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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple's Black Friday 2011 deals revealed: discounts on iPad, iPod, iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and accessories — A trusted tipster has provided us with the details on Apple's Black Friday (November 25th) 2011 sale. The sale is very similar to Apple's offerings in past years …
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Craig Eisler / MSDN Blogs:
Kinect for Windows - Building the Future — Since announcing a few weeks ago that the Kinect for Windows commercial program will launch in early 2012, we've been asked whether there will also be new Kinect hardware especially for Windows. The answer is yes; building on the existing Kinect …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft readies new Kinect hardware for Windows PCs
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Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:
Apple Expands Subscription Service to Games — Apple Inc. (AAPL) is letting a video-game company offer its titles by subscription on the iPad, expanding the role of a feature typically used by magazine and newspaper publishers. — Big Fish Games, a Seattle-based game publisher …
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Greg Lamm / TechFlash:
Know Your Meme's Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop — The pepper spray incident at the University of California Davis campus has gone viral. And one place where people are expressing their reaction on the internet is on the Know Your Meme website, run by Seattle startup Cheezburger Network.
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Matthew Stevens / L.A. NOW:
‘Anonymous’ hackers target pepper-spraying UC Davis police officer — The Internet hacking group Anonymous has launched its latest attack on the UC Davis police officer accused of pepper-spraying student by posting a video online that lists his personal contact information.
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
CONFIRMED: Samsung Galaxy Nexus U.S. Launch Is In December — There's been a lot of confusion as to when Samsung and Google's Galaxy Nexus would launch in the U.S. — When the phone was first announced, the company said it would be available in November. — Well, November is almost over.
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Digital Trends, The Toybox Blog, Droid Life, Android Phone Fans, Android and Me, Fudzilla, Softpedia News, GottaBeMobile, SlashGear, Know Your Cell, 9to5Google, Phones Review and Electronista, Thanks:stevekovach
Ben Worthen / Digits:
H-P Offers Customers Path Away From Maligned Chip — Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday offered help to customers who want to shift away from systems that use a microprocessor called Itanium. But H-P insists it is not dumping the chip, nor reacting to a nasty dispute with Oracle over the technology.
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Dan Levine / Reuters:
HP prods EU antitrust authorities against Oracle
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Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:
SkyDrive - designing personal cloud storage for billions of people — SkyDrive has grown tremendously since we launched in 2007, and recently, we've made a number of updates to SkyDrive: — In June we overhauled our website and used the latest browser standards to simplify our photos …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Production starts for iPad 3 QXGA display: Analyst — A 10-inch-class 2048x1536 display is not easy to make in the volumes that Apple demands. Will Apple brand the next-generation iPad display ‘Retina’? — Production has started on the high-resolution displays destined for the next-generation iPad …
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Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Reported Retina Display iPad 3 with J2 codename shows up in hidden iOS 5 code
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
At Apple, Cloud Experts Wanted — Apple Inc. has been taking small but important steps toward a shift in the way its customers access their digital content beyond the downloadable software that has been vital to the company's success. — In recent weeks, Apple has been looking …
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MacRumors, fierceonlinevideo.com …, AppleInsider, CNET News, Electronista, MacStories, Digits, The Next Web, 9to5Mac and Edible Apple
Annalyn Censky / CNN Money:
Malls track shoppers' cell phones on Black Friday — NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Attention holiday shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year. — Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year's Day, two U.S. malls — Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center …
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The Verge and GottaBeMobile
Richard Lai / Engadget:
Exclusive: Lenovo also working on a 5-inch Android tablet, because pockets need love too — No matter how tempting the specs on Lenovo's leaked 10.1-inch tablet are, you might prefer something fairly more portable just for the sake of your regular pockets. Well, it looks like Lenovo's got you covered, too.
Edward Marquez / Redmond Pie:
Apple and Microsoft to Add NFC Support (E-Wallet Technology) to Phones in 2012 — I go to Starbucks pretty often, I'm a big fan of their iPhone app that allows me to pay for my coffee by having the barista scan a code on my screen. The process is quick and easy and I have fun earning stars …
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DigiTimes, ReadWriteWeb, Product reviews and MacRumors
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Announces Plans To Shutter Knol, Friend Connect, Wave, And More — Since Google CEO Larry Page took the helm this past spring, one of the company's most visible initiatives has been to trim and shut down its products that haven't taken off. These have included Aardvark, Google Desktop …
Kyle McInnes / BlackBerry Cool:
BlackBerry PlayBook Native Email, Contacts and Calendar Screenshots and Details — Today at the BlackBerry Innovation Forum, RIM gave a demo of the native email, contacts and calendar functionality on the BlackBerry PlayBook. We can't yet post video of the demo but we do have screenshots …
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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:
More smartphones now sold in China than in U.S. — Smartphone adoption may be high in the U.S. but overall smartphone sales are highest in China. A new research note published by Strategy Analytics on Wednesday estimates that 23.9 million smartphones shipped in China during the third quarter of 2011.
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Bloomberg:
Nokia Siemens Cuts 17,000 Jobs, to Save $1.3B — Nokia Siemens Networks, the unprofitable network equipment venture of Nokia Oyj and Siemens AG (SIE), plans to eliminate 17,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2013 as it reorganizes to focus on mobile broadband.
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Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Samsung does not contest Apple's representations of the scope of the EU antitrust inquiry — In court filings, what is not said is sometimes more important than what is said. A few hours ago, Samsung filed a motion to dismiss Apple's amended FRAND counter-counterclaims in the litigation between …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Amazon will take over Android app distribution — Assume the Kindle Fire will sell very well, even though it needs a lot of help. — The only way most Kindle Fire owners are going to be installing apps is from the Amazon Appstore for Android. The Fire doesn't ship with Google Market …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
50% Of Ecommerce Site Visitors Are Logged In To Facebook — Ecommerce sites should consider how they can personalize their sites using Facebook data, as a new study shows 50% of visitors to ecommerce sites are currently logged in to Facebook. Using Facebook social plugins and Connect integrations …
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Steve Kovach / Business Insider:
Samsung Is Going Right For Apple Fanboys' Jugular With Its Latest Commercial — I got a good laugh out of this one. — Samsung is kicking off a new ad campaign this week, directly taking a swipe at Apple fanboys and the iPhone and promoting its flagship Galaxy S II line of Android phones.
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