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Brian X. Chen / Bits:
A Look at Apple's Spot-the-Shopper Technology — A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. — A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated an internal iPhone application that, for the last few weeks …
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CNET News, The Verge, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com and ifoAppleStore
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Data Furnaces Could Bring Heat to Homes — TO satisfy our ever-growing need for computing power, many technology companies have moved their work to data centers with tens of thousands of power-gobbling servers. Concentrated in one place, the servers produce enormous heat.
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GeekWire and Feld Thoughts
Om Malik / GigaOM:
My 10 years of blogging: Reflections, Lessons & Some Stats Too — Ten years is a long time. Sometimes it is so long that one forgets a lot more than one remembers — like the fact that it I have been blogging for a decade. I would have totally forgotten about the amount of time that has passed …
Thanks:pkedrosky
Kellex / Droid Life:
DROID 4 vs. DROID RAZR - The Evolution of DROID, Specs, and Official Pictures — The DROID 4 has come from out of no where to having us within just a couple of weeks away from launch. The current target date that we have seen from Verizon is December 8, the same day that we could potentially …
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Droid Life, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, Geek.com, Business Insider, MobileWhack.com, SmartKeitai, Pulse2, PhoneArena, Engadget, IntoMobile, Know Your Cell and DailyTech
Benjamin Wallace / Wired:
The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin — In November 1, 2008, a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin. None of the list's veterans had heard of him, and what little information could be gleaned was murky and contradictory.
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A VC, Daily Patricia, The Verge, @nytimesbits and @leemwilliams
Dieter Bohn / The Verge:
More EXOdesk details surface: 10-point touch, custom HTML5 apps — After teasing the EXOdesk themselves in a YouTube video, the company has passed along some details on the “interactive desk” to The Long Climb. In addition to the (perhaps optimistic) rendering you see above …
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Mike Halsey's The Long Climb
Steve Cheney / TechCrunch:
How to Make Your Startup Go Viral The Pinterest Way — On Thanksgiving, Pinterest's co-founder Ben Silbermann sent an email to his entire user base saying thanks. It was fitting, as Pinterest was born two years ago on Thanksgiving day 2009. Ben had been working on a website with a few friends …
Maria Popova / Brain Pickings:
Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986 — A startup sentiment sandwich from the master chef, or why “reality distortion” helps sales but hurts design. — In 1985, shortly after being fired from Apple, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, the somewhat short-lived but revolutionary company focused …
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Cloud centers bring high-tech flash but not many jobs to beaten-down towns — MAIDEN, N.C. — Here in this once-thriving town of furniture makers and textile mills, where Main Street businesses have vanished, nearby fast-food joints have closed and unemployment is rampant …
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Business Insider and Electronista
Reuters:
Philippines say arrested hackers funded by Saudi group — (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T's system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.
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CNET News, Associated Press and New York Times
Azi Ronen / Broadband Traffic Management:
Rumors: Akamai to Buy Cotendo for $300M — Asaf Gilad reports to Calcalist that 4 years old CDN startup Cotendo is about to be sold to Akamai, for $300M.No comment was received from Cotendo, and Akamai provided the expected response from a public company - “our policy is not to respond to rumors”.
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TechCrunch, Globes Online and Reuters
Sharif Sakr / Engadget:
Is Samsung giving up on netbooks next year? — An email sent by Samsung to its trading partners appears to shut down any prospect of the manufacturer producing new netbooks after the first quarter of 2012. The email is quoted by French site Blogeee and says that Samsung will switch its focus …
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Pulse2, Techie Buzz, VR-Zone, Technologizer, X-bit labs, Softpedia News, Electronista, Gizmodo UK, TechSpot, Liliputing, Inquirer, Electronista, Fudzilla and Sammy Hub
