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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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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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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Confusing World Of Sharing Songs From Google Music To Google+
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PC Magazine, Webomatica, SocialTimes.com, Computerworld and WinBeta
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, Variety, Wall Street Journal, GigaOM, Ars Technica, New York Times, CNET News and Techdirt, more at Mediagazer »
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
What the web is saying about SOPA
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The Not-So Private Parts, Hillicon Valley, The Huffington Post and Open Gardens
Jaymar Cabebe / CNet Download Blog:
Skype desktop app now makes Facebook video calls — Skype deepened its partnership with Facebook today by adding Facebook video calling to both its Mac and Windows applications. — With the just announced Skype 5.4 Beta for Mac and Skype 5.7 Beta for Windows, you can initiate …
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GigaOM, The Verge, Engadget, LiveSide.net, 9to5Mac, Microsoft News, Softpedia News, Macworld, The Big Blog, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Technology Chronicles and Lifehacker
Erik Sherman / CNET News:
Look out! Here comes Apple's killer location-services patent — Apple has raised bludgeoning competitors with patents on key technologies to a fine art. (Just ask Samsung.) And now it may have a new blunt object to wield. — A reissue of a patent originally dating back to 1998 …
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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, Betabeat and 9to5Mac
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Citigroup Says Amazon Phone Coming 2012 — Amazon just rolled out a full-fledged tablet. Next year, says Citigroup's research department, it could have its own phone. Here's the topline from analyst Mark Mahaney's newest note: — “Amazon smartphone may be coming next year …
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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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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, Hillicon Valley, PC Magazine, Pulse2, BBC, The Register, Between the Lines Blog, Datamation.com and Computerworld, 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
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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RazorianFly, App Advice, Electronista, tap tap tap, New York Times and MacRumors
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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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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Bloomberg, WinRumors, Light Reading, PhoneArena, My Nokia Blog, SlashGear, I4U News, eWeek, Neowin.net, Guardian, WMPoweruser and TechCrunch
Andrew S. Ross / San Francisco Chronicle:
GE going big with Bay Area software initiative — In addition to everything else it does on a large scale, GE is getting into the software business and has chosen the Bay Area as the springboard. — General Electric is set today to announce the opening of a $1 billion Global Software Center in San Ramon …
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AllThingsD, Financial Times, Mercury News, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal
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.
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Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Mac platform reaches 15-year high with 5% worldwide market share — Fueled by strong gains in Asia Pacific during the September quarter, Apple saw its worldwide share of the PC market pass the 5 percent mark for the first time in 15 years, according to a new analysis.
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BetaNews and The Next Web
Joseph Parish / The Verge:
DLNA will work with Wi-Fi Direct to stream media without a network — Soon, you won't need a router for DLNA streaming — the Digital Living Network Alliance has added Wi-Fi Direct to its interoperability guidelines, allowing two wireless devices to connect directly to each other and stream music and movies between them.
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DLNA, blog.chron.com, Softpedia News and Engadget
John Cook / GeekWire:
Decide.com's new iPhone app helps gadget shoppers find a better deal nearby — The new Decide.com iPhone app allows user to research consumer electronics purchases in-store — There's no shortage of mobile applications that allow shoppers to scan product bar codes and retrieve product information …
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The Next Web, VentureBeat and The New Persuaders
David Goldman / CNNMoney.com:
‘Occupy Flash’ seeks to rid world of Adobe Flash — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — “Occupy” movements have taken over Wall Street, London, Chicago and Oakland. Now an “occupy” group is trying to take control of your Web browser. — Occupy Flash is a movement started by a small handful …
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9to5Google and @davezatz
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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Business Insider, @fredericl, @rafat and @fromedome
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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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Roku coming to UK and Canada early next year — Roku's lineup of inexpensive media streamers has been popular enough in the US for the company to credibly talk about putting one under every TV, and now they're going international: Roku just announced that it'll be selling boxes in the UK and and Canada early next year.
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paidContent, CNET News, Electronista, GigaOM and SlashGear
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, iClarified, Techland, Gizmodo and 9to5Mac, Thanks:venturebeat
