Top Items:
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Feds Seize 130+ Domain Names in Mass Crackdown — The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have resumed “Operation In Our Sites”, the domain name seizing initiative designed to crack down on online piracy and counterfeiting.
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VentureBeat, MediaFile and Electronista
Jason Cartwright / techAU:
Microsoft Tellme is NOT the same as Siri [video] — Over the past 24hours there have been a lot of posts about Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie, claiming that “Microsoft has had a similar capability in Windows Phone for more than a year... All that is already there, fully functionality for years.”
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Daring Fireball, WinRumors, The Next Web, Jailbreak | iOS, TUAW, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, GeekWire and Beyond Search
Bloomberg:
AT&T to Offer Bigger Asset Sales to Save Takeover — AT&T Inc. (T), with its T-Mobile USA takeover facing regulatory opposition, is preparing the biggest remedy proposal yet to the Justice Department to salvage the $39 billion deal, according to a person familiar with the plan.
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Chrome Getting Native Gamepad, Webcam, And WebRTC Support In Early 2012 — It's not always easy to tell when Chrome has been updated, and at any rate the changes aren't always significant enough to even wonder about it. But a pair of features worth caring about are user-bound come early 2012 …
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ITProPortal, Softpedia News, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge, Joystiq, T3 News, FT Tech Hub and Electronista
Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
AppMobi open-sources its mobile HTML5 technology — HTML5 development tool provider appMobi is putting together a Black Friday deal for programmers as it open-sources many key HTML5 technologies that it hopes should help spur on the building of more mobile web apps.
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ITProPortal
Asher Moses / Sydney Morning Herald:
Samsung tablet ban ‘grossly unjust’ — Asher Moses — Samsung argues that the judge who ordered its Galaxy Tab 10.1 to be banned from sale in Australia “misunderstood and misapplied” basic requirements of the law and elements of her reasoning were “grossly unjust”.
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Bloomberg, ZDNet Australia, VentureBeat, Techie Buzz, thinq_, MacRumors, BGR, paidContent, SlashGear, Inquirer, TechEye, Electronista, Gizmodo Australia and Softpedia News
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
IPCom (patent holding firm) to relentlessly enforce 3G-essential patent against HTC's German business — Based on an in-depth conversation with a source close to the proceedings, I am now able to explain the background and the economic impact of today's big wireless patent announcement …
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PhoneArena, Electronista and Engadget
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Apple ahead in mobile loyalty: Gfk research firm — (Reuters) - Apple is well ahead of rivals in building brand loyalty among its users in a mobile market where the key brands are rushing to build as large a foothold as possible, a study by research firm GfK showed.
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GfK Group, Pocket-lint, BGR, Jailbreak | iOS, iPhone, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, Electronista, Phones Review, Digital Trends, Fudzilla, The Next Web and iClarified
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google+ Gets A Thanksgiving Day TV Ad: “Sharing, But Like Real Life” — It wasn't that long ago that the idea of flipping on a television and seeing a commercial for anything Google-related seemed totally implausible. For many years, the company seemed to take a certain pride in not having …
Krystal Peak / VatorNews:
UK unveils £650M new cyber strategy — New cyber security strategy aims to protect consumers, online businesses from attacks, hacktivism — Cyber crime and the growing trend of ‘hacktivism’ has motivated the UK government to launch a new Cyber Security Strategy that will reinforce the safety of conducting business online.
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Telegraph, Telegraph, Tech Europe, CircleID, London Calling Blog, Guardian, ZDNet and Help Net Security
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas — There's been plenty of talk (and a ton of posts here on Techdirt) discussing both SOPA (originally E-PARASITE) and PROTECT IP (aka PIPA), but it seemed like it would be useful to create a single, “definitive” …
Discussion:
The Firewall, Thanks:kevinmarks
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay: PayPal Mobile Payment Volume Up Over 500 Percent On Thanksgiving Day And Black Friday — As we heard earlier today, Thanksgiving proved to be a lucrative day for online retailers. IBM reported online Thanksgiving 2011 sales were up 39 percent over Thanksgiving 2010 …
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The PayPal Blog, The PayPal Blog, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat and GigaOM
