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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, WebProNews, Webomatica, SocialTimes.com, Computerworld, WinBeta and Neowin.net
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 …
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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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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Myriam Joire / Engadget:
Google Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ first impressions (video)
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TechCrunch and The Verge
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Internet giants place full-page anti-SOPA ad in NYT — Congress may not want to hear from opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act at today's hearing, but that hasn't stopped a broad coalition of (often fierce) competitors representing the Internet's giants from placing an ad in today's NYT …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
Chief Sponsor Wavers on Web Censorship Bill in Charged Hearing
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GigaOM, Between the Lines Blog, PC Magazine, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, New York Times, CNET News and Techdirt
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
What the web is saying about SOPA
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Jaymar Cabebe / CNET News:
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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Gizmodo, The Verge, GigaOM, Engadget, LiveSide.net, 9to5Mac, Microsoft News, Softpedia News, Macworld, The Next Web, Mashable!, The Big Blog, SlashGear and Electronista
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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Anil Dash, Readability Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, Betabeat and 9to5Mac
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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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
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
PayPal Launches Facebook App for Sending Money to Friends [EXCLUSIVE] — Social payments are taking a giant leap forward. PayPal has unveiled a Facebook app that lets you send money to friends. — The app, simply titled Send Money, is just as straightforward as its name.
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Business Insider and Techie Buzz
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
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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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
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Angie's List Shares Pop Over 30 Percent To Open $18 Per Share, Valued At Nearly $900M — Angie's List, which offers consumers a way to review and rate doctors, contractors and service companies on the Web, priced its IPO at the high end of the range, at $13 per share last night …
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Screenwerk, MarketWatch, VatorNews and The Tech Trade
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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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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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, Mercury News, Financial Times, TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal
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
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents Crack Resistant Glass Solutions for Portables — While Donald LeBuhn was filing a class action lawsuit against Apple back in January of this year, accusing the company of misleading customers as to the strength of the glass used in its iPhone 4, Apple was already well into inventing …
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9to5Mac and Business Insider
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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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, The New Persuaders and Gadgetwise
