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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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Macworld, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, MacRumors, SAI, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR, MacStories, IntoMobile, SlashGear, The Next Web, TUAW, GottaBeMobile, MobileBurn.com and Gizmodo
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, Download Squad, Between the Lines Blog, WinRumors, WMPoweruser.com, netbooknews.com and Go Rumors
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, BGR, Search Engine Land, SAI, Gearlog, FierceWireless, Erictric, Geek.com, Android Phone Fans, Business Week and GigaOM Pro
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, eSarcasm, Fast Company, Quick Online Tips, Erictric, TechEye and Wall Street Journal
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.
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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Computerworld, TechCrunch, Technologizer, Tea & Tech 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.
Google Mobile Blog:
Voice Search gets personal — When we launched Voice Search more than two years ago, we wanted it to “just work” right out of the box, without an initial setup process. And so, we built speech models broad enough to accommodate a wide variety of people, regardless of gender, age, and accents …
Discussion:
Search Engine Land and The Next Web
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
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
LinkedIn Protects Users from Gawker's Security Fail — LinkedIn is making a more aggressive response to Gawker Media's massive security breach than Gawker itself did. Whereas Gawker account holders mostly had to learn about the hack from reading news stories about it …
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MediaMemo, CenterNetworks, Faster Forward, The Next Web, TUAW, SAI and Urlesque, more at Mediagazer »
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 …
Discussion:
MobileCrunch, IntoMobile and The Next Web
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
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
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
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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News: News blog, The Firewall, Threat Level, Politics Daily, New York Times, Tea & Tech, Telegraph and Reuters
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, Mediaite, PC Magazine, SAI, Elias Bizannes, Financial Times, NBC Bay Area and MacDailyNews, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:jacobdfriedman
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, GMSV, SlashGear, Mobilized, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, netbooknews.com, Android Phone Fans, AndroidGuys, Electronista, Geek.com and The Tech Report
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, Fast Company, Gearlog and The Huffington Post
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
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
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
NPD data shows Apple on track to sell record 4.3M Macs in Dec. quarter — Apple is on pace to have yet another record breaking quarter for Mac sales, this time crossing the 4 million milestone in a three-month span for the first time ever. — New November domestic sales data from the NPD Group …
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GMSV, Electronista and LOOPRumors
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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VentureBeat, Engadget, Startup Meme, Electronista, SlashGear, IntoMobile and HowardForums
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, Fortune, 9 to 5 Mac and Internet2Go, Thanks:sidharthdassani
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
