security breach, a network-wide attack that compromised over a million registered accounts across Gawker's web properties. Internal memos were accessed …
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Globe and Mail, The Firewall, DailyTech, Edible Apple, Geekosystem, PC Magazine, SAI, Elias Bizannes and Financial Times, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:jacobdfriedman
Jodiolson / Twitter Blog:
Hindsight2010: Ten Most Powerful Tweets — What makes a Tweet powerful? — Every day, we are inspired by people using Twitter in unexpected ways to make the world a better place. Powerful Tweets have impact, relevance and resonance. In just 140 characters, you can change the game …
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SAI, The Next Web and Fast Company
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia to cut about 800 jobs in Finland — (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's biggest cellphone maker by volume, said on Tuesday it planned to cut about 800 jobs in its home Finnish market. — The company said in a statement it concluded negotiations with employee representatives on the planned reductions …
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MobileCrunch, IntoMobile and The Next Web
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
A Key Figure in the Future of Yahoo — TOKYO — “I shouldn't make a comment on that, ” said Masayoshi Son, the usually voluble serial entrepreneur who is one of the richest men in Japan. “It's too delicate a question. Too sensitive right now.” — We had been chatting for some time on the 26th floor …
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SAI, NBC Bay Area and GMSV
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Digits:
Japanese Publishers Threaten to Bite Apple — So it turns out that maybe not everyone in Japan loves Apple Inc. — A Japanese consortium of book, e-book, magazine and digital comic publishers issued a stern rebuke of Apple's enforcement of copyrights on its App Store.
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TorrentFreak, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, Japan Today and The Next Web
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Amazon MP3 Arrives for BlackBerry Smartphones — RIM and Amazon have teamed up to launch a new mobile music application for BlackBerry smartphone users: Amazon MP3. The app download, available now from BlackBerry App World, delivers Amazon's catalog of music with over 14 million songs …
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MediaMemo, BGR, GigaOM, Electronista, IntoMobile, SlashGear, MobileCrunch and Lifehacker
Mikael Ricknäs / Computerworld:
Nokia preps multiple Symbian upgrades for 2011 — IDG News Service - Nokia is planning to roll out four or five upgrades to its Symbian OS in the next 12 to 15 months, adding a new look for the user interface and a more flexible home screen as it tries to make its struggling operating system relevant again …
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Engadget, VentureBeat, Startup Meme, Electronista, SlashGear, IntoMobile and HowardForums
Kevin Krause / Android Phone Fans:
LG Star (SU660) to Be ‘Optimus 2X’ in Korea, More Videos Uncovered — In a press release (in Korean) concerning the bundling of Italian composer Ennio Morricone's original music (and a few new ringtones and tunes) into the LG Optimus Mach, the South Korean branding of the LG Star (SU660) was revealed.
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Engadget, Android and Me, SlashGear, PhoneArena, Android Community, PhoneReport v2.0, Unwired View, Fudzilla, pocketnow.com and IntoMobile
Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Top Google Engineer: Google Instant Has No Brand Bias — “What we do at Google and what we've done for years is to not inject any subjectivity into these algorithms,” says Amit Singhal, Google Fellow and head of the company's search quality, ranking, and algorithm team.
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Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, the Econsultancy blog and John Battelle's Searchblog
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Millennial: Android And iOS In Deadlock Again For Monthly Smartphone Impression Share — Mobile ad network Millennial Media is releasing its monthly data on mobile devices and OS marketshare for November today. Millennial's ads reach 63 million of a total of 77 million mobile web users in the U.S. …
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, AppleInsider, Computerworld, GigaOM, Electronista, WinRumors, Internet2Go, Fortune and 9 to 5 Mac, Thanks:sidharthdassani
