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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Skype finally bringing video calling to iPhone 4, maybe other mobile platforms? — So let us set this up for you: Skype has been telling everyone that it'll be making a “series of video-related announcements” at CES next month... and it's participating in a panel called …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Sightings from the Mac App Store — We just got our hands on some information about the upcoming Mac App Store. First here's a screenshot of the login page you will need to pass through in order to download apps. What's interesting based on the description is that you will be able to use …
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Macworld, MacRumors, The Next Web, Edible Apple, SlashGear and Softpedia News
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Why Google Dropped Groupon and Local Just Doesn't Scale — Prolific tech business analyst Paul Kedrosky made a name for himself as the founder of longtime blog Infectious Greed, one of the first editorial sites to cover internet investments and companies. He writes a column for Bloomberg …
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Bradford Cross / Measuring Measures:
Why is Groupon so Important? — The Economics of AdWords, AdSense, and Groupon
Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Woos Local Advertisers
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SAI, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Journal and Search Engine Land
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents New Kind of Logo Antenna for Portables — While Apple was undergoing their “Antennagate” moment earlier this year, Apple's engineers were long at work on a new kind of antenna which Apple dubs the “logo antenna.” This new antenna is to hide behind the famous Apple logo thereby allowing …
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Facebook:
What's on your mind? — People use status updates to share what's on their minds, to tell others what they're doing, and to gather feedback from friends. The different ways people use status updates form some interesting patterns. In this study, we looked at the usage of words in different “word categories” in status updates.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
On Facebook, Angry People Are More Popular (Plus Other Fascinating …
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Rohan Shravan / Notion Ink:
Break from Eden UI - The Hardware — This video is a break from Eden UI and shows some of the Hardware features along with the 180 degree port placement. Key hardware features are as below: — HDMI Out - Adam on the Vimeo site and playing a video (Flash).
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Jordan Pouille:
Why I don't want an Iphone for Christmas. — Under the Christmas tree, some of us will hopefully find an Iphone 4 32G, an Ipad, a Dell computer, a Sony PSP or a Nokia smartphone. On the user manual, it shall be written how to handle it but certainly not how it has been made.
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Fortune, BGR, SAI and CrunchGear
Tony Bates / The Big Blog:
CEO update: group video calling is back — I would like to take a moment to thank each of you for your patience, understanding, and support during Skype's outage. We know how important your Skype conversations are to you and we take any disruption to our service very seriously.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Does the FCC Want to Kill Hulu? — One of Washington's proposed conditions on the Comcast-NBC U deal will force the merged company to offer NBC's shows to any Web competitor. — So what does that mean for Hulu, which has already locked up exclusive rights to NBC's Web video?
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Catharine Smith / The Huffington Post:
Digital Nativity Story: See First Christmas Retold Through Social Media (VIDEO) — A festive video called “The Digital Story of the Nativity” tells the tale of the first Christmas as it might be told today—through the eyes of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter …
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BoomTown and Globe and Mail
Eva / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
What is Traitorware? — Your digital camera may embed metadata into photographs with the camera's serial number or your location. Your printer may be incorporating a secret code on every page it prints which could be used to identify the printer and potentially the person who used it.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Logitech requires Gigabyte to suspend Revue shipments — Logitech has reportedly informed Gigabyte Technology to temporarily suspend shipments of Revue set-top boxes (STBs) for the period from December 2010 to January 2011 waiting for Google to complete updates or to launch a new version …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Financial Times names Steve Jobs ‘Person of the Year’ — Calls his “the most remarkable comeback in modern business history” — The Financial Times has given Apple's (AAPL) CEO the honorific Time Magazine never did. From the citation in the current edition:
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Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
How PayNearMe Wants to Make Cash Cool Again — For just a minute, forget about futuristic stuff, like waving your mobile phone to pay for things. This Mountain View, Calif.-based company is trying to make cash cool again. — PayNearMe's goal is to come up with a solution for people …
