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Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Don't Be Too Disappointed By Google Music's Lackluster Debut — The web is less than enthused by Google Music, which made its debut today with the usual fanfare. The criticism is withering in its somewhat entitled way: “Where's the Spotify killer?” “Rdio already does this!” “So it's basically iTunes match?”
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Inquirer, Computerworld, AllThingsD, Epicenter and Business Insider
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Andy Rubin / The Official Google Blog:
Google Music is open for business — Last May at Google I/O, we launched Music Beta by Google with a clear ambition: to help people access their music collections easily from any device. Music Beta enabled you to upload your personal music collection (up to 20,000 songs) …
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Issues & Insights Blog, Guardian, Softpedia News, SocialTimes.com, BetaNews, Engadget, Examiner, AndroidOS.in, DailyTech, SoMobile, Social Markets, Digital Media Wire, Computerworld, Search Engine Land, Consumer Reports News, Android Life, ReadWriteWeb, Newsome.Org, Evolver.fm, hypebot, GeekSugar, Techland, Android Community, TmoNews, Lifehacker, iClarified, Google Operating System, Sprintfeed and GeekWire
Thomas Houston / The Verge:
Google Music launching with EMI, Sony Music, and others; offering free, exclusive music — As rumored, Google Music launched its music store today with a range of new content partnerships, letting users buy millions of songs from the Google Marketplace. Sony Music Entertainment …
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@google, The Next Web, The Verge, The Verge, Gizmodo, Guardian, Reuters, Pulse2, Engadget, mocoNews, VentureBeat, WebProNews, 9to5Google, Engadget, IntoMobile, The Register and Macworld
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Confusing World Of Sharing Songs From Google Music To Google+
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Webomatica, WinBeta, Neowin.net and PhoneArena
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Chief Sponsor Wavers on Web Censorship Bill in Charged Hearing — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, right, accompanied by Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., discuss their efforts to modify the internet's workings to fight copyright …
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Between the Lines Blog, PC Magazine and Ars Technica
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
At Web censorship hearing, Congress guns for “pro-pirate” Google
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Techdirt, Copyhype, madisonian.net, Forbes, GigaOM, New York Times, techPresident and eWeek, more at Mediagazer »
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT
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The Verge, Mashable!, CNET News, Michael Geist Blog, Delimiter, Engadget and Help Net Security
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
What the web is saying about SOPA
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Hillicon Valley, The Huffington Post, Variety and Open Gardens, more at Mediagazer »
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Key AOL executive Brad Garlinghouse to leave — Brad Garlinghouse, President of the Applications and Commerce Group and head of AOL's Silicon Valley operations is leaving the beleaguered online service AOL, according to multiple sources. Garlinghouse is well known in Silicon Valley …
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TechCrunch, mediabistro.com, L.A. Times Tech Blog, paidContent, @cyberjournalist, Pulse2, The Next Web, CNET News and FT Tech Hub
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia aims to undercut rivals with volume focus — (Reuters) - Nokia plans to undercut its Windows Phone rivals to give its new smartphones a foothold in the market before trying to improve margins, its Chief Executive Stephen Elop said on Wednesday. — Nokia unveiled a strategy shift …
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WinRumors, Light Reading, PhoneArena, Bloomberg, PC World, My Nokia Blog, SlashGear, eWeek, I4U News, Neowin.net, Guardian and WMPoweruser
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
AT&T confirms talks with Nokia to offer Windows Phones in 2012
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My Nokia Blog, Bloomberg, CNET News, Engadget, Mobilized, Neowin.net, MobileWhack.com, AppleInsider, Know Your Cell, GottaBeMobile, PhoneDog.com, The Verge and Electronista
Emil Protalinski / Friending Facebook Blog:
Facebook identifies those behind coordinated spam attack — Summary: Facebook says it knows who orchestrated the coordinated spam attack resulting in the huge flood of links, videos, and images depicting pornography, acts of violence, self-mutilation, and bestiality.
