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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Our Commitment to the Facebook Community — I founded Facebook on the idea that people want to share and connect with people in their lives, but to do this everyone needs complete control over who they share with at all times. — This idea has been the core of Facebook since day one.
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Federal Trade Commission:
Facebook Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises — The social networking service Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private …
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective — At this point, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's pattern on privacy is clear. Launch new stuff that pushes the boundaries of what people consider comfortable. Apologize and assure users that they control their information, but rarely pull back entirely …
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CNET News
Eddie Kessler / The Official Google Blog:
The next stage in our redesign — Six months ago we started rolling out a new look and feel for Search, News, Maps, Translate, Gmail and a bunch of other products. Our goal was to create a beautifully simple and intuitive user experience across Google. — We're now ready for the next stage …
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VentureBeat, PC Magazine, parislemon, CNET News, The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, SlashGear, TechCrunch, SiliconFilter, Lifehacker, Search Engine Land, Business Insider and The Verge
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Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:
Google continues its massive facelift, intros new persistent nav bar (video)
Brian McClendon / The Official Google Blog:
A new frontier for Google Maps: mapping the indoors — “Where am I?” and “What's around me?” are two questions that cartographers, and Google Maps, strive to answer. With Google Maps' “My Location” feature, which shows your location as a blue dot, you can see where you are on the map …
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Google Watch, eWeek, ReadWriteWeb, Google Mobile Blog, GigaOM, USA Today, Digital Trends, Redmond Pie, SmartKeitai, blog.chron.com, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, DailyTech, dailywireless.org, Ars Technica, The Next Web, ITworld.com, GottaBeMobile, Spatially Adjusted, WebProNews and iClarified
Matt Hickey / The Daily:
Microsoft plans to get its Office software suite on the iPad — Microsoft is planning a version of its Office business app for the iPad, The Daily has learned. — According to sources, the tech giant is actively working on adapting its popular software suite for Apple's tablet.
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eWeek, CNET News, TechCrunch, BGR, The Verge, Neowin.net, SlashGear, Hardware 2.0 Blog, PhoneArena, Redmond Pie, WinRumors, Business Insider, GigaOM, Gizmodo UK, PadGadget, IntoMobile, MacRumors, WebProNews, Digital Trends, everythingiCafe, @sameerpatel, Electronista, 9to5Mac, The Next Web and GottaBeMobile, Thanks:daily
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Researcher's Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything — The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports …
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The Apple Core Blog, The Register and Geek.com
iFixit:
Samsung Galaxy Nexus Teardown — It's here, it's here, it's finally here! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the ice cream truck is driving up the street, playing its joyful tune. We have our dollars ready, and we can't wait to grab ourselves some goodies.
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The Verge, SlashGear, Android Phone Fans, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, iFixit Blog, TechCrunch, CNET News, Gadget Lab, SmartKeitai, IntoMobile and Electronista
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Quentyn Kennemer / Android Phone Fans:
Galaxy Nexus Getting Flash and AIR in December
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GottaBeMobile and ITProPortal
Zach Epstein / BGR:
Siri's first real competition hits Android phones today [video] — Apple's Siri represents the birth of a new breed of voice-controlled smartphone assistant services, and it is only a matter of time before other companies begin to expand their offerings as a result.
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Digital Trends, Examiner, Android Market, The Register, CNET News, LockerGnome and IntoMobile
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Ray Walters / ExtremeTech:
Cluzee for Android tested: Another awful Siri clone
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Ubergizmo
Path Blog:
Introducing Path 2, the Smart Journal — Over the last year, you have told us about the ways you've been recording and sharing your lives on Path — things like summer road trips and high school graduations, a baby's first words, and hundreds of sunsets. You also used Path in ways we could have never imagined.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, SplatF, Social Markets, @stevecheney, @shervin, @howardlindzon and @mhendric
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Path's Second Iteration Is Less Photosharing And More Everything Sharing
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Gadget Lab, AllThingsD, GigaOM, Digits, parislemon and @hunterwalk
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook — After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize …
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ReadWriteWeb, Engadget and ZDNet, Thanks:chadcat
Facebook:
Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011 — We recently looked at the most shared articles on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011.
