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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 …
Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
Apple TV challenge from Google falls flat in 2010 — Logitech has reportedly halted shipments of its Revue Google TV boxes through January while waiting for Google to update its software on the poorly selling units. — According to a report by DigiTimes, Logitech's supplier, Gigabyte Technology …
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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 …
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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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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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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
FarmVille co-creator working on stealthy startup BetterWorks — Is your job about to get a lot more addictive? Maybe — Sizhao Yang, one of the original team members behind insanely popular Facebook game FarmVille, is working on a new startup called BetterWorks that wants to create “rewarding work environments.”
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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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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Merry Christmas, Zynga: CityVille eclipses FarmVille as the world's biggest game — In just 22 days, Zynga's CityVille has eclipsed FarmVille as the world's biggest game. — Today, CityVille added an astounding 6.9 users to end the day at 61.7 million monthly active users …
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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.
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Hayley Tsukayama / Faster Forward:
Bank of America buys up anti-BoA domain names — Talk about keeping your enemies closer. In a preemptive move against a potential Wikileaks attack, Bank of America has gone on a shopping spree, registering domain names of sites that insult their top executives.
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Henry Blodget / The Business Insider:
Here's The URL That Bank Of America Really Wants To Buy But Can't …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Overthrows Yahoo To Become The World's Third Largest Website — We've seen this one coming all year. Facebook is now the third largest website in the world, taking the No. 3 spot from Yahoo, according to comScore. Facebook drew an estimated 648 million unique visitors from across …
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Wall Street Journal:
Using ‘Likes’ for Gift Ideas — Retailers Are Tapping Social Profiles to Help Customers Shop for Their Friends — Online retailers are experimenting with the idea that friends can make shopping easier. — Companies such as Amazon.com Inc. and Etsy Inc., a site that sells handmade and vintage goods …
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?
Elizabeth Woyke / Mobilized:
HTC: We Will Customize Windows Phone 7 Over Time — One of the great debates surrounding Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system focuses on whether the design guidelines the company set for its manufacturer partners allow for adequate expression. How can companies like Samsung …
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