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The Next Web, Pulse2, BBC and The Register, Thanks:t_harbaugh
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David Cohen / All Facebook:
Facebook Porn Attack Was ‘Self-Inflicted JavaScript Injection’
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Zscaler Research, CSO's blog, Techie Buzz, ReadWriteWeb and Network World
Marco.org:
The relationship between Readability and Instapaper — I know it's bad form to mention your competitors, but I've been asked about Readability's announcement enough today that it's more of a charade not to talk about it, especially since a lot of people are under the wrong impression.
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Readability Blog, Anil Dash, MacStories, iDownloadBlog.com and Betabeat
Vlad Savov / The Verge:
Galaxy Nexus on sale in the UK today — Google's big, bold, and beautiful new Android phone is today being released in the UK. The Samsung-built Galaxy Nexus was announced to be launching on November 17th a couple of weeks ago, but some carriers and retailers have since had to bump back their release date for it.
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Inquirer, Engadget, @googlenexus, The Verge, CNET News, SlashGear, Electronista, Phones Review, The Next Web and SoMobile
Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:
Camera+ Brings VolumeSnap Back, Still Destroys Apple's Own Camera App — Today, tap tap tap, the company behind the wildly popular and feature rich app Camera+ has added a feature back into its app that Apple forced them to remove some time ago. — “VolumeSnap” allowed Camera+ users …
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App Advice, tap tap tap, Electronista, New York Times, Redmond Pie and MacRumors
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
With a bold new redesign, AIM could finally be cool again (seriously) — It's been more than 10 years since I've used AOL Instant Messenger as my go-to chat client, but the new AIM may just be good enough to change that. — AOL launched a preview of its latest AIM vision today, which includes new desktop, mobile, and web apps.
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Neowin.net, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone, MacStories, TechCrunch, CNET News, Electronista and iClarified, Thanks:venturebeat
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft drops Dryad; puts its big-data bets on Hadoop — Summary: Microsoft is dropping its ‘Dryad’ big-data processing work and focusing, instead, on developing a Windows Azure and Windows Server implementation of Hadoop. — Just a month after insisting there was still a place …
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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Steve Jobs Secret Meeting to Explore an iPod Phone is Revealing — In our special report today we present you with a fascinating account of one of Steve Jobs' secret meeting that involved creating the iPhone and how the iPod Phone almost came to be. It was much closer to reality than any us could have ever imagined at the time.
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Peter Wayner / InfoWorld:
First look: Oracle NoSQL Database — Oracle's take on the distributed key-value data store is fast, flexible, and enterprise-grade serious — For the last few years, the world of NoSQL databases has been filled with exciting new projects, ambitious claims, and plenty of chest beating.
Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Android sees a 472% increase in malware since July — Android sees a 472% increase in malware since July — Android is definitely winning... the race for the most malware, that is. — According to a new study from the Juniper Global Threat Center, malware on Android rose an incredible 472% since July 2011.
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Electronista, AppleInsider, Neowin.net, Marketing Pilgrim, Digital Trends, CNET News, The Next Web and OStatic blogs, Thanks:jdalrymple
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Another Member Of The Twitter Comms Team Leaves. So What's Going On At Twitter? — Twitter Communication exec Sean Garrett's departure from the company last week was a shock to many in the press who had the pleasure of dealing with him and the Twitter Communications Team.
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@rafat, @fromedome and @fredericl
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Google folds Checkout into Wallet — Google Checkout and Google Wallet are two Google products with very similar goals: storing your payment information and ushering commerce through Mountain View's ecosystem. It was just a matter of time before the company got around to mixing them together …
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Google Commerce, Google Commerce, AllThingsD, 9to5Google, CenterNetworks and Electronista
Julia Angwin / Digits:
Judge Declares Law Governing Warrantless Cellphone Tracking Unconstitutional — In a succinct one-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn N. Hughes of the Southern District of Texas declared that the law authorizing the government to obtain cellphone records without a search warrant was unconstitutional.