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WebProNews, PC Magazine, NBC Bay Area and Business Insider
Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:
SkyDrive gets simple app-centric sharing for Office, powerful file management, HTML5 upload, other updates — Last week, we shared our approach to designing a personal cloud storage service for billions of people. Today, we're excited to release an upgrade to SkyDrive.com to address key feedback.
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WinRumors and CodenameWindows, Thanks:omarshahine
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
Surprise! Microsoft's Dropbox And Google Apps Competitor No Longer Sucks
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TechNet Blogs
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify to Offer Apps, Open Platform to Developers — Spotify AB will begin offering Facebook-style apps that add various features and functions to its popular online-music service, according to people in the music industry, a move that could differentiate the company amid growing competition …
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CNET News, The Verge and Electronista
Kim Hart / The Politico:
FCC releases damning report on AT&T/T-Mobile deal — The FCC is allowing AT&T to withdraw its application to acquire T-Mobile and reapply at a later date. But in a blow to the company, the commission released a staff report that concludes the deal would cause huge job losses and eliminate a key wireless competitor.
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TechCrunch, Between the Lines Blog, @gigastacey, TmoNews, @jbtaylor on tech, GigaOM, CNNMoney.com and FierceWireless
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Jim Cicconi / AT&T Public Policy Blog:
Withdrawal by Right — I read with interest Harold Feld's blog …
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Gizmodo, Electronista, Wall Street Journal and PC Magazine
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Roadshow: CEO Pincus Not Selling Shares in Upcoming Zynga IPO — According to sources close to the situation, neither CEO Mark Pincus nor one of its principal venture shareholders, Kleiner Perkins, will be selling any shares in its upcoming initial public offering.
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The Snitch
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Dan Primack / Fortune:
Exclusive: Zynga's IPO roadshow begins Monday
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Techie Buzz, PC Magazine, DealBook and TechCrunch
Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Samsung tablet ban lifted — Samsung has won its fight against a court order banning the sale of its Galaxy tablet computer in Australia, but rival electronics maker Apple has already foreshadowed an appeal to the High Court. — The full bench of the federal court today unanimously reversed …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft enables Android and iOS users to experience Windows Phone 7... via the web — Still tempted by the fruit of another? If you're looking Microsoft's way, but aren't quite ready to toss your adoration for iOS or Android aside, the coders in Redmond are giving you an alternative to quitting cold turkey.
Jeffrey Meisner / The Official Microsoft Blog:
Xbox 360 Sells Nearly 1M Consoles in Biggest Week in Xbox History — Entering the seventh year of its lifecycle, Xbox 360 just closed the biggest sales week in the history of the hit digital entertainment system, selling more than 960,000 consoles in the U.S. during the week of Black Friday.
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WinRumors, SlashGear, The Next Web and FT Tech Hub
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Acer, Lenovo to launch quad-core tablet PCs — Acer and Lenovo are set to launch quad-core tablet PCs featuring Google's Android 4. (Ice Cream Sandwich) and Nvidia's Tegra 3 in the first quarter to compete against Asustek Computer, which has already launched its latest Eee Pad Transformer Prime …
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SlashGear, The Verge, ConceivablyTech, Ars Technica, Electronista, DroidDog Android Blog, Engadget and MobileSyrup.com
Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
This Man Joined Marc Andreessen's Yahoo Meetings And Is A Likely CEO Candidate — Reports surfaced last night that Marc Andreessen is considering taking a stake in Yahoo - and has even been meeting with Yahoo executives to discuss the turnaround. — Kara Swisher, who broke the news, says Andreessen would become executive chairman.
